Gains in stocks such as Infosys and Cadila Healthcare have boosted an otherwise lacklustre market. Market breadth is horizontal. Of the 2479 stocks traded today, 1286 were on the uptick, and 1054 were down.
Riding High:
Largecap and midcap gainers today include Wockhardt Limited (608.80 9.06%), Cadila Healthcare Limited (497.00 7.46%) and Jaiprakash Associates Limited (22.65 5.84%).
Downers:
Largecap and midcap losers today include Sun Pharma Advanced Research Company Limited (411.50 -2.82%), InterGlobe Aviation Limited (1187.30 -2.41%) and Petronet LNG Limited (225.80 -2.19%).
Crowd Puller Stocks
12 stocks in BSE 500 are trading on high volumes today.
Top high volume gainers on BSE included Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (19.40 11.49%), Schneider Electric Infrastructure Limited (124.65 7.18%) and Kajaria Ceramics Limited (697.00 6.61%).
Top high volume losers on BSE were InterGlobe Aviation Limited (1187.30 -2.41%), Shree Cements Limited (17100.00 -1.15%) and AstraZeneca Pharma India Limited (898.50 -0.81%).
GE Power India Limited (681.00 3.17%) was trading at 382.9 times of weekly average. Shoppers Stop Limited (352.70 2.98%) and Kalpataru Power Transmission Limited (KPTL) (366.10 2.64%) were trading with volumes 12.5 and 8.5 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.
BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages
12 stocks hit their 52 week highs, while 2 stocks were underachievers and hit their 52 week lows.
Stocks touching their year highs included - 3M India Limited (14619.80 1.74%), Asahi India Glass Limited (324.70 4.12%) and Bajaj Holdings & Investment Limited (2709.10 1.99%).
Stocks making new 52 weeks lows included - KSK Energy Ventures Limited (6.95 3.42%) and YAMINI INVESTMENTS COMPANY LTD. (16.55 0.00%).
9 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including kwality limited (147.05 3.05%) and Bajaj Hindusthan Sugar Limited (14.90 2.76%).
