Top gainers and losers, May 12: Adani Ports, Shriram Finance, TechM fall 4%, ONGC gains 5%; check full list

On Monday, the foreign institutional investors (FIIs) sold stocks worth ₹8,437.56 crore, while the domestic institutional investors (DIIs) purchased equities worth ₹5,939.65 crore on a net basis, according to exchange data.

The SENSEX tanked as much as 2.06% to an intraday low of 74,449.50, while the NIFTY50 tumbled as much as 1.96% to touch the session’s low of 23,348.40.

On May 12, the NIFTY 50 dropped by 436.30 points or 1.83% to close at 23,379.55. Meanwhile, SENSEX ended at 74,559.24, down by 1,456.04 points or 1.92%.

NIFTY50 top gainers and losers

Adani Ports dragged the NIFTY50 index, slipping 4.32%. It was followed by Shriram Finance (-4.31%), Tech Mahindra (-4.21%), HCL Technologies (-4.01%), Jio Financial Services (-3.99%) and Adani Enterprises (-3.96%), which were among the top losers on Tuesday.

Shares of Tech Mahindra and HCL Technologies declined amid a fall in the NIFTY IT index, after OpenAI, an artificial intelligence (AI) firm, announced the launch of a new company, OpenAI Deployment Company, which will help organisations to build and deploy AI systems for everyday work.

On the other hand, ONGC closed 4.70% higher, after the government reduced royalty rates on crude oil and natural gas production from multiple categories of fields, including deepwater and ultra-deepwater blocks, to boost domestic exploration and output.

Hindalco Industries (1.86%), State Bank of India (0.26%), and Bharti Airtel (0.17%) were among the other top gainers.

NIFTY Midcap 100 top gainers and losers

NSE’s NIFTY Midcap 100 gauge tumbled 2.54% or 1,553.75 points to close at 59,704.65 on May 12. The top laggards included JSW Energy, which closed 6.51% lower, after the March quarter results failed to boost investor sentiment in the power generation firm’s stock. NSE filings released post-market hours on Monday showed JSW Energy’s profits (attributable to owners of the company) dropped 9% to ₹371 crore in the fourth quarter of the financial year ended 2025-26, compared with ₹408 crore in the same period a year earlier.

It was followed by UPL (-6.26%), Dixon Energy (-6.05%), Prestige Estates Projects (-5.50%), and Kalyan Jewellers India (-5.41%).

On the flip side, Oil India (7.46%), Biocon (3.41%), Laurus Labs (0.41%), Colgate Palmolive (0.28%) and Coromandel International (0.26%) were among the top winners

NIFTY Smallcap 100 top gainers and losers

The NIFTY Smallcap 100 index crashed by 3.17% or 586.80 points to end at 17,939.

Kaynes Technology India (-6.79%), Anant Raj (-6.25%), Netweb Technologies (-5.80%), Meesho (-5.79%), and CreditAccess Grameen (-5.67%).

On the contrary, its top gainers included Afcons Infrastructure (2.74%), Brainbees Solutions (2.39%), Tata Chemicals (1.87%), Cohance Lifesciences (0.45%) and Welspun Corp (0.03%).