NEW DELHI: Midcap stocks were trading on a positive note in Monday's afternoon session.

Shares of Emami (up 16.48 per cent), Divis Laboratories (up 11.58 per cent), PNB Housing Finance (up 9.97 per cent), Bharat Electronics (up 8.01 per cent) and Hindustan Aeronautics (up 7.59 per cent) were among the top gainers.

While Container Corporation of India (down 15.45 per cent), RBL Bank (down 5.46 per cent), Muthoot Finance (down 4.35 per cent), Varroc Engineering (down 3.91 per cent) and KIOCL (down 3.57 per cent) were the top losers in the index.

The S&P BSE MidCap index was trading 1.16 per cent up at 14383.11 around 02:16PM.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 45.30 points at 11259.35, while the BSE Sensex was up 118.3 points at 38158.87.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 32 were trading in the green, while 18 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, BHEL, BEL and Alok Industries were among the most traded shares on the NSE.