Among the stocks that touched their 52-week highs on NSE were: AGC Networks; Bharat Electronics (BEL); Cadila Healthcare; HFCL Ltd; Max Financial Services; Jet Airways (India); Sintercom India; Titan; TCI Express; Narayana Hrudayalaya.
Overall, 16 shares were trading in green in Nifty50 index, while 33 were trading in red in the afternoon trade.
In the Nifty 50 index, Cipla, HCL Tech, Sun Pharma, Infosys and Larsen & Toubro were among top gainers, while M&M, GAIL, ONGC, Indian Oil Corp and Tata Motors were trading in red.
The BSE Sensex was trading 44.91 points down at 46915.78. Traders were seen piling up position in Diversified, Paper, General, Cables and IT Software sectors, while selling were visible in Electric/Electronics, Learning & Education, Agro Processing, Airlines and Trading sectors.