Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.

Maruti Suzuki is currently trading at Rs. 1108.00, up by 1.55 points or 0.14% from its previous closing of Rs. 1106.45 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 1116.50 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 1118.80 and Rs. 1101.00 respectively. So far 38532 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 5 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 1428.20 on 16-Mar-2012 and a 52 week low of Rs. 905.55 on 19-Dec-2011.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 1155.95 and Rs. 1098.30 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 32235.14 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 54.21% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 37.25% and 8.54% respectively.

The country’s largest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) has reported 4.98% dip in sales to 98,884 units during May, 2012 as compared to 104,073 units in May last year. The domestic sales were down by 4.3% at 89,478 units in May, compared to 93,519 units in the same month last year while, the exports dropped by 10.9% to 9406 units in May, from 10,554 units in the similar month a year-ago.

Total passenger car sales in the domestic market declined by 5.9% to 72,309 units last month from 76,874 units in the same month of 2011. Sales of mini-segment cars, including the M800, A-Star, Alto and WagonR, fell by 29% to 29,895 units during the month, as against 42,125 units in May, 2011.

However, in the compact segment (comprising the Estilo, Swift and Ritz models) the company witnessed a 14.7% jump in sales to 24,290 units, from 21,185 units in the same month a year ago.

Sales of the company’s DZiRE model last month increased by 63.8% to 17,707 units, from 10,812 units in May last year. MSI's mid-sized sedan SX4's sales slipped by 85% to 405 units from 2,702 units in the year-ago month. Luxury sedan Kizashi witnessed 76% fall in sales at 12 units as against 50 units in the same month last year.