Quality-value investing, without the hours
Great companies go on sale. We keep you informed as it happens — and why.
For people who invest after work. OffHours narrows the market to businesses that have proven themselves for a decade, tracks the specific worry holding each price down, and emails you the moment that worry eases — with the source. No tickers to babysit, and silence when nothing has changed.
Free to browse. No card. The names are real and the grades update every weekday.
How this is different
We know what you're thinking: yet another stock-research tool. It isn't. Read the founder's note.
Quality businesses only
Elsewhere5,000 stocks and a hundred filters.
OffHoursA decade of proven earnings and cash flow is the entry ticket. The screening is done before you arrive.
Cheap — and we say why
ElsewhereEverything rated against the market.
OffHoursEach business is graded against its own five-year history. When it's cheap, we tell you why — a broken business, or just a broken price — so you know up front which one you're looking at.
Every alert comes with the reason
ElsewherePrice alerts that end in a pick.
OffHoursA big move reaches you that evening with what caused it. A named fear that eases or worsens reaches you even when the price hasn't moved. Never a pick — you decide.
Not a screener. Not a newsletter. Not a signal service. Fewer companies, more conviction per company.
From the founder · 4 min
Why I built OffHours Investing
The two-part product is easier heard than read: what the app watches for you, and when a paid deep dive is worth it.
Watch on YouTube ↗Two parts, priced separately
The watching is a subscription. Going deep is pay-as-you-go.
Part one · subscription
Pro — everything that watches for you
$19/month · cancel anytime
- ✓Today's Buy Zone — which quality businesses are cheap right now, re-graded every weekday
- ✓Your watch list — every big move explained that evening; fear-shift alerts with dated sources
- ✓Ticker dossiers — the fear ledger, the movements journal, annotated charts
- ✓The whole library of past deep-dive briefings, free to read
- ✓The Monday edition — your stocks' week, retold
Part two · credits
Dive Deep — when you're ready to act on one company
$7.99 per briefing · $5 for Pro members · bonus credit on the $20 and $50 packs · credits never expire
- ✓A fresh nine-section AI briefing on one company: what the price assumes, what has to go right, what the named fears would cost
- ✓Days of due diligence compressed into about two hours of reading
- ✓Yours forever — every briefing you buy stays in your library
- ✓Works without Pro too: browse the universe free and buy briefings as you go
Why two parts: watching costs us the same every day, so it's a flat fee. A fresh briefing costs real research each time, so you pay only when you ask for one.
How it works
Only businesses that pass every test — a decade of earnings, cash flow and a clean balance sheet. Nothing else gets in.
Browse the universe →
Every weekday each one is graded against its own five-year history. When one is cheaper than it has been in years, it enters the zone — with the reason the market is afraid.
See who's cheap today →
Star the ones you'd own. We track the exact fears keeping each price down and email you the day one eases — with the source. Then you dive deep, and you decide.
Walk the whole journey →
We lay out facts and never tell you to buy. Quiet days send nothing — that silence is what makes an alert worth reading.
Proof, on a real stock
Six months of alerts on Microsoft — through the $353 low and out to $495.
Every dip explained the evening it happened. Every fear tracked with dated sources — new, eased, worsened. Silence on the slow bleed. And at the low, a fresh briefing that read very differently than panic did.
Today's desk
The market context behind the grades — the bar to clear, today's story, and the biggest moves among the names we watch.
The bar to clear: the S&P 500 has returned roughly 10%/year long-term (~7% after inflation). A sensible personal goal is to beat that — otherwise, owning the index is the honest default. This app exists to help you clear the bar with less risk, by buying quality companies only when fear makes them cheap.
The market — Friday's close
2026-10-02Specific index levels and the day's main driver for the October 1 session could not be verified, so no numbers are reported here; investors should check a live quote source for the latest close.
What's scheduled next
- · September jobs report (nonfarm payrolls) — a key read on labor-market health that can shift expectations for Fed rate decisions.
- · Federal Reserve commentary and any rate-path signals — longer-term rate expectations affect valuations across growth and dividend stocks alike.
- · Ongoing federal government funding/shutdown developments — prolonged disruption can delay economic data releases and add short-term volatility.
The market last week
Week of Sep 28 – Oct 2Last week was a tale of two halves. Stocks slid through Tuesday, September 29 as Treasury yields pushed to multiyear highs and elevated oil prices kept inflation worries alive, with the Dow posting back-to-back losing sessions. The S&P 500 closed out September down about 0.5% for the month and the Dow fell roughly 4.3%, even as the Nasdaq bucked the trend with a monthly gain near 1.9%, so the broad market's rough patch was concentrated more in older-economy names than in big tech. The mood shifted by Friday, October 2, when a surprisingly weak September jobs report raised hopes that the Federal Reserve will hold rates steady rather than hike further. That sent all three major indexes higher to close the week, with the S&P 500 up about 0.49% to 7,722.93 and the Nasdaq Composite climbing roughly 1.19% to 27,190.86, aided by Nvidia touching a fresh intraday record. The Dow also gained around 250 points on the day. Underneath the headline index moves, the pattern from September carried into last week: mega-cap technology and AI-linked names continued to do a disproportionate share of the market's lifting, while rate-sensitive and cyclical sectors stayed choppier as long-term bond yields hovered near multi-decade highs.
What to watch this week
- · FOMC minutes Tuesday, October 6 — gives a fuller read on how divided Fed officials are about further rate moves after last week's weak jobs data shifted expectations.
- · ISM and S&P Global Services PMI readings Monday, October 5 — a gauge of whether the service side of the economy is still expanding at a healthy pace, which matters for consumer-facing holdings.
- · University of Michigan consumer sentiment (preliminary) Friday, October 9 — an early signal on household confidence heading into the holiday shopping season.
- · PepsiCo (PEP) reports fiscal Q3 earnings before the market open on Thursday, October 8 — a read on how a large consumer-staples holding is managing input costs and demand.
Biggest movers today
from the deep buy zone
| Ticker | Price | Today | Zone | Trend | What kind of cheap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ••• | $220.41 | +3.97% | Very Attractive | ↑ | Just got cheap |
| ••• | $66.31 | +3.52% | Very Attractive | → | Just got cheap |
| ••• | $404.87 | +3.30% | Very Attractive | ↑ | Just got cheap |
| ••• | $550.00 | +2.62% | Very Attractive | → | Just got cheap |
| ••• | $564.38 | +2.20% | Very Attractive | → | Cheaper by growing |
| ••• | $674.82 | +2.05% | Very Attractive | ↑ | Just got cheap |
| ••• | $68.67 | +2.04% | Very Attractive | → | Cheaper by growing |
| ••• | $363.25 | +1.95% | Very Attractive | → | Just got cheap |
The waiting is the product.
See the whole loop on a real stock, or watch how it works — then decide if it matches how you want to invest.