MarketSurge - Stock Research
72
Quality Score
Strong
MarketSurge - Stock Research
Medium confidence
✍️ 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
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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
$110K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $80K – $150K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.6y 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 (92 MB) | +$16K |
| ⚙ Finance complexity ×1.60 | +$40K |
Total estimate
$110K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$125K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $100K – $150K · 20× MRR multiple
💸
~1.1× build cost (break-even+)
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 ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Finance category multiple | +15% |
Final multiple
20× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
500K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
140K
Daily active
56K
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
Below median · 53/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.1
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 ($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 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 (14y 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 · v6.6
• 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
- 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
- $5.9K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇩🇪#30 /100 🇦🇺#53 /100 🇺🇸#62 /100 🇯🇵#92 /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 growth8,395 ratings+14% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (44 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (33 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank4 countries
🇩🇪DE#30 /100
🇦🇺AU#53 /100
🇺🇸US#62 /100
🇯🇵JP#92 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#30 now · best #28 · 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
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 →💾 92 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 14.0+🔖 v6.6🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Finance💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
10 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
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v6.6
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.96 → 4.72 (improved 0.76★)
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2014-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.67 → 4.00 (improved 0.33★)
2013-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2013-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 3.00 (improved 2.00★)
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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
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.70833★ | 96 | 4.70833★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.77273★ | 22 | 4.77273★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.73219★ | 407 | 4.73219★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.77245★ | 167 | 4.77245★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.93333★ | 30 | 4.93333★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.62263★ | 212 | 4.62263★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.48148★ | 27 | 4.48148★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.64315★ | 241 | 4.64315★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.71225★ | 8,438 | 4.71225★ 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
4 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 $5.9K/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 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.