Across ETFs, corporate bonds and SME stocks, roughly INR 18,108.6 crores changed hands this week (10 to 14 August), alongside another INR 21,110.2 crores in block and bulk deals. ETF and SME breadth both turned negative after last week's gains, corporate bonds kept adding to their multi week rally, two SME names extended sustained rallies through the week, and two large ownership transfers stood out in smart money activity. Here is the detail, based on insights from bhavcopydata.com.
ETFs, breadth turns negative as turnover fades through the week
ETF turnover for the week came to INR 16,491.6 crores, with breadth mildly negative. 140 symbols closed up, 196 closed down, against 6 flat. Six symbols touched a new 52 week high and none touched a new low. Turnover peaked on 11 August at INR 3,843.6 crores and fell each day after, down to INR 2,618.2 crores by 14 August, in line with the average daily change also turning negative from 13 August onward.
Top gainers included MONQ50 (Motilal Oswal Nasdaq Q50 ETF, +4.1%), which tracks the Nasdaq Q 50 index. GROWWNET (+3.3%) and INTERNET (Mirae Asset ETF, +3.0%), whose names both point to an internet theme though the underlying field in the data does not spell out the specific index, moved together too, two of the week's top five gainers. MANUFGBEES (Nippon India Nifty India Manufacturing ETF, +2.9%) and GROWWMC150 (Groww Nifty Midcap 150 ETF, +2.7%) rounded out the top five.
Top losers were mild by comparison, nothing beyond a 3.2% decline. CEMNTGROWW (Groww Nifty Cements ETF, -3.2%) and GROWWHOSPI (Groww BSE Hospitals ETF, -3.0%) led, the latter also carrying real turnover of INR 15.5 crores rather than a thin print. VALUE (Mirae Asset Nifty500 Value 50 ETF, -1.9%) and VALUEAXIS (Axis Nifty500 Value 50 ETF, -1.9%), two different funds tracking the same underlying value factor index, moved almost identically, a sign this was a genuine factor level move rather than noise in a single fund.
The heaviest turnover, as usual, sat in the largest and most liquid funds, SILVERBEES (Nippon India ETF Silver BeES, INR 3,004.3 crores, +0.3%), GOLDBEES (Nippon India ETF Gold BeES, INR 1,559.6 crores, +1.4%), LIQUIDBEES (Nippon India ETF Liquid BeES, INR 1,509.4 crores, flat), LIQUIDCASE (Zerodha Nifty 1D Rate Liquid ETF, INR 926.0 crores, +0.1%), and NIFTYBEES (Nippon India ETF Nifty BeES, INR 713.8 crores, -0.5%). Gold gained through the week while the broad market benchmark slipped, in line with the negative breadth above.
Corporate Bonds, the rally extends to a third straight week
Corporate bond breadth stayed positive for a third straight week, 165 symbols up, 127 down, 24 flat, on INR 48.7 crores of total turnover. 37 symbols touched a new 52 week high this week, against 8 new lows, a smaller gap than the 43 new highs we wrote up two weeks ago, but still a clear positive tilt.
As always with this instrument, turnover and trade count matter as much as price when reading the biggest single name moves. This week's largest movers on paper, 728NTPC30B (up 20.0%) and 971SCL28I (down 35.9% over four sessions), both traded on turnover of under INR 1 lakh across the whole week, too thin to treat as a real price signal. The one large mover that did carry real volume was 868NHB29 (down 15.6% on 13 August), on turnover of INR 2.5 crores that day, the week's fourth highest for the segment. The names that carried the rest of the week's volume, 851HUDCO28 (INR 3.0 crores), 87HMDA34 (HMDA, INR 2.8 crores), 930APMD30 (INR 2.7 crores), and 935TSI30 (INR 2.1 crores), all moved by under 1%, the more representative picture of the segment this week.
SME, breadth turns negative but two names post sustained weeklong rallies
SME breadth turned negative this week, 207 up against 311 down, 20 flat, on INR 1,568.3 crores of turnover. New 52 week highs (16) edged out new lows (14), a close balance despite the negative breadth in individual names.
Top gainers, ANAWIL (Anawil Wire and Engineering Ltd, +55.7%) and ESCONET (Esconet Technologies Ltd, +54.8%), were both large enough moves that we checked them against the site's own anomaly threshold before trusting the number. Both held up. ANAWIL jumped 28.2% on 10 August on real turnover of INR 120.9 crores, then gained roughly 5.0% on each of the next four sessions in a row, a pattern that looks like it kept hitting its daily price band rather than one off noise. ESCONET climbed in five separate daily gains through the week, from +20.0% on 10 August to +10.0% on 14 August, also on rising turnover each day. Neither symbol shows a corporate action flag in the data, and no other SME name moved anywhere close to this size on the same days, so this reads as a genuine, sustained rally in both names rather than a data artefact or a market wide event. ANAWIL was also the week's single most traded SME name, at INR 224.5 crores.
