Zacks Investment Research Reviews 144

Useless predictions. I recommend anyone to stay away from Zacks analysis. None is correct and so far i have lost a fortune! Not even one of their predictions came true.

Fidelity offers stock selections from several analysts which include Zack’s. The website maintains performance records of these analysts, and Zack’s is consistently ranked among the leaders. ( I'd avoid any recommendation from any analyst lacking price momentum.)

I just got off the phone with zacks a customer service man named Niko Yokosawa.
I stated I would like to cancel my ultimate service. He said a few words and the line went silent. He did not say what he was doing or say goodbye. Then I asked for a refund. He mumbled a few words and the line went completely silent. I waited 1 or 2 minutes and I said are you still there? He said oh I thought you hung up.
Then he started interrogating me about the history of my subscriptions with Zacks & my cancellations and he demanded answers to why I cancelled subscriptions. He gave me the entire history of every subscription & cancellation and demanded to know “Is there something wrong with our service?”
Then he accused me of using the service to gain certain information.
So I explained some of my investing strategy and budget strategy and cancellation reasons.
After going through my entire personal history with Zacks and after I gave some explanation he finally ended the interrogation. But he still would not even say goodbye to end the conversation. So I said have a good weekend and he mumbled something back.
Really you wonder what kind of work culture do they have at zacks that the workers are so impolite and borderline abusive. I would guess I would not want to work there.

I followed Zacks recommendations several times and was making excuses for my losses until finally I figured it out: their recommendations are nonsense. ZIM was a strong buy for awhile, then within a few days moved to strong sell! If people buy every time they say ‘buy’, then sell as soon as they see ‘sell’, they will see nothing but massive losses. Zacks is B.S!!!!!

I hate it. I signed up for the research ($249 a yr) and it is all ads to get you to buy more services. Pop-ups everywhere. Buy this and you'll spend half your time clicking on worthless dead ends designed to part you and your money.

I just paid for the Zacks top 10 Stocks. Absolutely useless. They recommended back then Rent the runway and then Riot. 2 WEEKS LATER I HAD lost almost 40% of the capital invested...

Zacks sucks, bought HTZ as their #1 pick, a month later they had as a strong sell.

Zacks Premium Customer here.
Zacks published an article on 6th October 2022 claiming this stock (VSH) to be Zacks #1 (strong buy), said it's one of the - "Best Value Stock" to buy on that day... (I have screenshots ;)) ... come October 13th, Lo and Behold!! The stock is rated Zacks #4! (Sell)!! (again, I have screenshots ;))... LoL Zacks!!
#Zacks SUCKs!
How can a "Best VALUE" stock turn trash in just 7 days, without ANY fundamental financials changed!!??

This stock is Gold, btw! Do your fundamentals.

I jumped into their highest rated stock before earnings and within one month it's down 50%. Countless times where they've recommended trash. Terrible company. Do not use.

If you want to loss money then Zack investment research is where to with there misleading information.. for example They would recommend sell on stock then stock shoots up..

Bought lifetime membership for research wizard 5k. I was green and swallowed the promises… it was the best experiential purchase of my life…
In summary, Zacks is always right ( hindsight) they are consistently a day late and a dollar short. YET they’re always willing to upsell you a product that will give you another edge over the edge they previous sold you? Embarrassed to have bit the hook. Work hard, read and learn there are no shortcuts. Education can be expensive…

Zacks research is very bad, I have tried advices of Zacks and failed. My own research returned 15-18% in the same period vs an average loss of 8-12% with Zacks recommendation.

Awesome great experience reading it everyday...

They start spam you even you didn’t finish and give up registration. Unsubscribe link doesn’t work. When I was able to turn off all type of emails, I still continue to receive emails from zacks. Stay away.

The buy to sell change so regularly. Nvidia went from 1,2,3 in the space of a week. How are people meant to invest using that. My advice, do your own research. Luckily I never gambled with them

-The managers of the various investment profiles inside Zacks (home run, value, income investors etc.) don't listen to their own website recommendations, i.e. they buy stock that ranks number 4 or 5 and sell stock that ranks number 1 or 2. Many times they keep stock in their portfolios even when ranking drops to 5. How do you expect investors to trust zacks score rank if your own portfolio managers don't follow.

-The rank scores (1 to 5) feels random sometimes, i.e. you might have a core =1 (strong buy) for a stock that has sub-scores of F for all criteria of value, growth, and momentum. The opposite is also true with stocks ranking at 5 while scoring A for all criteria of value, growth, and momentum.

-I have not made any significant gains by following the rank scores nor any of their portfolios.

"I find all Zacks Ultimate features helpful to me. A couple of times I've bought AA due to recommendations, and both times it performed very well. In years past, I've also purchased WWE -- and would NEVER have thought to do so -- and it performed quite well. My biggest gainer, and yet disappointment, was the ROKU recommendation. I was able to buy my [NOW] wife's engagement ring! THAT was the right thing to do, for sure, and I'm so glad I did! Over the years since, though, ROKU continued to climb, but I'd still do it all over again!"

The Zacks Ranking is an extremely important tool in my rebalancing and comparison to others. I have been able to double my investment in the past year.
Having Started with Zacks in April of 2021.
I follow Kevin's processes in Finding #1 Stocks. In fact since starting with Zacks. I bought a life-time subscription. In January 17,2022 And review my portfolios every 4 weeks.

I’m a lifetime member of Zachs top ten picks for the year. I started out buying a little of each stock for a couple of years just to see how they would do. Now I invest heavily in the top ten and it has paid off handsomely. I would recommend the top ten to everyone.