Top 5 Most Viewed Screens on Equitymaster

Swadeshi Industries & Leasing: A small plastics-sector company trading at a rich 91 times trailing earnings on an EPS of under Re 1. The stock has actually declined over the last three months even as its trailing 3-year return keeps it on this list.

M.B. Parikh Finstock: A small Mumbai-based share-broking and financial services firm, at under Rs 5 a share.

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3. Fastest Growing Stocks in India

This screen ranks companies by trailing 3-year sales CAGR, with 3-year profit CAGR shown alongside.

Because it's a trailing-3-year window, newly scaled businesses with a small starting base dominate it almost by construction.

Jio Financial Services: Reliance's NBFC arm, still young enough post-demerger that its 3-year growth rates are inflated by a very small starting base. Its Q1 FY27 net profit still more than doubled YoY to Rs 8.3 bn as its lending and payments businesses scale, though a rate this high is mechanically certain to come down as the base grows.

Eternal (Zomato): shows profit growth as "not meaningful" because that profit has been thin and volatile. In Q1 FY27 revenue hit Rs 20,211 crore with Blinkit's quick-commerce business now the single biggest contributor, while net profit, though up 268% YoY, was still only Rs 920 m.

BSE: India's oldest stock exchange, whose growth has been driven almost entirely by the boom in equity derivatives trading, which is also its single biggest risk. A SEBI-driven change to weekly options expiry rules has already been flagged by analysts as a threat to future volumes.

BillionBrains Garage (Groww): the discount broking and wealth platform that listed in November 2025, it already commands close to 29% of India's stock-broking accounts and over 18% of equity derivatives volumes by one measure, with Q1 FY27 net profit of Rs 7.35 bn.

Trent: the Tata Group fashion retailer built on the Zudio value-fashion chain. Its most recent quarterly revenue growth of around 16-17% is meaningfully slower than the 3-year CAGR shown here, a sign that Zudio's hyper-growth phase is normalising as its store base matures.

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4. Top Growth Stocks in India

This screen looks like the one above but is not measuring the same thing: It ranks companies by 5-year sales CAGR rather than 3-year, stretching the window back to capture a fuller growth cycle.

Four of these five names, Eternal, Jio Financial Services, BSE and Trent, also appear on the fastest-growing screen above. That overlap is not a coincidence of methodology: very few large, liquid Indian stocks have sustained hyper-growth across both a 3-year and a 5-year window at the same time.

Eternal (Zomato): Tops this longer window too, now trading at 738 times trailing earnings, a multiple that reflects how little of its 93.7% five-year sales growth has yet converted into GAAP profit rather than any change in the growth story itself.

Jio Financial Services: A touch lower on the 5-year number than the 3-year one, since the earlier years in this window include its dormant, pre-demerger period before it was spun out of Reliance Industries in 2023.

Lenskart Solutions: The one name here that is new to this comparison: The eyewear retailer listed in November 2025 after an IPO and still trades at a rich 170 PE.

BSE: Repeats from the fastest-growing screen, confirming its derivatives-led growth has held up over the longer five-year window as well, not just the most recent three years.

Trent: also repeats, rounding out a list where the real takeaway is how short it would be if the requirement were sustained growth across both time horizons rather than just one.

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5. Top Value Stocks in India

This is the simplest screen of the five. It ranks stocks purely by trailing price-to-earnings, lowest first, with no adjustment for why a PE is low.

A collapsing earnings base and a genuinely undervalued, well-run business can both produce the same low number.

Vodafone Idea: The lowest PE on the list, though a wafer-thin multiple on a loss-making telco is a statistical quirk rather than a value signal on its own.

The real catalyst behind recent buying is the DoT's decision to freeze its AGR dues at Rs 876.95 bn as of 31 December 2025 and halt further interest from accruing, spreading repayment out to 2041, which removes an existential solvency overhang.

Indian Oil Corporation: The largest state-run refiner. Its low multiple reflects the market's structurally low rating for regulated oil marketing companies, especially against a healthy 19.9% RoE.

Punjab National Bank: one of three PSU banks in this top five, trading at a single-digit PE despite a double-digit RoE, a gap that has defined PSU bank valuations for years regardless of any individual bank's quarterly performance.

Union Bank of India: Posts the highest RoE of the three PSU banks on this list at 14.5% yet still trades at a lower P/E than most private-sector banks with inferior return ratios.

Bank of Baroda: Rounds out the PSU bank cluster on this list; together with PNB and Union Bank, three of the five "cheapest" stocks on Equitymaster's platform right now are state-run banks.

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Reading These Five Screens Together

Laid side by side, these five screens are really answering five unrelated questions.

The FII-buying and penny-multibagger screens are the most event-driven and speculative of the lot, useful for spotting where money or momentum is moving, not for judging if a business is sound.

The two growth screens keep surfacing the same handful of new-economy and financial giants because very few companies can post hyper-growth over both a 3-year and a 5-year window, and most of those names are also richly valued for exactly that reason.

The value screen, by contrast, is dominated by PSU banks and an oil major trading on single-digit multiples for reasons that have more to do with sector-wide sentiment.

None of that makes any individual screen wrong. It makes each one a starting point for further reading, which is exactly what Equitymaster's own "numbers only" disclaimer is trying to say.

Investors should evaluate the company's fundamentals, corporate governance, and valuations before drawing any investment conclusions from a screener result.

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