Zacks Investment ResearchReviews 176

Zacks is my No. 1 data source for fundamental data. Actually their website is always open on my screen. I am a professional technical investor, and any initial buy decision is always after crosschecking Zacks research. The ""premium screens"" are very helpful in filtering out what I look for, and the daily email alerts as well. I have been a ""lifetime"" subscriber for eight years, and I never did regret it.
When my time allows, I scroll through their website and am always surprised how rich their content is.

Best is your Zack Rating. Buying good rating is key. Do you have a service that allow me to "input" a stock name, and you can provide a Zack rating? Or in some cases as "not rated" is fine.
What can improve? Your service is very well classified into many categories and cater for many types of investors/traders... but to a common mortal like us is too many, we don't know how to choose because we dont really know what we want, and we changes all the time haha... eg myself looking for some kind of shorter term swing trade (not day trading) so I/we can be more focus and Not Overwhelmed and frustrated... yet can see some good results in a couple of weeks or 1-2 mths?

"I traded about 10 years ago, and didn't know much and basically lost it all. I gave up until about a year ago, but painfully lost again. I came across Zacks and decided to try out the trial. Within days I was hooked, buying the recommendations and reading the commentaries, which by the way is my highlight of my day. You guys are awesome and damn good!
Within about two weeks, one of my stocks hit a100% gain. I was ecstatic as the most I've seen before Zacks was maybe 10%. So yes I joined Zacks without hesitation. Just want to say Thank You to all the people involved. You all do amazing work.
So far this is life changing for me so Thank You in a big way!"

The quality and easy availability with Zacks Investment research is absolutely necessary for quick and accurate investing in the current marketplace. I feel and have demonstrated that I have all the skills and knowledge to manage my own portfolio - but I don't want it to be a full-time job, and I don't want to cut myself short on lack of insight. I subscribed to Zacks Investment Research in the middle of March 2020 - and started a new self managed account with new/fresh money (six digits worth) and have made well into 60% returns on that money during the year.
I could of actually made more on the investments had I not chosen such a "conservative" rule-set to trade by - but I'm more than happy with the results!

If you amortize the cost of a Zacks Ultimate Lifetime subscription over the rest of your investing life, it's an unbeatable value at just a few hundred dollars per year or less. I've found a couple of portfolio managers (managing five portfolios between them) whose aggressive growth-oriented style I love and who've made me a lot of money the last few years that I wouldn't have made on my own. And the beauty of a lifetime Zacks Ultimate subscription is that when I'm ready (i. E. retired) I can switch to following the recommendations of the income-oriented portfolio service and this won't cost me a thing.

Wished I checked around before making the payment. ZACKS Investment Research is a dishonest website. I paid for an online course and the userid and password they provided did not work and they did not send me the book that was supposed to come with the course! Tried so many times to contact them via emails to resolve the issues and there were no replies. However, I keep getting product emails from them but my genuine problem... totally ignored! Don't believe any $1 offer or any sort... once they take your money, it will be hard to get it back! Beware!

There is one stock and one ETF I have been paying a lot of attention to the last 3 years (FANG and SPXL).
Now with the coronavirus, these two stocks became very clearly insane opportunities. There was no way that it wasn't completely oversold and would go back to much much higher values quickly.
So when I saw Zacks recommend staying away from these (giving them the worst grades possible), they scared me but I decided to suck it up and believe my knowledge about these.
So what did not listening to Zacks get me? Well SPXL gave me +50% in 2 months, FANG an insane +160% in 2 months.
I don't know who called them experts, but they lied. It's not all, every single stock I've owned I realized they've always been wrong. But the example I'm showing is so over the top they lost all credibility to me.
At this point I'm using Zacks to do the exact opposite of what they recommend, and honestly, my portfolio is doing better than it would have in my wildest dreams.
Don't believe a word they say.