Stock Quotes Are Free Almost Everywhere Now. Investors Are Paying for What Comes After Them.
Key Highlights
- ➤FactSet (FDS) Q4 revenue $634.7M, up 6.3% year over year
- ➤FactSet guides fiscal 2027 revenue between $2,600M and $2,625M
- ➤MarketWise (MKTW) raises fiscal 2026 billings guidance 10% to approximately $330M
- ➤Interactive Brokers (IBKR) client accounts reach 5.576M, up 35% year over year
- ➤Robinhood (HOOD) equity trading volume hits $335B, up 68% year over year
MIAMI, Oct. 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- USA Newsroom News Commentary - A generation ago, a live stock quote was something investors paid for, through a terminal, a newsletter or a broker’s phone line. Today the number itself is close to free. It arrives on a phone lock screen, inside a brokerage app and in a search result, often within seconds. What has not become free is everything that happens after the number appears: the context, the research and the decision about what to do next. That is where the online investing industry is now competing, and the results from the companies that supply, display and explain market data show where the money is going. Companies mentioned in today’s commentary include: QuoteMedia, Inc. (OTCQB: QMCI), FactSet Research Systems Inc. (NYSE: FDS), MarketWise, Inc. (NASDAQ: MKTW), Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: IBKR), Robinhood Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOOD).
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