Continued buying in metal and banking stocks limited losses, but the Sensex overall was trading lower, with healthcare and IT stocks, and in particular Infosys Limited hit despite the share buyback announcement. Market breadth is neutral. Of the 2512 stocks traded today, 1003 were on the uptick, and 1368 were down.
Riding High:
Largecap and midcap gainers today include Century Textiles & Industries Limited (1230.80 3.62%), Tata Global Beverages Limited (200.15 2.90%) and NMDC Limited (123.40 2.28%).
Downers:
Largecap and midcap losers today include Infosys Limited (877.00 -4.99%), Ajanta Pharma Limited (1162.20 -3.64%) and Multi Commodity Exchange of India Limited (997.80 -3.46%).
Crowd Puller Stocks
15 stocks in BSE 500 are trading on high volumes today.
Top high volume gainers on BSE included VIP Industries Limited (213.95 9.49%), HT Media Limited (93.00 7.14%) and EIH Limited (138.00 2.99%).
Top high volume losers on BSE were Cera Sanitaryware Limited (2796.70 -2.04%), Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Limited (1962.50 -1.03%) and Supreme Industries Limited (1057.80 -0.95%).
Solar Industries India Limited (853.00 -0.93%) was trading at 100.1 times of weekly average. Axis Bank Limited (499.05 1.70%) and Mcleod Russel India Limited (176.20 -0.40%) were trading with volumes 40.9 and 18.3 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.
BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages
11 stocks made 52 week highs, while 6 stocks were underachievers and hit their 52 week lows.
Stocks touching their year highs included - Bata India Limited (682.45 0.79%), Container Corporation of India Limited (1275.40 1.67%) and Deepak Fertilizers and Petrochemicals Corporation Limited (380.50 -1.93%).
Stocks making new 52 weeks lows included - Ajanta Pharma Limited (1162.20 -3.64%) and Infosys Limited (877.00 -4.99%).
9 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Manappuram Finance Limited (90.10 6.12%) and WABCO India Limited (5589.00 1.73%). 10 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including Alok Industries Limited (3.13 -3.99%) and Bayer Cropscience Limited (4219.55 -2.50%).