MarketSurge - Stock Research
72
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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MarketSurge - Stock Research is an iOS app from Investor’s Business Daily, Inc. in the Finance category, currently rated 4.7★ across 8,395 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 72: Strong (healthy traction). For a Finance app, that means healthy traction. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
166 snapshots on record
Rating
4.7
Reviews
8,395 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
166
since Jan 2013
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$185K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $140K – $250K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~3.1y at current MRR
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱 MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱 5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| 📦 Asset bundle (74 MB) | +$9K |
| ⚙ Finance complexity ×1.60 | +$35K |
| ⚙ 15.2y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$91K |
Total estimate
$185K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$125K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $100K – $150K · 24× MRR multiple
💸
~0.7× build cost (under-water)
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.
How the multiple was built
| 📺 Ad-supported base | 15× MRR |
| 📅 15.2y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Finance category multiple | +15% |
Final multiple
24× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
350K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
20K
Daily active
8.0K
Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.
How we sized it
| 📲 Finance engagement | ~60 installs / rating |
| 📅 15.2y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Finance D30 retention | 28% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.40 |
DAU / MAU
40% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 70%
Also possible
Flutter
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 📦 App bundle size | 74 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Finance |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-11 · 23 days ago
0 · Active
50 · At risk
100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅 23 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 54/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.7
Product Quality
8.5
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.72★ across 8,395 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($91K/mo combined) commands premium.
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 15 of 16 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| frequent crashesREVIEW | −$2,000 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (8,395 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (15y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🆕 What's New · v6.10
• Bug fixes and optimizations
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- MarketSurge - Stock Research
- Developer
- Investor’s Business Daily, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.marketsmith
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Finance
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $5.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇯🇵#32 /100 🇬🇧#51 /100 🇦🇺#68 /100 🇺🇸#87 /100
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
📈Ratings growth8,604 ratings+1847% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank4 countries
🇯🇵JP#32 /100
🇬🇧GB#51 /100
🇦🇺AU#68 /100
🇺🇸US#87 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#32 now · best #32 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter4 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline4 releases tracked
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
📝 About this app
The best stock research and charting app just got better. MarketSurge (formerly MarketSmith) gives you all the tools you need to make more money in the market. It’s simplified and streamlined for modern investors.
MarketSurge is different—intuitive instead of complicated. It’s easy-to-use and, unlike other apps, you can talk to a MarketSurge product coach about features, strategies and smarter ways to find winning stocks. Try MarketSurge for $29.99 for the first month and leave your old investing routine behind.
The MarketSurge app makes it easier and faster to:
GET TRADE IDEAS… View full description on the official store →
MarketSurge is different—intuitive instead of complicated. It’s easy-to-use and, unlike other apps, you can talk to a MarketSurge product coach about features, strategies and smarter ways to find winning stocks. Try MarketSurge for $29.99 for the first month and leave your old investing routine behind.
The MarketSurge app makes it easier and faster to:
GET TRADE IDEAS… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 74 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v6.10🔄 updated 3w ago🌐 EN📂 Finance💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2011 (15y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
16 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v6.7 → v6.10
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v6.6.2 → v6.7
→ 30 days after: reviews +57 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v6.6 → v6.6.2
→ 30 days after: reviews +154 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v6.6
→ 30 days after: reviews +97 medium · co-occurring
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +51 high confidence
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.96 → 4.72 (improved 0.76★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +51 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$5.6K/mo · rating +0.75★ · reviews +7,849 high confidence
2014-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2014-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +5 medium · co-occurring
2013-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +16 high confidence
2013-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2013-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.67 → 4.00 (improved 0.33★)
2013-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 3.00 (improved 2.00★)
2013-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🔎
ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #39Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
stocks·#39🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.71134★ | 97 | 4.71134★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.77273★ | 22 | 4.77273★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.73317★ | 416 | 4.73317★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.78235★ | 170 | 4.78235★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.93548★ | 31 | 4.93548★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.60648★ | 216 | 4.60648★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.48148★ | 27 | 4.48148★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.62295★ | 244 | 4.62295★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.7061★ | 8,622 | 4.7061★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for MarketSurge - Stock Research: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 8,395 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does MarketSurge - Stock Research make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, MarketSurge - Stock Research earns approximately $5.0K/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
Is MarketSurge - Stock Research profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $185K and monthly revenue $5.0K, MarketSurge - Stock Research looks slow ROI — payback period is around 3.1 years at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does MarketSurge - Stock Research have?▴
Estimated audience: ~350K lifetime downloads, ~20K monthly active users, and ~8K daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like MarketSurge - Stock Research?▴
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What is MarketSurge - Stock Research built with?▴
Our heuristic places MarketSurge - Stock Research on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 70%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is MarketSurge - Stock Research still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 23 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would MarketSurge - Stock Research sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $125K (marketplace range $100K – $150K). Calculated as 24× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.
When was MarketSurge - Stock Research last updated?▴
MarketSurge - Stock Research last shipped a new version on 2026-09-11 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes MarketSurge - Stock Research?▴
MarketSurge - Stock Research is published by Investor’s Business Daily, Inc. on the Apple App Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is MarketSurge - Stock Research's BU Score?▴
MarketSurge - Stock Research has a BU Score of 72/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.