Outlet profile

MarketScreener

French-based financial information site (non-partisan, market-focused)

Owned byOwned and operated by Surperformance SAS, a privately held French company based in Annecy, France. Franck Morel founded it in 2001 and serves as founder and president. I could not confirm current shareholder details or any outside investors.

FundingMainly advertising and premium subscriptions, according to search-result summaries of its business model. Its pages describe a small team of about 50 people. It also licenses third-party newswire content, such as MT Newswires. I could not verify exact revenue splits.

On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

Franck Morel founded Surperformance in 2001. The company first published the French-language site Zonebourse.com, which became a leading French-speaking financial information site. It later launched the English-language MarketScreener.com, which grew into about 17 international editions in several languages. The 4-Traders brand and app evolved into MarketScreener around 2018, according to app-store records. The site reaches several million unique visitors a month, according to the company's own figures. Much of its content is aggregated from news agencies and press releases, and some is written by its own staff. Partners include MT Newswires, and in 2024–25 it announced a content-authentication partnership with Wiztrust to address financial misinformation. I found no major editorial controversies in my searches. Its perspective is that of a market-oriented investor-information platform with no explicit political stance. Its political coverage mostly reflects wire-service reporting on market-moving events, and I could not verify its outlook beyond what the pages I found described. I could not open the About page directly, so details on ownership and finances come from search summaries and may be incomplete.

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Profile compiled 2026-10-21; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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