Stock Screener

What a screener is for

A screener is a filter. You define a set of rules — "market cap above $10 billion, P/E below 20, 50-day moving average above the 200-day" — and the screener returns every instrument in the universe that currently satisfies them. It is not a recommendation engine; it just gives you a shorter, more focused list to work through.

The three screeners embedded above cover equities, crypto, and forex. They are live, so the table updates as the underlying data changes, and most columns are sortable by clicking the header.

Filters worth knowing

Size and liquidity

• Market capitalization. The dollar value of a company's outstanding shares. Most professionals size their universe first — mega-cap (>$200bn), large-cap, mid-cap, small-cap, micro-cap — because behaviour is very different across the bands.
• Average daily volume. Shares or dollars traded per day. Low-volume names can be manipulated or simply illiquid.

Valuation

• Price/earnings (P/E). Share price divided by trailing or forward earnings per share. Useful as a rough cross-check but meaningless in isolation.
• Price/book (P/B). Market cap relative to shareholders' equity. Historically important in financials.
• Price/sales (P/S). Useful for companies that are not yet profitable.
• Dividend yield. Trailing dividends per share divided by current price.

Growth and quality

• Revenue and EPS growth. Year-over-year and multi-year, on both trailing and forward bases.
• Return on equity and return on assets. How efficiently a company converts its capital into earnings.
• Debt/equity. A quick read on balance-sheet leverage.

Price action and technicals

• Change over 1D / 1W / 1M / YTD. A fast way to see what is moving.
• Relative Strength Index (RSI). Overbought/oversold indicator.
• Above/below 50-day and 200-day moving averages. Used to classify instruments into uptrends and downtrends.
• Distance from 52-week high or low. Useful for spotting breakouts and washouts.

Common starting screens

• Value screen. Large-cap, P/E below sector median, dividend yield above 2%, positive free cash flow.
• Momentum screen. Large-cap, price above 200-day moving average, RSI between 50 and 70, 12-month return above the S&P 500.
• Quality screen. Return on equity above 15% over five years, low long-term debt, stable gross margins.
• Breakout screen. Within 2% of a 52-week high, rising volume, positive earnings revision trend.

None of these is a trading system. They are starting filters to produce a manageable list of names that you then read up on individually.

Limits of screening

Screens work with what has already been reported. They miss anything forward-looking that is not captured in current fundamentals — a product launch, a regulatory outcome, a management change. They are also noisy: a filter based on single-period data can throw up companies whose numbers are distorted by one-off events. The right workflow is usually to screen to get a short list, then read the actual filings and news before doing anything.

How to use this page

Pick the screener that matches your universe. Click column headers to sort. Use the filter controls to narrow the universe — market, sector, price band — before adding fundamental or technical constraints. Once you have a candidate, click its ticker to open the full chart on the Advanced Charts page, and cross-check news on the News page.

Last reviewed on April 24, 2026. Screening results reflect publicly available data and are not investment advice. See our Disclaimer.