Leaderboard by IBD
65
Quality Score
Solid
Leaderboard by IBD
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Leaderboard by IBD is an iOS app from Investor’s Business Daily, Inc. in the Finance category, currently rated 4.7★ across 5,276 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 65: 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
$10.2K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$10.5K – $22.0K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$13.0K – $39.1K
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
$95K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $70K – $130K
$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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (75 MB) | +$10K |
| ⚙ Finance complexity ×1.60 | +$36K |
Total estimate
$95K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$20K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $15K – $25K · 19× MRR multiple
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~0.2× 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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Finance category multiple | +15% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
315K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
88K
Daily active
35K
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
$10.2K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$9.7K – $16.1K
12 months
$10.5K – $22.0K
24 months
$13.0K – $39.1K
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
8.4
Revenue Strength
4.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.2
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $7K - $15K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.66★ across 5,276 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 = $183K-$325K. 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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Low install base (5,276 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| 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
- Leaderboard by IBD
- Developer
- Investor’s Business Daily, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.investors.leaderboard
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Finance
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- investors.com
- 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
- $976/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Finance
- 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 growth5,276 ratings+12768% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (58 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
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
Leaderboard subscription required.
Make your investing simpler and your portfolio stronger.
Leaderboard is a premium investing research platform that gives you winning stocks and concrete trading action plans. Our market experts and proven system do the hard part for you. The result: a better portfolio and bigger profits in less time.
The team behind Leaderboard engineered a new way to research stocks. Leaderboard combines powerful investing tools—technical and fundamental data, computer algorithms and human insight—into one streamlined experience.… View full description on the official store →
Make your investing simpler and your portfolio stronger.
Leaderboard is a premium investing research platform that gives you winning stocks and concrete trading action plans. Our market experts and proven system do the hard part for you. The result: a better portfolio and bigger profits in less time.
The team behind Leaderboard engineered a new way to research stocks. Leaderboard combines powerful investing tools—technical and fundamental data, computer algorithms and human insight—into one streamlined experience.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 75 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 14.0+🔖 v7.21🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Finance💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
9 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
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.13 → 4.56 (improved 1.43★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-07
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.86 → 3.50 (dropped 0.36★)
2019-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2019-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.00 (dropped 1.00★)
2019-06
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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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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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.57143★ | 35 | 4.57143★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 5★ | 10 | 5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.70721★ | 222 | 4.70721★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.51351★ | 74 | 4.51351★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.75★ | 12 | 4.75★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.70476★ | 105 | 4.70476★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.83333★ | 12 | 4.83333★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.44086★ | 93 | 4.44086★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.66303★ | 5,318 | 4.66303★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Leaderboard by IBD: 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: 5,276 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Leaderboard by IBD make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Leaderboard by IBD earns approximately $975/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 Leaderboard by IBD?▴
Leaderboard by IBD 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 Leaderboard by IBD's BU Score?▴
Leaderboard by IBD has a BU Score of 65/100 (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.