Value Screener Guide

Fundamental Screeners

Value Screener

Use this playbook to build a shortlist of stocks that appear inexpensive relative to business quality and balance-sheet discipline.

4usage steps

6 tunable inputs

Open Value Screener

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

Best for investors building a deeper research list rather than a same-day trading watchlist.

Helpful when you want to cut a large market down to names worth reading about.

Strong value names still need business quality and trend sanity checks afterward.

Start by generating a manageable universe of candidates, then read the business, industry, and recent price behavior before ranking them.

Valuation ratios are far more useful when judged against sector peers rather than the full market.

Cheap stocks can stay cheap. Give more weight to names where the price structure is stabilizing or already improving.

Separate long-term research ideas from names that are both fundamentally interesting and technically actionable now.

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	Limits the list to cheaper earnings multiples.	Start around 12 to 20.
Max P/B	Keeps the shortlist closer to tangible valuation discipline.	Start around 1.5 to 3.0.
Max Price / Graham Number	Filters for names trading closer to conservative fair-value discipline.	Start around 0.8x to 1.1x.
Max Debt / Equity	Avoids businesses carrying too much leverage for a value screen.	Start around 0.5 to 1.5.
Min Current Ratio	Adds a balance-sheet strength floor so liquidity is not too weak.	Start around 1.2 to 2.0.

Lower multiples are useful only when the business is still healthy enough to justify attention.

Value results become stronger when supported by improving margins, cash flow, or capital discipline.

A modestly cheap, high-quality business can be better than an extremely cheap low-quality business.

Buying only because a stock looks optically cheap.

Comparing unrelated sectors on raw multiples alone.

Ignoring price action completely.

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