Stock market close highlights: Sensex rises 419 pts, Nifty at 24,723; Metal, IT, auto stocks shine

Stock Market close highlights, August 4, 2025: Sensex settled 0.52 per cent or 418.81 points higher at 81,018.72 levels, while NSE's Nifty50 gained 0.64 per cent or 157.40 points to 24,722.75 levels.

3:50 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Expert view

Stock Market LIVE Updates: The domestic equity market edged higher, supported by strong performance in the metal and auto sectors. A weakening US dollar, along with robust monthly auto sales and encouraging quarterly results from leading automakers, helped renew investor interest in these sectors.

The Q1 earnings summary indicates that consumption-driven companies are benefiting from a rebound in volume demand. Meanwhile, rising unemployment and slower job creation in the US have reinforced expectations of a potential FED rate cut. However, there still remains room for caution due to high US tariffs.

View by: Vinod Nair, head of research, Geojit Investments Limited.

3:48 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Market expert view

Stock Market LIVE Updates: the positive close of Indian equities was fueled by robust buying in metal and auto stocks, improved global cues, and renewed optimism ahead of major corporate earnings and the upcoming RBI policy announcement. Broader indices also participated in the rally, with the Nifty Next 50 and Nifty Midcap 150 outperforming, each gaining over 1 per cent. A key catalyst for today’s gains was relief in global risk sentiment, as Asian markets partially recovered and US index futures stabilized after recent volatility.

Investors shrugged off concerns about new US tariffs following a softer jobs report in America, which revived hopes for a potential US Federal Reserve rate cut next month. Domestically, key FMCG players and select auto majors like Hero MotoCorp delivered strong performances, while cyclicals such as metal stocks led the advances due to optimistic demand outlooks.

View by: Vaibhav Vidwani, research analyst, Bonanza.

 

 

3:38 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Here's a look at Sensex gainers and losers at close

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Tata Steel, BEL, and Adani Ports were among top gainers on Sensex. 

3:36 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: A glance at broader market

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Broader market indices BSE MidCap and SmallCap closed 1.11 per cent and 0.76 per cent respectively. 

3:35 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Sensex closes at 81,018.72, up 419 pts

Stock Market LIVE Updates: BSE Sensex closed at 81,018.72, up 418.8 points or 0.52 per cent. 

3:33 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Nifty closes at 24,723, up 157 pts

Stock Market LIVE Updates: NSE Nifty50 closed at 24,722.75, up 157.4 points or 0.64 per cent. 

3:29 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: China's rare earth curbs hit US defence supply chains, raise costs

Stock Market LIVE Updates: China’s restrictions on the export of critical minerals are disrupting defence manufacturing in the West, forcing military suppliers to scramble for alternative sources and driving up costs across the industry. The situation has also brought to light the world’s heavy reliance on China for rare earth elements (REEs).

 

According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, a US drone-parts manufacturer supplying the UA army reported delays of up to two months due to a shortage of rare earth magnets.

 

These magnets, used in components like drone motors, missile guidance systems, jet engines, and satellite equipment, have become exponentially more expensive. READ MORE

3:26 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: New UPI rules explained: Here's what they mean for your daily transactions

Stock Market LIVE Updates: From August 1, Unified Payments Interface (UPI) apps like Paytm, PhonePe, Google Pay and others have started implementing new rules that restrict the number of backend requests users or apps can make in a day. These changes, introduced by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), are designed to ease system congestion and improve the overall reliability of UPI services.

 

NPCI observed that too many non-financial requests, such as repeated balance checks or account fetches were putting unnecessary strain on the UPI system. These actions do not move money, but still require the network’s attention, especially during high-traffic periods. The new framework introduces daily limits to keep systems running efficiently. READ MORE

3:20 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Aditya Birla Capital Q1 result: Net profit up 10%, board approves ESOPs

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Aditya Birla Capital on Monday reported a consolidated net profit of ₹835.08 crore for the first quarter of the financial year 2025-26 (Q1 FY26), marking a year-on-year (Y-o-Y) increase of 10.03 per cent from ₹758.84 crore in the same period last year. However, on a sequential basis, profit declined by 3.42 per cent from ₹864.6 crore in Q4 FY25.

 

The firm's revenue from operations rose 9.58 per cent Y-o-Y to ₹9,502.69 crore in Q1 FY26, compared to ₹8,672.60 crore in the corresponding quarter of the previous fiscal. Sequentially, revenue dropped by 22.17 per cent from ₹12,214.04 crore. READ MORE

3:16 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Smallcap infra stock under ₹500 jumps 4%; here's what drove the rise

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Shares of infrastructure firm, Dilip Buildcon, experienced a rise of over 4 per cent on Monday, August 4, 2025, logging an intraday high of ₹468.30.

