NTPC rose 0.93% at Rs 141.70 at 14:57 IST on BSE, after the company said it has signed a term loan agreement for Rs 10000 crore with State Bank of India.
The announcement was made after market hours on Friday, 16 January 2015.
Meanwhile, the S&P BSE Sensex was up 121.66 points or 0.43% at 28,243.55
On BSE, so far 1.58 lakh shares were traded in the counter as against average daily volume of 2.59 lakh shares in the past one quarter.
The stock hit a high of Rs 142.60 and a low of Rs 140 so far during the day. The stock had hit a 52-week low of Rs 110.90 on 4 March 2014. The stock had hit a 52-week high of Rs 168.80 on 6 June 2014.
The stock had outperformed the market over the past one month till 16 January 2015, rising 9.09% compared with Sensex's 5.01% rise. The scrip, however, underperformed the market in past one quarter, rising 1.3% as against Sensex's 8.16% rise.
The large-cap company has equity capital of Rs 8245.46 crore. Face value per share is Rs 10.
NTPC said that the loan has a door to door tenure of 15 years and will be utilized to part finance the capital expenditure of the company.
NTPC's net profit fell 16.9% to Rs 2071.63 crore on 1.9% growth in net sales to Rs 16582.36 crore in Q2 September 2014 over Q2 September 2013.
NTPC, India's largest power company, has presence in the entire value chain of power generation business. The Government of India (GoI) held 74.96% stake in NTPC (as per the shareholding pattern as on 31 December 2014).
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