The SGX stock screener is a free tool on sgx.com that lets you filter every Mainboard and Catalist company by valuation, yield, size and sector without paying for a Bloomberg terminal or even logging in. It is the fastest way to turn a list of roughly 600-odd listed companies into a shortlist of ten you can actually research. This guide shows you exactly which filters earn their keep in 2026, the sector benchmarks to plug in so your numbers mean something, a worked value screen you can copy, and the spots where the tool quietly lets you down. Everything here is checked against SGX's own pages and the data provider behind the screener.
SGX launched the screener in 2014 with market-data provider Refinitiv, now part of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). It sits under the Securities section of sgx.com and pulls fundamentals, prices and corporate-governance data straight from that feed. You do not need a brokerage account or a Singpass login to use it, which is the part most people get wrong before they start.
Two things to keep in mind from the first click. Prices on the screener are delayed by about 15 minutes, so it is a research tool, not a live trading screen. And the underlying data is classified by Refinitiv/LSEG, so a company's reported sector or P/E can occasionally differ from what you see on a broker app that uses a different feed. Treat the screener as a shortlisting machine, then verify the final numbers against the company's own filings on the SGX Investor Portal or its annual report.
If you are still deciding whether to buy individual SGX names at all versus a low-cost fund, read active vs passive investing first. A screener only earns its keep if you have decided to pick stocks yourself.
From sgx.com, open the Securities menu, choose Prices & Screener, then Stock Screener. The default table shows a handful of columns for the full listed universe: company name, stock ticker, the Reuters/Refinitiv ticker, market capitalisation, latest annual revenue, P/E ratio, dividend yield, industry sector, and the Governance & Transparency Index (GTI) score.
Click Filter (or Show more filters) to expand the criteria set. Beyond the default columns you can layer on price-to-book, debt-to-equity, return on equity, net profit, trading volume and more, for roughly a dozen-plus ready-made metrics. Each filter gives you a slider with a minimum and maximum, so you tighten the range until the result count drops to something you can read. Hover any criterion name to get a plain-English definition.
Three workflow tips that the help text buries. Use the Select Sector dropdown to scope a screen to one industry before you touch the ratios, because a P/E that is cheap for a bank is expensive for a REIT. Click any column header to sort, then re-sort by a second metric to rank shortlisted names. And use Customise Display to add the columns you care about so you are not clicking into each company to see one number.
Most people drown a screen in filters and get zero results, or use one filter and get 300. The fix is to pick three or four criteria that answer a specific question, then set each to a sector-appropriate range rather than a generic number. Here are the ones worth your slider time and the rough Singapore benchmarks to plug in as of June 2026. These are starting reference ranges, not buy signals.
Price-to-earnings (P/E) tells you how many years of current earnings you are paying for. A P/E that looks cheap in isolation is meaningless across sectors: local banks have historically traded around the low-to-mid teens, REITs and utilities differently again, and high-growth tech names well above 25. Always read P/E against the sector, never the whole market.
Dividend yield is the one most Singapore income investors lead with. Use sector-relative bands rather than a flat number, and treat anything that looks unusually high as a flag to investigate rather than a prize. Pair yield with debt-to-equity and a look at whether earnings actually cover the payout before you get excited.
| Filter | Why it matters | Typical reference range to set |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | Valuation vs earnings; sector-specific | Banks ~8-14; REITs use P/B + yield instead; growth/tech 20+ |
| Price-to-book (P/B) | Valuation vs net assets; key for banks & REITs | Below ~1.0 can flag a discount; read alongside ROE |
| Dividend yield | Income return; lead metric for income investors | Telco ~4-6%; large REITs ~5-7%; flag 8-10%+ as risk |
| Market cap | Filters out illiquid microcaps | Set a floor around S$300m-S$1b for liquidity |
| Debt-to-equity | Balance-sheet risk; vital for REITs | Many REITs run under ~0.5-0.6; lower is safer |
| Return on equity (ROE) | How efficiently profit is earned | Higher and stable beats a one-off spike |
Say you want established, income-paying Singapore companies that are not wildly expensive. Here is a four-filter screen that turns the full list into a manageable shortlist in under a minute. The exact count of survivors changes daily with prices, so treat the output as a research queue, not a recommendation.
