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Zacks Investment Research is one of the largest providers of independent stock, ETF and mutual fund research in the U.S. The performance of our stock research recommendations has consistently ranked among the top research firms in the U.S. by independent evaluators of equity research. This research anchors our active trading services, long-term investor services, and powerful resources and tools.

At the center of everything we do is a strong commitment to independent research and sharing its profitable discoveries with investors. In fact, helping investors find success has been the life's work of our Founder and CEO, who in 1978 armed with his PhD from MIT, hit upon a key discovery:

Earnings estimate revisions are the most powerful force impacting stock prices.

This crucial finding led to the creation of our proven Zacks Rank stock-rating system that harnesses the power of earnings estimates. Since 1988, the private Zacks #1 Rank List has more than doubled the S&P 500.


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Zacks Investment Research has a rating of 4.4 stars from 176 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with Zacks Investment Research most frequently mention value investor, last year and long term. Zacks Investment Research ranks 1st among Stock Research sites.

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Denmark
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3 helpful votes
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"Zacks Ultimate provides easy access to investment ideas that are already filtered, narrowing candidates for my own assessment. After years of being an investor, with your service I finally started to beat the index. I had started to doubt individual investments and instead just buy the index. Well now that idea is on hold!"

Date of experience: October 1, 2021
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I'm a technical trader, but have found that incorporating Zacks Rank into my system has greatly improved my success.

Date of experience: August 22, 2021
Canada
1 review
3 helpful votes
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The road to success
August 17, 2021

The Zacks Research Wizard powerful stock screener helped me find stocks with very fine tuning on specifications I look for. I had great success in 2019 with BMZ (29.0%), FZR (55.7%), GIM1 (28.7%), NH (43.4%). I bought Zacks Ultimate and now follow Jeremy Mullin, Kevin Cook and Danie Laboe.

Date of experience: August 17, 2021
Ohio
1 review
7 helpful votes
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A must have tool for any investor!
August 5, 2021

The Zacks Research Wizard, has been a great tool for my personal investing. Price and Fundamental Charts help me see how these variables affect each other. Enabling me to identify winners at an early stage. I've had great picks like ROKU and SQUARE before the rally.

Date of experience: August 5, 2021
Massachusetts
1 review
2 helpful votes
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"The Zacks Research Wizard back testing feature is valuable. I noticed the historical outperformance of Key Measures, Rank5, Breakouts and New Highs versus the S&P and I run the screen weekly. I have taken many trades based on the built in strategies and this has yielded several winning trades. GM, VSTO, MT, SCHN are some examples of ~40% gains over 4-10 week time frames."

Date of experience: August 3, 2021
Colorado
1 review
3 helpful votes
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So far, so good!
July 25, 2021

I value the Zacks Research Wizard built-in stock-picking strategies. I'm up +25% in 27 weeks trading so far. If this continues through the year, I will quadruple my investment next year.

Date of experience: July 24, 2021
Arkansas
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Investing with Zacks
July 14, 2021

"I have made quite a bit of money using Zacks Research Wizard. I am not good at finding good stocks to invest in on my own and this tool makes it easy. I made 160 trades last year (2020), a record for me, using the Rank2 strategy. The majority of the holdings I had for 2 weeks or less and profits ranged from +1% all the way up to +101%. I only had 6 losing trades."

Date of experience: July 14, 2021
Saudi Arabia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Having access to all strategies in Zacks Ultimate will broaden my investment horizon. I also use Zacks.com to monitor my portfolio, especially upgrades and downgrades, and earnings estimate revisions.

Date of experience: June 29, 2021
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Kevin kindly swapped my RW subscription to the Zacks Ultimate package. The Zacks Ultimate is worth it.

Thank you Kevin.

Date of experience: June 18, 2021
Canada
1 review
5 helpful votes
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How can I not give 5 stars?
June 9, 2021

I am a life-long subscriber to all Zacks offers. Last year my 401k increased about +47% in value. YTD as of yesterday +19.11%, so I'm a happy camper so far.
One should however spend time every day keeping up to date with what's happening in money & politics to make informed decisions. But without Zacks services I would most probably have been far less successful.

Date of experience: June 9, 2021
Texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Zacks Ultimate Commentary keeps me most updated on thoughts from your editors. I find this very useful since things change daily. I have had more successes than failures. That's the name of the game and keeps me coming back.

