Filtering stocks for value picks

To pick value stocks among the 1400 stocks that trade on NSE, I had to first get a filtered list of stocks. The filters may be:

1. P/E ratio

2. P/B ratio

3. Quarter Results

4. Diluted EPS

I found a few websites like ICICI Direct Stock Screener and one from Edelweiss. But none of them meet my requirements. After an unsuccessful attempts to search for alternatives, I decided to build my own.

The Scraper code that I have done now collects the data from NSE website and I now I have all the data (all the filter criterion) for all the quarterly results to date and for all the stocks 🙂

I wrote this program using PERL.  I had done PERL programming around 4 years back, and it was fun to use it again.

Now that I have the data, I will get down to filtering and then analyzing the stocks.