Benjamin Graham Screener Guide

Fundamental Screeners

Benjamin Graham Screener

Use this playbook when you want a stricter classic value discipline that favors safety, balance-sheet quality, and sensible price paid.

4usage steps

6 tunable inputs

Open Benjamin Graham Screener

These guide pages are designed to help you move from raw output to better shortlist decisions faster and with more confidence.

Best for conservative investors who want valuation discipline first and excitement second.

Useful as a quality filter inside a broader value workflow.

Especially strong when combined with patience and selective technical timing.

Start with the names that look solid enough to survive business stress, then ask whether the market price still gives you enough room for error.

Businesses that are easier to understand and financially sturdier tend to fit this style better than story stocks.

The investment case should stand on business and valuation logic first, then price structure can help you avoid weak entry timing.

This screener works best as a research funnel for deliberate decisions, not rapid-fire trading.

These are the main inputs you can tune on the page and the range to begin with when you want a clean first pass.

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Parameter	What it does	Good range to start
Market	Choose the exchange universe you want to scan first.	Run India and US separately.
Max P/E	Keeps the screen rooted in conservative earnings valuation.	Start around 10 to 18.
Max P/B	Limits the list to names still trading near conservative book-value ranges.	Start around 1.0 to 2.5.
Max Price / Graham Number	Requires price to stay closer to a stricter margin-of-safety zone.	Start around 0.8x to 1.0x.
Max Debt / Equity	Prefers balance sheets with lighter leverage.	Start around 0.3 to 1.0.
Min Current Ratio	Adds a stronger liquidity floor for conservative stock selection.	Start around 1.5 to 2.5.

Financial discipline matters more here than fast growth.

The best candidates are often unexciting businesses bought at sensible prices.

This style can lag in highly speculative markets and shine when discipline matters again.

Using the framework on businesses too unstable to analyze conservatively.

Assuming cheap alone equals safe.

Forgetting that patience is part of the strategy.

Use the page to narrow the market quickly, then promote only the strongest chart-plus-context setups into your active watchlist or research queue.