Top gainers and losers on April 17: Eternal, Sun Pharma, ICICI Bank rise over 3%; check full list

The Indian equity benchmarks rose for fourth session in a row on Thursday, April 17 powered by gains in banking heavyweights like ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, State Bank of India, Kotak Mahindra Bank and Axis Bank. The SENSEX rose as much as 1,572.48 points NIFTY50 index touched an intraday high of 23,872.35. The SENSEX ended 1,508.91 points or 1.96% higher to close at 78,553.20 and NIFTY50 index advanced 414.45 points or 1.77% to settle at 23,851.65. For the week, NIFTY50 index jumped 4.48% and SENSEX ended 4.52% higher.

NIFTY50 top gainers and losers

NIFTY Midcap 100 gainers and losers

NIFTY Midcap 100 index advanced 0.60% or 312.25 points to close at 52,657.80. As many as 65 shares in the NIFTY Midcap 100 index ended higher while 35 closed lower. Bharti Hexacom was top gainer in the NIFTY Midcap 100 index, the stock rose 4.37% to close at ₹1,580. Waaree Energies advanced 3.92% following Waaree Renewable Technologies strong earnings in March quarter.

Coforge (3.78%), Aurobindo Pharma (3.28%) and Indus Towers (3.06%) were also among the gainers.

On the other hand, Paytm was top loser in the NIFTY Midcap 100 index, the stock fell 2.08% to settle at ₹847. IREDA (-1.79%), Tata Communications (-1.68%), SAIL (-1.54%) and Patanjali Foods (-1.54%) were also among the losers.

NIFTY Smallcap 100 gainers and losers

NIFTY Smallcap 100 index advanced 0.37% or 61 points to close at 16,410.20. As many as 54 shares in the NIFTY Smallcap 100 index ended higher while 46 closed lower. Delhivery was top gainer in the NIFTY Smallcap 100 index, the stock rose 6.63% to close at ₹280.50. Five-Star Business Finance (5.25%), International Gemmological Institute (4.99%), Kfin Technologies (4.81%) and Brainbees Solutions (4.75%) were also among the gainers.

On the flipside, Sonata Software was top loser in the NIFTY Smallcap 100 index. The stock fell 5.92% to close at ₹315 after the company on Wednesday night informed exchanges that it expects lower than anticipated revenue from its largest client in March quarter which will lead to lower revenue from its international business for the said quarter than previously envisioned.

Ramkrishna Forgings (-3.90%), Aegis Logistics (-2.53%), Dr Lal Path Labs (-2.35%) and Newgen Software Technologies (-1.97%) were also among the losers.