Penny Stocks Update: These stocks gained up to 7.14% on Friday

The equity market continued its downward trend even in today's trade. The BSE Realty is the top gainer while BSE Metal is the top loser in today’s trade.

On the last trading day of the week, the equity market continued its downward journey and closed down in the red mark continuously since Tuesday. Today, the majority of sectoral indices have closed in negative. This week Nifty 50 as well as BSE Sensex has been hanging in the red zone and still continues the same.

Nifty 50 and BSE Sensex are down by 63.20 points i.e., 0.35% and 101.88 points i.e., 0.17% in today's trade. The stocks pulling the Nifty 50 index down are Infosys, ITC, Tata Motors, TCS and Adani Ports. Whereas, stocks pulling Nifty 50 up in today’s trade are HDFC, Kotak Mahindra, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank and Axis Bank. Likewise, stocks that are dragging BSE Sensex down are Infosys, ITC, TCS, HCL tech and Nestle. While stocks pulling BSE Sensex up are similar to Nifty 50 stocks and Bajaj Finserv.

In today’s trade, realty and banking and finance sectors were top gainers. S&P BSE Realty, BSE Private Banks Index, BSE BANKEX and BSE Finance have closed with a green mark in today’s trade. BSE Realty index consists of stocks such as Brigade group, Prestige group, Oberoi Realty Limited and Godrej properties are top gainers gaining and were up by 6%.

In today’s trade majority of indices closed in negative among which top losers are S&P BSE Metal, BSE Basic Materials, BSE Healthcare and BSE Smallcap Select Index. BSE Metal that consists of stocks such as Vedanta Ltd, Hindustan Zinc Ltd, Hindalco Industries Ltd and Coal India are top losers up to 7.51%.

Here is the list of penny stock that gained up to 8% on a closing basis on Friday, 22nd October 2021: