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GuruFocus

U.S. financial, market-focused (non-partisan)

Owned byPrivately owned by Dr. Charlie Tian (100%) through GuruFocus.com, LLC, a Texas limited liability company

FundingTiered subscription fees (approximately $424–$4,997/year depending on plan), supplemented by advertising and an annual investing conference

On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

GuruFocus was founded in December 2004 by Dr. Charlie Tian, a Chinese-born physicist with a Ph.D. from Peking University, who turned to value investing after the dot-com bubble burst. He built the site initially to aggregate the trading activity of prominent institutional investors — the 'gurus' of its name — so that retail investors could track moves by figures like Warren Buffett. Over time the platform expanded into a broad value investing research tool with financial data, screeners, valuation metrics, and curated market news. It operates as GuruFocus.com, LLC (Texas), and has remained a private, founder-controlled company. A related entity, GuruFocus Investments, LLC, is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm also controlled by Tian. Revenue comes primarily from tiered subscription plans. GuruFocus is not a general-purpose political news outlet; its editorial filter is market relevance. Coverage of Trump administration actions such as tariffs, Section 122 trade measures, and tax policy is presented in terms of stock-market and macroeconomic implications, without taking partisan positions for or against the administration.

Sources

Profile compiled 2026-07-06; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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