Stock market update: Over 290 stocks hit 52-week lows on NSE

NEW DELHI: Over 290 stocks, including Aditya Birla Capital, Bharat Dynamics, BEML, Engineers India and Godfrey Phillips India hit 52-week lows on NSE in Thursday's trade.

Greenply Industries, Indiabulls Real Estate, INOX Leisure, Jet Airways (India), Mangalam Cement, Manpasand Beverages, NMDC, PC Jeweller, PTC India, PVR, Tata Steel, UPL, Vedanta and Videocon Industries too featured among the stocks that hit 52-week lows on NSE today.

Equity benchmarks were trading nearly flat as gains in select bank, auto, FMCG and metal stocks were offset by losses in select financial, IT and capital goods stocks.

The NSE Nifty index was trading flat at 10,977, while the BSE Sensex was up 60 points at 36,433 around 12:30 pm.

In the Nifty index, 25 stocks were advancing, while 25 were declining.

Vedanta, Titan Company, Bharti Airtel, Tata Motors and Mahindra & Mahindra were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack of stocks.

On the contrary, Bharti Infratel, Bajaj Finance, Bajaj Finserv, Hindalco Industries and Indian Oil Corporation were among the top losers in the Nifty index.