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MCX: MCX Q1 Cons Net Profit Rises to ₹413 Crore vs ₹203 Crore YoY, Revenue… as shares jumped +3.3%

Strota Newsroom · session of 2026-09-04 · market close · MCX stock page →

Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd. (MCX) jumped +3.3% to ₹3,275.40 with 5 signals firing. Here is what the exchange data shows.

Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd. ended Thursday at 3275.4 rupees, up 3.32% from the previous close of 3170.2, after moving in a 3165.6 to 3287.4 band. The stock held near the session high and finished with a 0.56% opening gap, against a flat Nifty that rose just 0.1%.

Activity was the story. Volume ran 13.0x its normal level, and the futures chain traded at a 1.09% premium to spot while the cash price sat 1.29% above its volume-weighted average for the day. Open interest had climbed 2.63% into the prior close, when the read was tagged short buildup as price slipped 3.2% — so part of today's lift looks like that bearish stance being shed.

The only named large transaction in the 30-day window was a 425.01 crore buy by UTI Mutual Fund on 29 June; the 60-day insider-filing record was empty. That leaves institutional evidence thin and dated rather than directional.

Technically the tape is firm. RSI sat at 60.4 with the stock above both its 50- and 200-day averages, within 5.88% of its 52-week high and 118.94% above the 52-week low. The trend template is intact and there is no golden or death cross in play. Over the past month the stock has gained 24.06%.

News flow was active, with three fresh headlines in the window. Reports from MarketsMojo (3 hours) and Univest (5 hours) described busy trading activity and a peer comparison, while a 1-day-old Business Today item discussed how to trade the stock after its recent up move. Older items included a NDTV Profit note that the stock had risen more than 3% in trade and was up 84% over one year, a CNBC TV18 report on a second UBS upgrade in two days, and a Sahi figure that Q1 net profit rose to 413 crore from 203 crore a year earlier on revenue of 700 crore.

The data does not establish a single decisive driver. A strong volume-and-premium session and a short-buildup unwind support the move, but the close sat just under the 3287.4 mark; a sustained close above that level extends the advance, while a fall back below 3170.2 reverses the move.

The numbers

Signals that fired

F&O positioning

Futures classified as Short Buildup — open interest +2.6% with price -3.2% in the latest bhavcopy.

Institutional activity

DateSideCounterpartyType₹ Cr
2026-06-29BUYUTI MUTUAL FUNDMF425.0

Technical context

Volume ran at 0.9× its 20-day average; rsi(14) sits at 60; price is 5.9% from the 52-week high; trading above the 50-dma and 200-dma.

Recent headlines

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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.