NTPC Ltd.

NTPC is currently trading at Rs. 115.55, up by 2.90 points or 2.57% from its previous closing of Rs. 112.65 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 113.00 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 116.00 and Rs. 113.00 respectively. So far 96700 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 10 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 164.70 on 12-Mar-2015 and a 52 week low of Rs. 107.20 on 25-Aug-2015.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 122.45 and Rs. 111.80 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 95152.66 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 74.96% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 22.71% and 2.34% respectively.

Credit rating agency, CARE has assigned ‘AAA’ rating to NTPC’s the proposed long term bond programme for FY16 (including tax free bonds) amounting Rs 5,000 crore.

The rating takes into account the majority ownership in the company by the Government of India (GoI), its established position as India’s largest power producer with high operational efficiency of its plants and the company’s geographical diversity of power plants as well as power off-takers.

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.