Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.

Maruti Suzuki is currently trading at Rs. 1871.85, up by 134.75 points or 7.76% from its previous closing of Rs. 1737.10 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 1875.30 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 1899.90 and Rs. 1850.85 respectively. So far 223386 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 5 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 1899.90 on 18-Mar-2014 and a 52 week low of Rs. 1217.00 on 28-Aug-2013.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 1817.20 and Rs. 1680.00 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 56549.39 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 56.21% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 35.45% and 8.34% respectively.

Maruti Suzuki India is reportedly planning to launch a mini truck in 2015, slotting it against India’s best selling mini truck Tata Ace. The company planning to fix the price for one tonne four-wheeled vehicle is Rs 400,000 for the diesel variant and between Rs 450,000-500,000 for the CNG variant. The price would put it directly against the Tata Ace, which is priced at Rs 366,156 (Ace HT variant, BS-IV, ex-showroom, Delhi).

The country’s largest car maker reported 9.80% fall in its production to 108,478 units in February 2014 as compared to 120,266 units in same month last year. Of total, the company manufactured a 42,705 vehicles under mini segment (including Alto, A Star, Wagon R), down by 25.10%, as against 57,020 vehicles manufactured in corresponding month previous year.