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GROWW: Groww shares fall over 4% after block deal; most active stock on NSE as shares slid -4.0%

Strota Newsroom · session of 2026-09-16 · market close · GROWW stock page →

Billionbrains Garage Ventures Ltd. (GROWW) slid -4.0% to ₹189.76 with 4 signals firing. Here is what the exchange data shows.

Billionbrains Garage Ventures, which trades under the ticker GROWW, ended the session at ₹189.76, down 3.96%, on a day the Nifty closed 0.43% higher. The stock gapped down 1.82% at the open and kept going: it printed a high of ₹194.56 and a low of ₹188.40, and settled nearer the low, against a previous close of ₹197.59. It finished 0.75% below its volume-weighted average price, so the average trade of the day happened above the closing price.

On the derivatives side the pack is silent. The futures-and-options positioning field — the record that would show whether fresh short positions were opened as the price fell, or longs were simply unwound — is absent for this stock. That is missing data, not evidence that F&O activity was quiet.

The volume picture is where the pack argues with itself. One flagged signal reads as a volume spike of 41.7 times; the computed relative volume for the same session is 2.98 — busy, about three times an ordinary day, but nothing like forty. Another signal, a gap-and-hold at -1.8%, describes a stock that stayed near its opening gap, while the 3.96% close says the selling carried well past it.

The institutional record is thin but heavy where it exists. Two entities, RIBBIT CAPITAL V L.P. and RIBBIT CAYMAN GW HOLDINGS V LTD., are logged as sellers on the same date in late August, for ₹1,238.12 crore and ₹979.16 crore, both booked under a generic 'Other' category rather than as fund flows. For today itself the bulk and block deal list is an empty record, as is the insider filing history of the past 60 days; the institutional streak field carries no value at all.

Technically the stock sat mid-range. The 14-day RSI was 42.6, below the midpoint but clear of oversold. Price was under the 50-day moving average and above the 200-day, with no golden cross, no death cross, no Darvas breakout and no trend-template qualification. It was 16.48% below its 52-week high and 69.43% above its 52-week low, down 2.8% on the week and 4.49% on the month.

The only fresh news in the pack is a report from Business Standard, filed hours before the close, saying Groww shares fell over 4% after a block deal and that it was the most active stock on the NSE. The pack's own deals table for the day is empty, so that block deal is not corroborated inside this evidence. An older scanx.trade report, about 20 days back, said a Ribbit entity had sold its entire 0.16% stake.

The data does not establish a single driver for the move. What it does show is a 3.96% fall against a rising index, volume that was real but not extraordinary on the relative-volume measure, no derivatives read at all, no insider filings, and one press report of a block deal that the pack's own deal record does not confirm.

The numbers

Signals that fired

Institutional activity

DateSideCounterpartyType₹ Cr
2026-08-26SELLRIBBIT CAPITAL V L.P.Other1,238.1
2026-08-26SELLRIBBIT CAYMAN GW HOLDINGS V LTD.Other979.2

Technical context

Volume ran at 3.0× its 20-day average; rsi(14) sits at 43; price is 16.5% from the 52-week high; trading above the 200-dma.

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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.