 

At 2:20 PM, shares of Dilip Buildcon were trading at ₹471.25, up by 2.89 per cent on the BSE. In comparison, BSE Sensex was trading at 81,034.45 level, up by 434 points or 0.54 per cent. The shares are currently down by 24 per cent from their 52-week high of ₹588.40, while the 52-week low stands at ₹363.45. 

 

Meanwhile, RBL shares were up by 2 per cent, logging an intraday high of ₹265.25. READ MORE

3:10 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: CCL Products hits record high, stock zooms 97% from April low; Here's why

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Shares of CCL Products hit a record high of ₹934, surging 4.5 per cent on the BSE in Monday's intra-day trade ahead of June quarter results on Tuesday, August 5, 2025.

 

The stock price of the tea and coffee company has surpassed its previous high of ₹915.20 touched on June 4, 2025. It has nearly doubled or zoomed 97 per cent from its 52-week low of ₹475, touched on April 7, 2025.

 

CCL Products informed that a meeting of its board is scheduled to be held on Tuesday, August 5, 2025, to consider and approve the unaudited standalone and consolidated financial results for the first quarter ended June 30, 2025 (Q1FY26). READ MORE   

3:01 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: GST evasion of ₹7.08 trn detected in 5 yrs, includes ITC fraud of ₹1.79 trn

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Central GST field officers have detected tax evasion of about ₹7.08 trillion in the last five years till 2024-25 fiscal, including input tax credit (ITC) fraud of about ₹1.79 trillion, Parliament was informed on Monday.

 

In 2024-25 fiscal alone, over ₹2.23 trillion of Goods and Services Tax (GST) evasion were detected by CGST field officers, according to the data shared by Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary in the Lok Sabha.

 

Of the 30,056 cases of GST evasion detected in FY'25, more than half or 15,283 cases pertained to ITC fraud, where the evasion was to the tune of ₹58,772 crore.

 

In the 2023-24 fiscal, ₹2.30 trillion worth GST evasion was detected by CGST field officers, involving ITC fraud of ₹36,374 crore. READ MORE

2:52 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Tata Investment Corporation Q1 results: PAT net up 11.6% at ₹146.3 cr

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Tata Investment Corporation Ltd on Monday reported an 11.6 per cent increase in consolidated profit after tax at ₹146.3 crore in the first quarter ended June 30, 2025 on higher dividend income.

 

The company had posted a consolidated profit after tax (PAT) of ₹131.07 crore in the same quarter last fiscal, Tata Investment Corporation Ltd (TICL) said in a regulatory filing.

 

Consolidated total revenue from operations in the quarter under review stood at ₹145.46 crore, as against ₹142.46 crore in the year-ago period, it added.

 

TICL, a systemically important non banking financial company (NBFC), which has been classified by The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as a middle layer NBFC, said its dividend income in the first quarter was at ₹89.16 crore, as compared to Rs 84.08 crore in the corresponding period last fiscal. READ MORE

2:42 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: India Inc promoters holding declines to 8-year low of 40.6% in Q1: Report

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Promoters' ownership in private listed companies declined to an eight-year low of 40.58 per cent as of June 30, 2025, following a net share sale worth ₹54,732 crore during the quarter, according to data from primeinfobase.com, an initiative of PRIME Database Group.

 

While promoter buying is always a positive sign, promoter selling can be due to a wide variety of reasons such as promoters taking advantage of bullish markets to take money off the table, strategic reasons like debt reduction, legacy planning, philanthropy, investment in other ventures and meeting Minimum Public Shareholding (MPS) requirement as also for personal expenses, Pranav Haldea, Managing Director, PRIME Database Group, said. READ MORE

2:34 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: KPI Green Energy gain 3%; here's why the stock is in demand

Stock Market LIVE Updates: KPI Green Energy shares rose 2.7 per cent in trade on Monday after the company said it received approval to energize 76.22 MW of solar and wind-solar hybrid projects for its clients, including subsidiary Sun Drops Energia. READ MORE

2:28 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Marico Q1 net rises 8%; stock trades flat

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Marico today reported 8.2 per cent YoY growth in consolidated net profit at ₹513 crore for the quarter ended June 2025 when compared with ₹474 crore in Q1FY25. Revenue from operations increased by 23.3 per cent to ₹3,259 crore from ₹2,643 crore in the same period.

 

2:20 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Nifty IT index at day's high, up 1.5%

Stock Market LIVE Updates: IT stocks witnessed fresh buying at lower levels in intra-day deals on Monday. In late noon trade, the Nifty IT index rose 1.5 per cent to the day's high. TCS, Coforge, OFSS, Tech Mahindra and Persistent Systems gained around 2 per cent each.

 

2:12 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Hero MotoCorp Q1 earnings preview; what to expect?

