Buzzing stocks: Vodafone Idea, RIL, YES Bank, HDFC, SBI

NEW DELHI: Vodafone Idea with over 4.08 crore shares changing hands was leading among the most traded stocks on NSE on Wednesday.

Shares of YES Bank (number of shares traded: 0.74 crore), India Cements (number of shares traded: 0.48 crore), Suzlon Energy (number of shares traded: 0.36 crore), SBI (number of shares traded: 0.31 crore), Tata Motors (number of shares traded: 0.27 crore), GMR Infra (number of shares traded: 0.15 crore), SAIL (number of shares traded: 0.13 crore), Vedanta (number of shares traded: 0.13 crore) and Indiabulls Housing (number of shares traded: 0.13 crore) too were among the most traded securities.

RIL (Rs 151.64 crore) was leading the pack of most active stocks in value terms.

It was followed by HDFC (Rs 123.42 crore), SBI (Rs 114.46 crore), Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation Ltd. (Rs 82.91 crore), Maruti Suzuki (Rs 57.03 crore), India Cements (Rs 51.68 crore), Aurobindo Pharm (Rs 48.28 crore), Ibull HousingFin (Rs 47.38 crore), Bandhan Bank Ltd. (Rs 45.48 crore) and HDFC Bank (Rs 45.29 crore).

The NSE Nifty index was trading 65.55 points down at 11,732.35, while BSE Sensex was down 226.41 points at 40,054.79 around 09:21 am.

In the Nifty index, Nestle India (up 0.66 per cent), Hindustan Unilever (up 0.53 per cent), Indian Oil Corporation (up 0.45 per cent), Zee Entertainment Enterprises (up 0.44 per cent) and Asian Paints (up 0.43 per cent) were among the top gainers.

While Wipro (down 2.31 per cent), Cipla (down 2.28 per cent), Tata Motors (down 1.70 per cent), JSW Steel (down 1.50 per cent) and Eicher Motors (down 1.34 per cent) were the top losers in the index.