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Thursday, March 24, 2011

NTPC rises on commissioning unit 6 of 500 MW of Farakka plant


National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) is currently trading at Rs 176.20, up by 1.20 points or 0.69% from its previous closing of Rs 175.00 on the BSE.
The scrip opened at Rs 176.00 and has touched a high and low of Rs 176.40 and Rs 175.60 respectively.
The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs 10 has touched a 52 week high of Rs 222.20 on 04-Oct-2010 and a 52 week low of Rs 168.60 on 25-Feb-2011.
Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs 177.50 and Rs 172.60 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs 144295.63 crore.
The promoters holding in the company stood at 84.50% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 11.78% and 3.72% respectively. The country’s largest power producer National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has commissioned unit 6 of 500 MW of Farakka Super Thermal Power Station. Following the commissioning, the total capacity of the company has become 33,694 MW. With the coming of unit 6, the total installed capacity of Farakka Super Thermal Power Station has become 2,100 MW. Recently, the company had started Stage-III commercial operation at Unit-VII of 500 MW of Korba Super Thermal Power Project with effect from March 21, 2011.
NTPC posted a marginal increase of 0.27% in its net profit of Rs 2371.48 crore for the quarter ended December 31, 2010 as compared to Rs 2364.98 crore for the quarter ended December 31, 2009. Its total income has increased from Rs 11961.31 crore for the quarter ended December 31, 2009 to Rs 14165.90 crore for the quarter ended December 31, 2010.

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