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Zacks Investment Research has a rating of 4.4 stars from 147 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with Zacks Investment Research most frequently mention last year, value investor, and long term. Zacks Investment Research ranks 1st among Stock Research sites.

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Tom I.
12/29/20

I have used Zacks Ultimate services for several years now with great success. I find that the various trading styles, level of insight, and of course, statistical success and modeling has translated into solid performance and returns. The ability to get real-time information in terms of texts and email during the trading day is very helpful.

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“Essential for trading and investing in general”

Terry S.
12/16/20

I read the daily reports from several of your portfolio services, use their recommendations and find them extremely useful in my trading. The money invested in Zacks has paid off many times over during the past few years. I also profit from the monthly sessions on the market.

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California
1 review
5 helpful votes
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December 22nd, 2020
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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!

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Indiana
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25 helpful votes
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March 1st, 2019

They are guessing as any one else could with no knowledge and no experience in the stock market. They are great when the market is going up and suck when it is going down. They have no credibility and I lost a lot of money betting on their so called #1 stock picks. Do as Warren Buffet reccomends and put your money in the S&P 500 and forget about it. This company is bogus. They just want your money.

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California
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May 8th, 2021
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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."

Reason I chose this business:

To gain more information and more ideas, and it was a prominent means to do that.

Reason I chose this product:

There was good information describing the product after I researched different sites.

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Ohio
1 review
7 helpful votes
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August 5th, 2021
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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.

I wanted to include additional computation on one of the screeners. Jon S. walked me through on how to go about it. The outcome was amazing.

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Poland
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2 helpful votes
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July 3rd, 2023
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I had no knowledge, I had no patience, I wanted money quickly.
And this is not so.
I need the knowledge that Zacks gives me, the plan and direction that the reports and the information in them give me.

The service is professional.
There was no option to pay in installments for a Zacks subscription.

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Singapore
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7 helpful votes
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January 22nd, 2021
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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?

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Arizona
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4 helpful votes
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November 10th, 2021
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The Zacks Premium homepage on Zacks.com, Zacks #1 Rank List and Industry Rank features are most valuable. The Zacks #1 Rank list has been great for me. It gives me unknown, to me, stocks that I could research. I have been using Zacks for one year now. I have purchased three #1 ranked stocks that all have at least doubled. After seeing a #1 Ranked stock, I check on the Industry Rank. Then, I look at the earnings estimates.

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Florida
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24 helpful votes
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February 26th, 2019

The research is great HOWEVER they make it extremely difficult to cancel a subscription. I signed up for a free trial and ended up paying $250 a year because they don't send notification/confirmation emails so I didn't even know I was paying for it. They don't have an option to cancel your subscription on their website and getting though to someone when you call is immensely difficult. Their hours are Monday-Friday 9 am to 6 pm EST yet I'm calling at 1:18 pm EST on a regular old Tuesday and I am going straight to a voicemail that gives me their business hours and forces me to leave a VM for them to call back. I would never subscribe again nor would I recommend anyone to do so. They only care about getting your money. I honestly feel ripped off and helpless because they have my card information and are just going to autocharge it and there's nothing I can do. Well my only recourse will be to call my credit card company and report it but this is just not right!

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Alaska
1 review
3 helpful votes
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June 21st, 2022
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The Zacks ETF Investor Summary Emails are valuable because the info comes directly to me. I don't have to log in or have a computer to access the information. PDBC is this year's big winner for me at over +25%. XLE and XOP are not far behind. These wins are in the tens of thousands. Priceless.

Tremendous value. Thank you.

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Canada
1 review
25 helpful votes
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October 23rd, 2018

The Zacks.com is the biggest poison info I have ever seen among any websites I have been to.
When a stock went up a few days, they rated them as strong buy. After 2 days, when the stock goes down 2%, they lowered the rate to 'Hold',
I observed this site 1 months, this happened to the stocks: AT&T, AMZN, CAT...
If you follow them to buy, you will get trapped.

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Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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February 24th, 2021
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My experience with Zacks has been an incredible ride and very profitable. I have purchased many stock picking services over my 40 years of investing and now I have one Zacks. My advice is go through all your available Zacks services and find who suits your investing style before jumping in. My "go to" portfolios are Stocks under 10$ (my fav), Technology, Blockchain and Top 10. I now count on these gentlemen to do my due diligence which took one to two hours per day after working all day. The text alerts are amazing - I hear the ping read the text and immediately put my buy in, I trust their judgement that much, then I'll read the recap later that night. I recently made 33K on one of Brian Bolans picks SAVA (sorry Brian I sold and took the cash LOL).
I have made my lifetime subscription costs many times over in a very short time and now and will be introducing my son to the service.

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Virginia
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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November 23rd, 2021
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The Zacks Top 10 Stocks Annual Issue is a valuable feature because it includes previews of each pick. The stocks have been winners for me. I will be renewing again next year.

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Canada
3 reviews
61 helpful votes
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May 22nd, 2020

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.

