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Dataroma Alternatives: How to Compare Them

By Flock Research · Filings research desk ·

If you are looking for a Dataroma alternative, it helps to be clear on what these tools actually do. Dataroma aggregates the 13F filings of selected well-known US investors and presents their disclosed US equity holdings as trackable portfolios. Any alternative does the same core job: it reads the public 13F filings from the SEC and turns them into readable superinvestor portfolios. Because the underlying data is the same public source, the right way to compare a Dataroma alternative is on how it sources, dates, and links that data, and on what it covers beyond the 13F. The table below does that for Flock and Dataroma, with every cell read on 19 September 2026. Not investment advice.

Definition

A Dataroma alternative

is any tool that, like Dataroma, aggregates the 13F filings large US managers file with the SEC and presents their disclosed holdings as trackable superinvestor portfolios. They draw on the same public filings, so they compete on data quality, freshness, and coverage. Source: SEC EDGAR.

What these tools have in common

Every superinvestor tracker, Dataroma included, is built on the same foundation: the 13F-HR filing. Institutional managers with investment discretion over $100 million or more in Section 13(f) securities must file it, and each filing is due within 45 days after the end of the calendar quarter (SEC Form 13F FAQ, Questions 2 and 25; Question 25 updated 6 March 2026, page last reviewed 13 March 2026, re-read 19 September 2026). The tool decodes that filing into named holdings and, in most cases, tracks changes quarter over quarter. If you want the background, read what a 13F filing is and what a 13F tracker does.

Flock vs Dataroma: feature comparison

Every Flock cell below was verified against a live page on us.useflock.in on 19 September 2026. Every Dataroma cell was read from dataroma.com on the same day; where a claim could not be read from a public page, the cell says so rather than guessing.

FeatureFlockDataroma
Filing-date time stampingEach 13F position is dated to the quarter it was reported for (Berkshire Hathaway's page: quarter ended 30 June 2026), Form 4 pages carry the SEC filing date, and STOCK Act rows carry both the transaction and filing datesEach manager on the home page carries an "Updated DD Mon YYYY" date; the Berkshire page shows "Period: Q2 2026" and a portfolio date of 30 June 2026
Audit-ready verification of primary disclosuresA "view filing on SEC EDGAR" link on every fund page; Form 4 pages link the filing and name the CIKNo link to the underlying SEC filing was found on the Berkshire portfolio page
Coverage (filers / quarters)34 tracked 13F filers on /funds, 32 of them stored through the quarter ended 30 June 2026 (Q2 2026); 20 superinvestor profiles; the largest filers stored as top-200 excerpts, marked as such83 managers listed on the Superinvestors page; the Berkshire page reports 29 stocks and a $299,253,558,000 portfolio value for Q2 2026, matching the $299.25B on Flock's page
Form 4 insider buysYes: a weekly "biggest insider buys" page (7-day window, recomputed hourly), a "multiple insiders buying" page (30-day filing window), and one page per purchase filing; scope is issuers mapped from tracked 13F holdings, stated on each pageYes: an "Insider" section with real-time insider transaction data, and a "RealTime" page of transactions filed by superinvestors as insiders
Congress tradesYes: /congress holds 3,269 disclosed trade rows across 395 STOCK Act filings by 107 House members from 1 January 2026, newest filed 17 September 2026Not found in the site navigation
Cross-filer aggregationYes: "consensus adds" (securities added by 2 or more filers in the newest common quarter) and "largest position increases", with the method printed on the pageYes: "Grand Portfolio" and "S&P500 Grid" sections in the navigation
India filings alongside USYes: NSE/BSE shareholding patterns, bulk and block deals, and AMFI holdings on useflock.inNot found
Price13F fund pages, superinvestor pages, consensus adds, Congress trades and insider-buy pages are free to read without an account; paid plans are listed at useflock.in/pricingFree and ad-supported; no paid tier is linked from the home page

Sources: us.useflock.in/funds, /funds/berkshire-hathaway/13f, /superinvestors, /congress, /answers/biggest-insider-stock-buys-this-week, /answers/which-stocks-have-multiple-insiders-buying, /funds/consensus-buys and useflock.in/pricing (all verified 19 September 2026); dataroma.com home page, Superinvestors page, Berkshire Hathaway holdings page, Insider and RealTime pages (read 19 September 2026). A count on this page is a count as of that date and will move as filings land.

