Takeaways from Take 500
Wondering how to choose stocks for your portfolio from the dozens which are listed? Or how to keep track of the ones you own? Well, the listings on this page help you sift through the leading companies on their fundamentals and keep an eagle eye on their financial performance. Here’s a short guide to interpreting the numbers:
CMP (Current Market Price) is the closing price of a stock on BSE on its last traded day, usually Friday. EPS (Earnings per Share) is the net profit that the company has earned in the latest financial period, on each outstanding share. Here, we capture each company’s total EPS for the last available trailing 12 months.
PE (Price Earnings Ratio) is the single most important number to gauge if a stock is expensive or cheap enough to buy. It divides the company’s current market price by its EPS.
PB (Price to Book value) measures a company’s stock price relative to its book value or net worth. PB is the appropriate value measure for banks and asset-heavy companies.
Sales (Qty) and Profit (Qty) capture the growth in a company’s net sales and net profits for the latest reporting quarter, over the previous year, in percentage terms. We’ve adjusted the numbers for one-o and exceptional items.
Sales (TTM) and Profit (TTM) make the same comparisons for the trailing twelve months. Wkly Rtn (Weekly Return) gives the change in the price of a stock in the last one week. ROCE (Return on Capital Employed) tells you what returns a business is generating on the capital it uses.
DER (Debt Equity Ratio), which divides a company’s total loans by shareholder funds, indicates how indebted a company is.
ROCE and DER give you the latest available year-end numbers for the company.
Yearly High and Low tell you the range that the company’s stock has spanned in the last one year.
Face value other than ₹10 per share is mentioned in brackets next to the company name. As far as possible, consolidated numbers (latest available) have been used for a holistic picture of the company’s finances.
Given that the top 500 listed companies are usually the most liquid and well-run, we’ve restricted the list to the S&P BSE 500 index constituents.
Note: Very large percentage changes in sales and profit are reflective of a change from near-zero or negative value. Source: Capitaline database