Stock market update: 138 stocks hit 52-week highs on NSE

Benchmark NSE Nifty index was trading -13.30 points down at 13968.65 on Thursday on account of selling in frontline bluechip counters.

Among the stocks that touched their 52-week highs on NSE were: Archidply Decor; Ansal Properties & Infrastructure; Bajaj Finance; Deepak Nitrite; Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC Ltd); Jet Airways; MindTree; Motherson Sumi Systems; Persistent Systems; Suzlon Energy; Wockhardt; Tech Mahindra.

Overall, 16 shares were trading in green in Nifty50 index, while 34 were trading in red in the afternoon trade.


In the Nifty 50 index, HDFC, Maruti Suzuki, ICICI Bank, Divis Labs and Larsen & Toubro were among top gainers, while Shree Cements, UltraTech Cement, Tech Mahindra, Axis Bank and Grasim Industries were trading in red.

The BSE Sensex was trading 21.67 points down at 47724.55. Traders were seen piling up position in Diversified, Defence, Textiles, Retail and Paper sectors, while selling were visible in Electric/Electronics, Learning & Education, General, Trading and Agro Processing sectors.