Investor's Business Daily
62
Quality Score
Solid
Investor's Business Daily
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Investor's Business Daily is an Android app from Dow Jones & Company, Inc. in the Finance category, currently rated 4.4★ across 4,190 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 62: Solid (established niche player). For a Finance app, that means established niche player. 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
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$150K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $110K – $200K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
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 |
| 💎 In-app purchase plumbing | +$9K |
| ⚙ Finance complexity ×1.60 | +$35K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$52K |
Total estimate
$150K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$20K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $15K – $25K · 32× MRR multiple
💸
~0.1× build cost (under-water)
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from iap / freemium model + 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
| 💎 IAP / freemium model base | 28× MRR |
| 🏷 Finance category multiple | +15% |
Final multiple
32× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
250K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
70K
Daily active
28K
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 |
| 🔁 Finance D30 retention | 28% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.40 |
DAU / MAU
40% sticky
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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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Building · 60/100MID TIERcompetitive build-outGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.2
Product Quality
7.9
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
5.0
Defensibility
9.8
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.37★ across 4,190 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: Strong subscription moat. Hard to outcompete on retention. Better angle: free alternative with one-time purchase, or feature parity for an underserved sub-niche.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $90K-$160K.
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 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Low install base (4,190 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Good rating (4.4★)METRIC | +$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.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Investor's Business Daily
- Developer
- Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.investors.business.daily
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Finance
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.investors.com
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $548/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $25.99 - $379.00 per item
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 growth4,190 ratings+22% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
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
Winning stock lists, real-time charts and up-to-the-minute market news: now available everywhere, thanks to the newly enhanced Investor’s Business Daily app. The IBD app is free to download.
Investor's Business Daily is proud to have been named "Best Financial Research and Data Company" in the 2023 FinTech Breakthrough Award program.
IBD Digital members have access to their favorite premium features, IBD premium lists, charts and personal stock lists. Not an IBD member? You’ll still be able to keep up with market news, videos and information like you would on investors.com.… View full description on the official store →
Investor's Business Daily is proud to have been named "Best Financial Research and Data Company" in the 2023 FinTech Breakthrough Award program.
IBD Digital members have access to their favorite premium features, IBD premium lists, charts and personal stock lists. Not an IBD member? You’ll still be able to keep up with market news, videos and information like you would on investors.com.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v7.21🔄 updated 0d ago📂 Finance💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $25.99 - $379.00 per item
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Tech & Domain Intel — investors.com
- Tech stack
- Microsoft 365 · AWS SES · Apple Pay / Sign in with Apple · Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) · Meta (Facebook) Ads · Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Investor's Business Daily: 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: 4,190 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Investor's Business Daily make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Investor's Business Daily earns approximately $548/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.
What apps are like Investor's Business Daily?▴
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Who makes Investor's Business Daily?▴
Investor's Business Daily is published by Dow Jones & Company, Inc. on the Google Play 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 Investor's Business Daily's BU Score?▴
Investor's Business Daily has a BU Score of 62/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.