VIP Clothing, Bal Pharma, Ace Integrated Solutions among stocks that are witnessing spurt in volumes today

The Indian stock market on Friday, April 4, continued to remain under pressure following the global markets as the tariff impact looms.

At 2:15 PM, the S&P BSE SENSEX was trading at the 75,390.40 level, declining 904.96 points, or 1.19%, while the NSE's NIFTY50 index fell 343.40 points, or 1.47%, to 22,907.70.

On the NIFTY50 index, Tata Steel, Hindalco, ONGC, Tata Motors and Cipla were the biggest laggards, plunging as much as 8.36%.

Among the high-volume buzzers, shares of VIP Clothing, Bal Pharma, ICICI Prudential MF, Ace Integrated Solutions and Biofil Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals topped the charts.

A volume in the stock volume is the number of shares traded in a specific period. A spurt in volume means the stock is witnessing a lot of interest or activity happening around the equity market.

VIP Clothing Limited's counter witnessed the highest spurt in trading volumes. According to the National Stock Exchange data, the number of VIP Clothing Limited shares that changed hands on Friday was already over 20.73 times higher than the daily average on the stock counter.  

Counter of Bal Pharma saw 15.14 times higher trading volume than the daily average. Shares of the company were trading higher, over 15%, outperforming other stocks in the pharma sector. This is the second day the drug company was marking higher trading volume.

Further, counters of ICICI Prudential MF, Ace Integrated Solutions and Biofil Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals were higher by 14.72, 10.43 and 10.40 times than the daily average.

Volumes at the ICICI Prudential BSE 500 ETF counter were 10.37 times higher than the daily average; however, the Kaveri Seed Company counter witnessed 10.26 times higher volume than the daily average.

Again, counters of Nippon India ETF and Shiva Texyarn Limited marked 9.03 and 7.89 times higher volume than the daily average, respectively. While volumes at TECIL Chemicals and Hydro Power counters were 7.76 times higher than the daily average.