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Near 52-Week High

Stocks trading within 5% of their 52-week high

This is a live screen of Near 52-Week High on NSE — stocks trading within 5% of their 52-week high. The list refreshes throughout market hours and shows price, percentage change, traded volume, 52-week high/low, and 30-day / 1-year performance for each stock. Click any symbol to open the full stock page with chart, news and AI analysis.

Near 52-Week High — how to read this screen

This screen lists NSE stocks trading within 5% of their highest price in the past year. A stock near its 52-week high has no overhead supply — nobody who bought in the last twelve months is sitting on a loss waiting to sell at breakeven — which is the mechanical reason breakouts from this zone can run.

Why traders watch the 52-week high

The level is watched precisely because it is watched. It appears in every screener and on every chart, so orders cluster around it, and a decisive close above a level that many participants are tracking tends to attract more buying. That is a reflexive effect rather than a fundamental one, which is why it works better as a timing filter than as a reason to own something.

The trap in this list

Near-high screens are momentum screens, and momentum reverses hardest at extremes. A stock can sit within 5% of its high for months while grinding sideways, or reach it on a single low-volume spike that immediately fades. Check the volume column and the 30-day change before treating proximity to the high as strength — a stock that arrived here slowly on rising volume is telling a different story from one that gapped here yesterday.

Frequently asked questions

What does it mean when a stock is near its 52-week high?

It means the current price is within 5% of the highest level it has traded at in the past year. Practically, everyone holding the stock from the last twelve months is in profit, so there is little supply from break-even sellers overhead. That absence of resistance is why the zone is associated with continuation, though it guarantees nothing on its own.

Should I buy stocks near their 52-week high?

Buying at highs is a trend-following approach and it works or fails as trend following does — a modest win rate with occasional very large winners. It is the opposite of value investing, and the two produce opposite conclusions on the same list. Whichever you choose, the deciding factor is usually position sizing and exit discipline rather than the entry itself. This is not investment advice.

How often does this 52-week high list update?

The list is rebuilt from live NSE prices during market hours, so a stock can enter or leave it intraday as prices move. The 52-week high itself is a rolling window, which means it changes as old highs age out of the twelve-month period even if the current price does nothing.

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Browse every screen on the stock screens index, or check index-level positioning on the live market dashboard. Screens list stocks matching a rule and are not buy or sell recommendations.

Free NSE stock screener — 22 live screens

22 pre-built screens run against 750-plus NSE stocks and rebuild from live prices through the trading session. 6 cover popular momentum and price-position themes, 4 cover intraday price and volume action, and 12 list every constituent of a major sector index so you can compare peers directly.

No login, no row caps, no delayed-data tier. Each screen has its own page explaining what it selects for and, more usefully, how it misleads.

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Momentum screens and value screens disagree by design

Near 52-week high and best 30-day performers select for strength; near 52-week low and worst yearly performers select for weakness. These are not better and worse lists — they are two opposite strategies, and a stock that looks compelling on one will look like a mistake on the other. Decide which approach you are running before you open a screen, because running both at once mostly produces confusion.

Always read the volume column with the price column

A percentage move tells you what happened; volume tells you how many participants agreed. The same 8% gain means something quite different on ten times normal volume than on a few thousand shares, and low-volume moves in illiquid names reverse far more easily than the percentage suggests. This applies to every screen on this page, which is why volume is shown on all of them.

What a screen cannot see

None of these rules know why a stock moved. A fall can be a results miss, a regulatory order, an index exclusion, a block deal, or simply an ex-dividend adjustment that is not a loss at all. Before acting on any name from a screen, the exchange announcements and the latest results usually explain in one minute what the price data cannot explain at all.

Frequently asked questions

What is a stock screener and how do I use one?

A screener applies a rule to every stock in a universe and returns the ones that match — stocks within 5% of a 52-week high, stocks trading at three times normal volume, every constituent of the Nifty Bank index. It narrows 750-plus listed names down to a working shortlist. The screen is the start of the research, not the end of it: it tells you which stocks meet a condition, never whether meeting that condition is a good thing.

Is this stock screener free?

Yes. All 22 screens are free, need no login, and run on live NSE prices during market hours. There is no row limit and no delayed-data tier.

How often do the screens update?

Screens are rebuilt from live NSE prices through the trading session, so a stock can enter or leave a screen intraday as prices move. Screens based on longer windows — 30-day and 1-year performance — shift more slowly, since a single session moves a twelve-month return very little.

Which stock screen should I start with?

It depends on which direction you are working from. If you want to know what the market is doing right now, start with top gainers, top losers or most active. If you are looking for setups over days or weeks, near 52-week high and best 30-day performers are the usual momentum starting points. If you already know the sector you want exposure to, the twelve sector screens list every index constituent so you can compare peers side by side.

Can a screener tell me which stocks to buy?

No. A screen surfaces stocks that satisfy a mechanical rule, and mechanical rules have no view on valuation, business quality, management or the reason behind a price move. Two stocks can match the same screen for opposite reasons — one recovering from a cyclical trough, the other beginning a permanent decline. Screens are for generating candidates to research. This is data, not investment advice.

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