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Massachusetts
1 review
4 helpful votes
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August 6th, 2023
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If you can get 30 days of the Ultimate service for $1, do it! I've seen many negative reviews from people who simply didn't know how to turn off auto-renew after trying a trial period. And then they got charged. (Zack's makes this point clear when you sign up. You will be charged if you don't cancel.) It couldn't be easier. Go to "My Account", go to "Orders" and turn off auto-renew. Done. And you can do this the day you buy the trial. You still get your 30 days. They actually allowed me to sign-up for a "30 days at $1" deal four times! Then they told me I'd reached my limit. That gave me four months to look at EVERYTHING. Once you're in, I suggest looking at the various portfolios you can follow. They are actually very transparent. You can see every stock a particular portfolio has bought and sold, and how much money they made or lost on each one. You can even go back and look at results from previous years. (Once you're on a portfolio page, click on "Performance.") Each portfolio is run by a stock analyst, and they each provide regular updates on their portfolios, explaining why they are buying or selling a particular stock. The service isn't cheap. But try the $1 offer and click around. Look at everything. If you come to the site to buy a few random "Strong Buy" stocks here and there, you will fail. There's a lot more to investing than that. But the $1 trials are well worth it. (I did eventually buy into the service. It's only been a couple of months, so I can't say too much. But so far, I am having more success than when I was picking stocks on my own.)

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North Carolina
1 review
24 helpful votes
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June 19th, 2019

Nothing but bs from these guys
Think they know all and try to ignore your unsubscribe requests for a free trial.
Rip off stay away nothing but aggravation

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Netherlands
1 review
2 helpful votes
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December 21st, 2021
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Access to Zacks' 5 Stocks Set to Double Special Report helps shaping the more risky part of my portfolio.
A couple of winners in my portfolio like Digital Turbine and InMode. Of course you can't always win, but sofar the majority of the bets has worked out well.

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Canada
1 review
39 helpful votes
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October 1st, 2019

There is no simple way to unsubscribe. You literally have to call them after your 1$ trial. My question is if their so good at trading, and know so much about stocks, why are they stealing from you?

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Germany
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4 helpful votes
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March 19th, 2021
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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.

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Iowa
1 review
6 helpful votes
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December 29th, 2020
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I use the Zacks Portfolio tool to monitor my IRA investments to understand if they are sound in both the short-term and the long-term. Seeing the Zacks Rank in addition to the Value, Growth, and Momentum Scores helps me know whether my equities are (indeed) invested the way I would like them to be. Recommended.

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Wisconsin
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February 8th, 2021
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I opened my trading account on July 9th 2020 with $25.000.00 and as of todays date (2/8/2021) I have just about doubled my money and am showing a 96.75% ROI in my trading account.

I use the screener weekly and follow the daily portfolio updates. I must say that I do not always pitch a stock if it gets downgraded by Zacks as I have developed a set of "stats" that I follow and have made money off of some of the stocks that were downgraded to a #4. However, I am always asking myself; "What does Zack know that I don't?" and like the screeners ability to fine me stocks for my watch list. I would love to have Zack update the screening manual and add some standard screening for ETF's as well.

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Colorado
1 review
3 helpful votes
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July 24th, 2021
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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.

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Louisiana
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2 helpful votes
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October 25th, 2022
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"I use the Zacks #1 Rank List, Premium Screens, Industry Rank and Equity Research Reports as part of Zacks Premium the most. The easy-to-use reports have helped improve my trading, and the research has helped narrow my options."

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Ohio
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6 helpful votes
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March 3rd, 2021
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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.

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Ohio
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January 19th, 2021
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I went to four different financial advisors to help manage my retirement. All were looking for 1 to 1.5% fees on my portfolio without any guarantee of returns. Each provided many different methods to invest - securities, annuities, funds, bonds, etc. However, I wanted to find an advisor that I could work with as I enjoyed buying and selling stocks, and because I have always felt it was better to manage my own money. That way if it did not turn out well it was my responsibility. I was burned in the past when I had let someone else manage my money. I started my journey with Zacks in 2018 and became a full time Ultimate Member in January 2020. Zacks gives an investor so many opportunities of investing. They have the wealth of experienced investment managers with a constant flow of information and reporting it is amazing! If you want to have low risk the portfolio is available. If you want higher risk the portfolio is available. Each with their own unique strategy. I am currently using Surprise Trader for my cash account. For my Roth account I use Home Run, Less than 10, Top 10, Large Cap, and Tech Innovators. For my IRA I have setup my own investing strategy based on what I have learned from all the resources that Zack provides. Overall returns since joining Zacks in January 2020 has been a wonderful 38.82%! That has beat all the indices. It has been rewarding to know I still decide on what I want to do with my money, but have the confidence that with the power of Zack's methods I can achieve great success.

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Georgia
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3 helpful votes
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January 12th, 2021
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I have had exceptional results. The list is sent out promptly and necessary updates are timely. The rationale for all decisions are clearly explained.

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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, screening and backtesting software, and powerful resources and tools to help boost portfolio returns.

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, averaging +24.2% per year.

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