Market recap, 2026-05-20
The session in plain words, from the day's closing prices. Prices adjusted for bonus and rights.
The session
NEPSE closed at 2,754.48, up 30.09 points or 1.10%.
Of 346 scrips that traded, 298 rose, 41 fell and 7 closed unchanged.
Turnover was about Rs 3.85 Arab.
Hotels And Tourism Index led the sector indices at +1.90%; Non Life Insurance Index was weakest at +0.44%.
2 scrips closed at the upper daily limit and 1 at the lower.
Most traded by value: AKJCL, CORBL and API.
Sector indices
- Hotels And Tourism Index+1.90%
- HydroPower Index+1.90%
- Trading Index+1.52%
- Finance Index+1.41%
- Manufacturing And Processing Index+1.16%
- Investment Index+1.14%
- Others Index+1.10%
- Life Insurance Index+0.98%
- Mutual Fund Index+0.83%
- Banking SubIndex+0.74%
- Microfinance Index+0.63%
- Development Bank Index+0.44%
- Non Life Insurance Index+0.44%
Top losers
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.