Founded in 1999 – and based in Baltimore's historic Mount Vernon neighborhood – Stansberry & Associates Investment Research is an independent investment research firm, with subscribers in more than 100 different countries.

Stansberry & Associates has more than two dozen research analysts and assistants at our headquarters as well as at satellite offices in Florida, Oregon, and California. These folks have worked in the financial industry as stockbrokers, mutual fund vice presidents, hedge fund managers, and equity analysts at some of the most important money-management firms in the world.

Our analysts follow a range of investment strategies, including value investing, maximizing income, following insider trading, investing in energy and resources, short-selling and options trading, and investing in biotech and medical technologies.

Unlike Wall Street investment banks and brokerages, we are completely independent. We only publish investment research. We do not solicit banking business. We do not provide brokerage services or manage money.

We believe that's how the investment business should be, no hidden interests or secret agendas. We simply publish our best investment ideas. And our customers only stay with us if these ideas work.