Stock market update: FMCG stocks up as market rises

NEW DELHI: FMCG stocks were trading higher on Monday at 10:14AM

Vadilal Industries Ltd.(up 4.00%), Tasty Bite Eatables Ltd.(up 3.55%), Nakoda Group Of Industries Ltd.(up 3.22%), Nakoda Group Of Industries Ltd.(up 3.22%), Parag Milk Foods Ltd.(up 2.65%), Prataap Snacks Ltd.(up 2.28%), Future Consumer Ltd.(up 2.18%), Patanjali Foods Ltd.(up 1.85%), LT Foods Ltd.(up 1.69%) and Gillette India Ltd.(up 1.59%) were among the top gainers.

Sheetal Cool Products Ltd.(down 3.30%), Honasa Consumer Ltd.(down 3.09%), Gopal Snacks Ltd.(down 2.31%), JHS Svendgaard Laboratories Ltd.(down 1.26%), Varun Beverages Ltd.(down 0.91%), Dodla Dairy Ltd.(down 0.73%), Procter & Gamble Hygiene & Healthcare Ltd.(down 0.08%) and ADF Foods Ltd.(down 0.04%) were among the top losers.


The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 203.7 points up at 25056.85, while the 30-share BSE Sensex was up 695.71 points at 82416.79 at around 10:14AM.

Hindalco Industries Ltd.(up 2.8%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.(up 2.47%), Tata Motors Ltd.(up 2.24%), Hero MotoCorp Ltd.(up 2.05%), Bajaj Auto Ltd.(up 1.64%), HCL Technologies Ltd.(up 1.57%), Bajaj Finserv Ltd.(up 1.44%), Titan Company Ltd.(up 1.34%), Larsen & Toubro Ltd.(up 1.29%) and ICICI Bank Ltd.(up 1.18%) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, Eternal Ltd.(down 2.59%), Bharat Electronics Ltd.(down 0.71%), Shriram Finance Ltd.(down 0.29%), JSW Steel Ltd.(down 0.22%) and SBI Life Insurance Company Ltd.(down 0.11%) were trading in the red.