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 was checked against SGX's own pages and screener data on 13 and 14 October 2026.
The screener now lives on the SGX Investor Portal at investors.sgx.com, and the old sgx.com/securities/stock-screener link sends you there. Its company data comes from SGX StockFacts, which SGX runs with Morningstar, next to SGX's own prices and governance scores. You do not need a brokerage account, a CDP 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. SGX's public prices run 2 minutes behind the market, so use it for research and trade on your broker's live feed. And the sectors and ratios come from Morningstar, so a company's sector or P/E can 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.
Go to investors.sgx.com, open the Markets tab and pick Stock Screener. The default table lists all 616 stocks (on 14 October 2026) in ten columns: trading name, stock code, last price, return on equity, market capitalisation, total revenue over the last 12 months, P/E ratio, dividend yield, sector, and the Governance & Transparency Index (GTI) score.
Click Filter by to set your criteria: sector, revenue, market cap, P/E, yield and price change over 4, 13, 26 and 52 weeks, among others. Customise adds columns such as price-to-book, debt-to-equity, net profit margin and price-to-cash-flow. Each filter takes a minimum and a maximum, so you tighten the range until the result count drops to something you can read. Hover a column name to get its definition and formula.
Three workflow tips that the help text buries. Use the Sector filter 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 to add the columns you care about so you are not clicking into each company to see one number. Download as CSV saves the result table to a spreadsheet.
Update, 14 October 2026: the three local banks now trade at about 14 to 19 times earnings, above the 8 to 14 this table gave in June. 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, from SGX's screener data on 13 October 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: UOB, OCBC and DBS traded at 14.2, 16.8 and 19.0 times earnings on 13 October 2026, 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. The yield column leaves out special dividends and can undercount REITs that pay twice a year: on 13 October 2026 it showed CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust at 2.7%, which is its first-half 2026 payout of 6.02 cents alone over a S$2.22 unit price.
| Filter | Why it matters | Typical reference range |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | Valuation vs earnings; sector-specific | Banks ~14-19; 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 | Telcos ~3-5.5% (Singtel 3.2%, StarHub 5.5%); large REITs ~5-7% on a full year of payouts; 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 | Big REITs show ~0.4-0.8 here; their gearing is ~37-40% against MAS's 50% cap |
| 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, knowing a flat cap of 15 drops whole groups: on 13 October 2026 it cut DBS and OCBC but kept UOB. On 13 October 2026 this screen left about 40 names rather than 600.
From there, do the unglamorous part the screener cannot. Open each survivor's company page, 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 its company page, 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 Consensus panel shows analyst ratings from Buy to Sell and their average target price, 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 weak in three predictable ways. First, you cannot save a screen, only download the results as a CSV. 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, but Bloomberg publishes no price and sells it by quote, 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 | Quote only | Yes | Yes | Professionals; overkill for retail |
Yes, the SGX stock screener is free and needs no login or brokerage account. Open investors.sgx.com, go to Markets, then Stock Screener. You only need an account or broker when you actually want to buy a stock you found.
You can filter by sector, revenue, market cap, P/E, dividend yield and price change over 4 to 52 weeks, each with a minimum and maximum. The default columns add return on equity and the GTI governance score, and Customise adds price-to-book, debt-to-equity, net profit margin and price-to-cash-flow.
SGX shows prices 2 minutes behind the market on its public pages, and the screener is built for research and shortlisting. 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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