NTPC Ltd.

NTPC is currently trading at Rs. 141.00, up by 1.55 points or 1.11% from its previous closing of Rs. 139.45 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 141.00 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 141.60 and Rs. 140.60 respectively. So far 20624 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 10 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 168.80 on 06-Jun-2014 and a 52 week low of Rs. 110.90 on 04-Mar-2014.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 143.90 and Rs. 138.70 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 114983.00 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 74.96% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 22.27% and 2.77% respectively.

Andhra Pradesh government will shortly enter into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with NTPC, the country’s largest power producer, for setting up a mega solar power unit with a capacity of 1,000 MW at Ananthapur. The state government will be taking this step in a bid to make the state power surplus.

NTPC has been recently planning to add one more unit of 660 MW capacity to the existing 1320 MW Katwa thermal plant in West Bengal.

NTPC is the largest power generating company in the country. It has also diversified into hydro power, coal mining, power equipment manufacturing, oil & gas exploration, power trading & distribution.