Market recap, 2026-04-20
The session in plain words, from the day's closing prices. Prices adjusted for bonus and rights.
The session
NEPSE closed at 2,825.23, down 13.17 points or 0.46%.
Of 349 scrips that traded, 90 rose, 245 fell and 14 closed unchanged.
Turnover was about Rs 5.46 Arab.
Hotels And Tourism Index led the sector indices at +1.02%; Banking SubIndex was weakest at −0.85%.
6 scrips closed at the upper daily limit and 0 at the lower.
Most traded by value: HFIN, SOHL and NHPC.
Sector indices
- Hotels And Tourism Index+1.02%
- Trading Index+0.51%
- Mutual Fund Index−0.09%
- Non Life Insurance Index−0.12%
- Development Bank Index−0.16%
- HydroPower Index−0.23%
- Others Index−0.40%
- Microfinance Index−0.50%
- Life Insurance Index−0.63%
- Finance Index−0.71%
- Investment Index−0.84%
- Manufacturing And Processing Index−0.84%
- Banking SubIndex−0.85%
Top gainers
Limits and 52-week extremes
Turnover is close times volume per scrip, so it sits near the exchange’s own figure rather than on it. A 52-week reading needs a year of listing. The regime is the one on the breadth page.