Among the stocks that touched their 52-week highs on NSE were: Apollo Hospitals, Arvee Laboratories, Cadila, NBI Industrial Finance, Neuland Laboratories, Orient Refractories, RPG Life Sciences, Wipro, Tata Steel Long Products and Supreme Petrochem.
Overall, 25 shares were trading in green in Nifty50 index, while 24 were trading in red in the afternoon trade.
In the Nifty 50 index, Tata Steel, Wipro, JSW Steel, ICICI Bank and BPCL were among top gainers, while Titan Company , M&M, Shree Cements, HUL and Tech Mahindra were trading in red.
The BSE Sensex was trading 4.08 points up at 47709.88. Traders were seen piling up position in Metals – Ferrous, Diversified, Sugar, Metals – Non Ferrous and Packaging sectors, while selling were visible in Gems and Jewellery, Retail, FMCG, Cement and Construction sectors.