Full Detail about a Stock Page (BSE)
2 min readJan 7, 2021
If you have visited a stock page, you might be puzzled by so many numbers coming on the screen at once.
But don’t get fret, in this guide I will try to explain, with the help of an example what each of the column/row means for a particular stock.
- It can also be called Last Traded Price. Price at which last trade happened.
- Price at which last trade happened yesterday.
- First trade of today happened at this price.
- Highest price at which trade happpened today.
- Lowest price at which trade happened today.
- Volume weighted average price. Traded Price is weighed with Volume and average is taken which results in VWAP.
- Highest price in last 52 weeks at which it was traded.
- Lowest price in last 52 weeks at which it was traded.
- Maximum price it is be allowed to trade today. (This is a limit placed by SEBI, usually 5% or 20% of open price.)
- Similarly, Minimum price it is allowed to trade today.
- Average Quantity of shares traded in last 2 Weeks.
- Number of shares traded today. (Total Traded Quantity)
- Total money traded today for this stock.
- Market Capitalization. It is the worth of all the shares floating in the market. It is calculated by multiplying price of share with total quantity of shares in the market.
- Market Capitalization Free Float. Same as Market Capitalization but it excludes shares held by government, promoters or shares that are locked in.
- Face Value. It is the actual value of the stock on the certificate.
- Earning per Share. It is calculated as the company’s profit divided by the number of shares floating in the market. EPS indicates how much money a company makes for each share of its stock
- Cash EPS. It is calculated when we divide Operating Cash Flow of a company by number of shares floating in the market.
- Price-to-Earnings Ratio. It is calculated by dividing shares price with EPS. A high P/E ratio could mean that a company’s stock is over-valued, or else that investors are expecting high growth rates in the future.
- Price-to-Book ratio. There’s something called Book Value of a stock. PB ratio is Price of a stock divided by Book Value of the stock.
- Return on Equity.
- Category of share.
- Group of Stock. Exchanges such as NSE, BSE classifies stocks based on a number of factors like liquidity, size, etc.
- Which Index this stock is part of.
- Which Industry this stock belongs to.
- Buyer depth. Buyer Bids. Number of Shares and Price Buyers want to buy at.
- Seller depth. Seller Bids. Number of Shares and Price Sellers want to sell at.