Maruti Suzuki trades in green on the BSE

The scrip is currently trading at Rs. 1130.95, up by 13.60 points or 1.22% from its previous closing of Rs. 1117.35 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 1098.00 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 1139.40 and Rs. 1094.60 respectively. So far 378436 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. 1227.20 and Rs. 1094.60 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 32746.51 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 54.21% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 36.71% and 9.08% respectively.

 The country’s largest passenger carmaker, Maruti Suzuki’s Manesar plant remained closed for the second day after the violence on July 18, 2012 in which one senior company official was killed. Haryana Chief Secretary P K Chaudhery has formed special investigating team, taking a severe view of the violence, to investigate the matter.

The work at the plant has been completely stopped from 7 p.m. on July 18, 2012 with all the 3,000 workers going on strike.

The previous strike, in June 2011, which lasted for 59 days had resulted in production loss of about 80,000 cars and the direct revenue losses were pegged at 2,500 crore in the last fiscal year.