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Day High Stocks Today

Last Updated: 30 May, 2026, 03:30 PM

Every trading session throws up a set of stocks that push to their highest price of the day during live market hours. This page tracks all of them — stocks currently hitting or recently hitting their day high on NSE and BSE, refreshed through the ses ▾

List of Stocks Hitting Day High

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Stock Name
LTP
Change (%)
Today's High
PE Ratio
Market Cap
Volume
52 Week High
52 Week Low
1M Return
3M Return
1Yr Return
3Yr Return
5Yr Return
Dividend %
Mrf Ltd1,23,420.00-2.851,27,590.0021.6452,503.3117,1491,63,600.001,22,000.00-4.85-11.10-11.12+27.11+47.56+0.15
Page Industries Ltd38,195.00+0.1338,680.0055.7042,547.7984,37750,590.0029,805.00+3.83+22.52-17.65-1.80+24.55+1.26
Hitachi Energy India Ltd38,445.00+2.3838,645.00173.481,71,374.053,76,11238,645.0016,111.00+14.59+50.76+99.22+890.42+1,880.37+0.03
Bosch Ltd36,625.00+1.6437,950.0039.001,08,154.211,68,24841,945.0028,610.00+1.75+3.55+16.58+97.54+140.06+1.41
Honeywell Automation India Ltd35,500.00-1.8836,500.0059.8731,430.3811,34541,450.0026,220.00+14.47+17.15-7.81-11.83-17.10+0.29
3M India Ltd32,745.00-1.4433,475.0060.3736,904.884,78638,030.0028,275.00-1.47-8.03+12.08+32.21+28.48+1.53
Abbott India Ltd26,855.00-3.1727,845.0036.8057,111.7510,95337,000.0025,150.00+5.58+0.19-11.82+21.77+67.54+1.60
Shree Cement Ltd25,275.00-0.4925,575.0052.3991,339.8686,35432,490.0022,550.00+4.46-3.25-14.60-1.22-8.35+0.53
Force Motors Ltd19,473.00-1.9720,098.0021.1825,664.9964,01526,450.0011,580.00-2.17-16.71+53.94+1,033.01+1,534.12+0.22
Solar Industries India Ltd18,247.00-2.1818,874.0098.581,65,365.604,88,23818,874.0011,646.00+18.19+30.44+13.31+381.48+1,073.89+0.07

What Does It Mean When a Stock Hits Its Day High?

The day high is simply the highest price at which a stock traded during the current session. It resets every morning when the market opens and updates in real time as the session progresses.

When a stock is trading at or near its day high, it usually means buyers have been consistently absorbing whatever selling is coming in. That’s not always a complicated story — sometimes it’s just a good results announcement, a block deal, a positive brokerage note, or a broader sector rally pulling the stock up. Other times there’s nothing obvious and the move is purely technical — the stock was sitting near a resistance level, broke through it with some volume, and momentum traders piled in.

What it doesn’t automatically mean is that the stock is a buy. A stock hitting its day high at 10:15 AM on high volume in a strong market is very different from one touching a new day high at 3:20 PM on thin volumes after a quiet session. Context matters every time.

How to Read the Day High Stocks Table

The table has more columns than most screeners. Here’s what each one actually tells you:

LTP

— last traded price. Where the stock is right now versus where it’s been in the session.

Change (%)

— the percentage move from yesterday’s closing price. A stock up 4% and hitting its day high is a stronger signal than one up 0.3% and barely nudging past yesterday’s close.

Today’s High

— the highest price reached in today’s session so far. If LTP equals or is very close to Today’s High, the stock is still pushing. If there’s a meaningful gap between LTP and Today’s High, the stock may have pulled back from its peak.

P/E Ratio

— gives you a quick sense of valuation. A stock hitting a day high at a P/E of 15 is priced very differently from one at 180. Useful context before getting excited about the price move.

Market Cap

— size of the company. Large-cap names hitting day highs on good volume tend to have different implications than a small-cap doing the same on 5,000 shares traded. Both can be meaningful but they’re not comparable situations.

Volume

— probably the most important column alongside price. A day high on unusually high volume suggests real conviction behind the move. A day high on well-below-average volume is often just noise — it may not hold.

52 Week High / Low

— tells you where today’s high sits within the bigger picture. A stock hitting a day high that’s also close to its 52-week high is near a significant level. One hitting a day high but still 40% below its 52-week high has a lot of ground to recover.

