Market Now: These 10 stocks hit fresh 52-week highs despite cautious trade

Despite a cautious trade in the domestic equity markets, nearly 10 stocks scaled their fresh 52-week highs in the morning trade on National Stock Exchange.

The list included Jindal Worldwide, HEG, Mask Investments, Ramgopal Poly, Zenith Birla, Shree Ram Proteins, GSS Infotech, HG Infra Engineering and Shah Alloys.

However, stocks such as Green Fire Agri, Gitanjali Gems, Touchwood Entertainment Ltd., OCL Iron Steel,


Mindteck India, Gammon India, Indian Oil Corp, Sterling Bio, Ujaas Energy, GTN Industries, Pipavav Defence and First Winner touched their fresh 52-week lows.

Overall, 15 shares were trading in the green in Nifty50 index, while 35 were trading in the red at around 10 am (IST).

Benchmark NSE Nifty index was trading 31.95 points down at 10,163.20 on Monday on account of weak Asian cues.

In the Nifty 50 index, Larsen & Toubro, HUL, Maruti Suzuki, Bosch, PowerGrid, GAIL, Infosys, Bharti Infratel, Sun Pharma, TCS, Lupin and HDFC were among top gainers, while Indian Oil Corp, BPCL, HPCL, Coal India Ltd, Adani Ports SEZ, Hero MotoCorp, Asian Paints and Tata Steel were trading in the red.

The BSE Sensex was down 73.91 points at 33102.09. Traders were seen piling up position in automobiles, infrastructure, tobacco, food processing and power sectors, while selling were visible in aquaculture, glass, sugar, rubber and chemicals sectors.