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Top Gainers Today

Biggest price gainers of the day

This is a live screen of Top Gainers Today on NSE — biggest price gainers of the day. The list refreshes throughout market hours and shows price, percentage change, traded volume, 52-week high/low, and 30-day / 1-year performance for each stock. Click any symbol to open the full stock page with chart, news and AI analysis.

Top Gainers Today — how to read this screen

This screen lists the biggest percentage gainers on NSE for the current session, updated live during market hours. It is the most immediate read available on where money is moving today.

Read the volume column alongside the gain

A 9% gain on ten times normal volume and a 9% gain on a few thousand shares are not the same event. The first reflects genuine institutional participation and tends to follow through; the second is often a thin-liquidity artefact that reverses as soon as a real seller appears. The percentage alone is the least informative number on this page.

Circuit limits distort the top of this list

Stocks that hit their upper circuit stop trading at that price, so they appear frozen at the top of the gainer list with buyers queued and no sellers. That is not the same as a stock freely trading up 20% — you generally cannot buy at the circuit price, and the next session can open sharply either way once the limit expands.

Frequently asked questions

Which are the top gaining stocks on NSE today?

The table above ranks NSE stocks by percentage gain for the current session with live prices, traded volume and the 52-week range, refreshed through market hours.

Should I buy the top gainers of the day?

Chasing intraday gainers has a poor reputation for good reason: by the time a stock appears at the top of the list, the move that put it there has already happened, and you are buying from people who bought lower. Traders who do this successfully generally have a specific plan for the reversal case rather than treating the list itself as a signal.

What is an upper circuit in the Indian stock market?

A price band set by the exchange beyond which a stock cannot trade higher in a session — typically 5%, 10% or 20% depending on the stock. When a stock hits its upper circuit, trading effectively stops at that price with unmatched buy orders queued. It signals extreme demand but also means the price has not found a genuine clearing level.

Related screens

Browse every screen on the stock screens index, or check index-level positioning on the live market dashboard. Screens list stocks matching a rule and are not buy or sell recommendations.

Free NSE stock screener — 22 live screens

22 pre-built screens run against 750-plus NSE stocks and rebuild from live prices through the trading session. 6 cover popular momentum and price-position themes, 4 cover intraday price and volume action, and 12 list every constituent of a major sector index so you can compare peers directly.

No login, no row caps, no delayed-data tier. Each screen has its own page explaining what it selects for and, more usefully, how it misleads.

Top gainer
IFCI +12.67%
Top loser
INDIAGLYCO -78.75%
Gainers screened
50 stocks
Losers screened
50 stocks

Live from the gainers and losers screens, refreshed through NSE market hours.

Momentum screens and value screens disagree by design

Near 52-week high and best 30-day performers select for strength; near 52-week low and worst yearly performers select for weakness. These are not better and worse lists — they are two opposite strategies, and a stock that looks compelling on one will look like a mistake on the other. Decide which approach you are running before you open a screen, because running both at once mostly produces confusion.

Always read the volume column with the price column

A percentage move tells you what happened; volume tells you how many participants agreed. The same 8% gain means something quite different on ten times normal volume than on a few thousand shares, and low-volume moves in illiquid names reverse far more easily than the percentage suggests. This applies to every screen on this page, which is why volume is shown on all of them.

What a screen cannot see

None of these rules know why a stock moved. A fall can be a results miss, a regulatory order, an index exclusion, a block deal, or simply an ex-dividend adjustment that is not a loss at all. Before acting on any name from a screen, the exchange announcements and the latest results usually explain in one minute what the price data cannot explain at all.

Frequently asked questions

What is a stock screener and how do I use one?

A screener applies a rule to every stock in a universe and returns the ones that match — stocks within 5% of a 52-week high, stocks trading at three times normal volume, every constituent of the Nifty Bank index. It narrows 750-plus listed names down to a working shortlist. The screen is the start of the research, not the end of it: it tells you which stocks meet a condition, never whether meeting that condition is a good thing.

Is this stock screener free?

Yes. All 22 screens are free, need no login, and run on live NSE prices during market hours. There is no row limit and no delayed-data tier.

How often do the screens update?

Screens are rebuilt from live NSE prices through the trading session, so a stock can enter or leave a screen intraday as prices move. Screens based on longer windows — 30-day and 1-year performance — shift more slowly, since a single session moves a twelve-month return very little.

Which stock screen should I start with?

It depends on which direction you are working from. If you want to know what the market is doing right now, start with top gainers, top losers or most active. If you are looking for setups over days or weeks, near 52-week high and best 30-day performers are the usual momentum starting points. If you already know the sector you want exposure to, the twelve sector screens list every index constituent so you can compare peers side by side.

Can a screener tell me which stocks to buy?

No. A screen surfaces stocks that satisfy a mechanical rule, and mechanical rules have no view on valuation, business quality, management or the reason behind a price move. Two stocks can match the same screen for opposite reasons — one recovering from a cyclical trough, the other beginning a permanent decline. Screens are for generating candidates to research. This is data, not investment advice.

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