NEW DELHI: DHFL with over 0.56 crore shares changing hands was leading among the most traded stocks on NSE on Wednesday.Shares of Axis Bank (number of shares traded: 0.49 crore), YES Bank (number of shares traded: 0.37 crore), Bank of Baroda (number of shares traded: 0.26 crore), Dish TV India (number of shares traded: 0.15 crore), ICICI Bank (number of shares traded: 0.13 crore), HCL Tech (number of shares traded: 0.10 crore), Vakrangee (number of shares traded: 0.08 crore), Granules India (number of shares traded: 0.08 crore) and Reliance Comm (number of shares traded: 0.07 crore) also featured among the most traded stocks on the NSE.Axis Bank (Rs 284.02 crore) was leading the pack of most active stocks in value terms.It was followed by HCL Tech (Rs 94.67 crore), DHFL (Rs 70.46 crore), YES Bank (Rs 64.54 crore), ICICI Bank (Rs 40.45 crore), HDFC (Rs 39.41 crore), Bank of Baroda (Rs 24.84 crore), Bajaj Finance (Rs 24.53 crore), RIL (Rs 19.06 crore) and Indiabulls Housing Finance (Rs 18.76 crore).The NSE Nifty index was trading 47.35 points up at 10,699.55 while the BSE Sensex was up 183.49 points at 35,775.99 around 09:18 am.
In the Nifty index, Axis Bank (up 4.19 per cent), HCL Technologies (up 3.77 per cent), Bajaj Finance (up 3.47 per cent), ICICI Bank (up 2.78 per cent) and YES Bank (up 2.74 per cent) were among the top gainers.
While Adani Ports Special Economic Zone (down 1.70 per cent), Bharat Petroleum Corporation (down 1.42 per cent), HDFC Bank (down 0.87 per cent), Housing Development Finance Corporation (down 0.81 per cent) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (down 0.66 per cent) were the top losers in the Nifty pack of stocks.