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Hero MotoCorp is expected to report a muted performance, impacted by production disruptions in April and weak demand in the 110cc segment, analysts said. The results will be announced on August 6, 2025. READ PREVIEW

2:02 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: ABB India plunges 7%; Nomura decodes strategy

Stock Market LIVE Updates: ABB India shares plunged nearly 7 per cent in trade on Monday, after the company announced its results for the first quarter of the financial year 2025-2026 (Q1FY26). ABB reported a 21 per cent decline in net profit at ₹352 crore. READ MORE

1:55 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Sensex at day's high, up over 450 pts

Stock Market LIVE Updates: The BSE Sensex was seen quoting at the day's high, up over 450 points around 81,050 levels. The BSE benchmark had rallied more than 550 points from the day's low of 80,501.

 

1:45 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Metal index soars 3%; JSPL, SAIL, Tata Steel shine

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Shares of metal companies mainly steel were in demand as the Nifty Metal index surged nearly 3 per cent on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) in Monday's intra-day trade on hopes of improvement in earnings, and further increase in capex. READ MORE

1:34 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: What to expect from Bajaj Auto Q1 results?

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Two-wheeler giant Bajaj Auto is set to announce its June quarter (Q1FY26) results on Wednesday, August 6. 

 

Brokerages expect the company to report modest revenue growth in the range of 2.7-6.3 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y), driven by strong export performance and marginal improvement in realisations. READ MORE

1:24 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Dhanuka Agritech slips 19% in 2 days post Q1

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Dhanuka Agritech share price today:Shares of Gurugram-based agrochemical manufacturer Dhanuka Agritech fell around 6 per cent to hit an intraday low of ₹1,547.6 after it reported a weak set of numbers for the June 2025 quarter (Q1FY26).

 

Dhanuka Agritech’s profit after tax (PAT) jumped 13.52 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) to ₹55.5 crore in Q1FY26, as against ₹48.89 crore in the same quarter last year (Q1FY25). READ MORE

1:15 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Premier Explosives shares jump 10% on bagging ₹190-crore export order

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Premier Explosives shares jumped 9.6 per cent in trade on Monday, August 4, 2025, logging an intra-day high at ₹468.05 per share on BSE. 

 

The buying on the counter came after the company received an export order from an international entity for a total consideration of ₹190.07 crore ($21,750,000). READ MORE

1:04 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: 1 PM Market update

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Indian stock markets edged higher on Monday, defying weak global cues, as gains in metal and auto stocks lifted the benchmark indices.

 

At 1:00 PM, BSE Sensex was trading at 81,027.69 level, up by over 427.40 points or 0.53 per cent. Meanwhile, Nifty50 was trading at 24,718.25, up by 152.65 points or 0.62 per cent. 

 

12:55 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Emcure Pharma shares gain as JM Financial initiates coverage

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Shares of Emcure Pharmaceuticals rose nearly 4 per cent after JM Financial initiated 'Buy' coverage on the stock, citing its "comeback trail" with strong revenue and profit projections. 

 

The brokerage assigned a target price of ₹1,740 per share, implying an upside of 27 per cent from their previous (Friday) close. READ MORE

12:45 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: JSW Energy share price rises 4% in trade

Stock Market LIVE Updates: JSW Energy shares rose 4.3 per cent in trade on Monday, August 4, 2025, logging an intra-day high at ₹533.75 per share on BSE. The buying on the counter came after the company commissioned one 80 MW unit of its 240 MW Kutehr Hydro Project, with the second unit in testing and the third in progress. READ MORE

12:36 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Sensex, Nifty inch up amid RBI MPC policy meet

Stock Market LIVE Updates:  Benchmark equity indices edged up higher on Monday, ignoring Wall Street jitters as investors shifted focus on the RBI's monetary policy committee (MPC) meeting. 

 

At 11:35 AM, BSE Sensex was trading at 80,887.90 level, up by 287 points or 0.36 per cent. Whereas, Nifty50 was trading at 24,669.40, up by 101 points or 0.41 per cent. READ MORE

12:28 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Nifty Auto top-performing sectoral index, up by 1.6%

Stock Market LIVE Updates: Nifty Auto advanced over 1.6 per cent, up by 373 points after TVS Motors and Hero MotoCorp released their Q1FY26 earnings. The index hit an intraday high of 23,792.85 level.

12:16 PM

Stock Market LIVE Updates: NSDL IPO oversubscribed by 41x; check allotment status, GMP, listing date

Stock Market LIVE Updates: The basis of allotment of shares for the initial public offering (IPO) of National Securities Depository (NSDL) is expected to be finalised today, August 4, 2025. The mainline issue closed for public subscription on Friday, August 4, 2025. NSDL IPO received a solid response from the investors, getting subscribed over 41 times.  

 

According to data from the National Stock Exchange (NSE), qualified institutional buyers (QIBs) led the demand by subscribing to the portion reserved for them by 103.95 times. The issue reserved for non-institutional investors (NIIs) was booked 34.98 times, and the retail investors portion was booked 7.73 times. Additionally, the employees' portion was booked 15.42 times. READ MORE