Benchmark equity indices are trading higher on Friday. The NSE Nifty 50 soared 0.78% to hit a fresh high of 20,291.55 during intra-day trade and is trading at 20,264.85, up 0.65%, while the BSE Sensex trades at 67,437.61, up 449.17 points. Midcap and Smallcap stocks are leading the gains among the broader indices. The Bank Nifty index is trading at 44,827.40, up 345.65 points or 0.78%. Media, PSU Bank, Metal, FMCG, and Financial Services stocks are leading the gains among the other sectoral indices with a surge of over 1% each, while IT and Auto stocks are facing a downward trend.

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NTPC, ITC, Larsen & Toubro, Axis Bank and Britannia Industries are leading the gains on the NSE Nifty, while the laggards include Wipro, HDFC Life Insurance Company, Mahindra & Mahindra, Hero MotoCorp and HCL Tech.

Tata Tech, PFC, HDFC Bank, Reliance Industries, ICICI Bank, REC and Axis Bank are the most active stocks on the NSE. 

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Stocks at 52-Week High

Bosch, UltraTech Cement, Sanofi India, TVS Holdings, Dixon Technologies (India), Apollo Hospitals Enterprise, Neuland Laboratories, Eicher Motors, Ratnamani Metals & Tubes, Inox Wind Energy, JK Cement, Ksb, Titan Company, Multi Commodity Exchange of India, Larsen & Toubro, Trent, InterGlobe Aviation, Anand Rathi Wealth, BSE, Hindustan Aeronautics, Rolex Rings, Invesco India Nifty Exchange Traded Fund, Colgate Palmolive (India), Torrent Pharmaceuticals, Grasim Industries, Cyient, Ajanta Pharma, Central Depository Services (India), TVS Motor Company, Metropolis Healthcare, Bajaj Finserv, Poly Medicure, Radico Khaitan, ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company, Newgen Software Technologies, SBI Life Insurance Company, Sonata Software, Birla Corporation, Tide Water Oil Company (India), Sharda Motor Industries, HCL Technologies, Lupin, Century Textiles & Industries, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Bharat Forge, IPCA Laboratories, Axis Bank, Sky Gold, Aurobindo Pharma, Bharti Airtel, Maharashtra Seamless, Tata Metaliks, Wonderla Holidays, Dhanuka Agritech and Isgec Heavy Engineering are among the 211 stocks that hit 52-week high today. 

Stocks at 52-Week Low

Blue Jet Healthcare, Gandhar Oil Refinery (India), Raj Rayon Industries, SEL Manufacturing Company and Shaily Engineering Plastics are among the 9 stocks that hit their 52-week low today.

Volume Gainers

Shalimar Paints, Whirlpool of India, Keystone Realtors, Thomas Cook (India), Agro Tech Foods, Datamatics Global Service, Cantabil Retail India and Precot are the top volume gainers on the NSE.