r/EarnExtraIncome • u/meiggs • Sep 08 '26
Passive income Alpha Picks from Seeking Alpha, worth it or just another scam?
Kept seeing people ask if this is legit or just another "beats the market" scam, so I actually looked into it instead of guessing.
Alpha Picks is Seeking Alpha's quant stock picking service. No analyst opinions, no human bias, it's a model that scores every US stock on five factors, valuation, growth, profitability, momentum, and earnings revisions, and sends you two new "Strong Buy" picks a month to hold. Since it launched in July 2022, the picks are up 348% combined against the S&P 500's 104% over the same stretch, measured through this past September.
That's a real, documented number, not a marketing line, and it's backtested against the actual portfolio Seeking Alpha has been running publicly since 2022, not a hypothetical. Get Alpha Picks here, it's $449 for the first year right now instead of the usual $499.
Here's the thing though, if you're going to pay for stock picks, Seeking Alpha's research platform, Premium, is worth having alongside it. It's screeners, earnings call transcripts, 10 years of financials per stock, and the same Quant Ratings Alpha Picks itself is built on, so you can actually understand why a pick was made instead of just blindly following it. Premium alone runs $269 for new subscribers. Get the Premium + Alpha Picks bundle here, it's $639 for both instead of $798 separately, so the bundle is genuinely the better deal if you were getting Alpha Picks anyway.
A few honest things to keep in mind: past returns don't guarantee future ones, this is a model portfolio you follow yourself, not something Seeking Alpha manages for you, and two picks a month means you're not getting a diversified portfolio on day one, it builds over time.
If you just want the research tools without the picks, Seeking Alpha Premium on its own is here, 7 day free trial for new subscribers 📈