Stock screener

The table covers companies listed on NSE and BSE, one row per company, up to 50 rows at a time. The default columns are name, price, one-day change, market cap, P/E, ROCE and one-year change, sorted by market cap from largest to smallest. Tabs switch the columns to valuation, returns, profitability, growth, ownership and debt, holding changes, government holding, trading or technicals.

A filter keeps only companies whose figure falls inside a range or matches a choice, such as a sector or a size band. Filters combine with AND: a company must pass every one. A company missing a figure, for example no profit history to compute a P/E, does not pass a filter on that figure.

Market cap is the share price times the shares outstanding. P/E is market cap divided by the profit attributable to the company's own shareholders over the last twelve months. ROCE (return on capital employed) is operating profit after depreciation divided by net worth, including other owners of subsidiaries, plus borrowings. Lease liabilities are left out of ROCE because filings do not state them.

The one-day and one-year changes use closing prices adjusted for splits and bonuses, and count demerged shares. Dividends are not added.

A screen compares companies on one set of numbers and nothing else. Ratios such as P/E run at different levels from one industry to another, so one P/E threshold applied across all sectors keeps some industries and drops others almost whole. A figure on the page can contain an error; the company's own filing is the record it is checked against.

Each ready-made screen opens this table with preset filters. Every ready-made screen is linked under Start from a ready-made screen.