Nifty 50 closed at 15805.10 (67.4, 0.4%) , BSE Sensex closed at 52474.76 (174.3, 0.3%) while the broader Nifty 500 closed at 13569.45 (52.3, 0.4%)

Market breadth is neutral. Of the 1751 stocks traded today, 903 were in the positive territory and 821 were negative.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include Au Small Finance Bank Ltd. (1048.20, 5.61%), Steel Authority of India (SAIL) Ltd. (135.05, 5.06%) and Aurobindo Pharma Ltd. (1010.25, 4.80%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include Adani Power Ltd. (148.30, -3.76%), Emami Ltd. (542.00, -2.22%) and Astral Ltd. (1935.00, -2.03%).

Crowd Puller Stocks

35 stocks in BSE 500 are trading on high volumes today.

Top high volume gainers on BSE included Future Consumer Ltd. (10.07, 19.17%), Alok Industries Ltd. (28.75, 18.07%) and NBCC (India) Ltd. (54.70, 12.09%).

Top high volume losers on BSE were Westlife Development Ltd. (489.70, -1.63%) and Schaeffler India Ltd. (5252.00, -0.09%).

VRL Logistics Ltd. (295.00, 10.22%) was trading at 15.2 times of weekly average. Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd. (806.00, 4.66%) and DCB Bank Ltd. (111.20, 7.60%) were trading with volumes 7.4 and 7.1 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

52 stocks hit their 52 week highs,

Stocks touching their year highs included - Aegis Logistics Ltd. (382.00, 1.60%), Astral Ltd. (1935.00, -2.03%) and Bajaj Finance Ltd. (6112.00, 0.42%).

14 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Future Consumer Ltd. (10.07, 19.17%) and Alok Industries Ltd. (28.75, 18.07%).