Apollo Hospitals Enterprise share price finishes at ₹8,944.50, up 2.01% on September 18

Key Takeaways

• Apollo Hospitals Enterprise ended only ₹0.50 below the session high of ₹8,945 after rising 2.01% from the previous close. 
• The ₹8,944.50 close was ₹201.80 above the 50-day DMA and ₹778.60 above the 200-day DMA. 
• The six-month return reached 19.26%, while the stock finished just ₹105.50 below its 52-week high of ₹9,050. 

Apollo Hospitals Enterprise share price finished September 18 at ₹8,944.50, up ₹176 or 2.01% on the day. The previous close was ₹8,769 and the stock opened at ₹8,800. It reached a high of ₹8,945 and a low of ₹8,798. Only ₹0.50 separated the closing price from the displayed intraday high, while the full high-low range measured ₹147. 

That finish also brought the stock relatively close to its 52-week high. The annual high was ₹9,050 and the 52-week low was ₹6,697. At ₹8,944.50, the close was ₹105.50 below the high and ₹2,247.50 above the low. Market capitalisation was ₹1,28,608 crore, with 369,814 shares changing hands during the session. 

Apollo Hospitals closed above all three moving averages listed on the page. The 50-day DMA was ₹8,742.70, leaving the closing price ₹201.80 higher. The corresponding gaps over the 100-day DMA of ₹8,528.60 and the 200-day DMA of ₹8,165.90 were ₹415.90 and ₹778.60. The distance from the 200-day average was therefore considerably wider than the gap over the shorter 50-day measure. 

Return data was positive across each period displayed. The one-month return was 1.35%, the three-month reading was 6.13%, and the six-month return reached 19.26%. Over one year, the figure was 13.39%. The six-month return exceeded the one-year reading by 5.87 percentage points, while the one-month number remained the smallest of the four. 

The day’s opening price was just ₹2 above the low, and the stock subsequently closed almost exactly at the high. From open to close, the difference was ₹144.50. The September 18 record therefore combined a 2.01% daily gain with a closing level near both the session high and the upper boundary of the 52-week range. Those price relationships, rather than any forecast, define the day’s post-market reading. 

The high-level finish came after an opening price that was almost identical to the session low: ₹8,800 versus ₹8,798. That meant the stock covered most of its ₹147 daily range above the opening level. It also left the close much nearer ₹9,050, the 52-week high, than ₹6,697, the annual low. Volume was under 400,000 shares, lower in absolute share count than many Nifty 50 constituents, while the market capitalisation remained above ₹1.28 lakh crore. These are scale comparisons only and are not indicators of future performance. 

The ₹175.50 difference between the rounded previous close and final price was larger than the ₹105.50 remaining distance to the 52-week high.