Discover which stocks shrugged off bearish market sentiment to outperform

Markets are mostly pointing down as we head into the end of today's session, but TAL Education gains 6.7% to top this list of the 4 biggest gainers at the moment.

The leading indices are dropping — Nasdaq slipping 0.22% and closing at 12,100. S&P 500 drawing back 0.13% to 4,132.39.

Meanwhile, United States NY Empire State Manufacturing Index (Apr) came out at 10.8, while a consensus of analysts was expecting -18.

Though markets had an unsatisfactory day Friday, some consumer_defensive stocks manage to recover as Top Gainers. Take a look:

TAL Education | +6.7%; session high: $6.57 session low: $6.21

The Chinese education and tutoring company is now trading 39.29% below the significant high of $10.08 it set around 3 months ago. So far this year, it has been under-performing the Nasdaq by 33.37%. Currently, the Chinese education and tutoring company has a market capitalization of $4.24 billion with an average daily trading volume of 6.41 million shares.

+4.49%: New Oriental Education & Technology on its way to $39.31, gaining 4.49% today

From an earlier low of $37.89, the private educational service provider is on track to end the session around $39.31 after gaining $1.69 compared to last trading session's $37.62 (4.49%). The Chinese education business's market cap currently stands at $6.68 billion with an average daily trading volume of 1.40 million shares. So far this year, it has been under-performing the Nasdaq by 5.75%.

+4.1%: Ollie's Bargain Outlet trades up $2.36, approximately 4.1% higher going into close in a hour time

After ending Friday at $57.54, the discount closeout retailer chain went up to $61.9 only to drop back some of the way. It is now trading around $59.9 as it reaches the end of the trading session. The company's market cap currently stands at $3.71 billion with an average daily trading volume of 1.34 million shares.

U-turn? After three days of bearishness, Grocery Outlet is up 2.12% today

Grocery Outlet rallies 59 cents (2.12%) and maintains the $28.44 level as it reaches the end of session. The US supermarket outlet's market cap currently stands at $2.78 billion with an average daily volume of 1 million shares.