NTPC Ltd.

NTPC is currently trading at Rs. 154.70, up by 0.55 points or 0.36% from its previous closing of Rs. 154.15 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 153.10 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 155.65 and Rs. 153.10 respectively. So far 61540 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 10 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 175.35 on 12-Sep-2012 and a 52 week low of Rs. 136.10 on 21-Mar-2013.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 161.05 and Rs. 153.50 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 127969.61 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 75.00% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 19.84% and 5.16% respectively.

State run, NTPC has restarted joint sampling of coal with Coal India, looking full load supply to its power plants. Earlier, the power major had discontinued participating in the joint sampling process with Coal India following disagreement over the quality of coal.

Following which, Coal India employed the newly formed national laboratory, Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research (CIMFR), Dhanbad, for neutral coal quality certification for supply to NTPC plants in the East. Pursuant to which, NTPC has decided to continue the process till a third-party sampling agency is in place.