Returnolio

Research the business. Put your money in the right place.

Explore economic profit, valuation and the changes in the companies you follow. Inspect the numbers, the sources and the reasoning behind Returnolio’s research.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Warren Buffett

That gap, between what a company is worth and what the market charges for it, is the whole job. Our model exists to measure it.

Why Returnolio

One tool, instead of the four tabs you have open right now.

How it works

See how Returnolio works.

The whole product in 16 minutes: how we go from the whole market to ten, and what each part of the app does for you.

How we think.

What every company runs through

Quality

Durable brands, efficient capital, steady returns. Businesses that can compound for a decade.

Economic Profit

Earnings after the full cost of capital. What is left is value actually created, not just booked.

Value (Margin of Safety)

We only get interested when the price sits a real margin below our fair-value estimate.

Momentum

Shows whether the market is starting to agree with the numbers.

Smart Money

What insiders and well-known investors are doing, next to each name.

Moonshot Detected

The momentum picks in the monthly Top 10, always badged.

News & macro

The news flow and the macro backdrop, so nothing blindsides the analysis.

The human gate

Manual review

The last word is human. We read the filings and hear the earnings calls before a name reaches the Top 10.

“Together the pillars give the full picture. We put it all together, so you can too.”

Yes, we use AI.

It reads the filings and writes the words. It never touches the score.

It reads the filings.

973 companies, every filing, every quarter.

It listens to the calls.

Every earnings call, transcribed and recapped.

The earnings calls panel on a company page: quarter tabs, an audio player and a link to the full transcript.

It writes the summary.

From the headlines and the numbers, dated.

The AI summary panel on a company page: headline, score breakdown, valuation and strengths, each a short paragraph.

It answers in your chat.

Your own assistant, reading our live data.

A chat: the question how Apple scores, two tool chips, and an answer with the pillar figures.

It never votes.

The score is arithmetic on filed data.

The score history chart: composite and pillar lines over two years.

A person publishes.

Every edition is read before it goes out.

The Top 10 edition card in the app: the month, the write-up, an audio player and the report download.

One example: where the price really sits.

Returnolio historical valuation screen: price against two fair-value models, with the revenue-growth strip below
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The price

The black line is what the market charges for the company over the years.

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Our fair-value lines

Two independent models, one industry-relative and one historical, so a single quirky input can't swing the verdict. Hover any point in the app for the exact numbers.

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The margin of safety

Price far above the zone reads expensive. Price below it is the discount you buy at, and we publish the assumptions behind it.

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The growth check

The strip below tracks revenue growth against the industry median. Growth names get judged on growth drivers, value names on steady cash, never one ruler for both.

Bring your own AI

Ask your own AI. Get our data, not its memory.

MCP is the plug. Your assistant uses it to read Returnolio live, instead of guessing from what it remembers.

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Apple scores 56.2 out of 100. Earnings power leads at 88.5: it earns well above its full cost of capital. Quality is 59.9, momentum 79.1. The price is what holds the headline back: at the bottom of the value scale, no discount left.

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Information only, not investment advice. Figures as of 12 September 2026.

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Pricing

Pick the depth you need.

Start free and upgrade only when it earns it.

Founding prices. They will not stay this low.

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For first-timers kicking the tyres - all the macro and market data, and a taste of the research.

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  • 1 full stock analysis / month
  • Top 10 archive, three months back

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For readers who want the monthly research written up for them, without doing their own screening.

$9/ mo

billed yearly, save 36%plus VAT or sales tax for your country

  • Everything in Free
  • Current Top 10, narrated, the day it drops
  • Our disclosed positions on the Top 10 page, plus 5 analyses a month

Analyst

For hands-on investors who run their own deep analysis on any stock in the universe.

$24/ mo

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  • Everything in Core
  • Screener (top 200 rows), compare, 30 analyses / month
  • Smart-money tracking and alerts on every company you follow
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Pro

For power users who want everything uncapped - no monthly analysis limits.

$39/ mo

billed yearly, save 13%plus VAT or sales tax for your country

  • Everything in Analyst
  • Unlimited analyses + our position changes in each Top 10 notice
  • AI portfolio insights on everything you own

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Full stock analysis / month (Core Economic Profit fair value, valuation, sentiment, geo revenue, AI summary)1530Unlimited
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Watchlist tickers525100Unlimited
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Follows: companies, investors, IPOs & events1310Unlimited
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Proof, not promises

Why it's worth the money.