Set market cap to a floor of about S$1 billion to keep liquidity and analyst coverage. Set P/E below roughly 15 to skip the most expensive names. Set dividend yield to at least 2-3% so you are paid to wait. Then scope by sector if you have one in mind, or leave it broad and sort the results by lowest P/E. On a typical 2026 day this kind of screen leaves you with a couple of dozen names rather than 600.
From there, do the unglamorous part the screener cannot. Open each survivor's Company Snapshot, check the five-year financials and dividend record, read the latest results announcement, and confirm the earnings behind that low P/E are not a one-off gain. If you are screening REITs specifically, our guide for working adults investing in Singapore REITs covers the gearing and occupancy checks the screener leaves out.
Click any name and the screener opens a Company Snapshot, which is where the real diligence happens. The price chart shows about five years of movement with volume. Tabs split the company into Overview, Valuation, Financials, Dividends and Ownership, so you can pull P/E, P/B and yield in one place, then check the dividend payment record and the largest shareholders.
Two SGX-specific panels are worth your attention. The Governance & Transparency Index (GTI) scores listed companies on board responsibilities, shareholder rights and engagement, disclosure and accountability, a quick read on management quality that overseas screeners do not give you. The Refinitiv/LSEG consensus shows analyst ratings from Buy to Sell over a forward window, useful as a sanity check rather than a verdict.
Once a name passes, you still have to own it through a broker. Compare the all-in costs in our rundown of the best brokers for beginners in Singapore, and decide between a low-cost ETF and single stocks if your shortlist keeps thinning out.
The free SGX screener is excellent for what it is and weak in three predictable ways. First, you cannot save a screen. Every visit means re-entering your filters, which is the single most common complaint from regular users. If you screen weekly, that friction adds up.
Second, it has almost no technical filters. There are no moving-average, RSI or relative-strength criteria, so momentum and timing screens are off the table. Third, like any free feed the data can carry classification quirks or lag corporate actions, so a P/E or sector label is a starting point you confirm against filings, not gospel.
If those limits bite, the usual fixes are Yahoo Finance for saved screens, ChartMill or similar for fundamentals-plus-technicals, and paid local tools such as ShareInvestor. A Bloomberg terminal does everything and costs roughly S$25,000 a year, which is exactly why the free SGX screener exists. For most retail investors in Singapore, the SGX screener plus a company's own filings is enough.
Pick the tool that matches how often you screen and whether you need charts. The free SGX screener wins on SGX-native data (GTI, local sector labels) and costs nothing; the others win on saving screens or adding technicals.
| Tool | Cost | Saves screens | Technical filters | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SGX Stock Screener | Free, no login | No | Minimal | SGX-only fundamentals + GTI |
| Yahoo Finance | Free | Yes | Some | Saved screens across markets |
| ChartMill | Freemium | Yes | Yes | Fundamentals + technicals combined |
| ShareInvestor | Paid | Yes | Yes | Deep SG/regional data |
| Bloomberg Terminal | ~S$25k/year | Yes | Yes | Professionals; overkill for retail |
Yes, the SGX stock screener is free and needs no login or brokerage account. Open sgx.com, go to Securities, then Prices & Screener, then Stock Screener. You only need an account or broker when you actually want to buy a stock you found.
Default columns cover market cap, revenue, P/E, dividend yield, sector and the GTI governance score. Expanding the filters adds price-to-book, debt-to-equity, return on equity, net profit and trading volume, giving you roughly a dozen-plus criteria with min/max sliders for each.
The screener shows prices delayed by about 15 minutes because it is built for research and shortlisting, not live trading. For real-time quotes you need your broker's trading platform. Always confirm a stock's latest figures against its own filings before buying.
No. The free SGX screener cannot save a screen, so you re-enter filters each visit. If you screen often, Yahoo Finance or a tool like ChartMill lets you save setups and set alerts, which the SGX tool does not currently support.
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