PEG Screen: Low PEG Indian Stocks Led by Chennai Petro

FairStock's PEG screen flags CHENNPETRO, ACMESOLAR and peers below 1. Read the profit versus P/E signals before you invest.

market · 17 October 2026 · 4 min read

PEG Screen: Low PEG Indian Stocks Led by Chennai Petro
India's equity market keeps throwing up valuation anomalies. FairStock's latest PEG screen shows several NSE names with PEG ratios well below 1. Chennai Petroleum leads at 0.01, followed by Fedders Holding at 0.02, while ACME Solar comes in at 0.06. The screen pairs elevated profit growth with relatively undemanding earnings multiples. The arithmetic is simple: a PEG below 1 suggests the market hasn't fully priced in earnings growth. The interpretation is harder. A PEG ratio that low rarely survives contact with the next two quarters. Chennai Petroleum ([NSE: CHENNPETRO](/stock/CHENNPETRO)) is a refiner. Its trailing profit swings with gross refining margins and inventory gains. When refining spreads spike, earnings jump and the PEG collapses. When spreads normalise, the denominator shrinks and the ratio stops looking cheap. That doesn't make the screen useless. It makes it a starting point for separating cyclical noise from structural improvement. PEG Screen Results Across Indian Stocks The screen's sector skew is unusually broad. Refiners share space with paints and metal producers. Solar developers add another layer of execution risk. Fedders Holding ([511628](/stock/511628)) at 0.02 is a low base effect story: profit has rebounded from a small denominator, but sales growth has been inconsistent. [NSE: ACMESOLAR](/stock/ACMESOLAR) at 0.06 pairs a December-quarter profit rebound with a P/E that still reflects project execution risk. The market is not yet willing to pay for the growth because receivables and commissioning timelines remain uncertain. The same logic applies to Waaree Energies (NSE: WAAREEENER). India's solar module capacity expansion is real, but domestic demand has been uneven. The stock's PEG is low because the earnings uptick hasn't convinced investors it can repeat at scale. [NSE: TATASTEEL](/stock/TATASTEEL) appears on the list despite subdued global steel spreads. Its earnings base is depressed, so any volume recovery changes the PEG quickl...

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