BSE Sensex and Nifty 50 soared more than 1 per cent on Thursday, mirroring the positive Asian cues, on weekly F&O expiry day. In the preceding session, profit booking in the index-heavyweight stocks pulled the indices down. ONGC and Titan Company stocks hit their respective 52-week highs today. ONGC share price tag surpassed its preceding higher of Rs 164.70, touched earlier this week, to scale a new higher of Rs 170.9 apiece. Similarly, Titan Company share price tag rallied 10 per cent to hit a new higher of Rs 2,361.45 apiece. Its preceding all-time was Rs 2,205.65 apiece, hit on 5 October 2021.
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A total of 278 stocks have hit a new 52-week higher today in any group or index. Some of these stocks are Airtel Rights Entitlement (RE), Apollo Pipes, Atul, Bata India, Bosch, BPL, Century Ply, Nazara Technologies, Paras Defence and Space Technologies, Radico Khaitan, Relaxo Footwears, Trident, and other folks. Tata Group stocks Tata Chemicals, Tata Elxsi, Tata Motors also surged in trade today.
Even as BSE Sensex was up almost 700 points, nine S&P BSE Sensex stocks hit fresh 52-week lows. Stocks such as Bhakti Gems and Jewellery, Kiran Print-Pack, Nova Publications India, Paos Industries, Purple Entertainment, SBL Infratech, Sun Retail, Trescon, and Triveni Enterprises hit their respective 52-week lows on Thursday, a day of weekly F&O expiry.
On NSE, a total of 110 stocks such as Aarti Industries, Atul, Bata India, Bosch, BPL, Century Ply, Clean Science and Technology, Deepak Nitrite, Godrej Properties, Sobha Developers, Tata Motors, amongst other folks, hit fresh 52-week highs whilst just one hit a new 52-week low on NSE, Bharti Airtel RE fell to a fresh 52-week low.