Benchmark indices ended marginally higher in a rangebound session on November 3, with largecap shares underperforming while the midcap index hit a 52-week high.

The market saw a volatile session, however, buying in realty, telecom, PSU banks helped Nifty recover from the lows of 25,645.50. At close, the Sensex was up 39.78 points or 0.05 percent at 83,978.49, and the Nifty was up 41.25 points or 0.16 percent at 25,763.35. The broader indices outperformed the main indices with BSE Midcap index rising 0.6 percent and smallcap index adding 0.7 percent at close.

On the sectoral front, pharma, telecom, realty, PSU Bank indices added 1-2 percent.

Shriram Finance, M&M, Apollo Hospitals, SBI, Tata Consumer were among major gainers on the Nifty, while losers included Maruti Suzuki, ITC, TCS, Bharat Electronics, L&T.

In stock-specific action, Godrej Consumer shares rose 5 percent on September quarter earnings, Bank of Baroda shares added nearly 5 percent as Q2FY26 NPA fell, LG Balakrishnan shares price added 14 percent on profit growth, M&M shares rose nearly 2 percent following strong October sales growth.

JK Cement shares fell 5 percent despite higher Q2FY26 numbers, Vedanta jumped over 3 percent on mixed Q2FY26, Maruti Suzuki shares slipped 3 percent, Schaeffler India shares surged 5 percent on profit growth, and Zen Technologies shares gained 3 percent on defence order.


More than 1470 stocks touched their 52-week high on the BSE, including Shriram Finance, Navin Fluorine, Bank of Baroda, MCX India, L&T Finance, BPCL, IIFL Finance, Aditya Birla Capital, Indian Bank, HPCL, Canara Bank, Laurus Labs, MRPL, Bank of India, IOC, SBI Life Insurance, SBI, Cummins India, Sammaan Capital, Federal Bank, among others.