# Promoters selling — NSE scan

> Promoter stake cut by more than a percentage point in a quarter — the insiders reducing.

Canonical: https://patternsradar.com/screener/promoter-selling

```sift
where promoter_change_qoq < -1
```

A full percentage point of promoter stake sold in one quarter is rarely noise. It is not automatically bearish — stakes also fall through pledged-share invocation, dilution from a fundraise, or regulatory minimum-float selling — but every one of those is worth knowing about in a stock you hold, and the benign explanations are checkable in the filings once the scan has pointed at the stock.

Category: [Fundamentals](https://patternsradar.com/scans/fundamentals.md). Default universe: top 500 NSE stocks by 20-day turnover.

The rendered page runs this scan against the latest session and can replay it across the last 250 sessions to measure its hit rate: https://patternsradar.com/screener/promoter-selling.