Top Gainers & Losers: Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty ended lower on Wednesday, marking their third straight day of losses due to selling in IT and select banking shares and foreign fund outflows.

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Falling for a third day, the BSE Sensex declined 159.21 points or 0.27 per cent to settle at 59,567.80 and the NSE Nifty dipped 41.40 points or 0.23 per cent to end at 17,618.75.

Among the Nifty50 firms, HCL Technologies, IndusInd Bank, Infosys, State Bank of India, and NTPC were the major laggards.

BPCL, Divi’s Laboratories, Bajaj Auto, Axis Bank, and Mahindra & Mahindra were among the winners. 

Here's a look at some of the blue-chip stocks that moved the most on Tuesday:

BPCL

BPCL stock was the top gainer on Nifty50, it climbed over 2 per cent to Rs 342.8 per share on the NSE.

Brokerage firm Prabhudas Lilladher has given a ‘buy’ call on BPCL for a target of Rs 420 apiece which is an upside of 22.5 per cent.

Prabhudas Lilladher believes that oil marketing companies are well placed to benefit from improving marketing and healthy refining profitability.

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