Upper and lower circuit stocks, and why they moved
See which stocks hit the upper or lower circuit today or on any earlier day, then match each one with the company’s latest filings to find the likely reason: results, orders, fundraising, an exchange query, or no news at all.
Download the files from NSE, then upload them here.
What is an upper or lower circuit?
Exchanges limit how far most stocks can move in one day. The limit, called the price band, is usually 2%, 5%, 10% or 20%. When a stock reaches the top of its band it is in the upper circuit: there are only buyers left, so it cannot trade higher that day. At the bottom it is in the lower circuit, with only sellers.
- Closed at circuit means it stayed locked till the end of the day. Touched means it hit the limit but slipped back.
- Circuits are common in small and penny stocks with few shares traded, so a circuit alone does not mean good or bad news.
- Series BE and BZ are trade-for-trade stocks: every trade must be delivered, and BZ also flags companies that have not met listing rules. SM and ST are SME stocks.
- When a price moves sharply without news, the exchange may ask the company to explain. Those replies show up here as an exchange query.
Data comes from public NSE reports that you download. The reasons are the company’s own filings matched by stock symbol; the filings and the price move may not be connected, and many moves have no filing behind them. For earlier days the circuit is worked out from the bhavcopy (close at the day’s high or low, with the change equal to a standard band), so a few stocks may be marked wrongly. For learning and research only, not a buy or sell recommendation.