Stocks under ₹5: shares below 5 rupees on NSE and BSE

A company is listed when its latest closing price is ₹5 or less; a close of exactly ₹5 counts. The page ranks the list by market cap, largest first, and can be narrowed by sector or size. A dash means a figure is not available. One-day and one-year changes are adjusted for splits and bonuses and leave out dividends.

Two shares at the same low price can belong to companies of very different size. Market cap is the share price times the number of shares, so a ₹2 share with 200 crore shares has a market cap of ₹400 crore, and one with 5 crore shares has ₹10 crore. This is why the list is ordered by market cap.

Penny stock is an informal term for a very low-priced share. Each list draws its own line; this page uses ₹5. A share can reach that level after a long decline, after a split, or by always having traded low.

NSE sets a daily price band for each share, a limit on how far it may move from the previous close in one day: 2%, 5%, 10% or 20%. Shares with futures and options contracts have no fixed band; NSE sets a dynamic band of 10% instead, which it can widen under set rules. SEBI and the exchanges also run surveillance measures, such as the Additional, Graded and Enhanced Surveillance Measures (ASM, GSM and ESM), which can cut a share's price band or move it to trade-for-trade settlement or periodic call auctions.

P/E is market cap divided by the last twelve months' profit that belongs to the company's own shareholders; it is blank for a loss. ROCE is operating profit after depreciation, leaving out other income and one-off items, as a percentage of net worth plus borrowings.