FORENSIC RESEARCH · NIFTY 500
Read the fine print, before it reads you.
Clarivest surfaces what’s buried in disclosures, pledges, and unusual trading activity — before it shows up in a screener.
Promoter Signal · as of 13 Oct 2026
+16.8pp
Max Financial Services Ltd.’s promoter pledge jumped 16.8pp, from 26.9% to 43.7% pledged.
Source: NSE promoter pledge (SAST) disclosure
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Surveillance flags
Stocks flagged under NSE's ASM/GSM/ESM frameworks face trading and price restrictions — here's what's currently flagged.
202 of 2351 covered scrips flagged · as of 14 Oct 2026
Promoter pledge jumps
The largest filing-to-filing increases in promoter pledge encumbrance across covered companies.
as of 13 Oct 2026
High-delivery sessions
Sessions where a stock's delivery percentage spiked well above typical levels — a signal of genuine accumulation over speculative churn.
as of 12 Oct 2026
UBL
UNITED BREWERIES LTD
93.9% delivery
high-delivery session · 12 Oct 2026
ADANIPORTS
Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd.
93.3% delivery
high-delivery session · 12 Oct 2026
ATUL
ATUL LTD
84.9% delivery
high-delivery session · 12 Oct 2026
ERIS
ERIS LIFESCIENCES LIMITED
82.6% delivery
high-delivery session · 12 Oct 2026
AAVAS
AAVAS FINANCIERS LIMITED
81.2% delivery
high-delivery session · 12 Oct 2026
Elevated short selling
Sessions where short-sold quantity ran well above a stock's own recent trailing pattern.
as of 9 Oct 2026
PARAGMILK
PARAG MILK FOODS LTD.
766 shares shorted
above its own 90th-percentile level · 5 Oct 2026
IRFC
Indian Railway Finance Corporation Ltd.
2,06,150 shares shorted
above its own 90th-percentile level · 5 Oct 2026
PETRONET
PETRONET LNG LIMITED
1,63,445 shares shorted
above its own 90th-percentile level · 5 Oct 2026
TMPV
Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Ltd.
4,800 shares shorted
above its own 90th-percentile level · 9 Oct 2026
PNB
PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK
32,025 shares shorted
above its own 90th-percentile level · 30 Sept 2026
Bulk/block deal sentiment
Stocks with the most lopsided buy/sell activity in recent bulk and block deals.
as of 12 Oct 2026
RKFAL
RKFAL
Net buying ₹2.91 cr
3 deals · 12 Oct 2026–12 Oct 2026
FASCINATE
FASCINATE
Net selling ₹2.22 cr
4 deals · 17 Sept 2026–1 Oct 2026
BMISL
BMISL
Net buying ₹9.97 cr
5 deals · 5 Oct 2026–5 Oct 2026
KLL
KLL
Net selling ₹1.75 cr
4 deals · 18 Sept 2026–24 Sept 2026
HIMALAYAN
HIMALAYAN
Net buying ₹26.51 cr
12 deals · 5 Oct 2026–12 Oct 2026
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Where reported earnings and the cash a business actually generates diverge — receivable stretch, aggressive revenue recognition, and one-off gains dressed up as operating performance — read quarter by quarter alongside management's own commentary, flagging language and figures worth carrying into the next quarter's review.
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Standard valuation work, re-run after our forensic adjustments — what a multiple looks like once you strip out the earnings quality issues a plain screener wouldn't catch.
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