Apollo Hospitals, ITC and Tech Mahindra led the top losers today on the NSE, Monday 12 October 2026. The Nifty 50 shed 157.10 points, or 0.70%, to close at 22,363.35, while the Sensex gave up 547.65 points to 71,924.68. FMCG, PSU Bank and IT names did most of the damage, ET Now reported.
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Top losers today NSE: the Nifty 50 list
Here are the worst Nifty 50 performers at the close, going by closing data from Upstox and Trade Brains’ NSE market stats:
- Apollo Hospitals Enterprise: -3.15% to ₹7,775
- ITC: -3.05% to ₹257.90
- Tech Mahindra: -2.85% to ₹1,471
- Larsen & Toubro: -2.05%
- Max Healthcare Institute: -2.02%
It was a broad sell-off at the top. 37 of the 50 Nifty stocks ended in the red.
What dragged each of them down
Hospitals: hospital stocks got hit hard in the last hour of trade. The trigger was scrutiny of drug mark-ups after a Supreme Court hearing on drug pricing, and the BSE Hospitals index ended 2.04% lower. Our hospital stocks report has the details of the hearing.
FMCG: Nifty FMCG was the day’s weakest sector. Dabur, ITC and Colgate fell the most, with concerns over energy prices and household budgets hanging over consumer stocks. More in our FMCG stocks report.
IT: Tech Mahindra was the weakest of the IT pack, and the BSE IT index slipped 0.68%.
How the rest of the market looked
- The Sensex actually opened over 400 points higher before turning around. At the day’s low it was down 796.23 points at 71,676.10.
- India VIX jumped more than 6%, going past 15.
- Smaller stocks held firm. The Nifty Smallcap index gained 1.42% and the Nifty Midcap inched up 0.08%.
- The rupee strengthened 93 paise to 95.78 (provisional) against the dollar, and Brent crude hovered near $105.8 a barrel.
A day when the Nifty falls while smallcaps rise more than 1% is usually a story about heavyweights, not panic. The selling was concentrated, not broad.
Losers outside the Nifty 50
The frontline index wasn’t the only place bleeding. In the Nifty Midcap 100, Lenskart Solutions closed 3.86% lower after a CNBC-TV18 report about a possible block deal by Alpha Wave Ventures. Fortis Healthcare (-3.69%), Dabur India (-3.18%), GMR Airports (-3.04%) and Colgate Palmolive (-2.79%) were the other big midcap laggards, according to Upstox. Among Nifty Smallcap 100 stocks, Vedanta Power (-2.88%), Physicswallah (-2.33%), KEC International (-1.93%), Sagility (-1.84%) and Neuland Laboratories (-1.75%) fell the most.
On the Sensex, ITC, Tech Mahindra, Hindustan Unilever, Larsen & Toubro, State Bank of India and Tata Consultancy Services were among the big drags, ET Now said. Across BSE sectoral indices, Hospitals lost 2.04%, FMCG 1.34%, PSU Bank 1.05%, IT 0.68%, Telecommunication 0.63% and Energy 0.53%.
And the stocks that went up
It wasn’t all red. Dr Reddy’s Laboratories (+2.71%), Bajaj Auto (+2.62%), Tata Motors PV (+1.63%), Bharat Electronics (+1.56%) and BSE Ltd (+1.31%) were the best Nifty 50 performers, and Nifty Media topped the sector table with a gain of more than 4%. On Friday, foreign institutional investors had sold ₹3,568.90 crore worth of shares while domestic institutions bought ₹4,743.26 crore, according to exchange data cited by Upstox.
What it means
The selling was narrow rather than panicky. A handful of heavyweights hit by sector-specific news did most of it, against a backdrop of steady foreign selling and firmer bond yields. If you want to use lists like this without chasing every move, read what top gainers and losers really tell you. We track every session on our Stock Market Today India hub.
Sources: ET Now, Upstox, Trade Brains (NSE data). Not investment advice.
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