Indian markets slumped today. Nifty 50 was trading at 14774.50 (-76.3, -0.5%) , BSE Sensex was trading at 48860.13 (-301.7, -0.6%) while the broader Nifty 500 was trading at 12612.70 (-29.6, -0.2%)
Market breadth is in the green. Of the 1722 stocks traded today, 970 were gainers and 718 were losers.
Riding High:
Largecap and midcap gainers today include Godrej Consumer Products Ltd. (867.45, 21.12%), Godrej Industries Ltd. (610.60, 19.81%) and Vodafone Idea Ltd. (8.93, 10.25%).
Downers:
Largecap and midcap losers today include Cholamandalam Investment & Finance Company Ltd. (528.85, -4.01%), MphasiS Ltd. (1781.55, -3.63%) and Max Financial Services Ltd. (889.55, -3.10%).
Volume Shockers
19 stocks in BSE 500 are trading on high volumes today.
Top high volume gainers on BSE included Godrej Consumer Products Ltd. (867.45, 21.12%), Godrej Industries Ltd. (610.60, 19.81%) and Venky's (India) Ltd. (2104.20, 18.42%).
Godrej Agrovet Ltd. (559.90, 5.34%) was trading at 14.4 times of weekly average. Siemens Ltd. (2030.00, 4.17%) and Avanti Feeds Ltd. (536.95, 9.47%) were trading with volumes 14.2 and 8.3 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.
BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages
49 stocks made 52 week highs,
Stocks touching their year highs included - Adani Transmission Ltd. (1209.55, 1.02%), Balkrishna Industries Ltd. (1939.70, 1.79%) and Bharat Electronics Ltd. (150.80, 1.51%).
10 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Avanti Feeds Ltd. (536.95, 9.47%) and UCO Bank (12.68, 8.38%). 2 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including Granules India Ltd. (341.25, -5.18%) and Indostar Capital Finance Ltd. (302.25, -0.41%).