Investor's Business Daily
78
Quality Score
Strong
Investor's Business Daily
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Investor's Business Daily is an iOS app from Investor’s Business Daily, Inc. in the Finance category, currently rated 4.7★ across 16,041 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 78: 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
$14.7K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$15.2K – $31.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$18.8K – $56.5K
per month
MID tier
💡 Grow this revenue
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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
$145K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $110K – $195K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~8 months 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 (148 MB) | +$39K |
| ⚙ Finance complexity ×1.60 | +$53K |
Total estimate
$145K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$325K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $250K – $425K · 19× MRR multiple
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~2.2× return on build cost
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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Finance category multiple | +15% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
960K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
265K
Daily active
105K
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
$14.7K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$13.9K – $23.2K
12 months
$15.2K – $31.8K
24 months
$18.8K – $56.5K
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
Below median · 52/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.1
Product Quality
9.4
Revenue Strength
4.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.9
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $10K - $22K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.69★ across 16,041 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 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 = $264K-$470K. Portfolio play ($23K/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 12 of 12 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (16,041 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| annoying adsREVIEW | −$1,100 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 |
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 · v7.21
• Bug fixes and optimizations
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Investor's Business Daily
- Developer
- Investor’s Business Daily, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.investors.ibdapp
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Finance
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Investor's Business Daily
- Description
- Perform stock investment research with our IBD research tools to help investment strategies. We provide the resources to help make informed decisions.
- Founded
- 1984-04-09
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $17.1K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇯🇵#21 /100 🇮🇳#23 /100 🇺🇸#37 /100 🇬🇧#58 /100 🇨🇦#66 /100
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- William J. O'Neil
- X / Twitter
- twitter.com/IBDinvestors
- linkedin.com/company/investors-busine…
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
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 growth16,041 ratings+52% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (55 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank5 countries
🇯🇵JP#21 /100
🇮🇳IN#23 /100
🇺🇸US#37 /100
🇬🇧GB#58 /100
🇨🇦CA#66 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#21 now · best #19 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
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.
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 now 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.
Features:… 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 now 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.
Features:… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 148 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v7.21🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Finance💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
11 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 →
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.93 → 4.69 (improved 0.76★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.95 → 4.71 (improved 0.76★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-11
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Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-08
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.50 → 4.18 (dropped 0.32★)
2022-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2022-07
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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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 high confidence: 16,041 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 $17K/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.
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Who makes Investor's Business Daily?▴
Investor's Business Daily 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 Investor's Business Daily's BU Score?▴
Investor's Business Daily has a BU Score of 78/100 (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.