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CROMPTON plunged -7.4% on volume spike 7.9x

Strota Newsroom · session of 2026-08-07 · market close · CROMPTON stock page →

Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Ltd. (CROMPTON) plunged -7.4% to ₹249.95 with 3 signals firing. Here is what the exchange data shows.

Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals closed at Rs 249.95, down 7.43% in a session as one-sided as that number suggests. The day's high of Rs 270.00 was exactly the previous close, and the pack records a gap of 0.0% -- so the stock opened flat and then spent the whole session below where it began, never trading above the prior close. Volume was the other headline: the live signals flagged a spike of 7.9x and the technicals put relative volume at 7.96, two figures that agree. The Nifty was down 0.27%, so almost none of this was the market.

One signal needs flagging rather than repeating. The pack lists "At day's low", but the close of Rs 249.95 sat above the session low of Rs 248.30, and the stock finished 1.03% below its volume-weighted average price. The likely reading is that the flag was stamped intraday and the close was near the low rather than at it; the pack does not say, so treat the two as in tension.

On positioning there is nothing to report because nothing is recorded. The futures-and-options field is null -- missing data, not a finding that derivatives traders sat still. Nothing here establishes whether the fall came with fresh shorts, unwinding of longs, or no derivatives activity at all.

The institutional and insider records, by contrast, are present and empty. There were no bulk or block deals logged today, no institutional deals in the past 30 days, and no insider filings in the past 60 days. The institutional streak field is null, so that one is absent rather than blank. Nobody visible in the disclosure trail was moving size.

Technically the stock was already on the back foot. RSI on a 14-day basis sat at 40.7, below both the 50-day and 200-day moving averages, with no death cross flagged. It stood 25.94% below its 52-week high and 14.97% above the 52-week low. Note the arithmetic: one-week return is about -3.9% and the one-month return about -3.4%, both smaller than today's single-day drop, which means those windows were almost certainly stamped before this session.

The news context is dense and points one way. Seven headlines cluster on Q1 results. Business Standard reported profit up 15.2% to Rs 142.7 crore with revenue up 11.8%; NDTV Profit reported margin expansion and revenue crossing Rs 2,300 crore; CNBC TV18 reported the quarter missed estimates despite commodity inflation. NDTV Profit's later headline framed the reaction directly -- shares falling 7% despite the profit and margin growth. The pack's earnings entry is dated 2026-08-06 with an EPS estimate of 2.206. An older report from scanx.trade, 11 days ago, noted a senior management resignation effective July 27, 2026. All of these concern Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals; CG Power and Industrial Solutions is a separately listed company sharing only the heritage.

So the data shows a heavy-volume, market-independent fall the day after results several outlets reported as a miss despite growing profit. It does not establish which line item disappointed, who sold, or what derivatives positioning looked like around it.

The numbers

Signals that fired

Technical context

Volume ran at 8.0× its 20-day average; rsi(14) sits at 41; price is 25.9% from the 52-week high.

Upcoming earnings

Results due 2026-08-06 (street EPS estimate 2.206).

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How this article was made: Strota assembled the exchange data above (prices, F&O open interest, bulk/block deals, SEBI PIT filings, indicator readings and public headlines) and an AI model wrote the narrative strictly from that evidence — it is not permitted to add outside facts or numbers. Every figure comes from the underlying exchange/public data.