hemscott.com

Advantages: Very upto date web site with valuable information for investors, take into considderation of their predictions as you can make a lot of money. Very information from all aspects of investing
Disadvantages: If not a subscriber, the share price information is slow to come through, best checked out on teletext.

I have been using hemscott.com for nearly two years now, and you cannot fault them with the vast amounts of information that they give you per organisation on the stock exchange, wether it is on the 100 index or the 250 index. At the moment they are advising which are the best companies to invest into for one months free trial. After the trail, it cost £10 per month or £99 a year, but that might sound a lot, but with the advise that they have given, ...
...companies were ottacker's book stores, and its share price was 55p at the end of December 2000, now they are £1.20 (approx), yet hemscott have announce to sell half your shares. This is basically because you can reclaim what you put into the company, whilst the rest of the investment is shear profit. You can find any information about any company. These are; - Recent press releases - Rate of dividends that are being paid - Share price movement ... Read review

Advantages: Offers both a free and paid-for service.
Disadvantages: Sometimes unreliable share pricing.

I have been using Hemscott for a few years now and what impresses me most is the range of information available (for free) to anyone interested. The site currently offers Company Searches, a News section, analysis of the financial Markets (including the FTSE 100), a Summary of all the technical terms used on the website, and useful information on Loans, Credit cards and Insurance to name a few. What attracted me to the site was its free Portfolio ...
...any number and value of shares to be watched and tracked. You don;t have to buy the shares as this service tells you how well they are doing and plots graphs showing your shares' performance. This can be extremely useful if you are new to investing and want to just see if you've got what it takes to pick winner companies! The company summary section of the website offers a lot more then alternative websites; including pre-calculated EPS (earnings ... Read review

Advantages: free access to data you would normally pay for
Disadvantages: signing up to ISP, setting hemscott as homepage

Hemington scott are the company behind CDRefs, a subscription information service providing a great deal of fundamental data on listed companies. A lot of company information is available on their website, but if you subscribe to their ISP service you can access even more. For the small effort of setting up another account, you can avail yourself of a lot more valuable information which will be of great use in evaluating potential share purchases. ...
...so although there is an investment focus, you will also see travel, insurance, recruitment and general reference links. However, for me the financial information comes first - for anyone considering fundamental analysis when investing, this site should be on your list when evaluating shares - certainly a cheaper alternative to subscriptions to more expensive services. ... Read review

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If you want a good website for personal finance you need look no further than http://www.hemscott.net. This site offers a wide range of services, like news in the form of AFX and RNS, a bullitin board, company research, and a hole lot of other features including the share tips from the sunday papers. I use this site alot and would recommend this to anyone as a good source of information. If you are considering investing in shares, check out this ...
...opinions on a certain share before you buy it, just search the archives, to see other peoples opinions of it. The only downside on the bullitin board is that some shares are ramped, so never buy on the basis of one persons say so and always do your own research. ... Read review

Advantages: Easy to find information on companies
Disadvantages: Lots of stuff incomprehensible to learners

Hemscott (www.hemscott.com) is a useful site for keeping track of share prices. You choose the company you are interested in and a whole raft of detailed information is available to you. It allows you to view the daily share price, a 15 minute delay share price, and to see a graph of the past performance over 3 or 5 years. The graphs show the share price adjusted for capital changes, the share price movement relative to the FT-SE all share index, ... Read review