1M / 3M / 1Yr / 3Yr / 5Yr Returns

— the multi-timeframe return columns help you understand whether today’s move is part of a sustained trend or a brief bounce inside a longer downtrend. A stock showing strong returns across 1M, 3M, and 1Yr while hitting a day high today is a very different situation from one with negative returns on all three timeframes suddenly having a single good session.

Dividend %

— less relevant for intraday tracking but useful if you’re researching the company for longer-term purposes.

Why Traders Watch Day High Stocks

Momentum traders track this list closely because stocks pushing to new day highs are — by definition — in a state where buyers have control. The reasoning is simple: if a stock is making successive higher highs during a session, selling pressure is being absorbed and the path of least resistance is upward for now.

Breakout traders use it differently. They’re not interested in every stock hitting a day high — they want the ones where today’s high is also breaking through a key technical level. A stock crossing its previous day’s high, a multi-week resistance zone, or getting close to the 52-week high creates a different quality of signal than one just ticking up slightly in a flat session.

Some traders also use this list to track exits. If a stock they hold is hitting its day high, they might use that moment of strength to book partial profits — selling into buying interest rather than into a falling market.

Position traders and investors mostly ignore single-day high data. But they might glance at this list to see if any stocks they’ve been watching are suddenly showing life — sometimes a day high on strong volume is the first visible sign that something has changed in a stock that’s been quiet for months.

Day High vs 52-Week High — Not the Same Thing

Worth clarifying because the two often get confused.

The day high resets every session. A stock hitting its day high just means it’s at the top of today’s trading range — which could be a very narrow range on a slow day. It says nothing about where the stock has been over months or years.

The 52-week high is a much heavier level. It represents the highest price the stock has traded at over an entire year. When a stock’s day high is also near or at the 52-week high, that convergence is significant. It means the stock is at its most expensive point in a year, there are likely a lot of people who bought lower sitting on profits, and the level may attract selling from those wanting to exit at the top.

Stocks that break above the 52-week high convincingly — with volume — are often the ones that attract the most attention from momentum and breakout traders. That’s a specific setup, not just any day high situation.

Day High Stocks and the Broader Market Context

One thing experienced traders always check before acting on a day high list is what the broader market is doing. On a day when Nifty 50 is up 1.5% and global cues are positive, almost everything gets pulled higher — the day high list will be long and crowded. Most of those moves mean very little individually because the whole market is rising together.

The more interesting stocks on this list are the ones hitting day highs when the broader market is flat or slightly negative. A stock pushing to its day high against market headwinds, on good volume, usually has something stock-specific driving it — results, a corporate announcement, sector news, or institutional buying. That kind of move tends to be stickier than one that’s just riding a market-wide tailwind.

Frequently Asked Questions

These are stocks that have reached their highest traded price of the current session on NSE or BSE. The day high resets every morning when the market opens and is tracked in real time through the session.

Generally yes, but not unconditionally. A stock hitting a day high on strong volume in a positive broader market context is more meaningful than one touching a marginal new high on negligible volume. The quality of the move matters more than the fact of it.

Today's high is the peak price in the current trading session only — it resets daily. The 52-week high is the highest price over the past year. A stock hitting today's high is making a session peak. A stock hitting its 52-week high is making a far more significant level and tends to attract very different market attention.

Not on that basis alone. Day high is a momentum indicator — it tells you direction, not value. Before acting, you'd want to check volume behind the move, where it sits relative to the 52-week range, what's driving the move if anything is known, and whether the broader market is supporting or working against it.

Throughout the live trading session on NSE and BSE. The timestamp on the page shows the last refresh time. During active market hours the data updates frequently.

It suggests the rally ran into selling — either from traders who had been waiting to exit at that level, or from short sellers who jumped in at the high. A stock that hits a day high and immediately reverses on high volume is sometimes called a false breakout. It's a pattern momentum traders specifically watch out for because it can signal a quick reversal.

Yes. The day high can be set at 9:16 AM right after market open or at 3:29 PM just before close. Early session highs set during the pre-open or in the first few minutes of trade sometimes get broken later. When a stock sets its day high in the last 30-45 minutes of the session on rising volume, that's often considered a stronger signal — it suggests sustained buying rather than an opening gap that fades.

Not really as a primary research tool. Long-term investors care far more about business fundamentals, valuation, earnings growth, and sector outlook than a single session's price action. That said, a stock on this list that also has strong multi-year return data, reasonable P/E, and suddenly high volume is worth investigating — something may have changed that's worth understanding.

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