Date of experience: June 9, 2021
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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The Portfolio Additions and Deletions feature in Zacks Investor Collection suggests which Zacks picks are timely, or no longer expected to go up. Zacks Investor Collection is a good source of information and idea generation."

Date of experience: May 8, 2021
California
3 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Zacks is Awesome!
May 7, 2021

I subscribe to a few Stock Advisors. Of all of them, I believe Zacks is the best. While not every advisor is perfect, Zacks seems to be spot on in the vast majority of suggestions.

Date of experience: May 7, 2021
Pennsylvania
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I value the Zacks Investor Collection Commentary. More than just adds and deletes, I enjoy the perspective on the market, stocks in the portfolio, and why adds and deletes are made. The ups have been better than the downs! Overall sitting on 18% upside right now. Highlights are sitting on + 500% up on SAVA, and cashed out on LQDT for a +100% gain, and CMTL for +70%.

Date of experience: May 7, 2021
Virginia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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ZACKS is great!
March 24, 2021

Zacks Ultimate is great! I really like the access, the stock choices consistent with portfolio objectives, and the market perspectives. I've made many successful investment decisions based on Zacks advice.

Date of experience: March 24, 2021
Florida
1 review
6 helpful votes
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"I'm currently following and adding positions from Zacks Ultimate, including Technology Innovators, Healthcare Innovators and Blockchain Innovators. In 2020 I followed Home Run Investor, Value Investor, Top 10 and Stocks Under $10. In past 12 months, my wife's IRA is up 86% and my IRA is up 56% - this is directly correlated to when I began Zacks. Can't say thank you enough."

Date of experience: March 21, 2021
Germany
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I started my experience with Zacks using the service Income Investor. This is a service for people who dislike too much activity in the stock market. It worked quite well for me and I liked the service conduct. The next step was to join all the Zacks services starting to discover which works better for me. This is how I became familiar with the Top 10 stocks service. I saw a wonderful performance in 2019 and in the beginning of 2020 I waited a little bit but entered the service in mid March after the big collapse. I invested 10,000$ per stock and doubled my money by the end of 2020, though it was a very unusual year. Still the stocks picking was amazing.
I use as well the Zacks Wizard now with much success however using this tool is far from automatic, at least for me. It took me quite a while after some painful losses to recognize how this tool really works best. After some long learning curve I have some screens that make good profits for me. In summary, I appreciate Zacks tools and services very much, but everyone has to adopt them carefully and slowly.

Date of experience: March 19, 2021
New York
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Zacks Ultimate is like having an experienced Captain navigate you on the sometimes stormy sea of investing.
Daily buy/sell recommendations in real time, and daily narratives from seasoned professionals deliver real favorable results.
Lifetime Service has paid for itself within days.

Date of experience: March 19, 2021
Florida
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I have had very satisfying results from all of the Zack's Ultimate features and analysts. Each add to my daily knowledge in different ways. Don't change anything, in my opinion. Great staff, and all great at what they do individually and as a team.

Trading and investing is all about having a set of goals, having strategies that meet those goals, and also being able to change our goals in the future and still have the tools available to meet them. Zack's Ultimate has been all of that for me.

Zacks's Ultimate has many different services that cover several different mid term trading strategies, as well as long term investing and a very informative ETF advice as well. I use the Mid-Term strategies I want to target at a given time, to build up some cash, and move the excess into long term investments for both stability and long term capital gains.

I am also a subscriber to Zack's Research Wizard, which is a premium stock screener, that comes with several very useful tried and tested templates, but is also configurable to more values then any other screener I have seen, and best of all, it includes screening on the Zack's Rank as well. I have had satisfactory success with the Research Wizard, in any kind of market conditions.

Date of experience: March 19, 2021
Illinois
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Zacks is tough to beat
March 3, 2021

Last year was a great year despite the sharp market downturn during the Spring of 2020. I primarily utilize Zacks Top 10 Stocks, Blockchain Innovators, Counterstrike, Value Investor, Commodity Innovators and Insider Trader services and all of these performed well and provided a balanced portfolio. Last year was the best year I've ever had with investing: My two brokerage accounts were up 80% and over 50% for the year using the above mentioned Zacks services. This year is off to a good start, despite continued market volatility.

Date of experience: March 3, 2021