Top losers, DHARIWAL (Dhariwal Corp Limited, -25.1%), GSMFOILS (GSM Foils Limited, -22.5%), and TRANSTEEL (Transteel Seating Technologies Ltd, -22.0%).
Several of the week's most traded SME names were also among its biggest movers, ANAWIL, VMARCIND (V Marc India Limited, INR 120.7 crores, +15.8%), OBSCP (OBSC Perfection Limited, INR 55.9 crores, +13.8%), and OPTIMYSTIX (Optimystix Entertainment India Ltd, INR 51.9 crores, +8.0%), which supports these as genuine moves rather than noise from thin trading.
Smart Money, two large ownership transfers and one clean institutional buy
Block and bulk deals combined for INR 21,110.2 crores across 129 symbols this week, 67 net buyers against 59 net sellers. Note that this total counts some prints twice, since a handful of large crossing deals get disclosed in both NSE's block deal and bulk deal files for the same date, price and quantity, a known duplication in the underlying data we have flagged before, not a pipeline issue on bhavcopydata.com.
The week's single largest print came on 12 August, when Tenneco Mauritius Holdings Limited sold its 3.0 crore share position in Tenneco Clean Air India Limited (TENNIND) at INR 525.50, a stake worth INR 1,590.7 crores. Part of it was picked up by SBI Mutual Fund (31.7 lakh shares, INR 166.2 crores) and HDFC Mutual Fund (20.2 lakh shares, INR 106.0 crores), with the rest churned through a handful of broking firms that both bought and sold nearly matched quantities the same session, a sign of intermediary crossing rather than fresh accumulation.
The week's second large transfer, in Dr Agarwal's Health Care Limited (AGARWALEYE) on the same day, was a cleaner early investor exit. Hyperion Investments Pte Ltd sold 2.4 crore shares at INR 501.03 (INR 1,210.5 crores) and Claymore Investments (Mauritius) Pte Ltd sold 1.6 crore shares at INR 501.54 (INR 797.4 crores), a combined INR 2,007.9 crores. The buy side was spread across institutions, ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund (62.1 lakh shares, INR 311.2 crores), Polar Capital Funds PLC Healthcare Opportunities Fund (36.3 lakh shares, INR 181.7 crores), a fund whose healthcare mandate fits the sector, Invesco Mutual Fund (35.7 lakh shares, INR 179.9 crores), and Allianz Global Investors (17.7 lakh shares, INR 88.8 crores).
The clearest accumulation story of the week had no offsetting large sale in the same window. On 14 August, a set of global institutions bought into LEAP India Limited (LEAPIND) in a single session, Smallcap World Fund Inc (88.6 lakh shares, INR 142.8 crores), The Prudential Assurance Company Limited (55.5 lakh shares, INR 85.6 crores), Habrok India Master LP (47.0 lakh shares, INR 77.7 crores), and GDN Investments Private Limited (30.0 lakh shares bought, INR 49.8 crores, against a much smaller 10.0 lakh share sale). Net buying came to INR 389.1 crores, the week's cleanest single directional accumulation.
Urban Company Limited (URBANCO) saw its own early investor to institution transfer on 13 August. SBI Mutual Fund bought 3.15 crore shares at INR 136 (INR 428.4 crores), picked up from Accel India IV (Mauritius) Limited (2.0 crore shares, INR 272.0 crores), VYC11 Limited (96.3 lakh shares, INR 131.0 crores), and VY EM2 Limited (18.7 lakh shares, INR 25.4 crores), the same venture investor to institution pattern we have flagged in other names before.
One more print is worth flagging without over reading it. On 14 August, Pradeep Ramwilas Rathi (9.3 lakh shares, INR 94.0 crores) and Rahul Pradeep Rathi (5.3 lakh shares, INR 54.2 crores) sold a combined INR 148.2 crores in Sudarshan Chemical Industries Limited (SUDARSCHEM). The shared surname suggests these are related individuals, though the data does not tell us their relationship to the company, so we are stating what the disclosure shows rather than assuming a promoter sale.
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All figures are from NSE end of day bhavcopy data for 10 to 14 August 2026, as published on bhavcopydata.com. See the ETF, Corporate Bonds, and SME pages for the full daily breakdown, and follow the author at @psanivarapu for more.