Backtest · 2013 to 2026 · point-in-time

We tested the method on thirteen years of point-in-time data.

Before any real money went in, we ran the model across 2013 to September 2026 using only the data that existed on each date. Every earnings figure is dated to the day it actually reached the SEC, not the quarter it covers. The published list adds one thing the test does not have: a person who reads every name before it goes out.

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Point-in-time

Scored with only the data that existed then.

Latest stretch

2022 to September 2026: 29.5% a year v 12.3%, part of the backtest.

Full record

Every year is published with its measurement date.

Backtested results, measured on 9 October 2026, not live returns, and no guarantee of future performance.

The fine print

A retrospective backtest on real historical data, net of modelled trading costs, dividends excluded on both sides. The model finished ahead of a 50/50 S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 blend in nine of the thirteen calendar years, and in all 114 overlapping five-year windows (those windows share most of their years, so this is not 114 separate tests). No capital was invested during the test period. Measured on 9 October 2026 on the data as it stood that day; the methodology page gives the record in full, with its measurement date.

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Returnolio Top 10 +2,291%50/50 S&P 500 / Nasdaq-100 +682%S&P 500 +420%

Backtest 2013 to September 2026, log scale: Returnolio Top 10, +2,291% cumulative, vs a 50/50 S&P 500 / Nasdaq-100 blend at +682% and the S&P 500 alone at +420%.

Backtest · 2013 to Sep 2026 · Log scale · Net of 20bps costs · Recorded monthly series · Model v6.0, measured 9 Oct 2026 on the 9 Oct data · Backtested, not a guarantee of future returns

Live tracking

How the method has held up since launch.

The research runs a real portfolio, and we track what happened to it next to the S&P 500. The record only moves forward, and it is public.

  • ·We judge the method over five-year windows, not weeks.
  • ·Every name stays on the record from the day it joins.

Our money, not yours

Subscriptions are our only revenue, and your investments stay yours.

We disclose what we own

Anyone writing about a company should tell you where they stand on it. Our own positions are published alongside the research, so you can weigh one against the other.

A record, not a feed

Changes to our holdings are disclosed with the monthly edition, after the fact. You're reading what we did and why, not a queue of what to do next.

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About us

Our story.

Illustration: a laptop late at night buried under a storm of floating browser windows

How it started

1 a.m. Fourteen tabs.

One tab had the price, another the financials, a third a forum thread arguing about both. Around tab nine we realised we were paying for four subscriptions and still doing all the actual work ourselves.

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The foundation

Before any app, we built a number.

Core Economic Profit (CEP) measures whether profit actually adds value once you charge a company for all the capital it uses. Accounting profit lies surprisingly often; Core Economic Profit was our lie detector, and the whole scoring model grew around it. See how it works.

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The lesson

The loudest pitch held zero shares.

A newsletter we paid for pitched its “highest conviction idea of the decade”. The author didn't own a single share. That gap between what people recommend and what they hold is where early investors quietly lose the most.

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The rule we run on

We tell you where we stand.

We built the method on point-in-time data, every figure dated to the day it reached the SEC. Our own positions are disclosed with the research, so you always know who is writing and what they own.

We believe in this enough to fund our own independence with it, and we put the Monthly Top 10 into the lowest paid tier on purpose: anyone curious can check our work for less than a takeaway lunch.

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10% of profits, every month

When you grow, others grow with you.

Ten percent of every Returnolio profit goes to causes that compound long after the trades close. We focus on planting trees and protecting water, the kind of slow, patient work that pays off over decades, much like the way we invest. Grow with us, and a slice of that growth goes straight into the ground.

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FAQ

Frequently asked.

What's the Monthly Top 10?

Ten long-form company write-ups, published on the first of each month. What the business does, what ten years of numbers say, how the model scored it, and where the case could break. It's the same scoring work we run across 900+ companies, written up properly instead of left as a ranking. Every past edition stays readable, and each one comes with a narration and a report PDF that walk through the analysis.

Is any of this investment advice?

No, and we're not registered to give any. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy, sell or hold anything. We don't know your income, your tax position, your time horizon or what else you own, and those are the things that decide whether a company belongs in your portfolio. We sell the analysis and the data underneath it. The decisions stay yours.

How does the model actually work?

Every company in the universe runs through the same reading: how good the business is, whether it earns more than its capital costs, how far the price sits from what we think it is worth, and what the market and company insiders are doing about it. Each pillar opens up on the company's page into the sub-metrics behind it, ranked against the whole universe, with every value on the page. They combine into one 0-100 Returnolio score. The top names then get a human review, and ten survive into the edition. We publish what each pillar measures and how we test it. How they combine is our recipe, and it stays ours.

