Never do business without knowing the value.

Typing the numbers yourself is still the default, and the one we recommend. It forces you to open the report and actually read the business, and no stale feed can silently change your thesis. If you want speed, the AI suggestion fills the same fields from market data and it is genuinely accurate — manual is the learning path, AI is the fast path. Neither replaces the other.

No. ValuationView is a calculator for your own assumptions. Every output is only as good as what you type in.

A five-year discounted cash flow with mid-year convention, a stub period to your next fiscal year end, and a Gordon growth terminal value.

The suggestion reads the company's reported revenue, margins and recent growth trend, then proposes a starting set of assumptions in the same fields you would fill in yourself. It is a well-anchored starting point, not a verdict: every value stays editable, and nothing is submitted until you accept it.

Every saved valuation lands in your dashboard. Compare puts them side by side — fair value, current price, upside and the assumptions behind each one — so you can see which holding is doing the heavy lifting and which one you are paying up for.

Risk is read off your own numbers, not a black box. We take each position's gap between price and fair value, weight it by size, and show margin of safety, how much of the portfolio sits above fair value, and how concentrated you are in a single name.

It is what one share is worth if the business delivers the cash flows you assumed. Above it, you are paying more than your own assumptions justify. Below it, the market is asking less than you think the business is worth.

You end up knowing which assumptions the value actually hangs on — growth, margin, discount rate — and how far each can move before the case breaks. That sensitivity is the real output; the number is just where it lands today.

No. Check the moat: is the advantage durable or can a competitor undercut it next year. Check management and their capital allocation record. Check the balance sheet — debt decides whether a bad year is a bump or a break. Check growth quality: real demand, or one-off and debt-funded. And check the industry: a good business in a bad industry stays a hard place to earn returns. The number is the start of the analysis, not the end of it.

A small team with backgrounds in finance and engineering. People who have valued companies professionally and built software professionally, and got tired of the choice between a spreadsheet and a black box.