How to compare a Dataroma alternative factually

Since the raw data is public, judge the tools on how they handle it:

What to checkWhy it matters
Filing date on every holdingTells you how stale each position is
Link to the original SEC filingLets you verify anything you rely on
Quarter-over-quarter changesShows what a manager added, trimmed, or exited
Breadth of managers coveredWider coverage means more comparison
Cross-filer overlapSurfaces where independent managers hold the same name
Non-advisory framingData, dated and sourced, not tips

The limit shared by all of them

No tool escapes the 13F lag. A 13F reports holdings as of quarter-end and is due within 45 days after that date, so the data is already weeks old when it publishes, and the manager may have traded since. Berkshire Hathaway, Pershing Square, Duquesne Family Office, Appaloosa and Carl Icahn all filed their Q2 2026 reports on 14 August 2026, the 45th day after the 30 June quarter-end (SEC EDGAR filing index pages, read 19 September 2026).

45 days

Deadline after quarter-end for a 13F filing, shared by every 13F-based tool

Source: SEC Form 13F FAQ, Question 25 (Rule 13f-1(a)(1)), updated 6 March 2026

Where overlap adds something

The most useful thing a superinvestor tracker can add on top of raw portfolios is overlap: seeing where several independent managers disclose the same holding. That ownership overlap across independent filers is a fact you can verify in the filings, and it is hard to see one portfolio at a time. Flock publishes it for the US as consensus adds: in Q2 2026 filings, 11 of the 31 comparable tracked filers increased or newly reported a position in Amazon (read 19 September 2026). The superinvestor hub lists the 20 tracked investors with each filer's most recent stored quarter.

Flock decodes 13F filings into dated, source-linked holdings, covers both US and Indian filings, and shows where independent investors overlap. What any of it means for you is your call to make.

Frequently asked questions

What is Dataroma?

Dataroma is a website that aggregates the 13F filings of selected well-known US investors, or superinvestors, and shows their disclosed US equity holdings. Its Superinvestors page listed 83 managers on 19 September 2026, each with an updated date. Source: dataroma.com, read 19 September 2026.

What should I compare in a Dataroma alternative?

Compare the source and freshness of the data, whether every holding is dated to its reporting quarter and links to the original SEC filing, the breadth of managers covered, whether it shows quarter-over-quarter changes, and whether it also covers Form 4 insider purchases, Congress trades, or non-US filings. Source: SEC EDGAR.

Do these tools give recommendations?

They should not. Superinvestor trackers present public 13F disclosures. Each filing is due within 45 days of quarter-end and is not a recommendation. What you do with a fund's disclosed holding is your own decision. Source: SEC Form 13F FAQ, Question 25 (Rule 13f-1), updated 6 March 2026, page last reviewed 13 March 2026.

Does Flock track the same investors as Dataroma?

Partly. Flock's superinvestor hub lists 20 investors mapped to the 13F filer they lead or founded, including Warren Buffett, Bill Ackman, David Tepper, Carl Icahn, Stanley Druckenmiller and Li Lu, all of whom also appear on Dataroma's list. Flock's list is smaller and every figure is dated to its quarter-end. Source: us.useflock.in/superinvestors and dataroma.com, read 19 September 2026.

Flock tracks these filings, sourced, dated, and linked back to the original. See what smart-money entities disclosed, without the guesswork about what it means.

Disclosures shown are public regulatory filings. Data may be delayed or incomplete. Smart-money entities may no longer hold positions shown. Not investment advice.

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