How the Returnolio score is built
What is Core Economic Profit?

Core Economic Profit (CEP) is our own measure of economic profit. We built it because nothing off the shelf answered the question: after paying for every dollar of capital the business uses, at what that capital actually costs, is there anything left? Debt and equity are charged at the company's own rate, and R&D is treated as the investment it is instead of a cost that vanishes the year it is spent. Plenty of companies report healthy accounting profits while quietly destroying value. Core Economic Profit is built to catch exactly that.

How Core Economic Profit works, on two real companies
What's the difference between Free, Core, Analyst and Pro?

Free is for looking around: all the macro and market data, one full stock analysis a month, and the Top 10 archive three months behind the newest edition, with our disclosed positions as of that edition. Core adds the current edition with its narration and report PDF, and our disclosed positions as they stand in it - $9/mo billed yearly, or $14 month-to-month. Analyst opens the working tools - the screener at 200 rows, compare, smart-money tracking, 30 deep analyses a month - $24/mo billed yearly, or $30 month-to-month. Pro removes every limit, adds unlimited AI usage and lists our position changes in each Top 10 notice - $39/mo billed yearly, or $45 month-to-month. Each tier includes everything below it. Those are net prices; VAT or sales tax for your country is added at checkout.

How do I pay, and are there hidden costs?

Card, PayPal, Apple Pay or Google Pay, billed monthly or yearly, yearly being the cheaper rate. Prices on this page are net of tax, so VAT or sales tax for your country is added at checkout: 27% in Hungary, 20% in the UK, 19% in Germany, and nothing at all in the US states that don't tax software. You see the exact total before you pay, never after. Past that there's no setup fee, no per-report charges, no upsells inside the app and no cut of your gains. Cancel in one click and your access runs to the end of the period.

Do you offer refunds?

The Free tier is for trying us out - take your time there, poke around the data, read a past Top 10 edition, and only pay once you've seen how we work. On top of that, new Core subscribers get a 7-day refund window on their first paid month, and annual plans are refunded pro-rated if you cancel within 30 days of the charge. Cancelling takes one click and your access runs to the end of the period.

What alerts can I get?

A notice for each new edition comes with every plan, plus a daily or weekly email digest. The notice does not name any company. Analyst adds smart-money alerts on insiders and 13F filings for the companies you follow. House member filings are free to read in the Smart Money tracker. Pro removes the limits and lists our position changes in each Top 10 notice. Core, Analyst and Pro can read them on the Top 10 page when the edition is out, Free three months later. Either way they are disclosed with the monthly edition, after the fact, so nothing lands in your inbox as a live instruction.

Do you cover IPOs?

We research the big ones and publish our take, and you can follow upcoming IPOs in the app to get alerted around listing. Fresh listings rarely make the Top 10 straight away though: the model wants real filing history before it trusts a name, and that discipline has saved us more than once.

What about small caps?

Size is not what gets a company into the universe. It runs from the largest listed names down to small ones, and we judge them all the same way. The Moonshot Detector sits apart from that: it flags companies the main score passes over, and those come in every size, from small caps to some of the biggest companies on the market. It surfaces a handful each month, clearly marked as the high-risk corner of the platform.

What do I actually get inside the app?

A scored page for every company: the Returnolio score with its pillars, fair-value bands on the price chart, ten years of financials, geographic revenue, an AI summary with the bull and bear case. Around that: the screener, side-by-side compare, the macro dashboard with the analyst forecast world map, the smart-money feed, watchlists and the Top 10 hub with every past edition, its narration and its report PDF.

Does it work well on a phone?

Yes. The app is built mobile-first - check your watchlist on the bus, read a thesis in bed. The heavier workflows like screening 900 stocks are nicer on a big screen, but nothing is desktop-only.

How accessible is it?

Light and dark themes, full keyboard navigation, screen-reader labels on the data, and a reduce-motion switch that calms every animation - independent of your OS setting. Accessibility issues get treated as bugs, not feature requests; if something blocks you, write to us and we fix it.

Where can I follow you if I'm curious about the thinking behind it?

Start with the docs: the methodology and the research behind it all live there, in full. Each monthly Top 10 comes with a narration and a report PDF that walk through the ten companies one by one. And we post on YouTube, X, TikTok, Instagram, Threads and Pinterest - the links sit in the footer below.

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