HCLTech, LTM, Swiggy, DMart, Just Dial among buzzing stocks as SENSEX, NIFTY50 trade flat in noon deals

The Indian benchmark indices, SENSEX and NIFTY50, were trading flat during the afternoon session of Monday, July 13. While the Indian markets had recovered from their early low’s, they soon turned to trade flat.

During early trade, the SENSEX had declined as much as much as 0.92% to touch an intraday low of 76,857.43. Meanwhile, the NIFTY50 reached the session’s low of 24,000.20.

While the indices have recovered from their intraday lows, they continue to trade flat. At 2:02 PM, the S&P BSE SENSEX fell by 9.71 points, or 0.01%, to trade at 77,579.10. NSE’s NIFTY50 stood at 24,203.45, marking a 3.45 points, or 0.01% drop.

The top losers of the NIFTY50 index included Neslte India, Grasim Industries, Tata Steel, InterGlobe Aviation, and Eternal.

On the contrary, TCS, HCL Tech, Tech Mahindra, Infosys and Wipro were among the top gainers.

Buzzing stocks on July 13: Check list

Shares of Just Dial hit a 20% upper circuit, at ₹676.85 per unit on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) on Monday, July 13, following its results for the first quarter of the 2026-27 financial year (Q1 FY27). The company also announced the appointment of a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and a Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

In a regulatory filing dated Friday, the firm said that its board of directors has approved the appointment of Dinkar Ayilavarapu as the designated CEO and Key Managerial Personnel of the company with effect from July 10, 2026.

“He shall take over as Chief Executive Officer and Key Managerial Personnel of the Company effective August 1, 2026,” the filing added. Furthermore, V.S.S. Mani, the company’s current CEO and Managing Director, will complete his term on July 31, 2026.

Just Dial’s board also approved the appointment of Dinesh Taluja as the CFO and Key Managerial Personnel with effect from Saturday, July 11, 2026.

The stock of HCL Tech surged as much as 6.26% to its intraday high of ₹1,237 per equity share on Monday’s market session, as investors awaited the upcoming first-quarter results release later during the day.

As per the NSE filings, HCL Tech’s board of directors is set to announce the company’s April to June quarter results for the financial year ending 2026-27 on July 13, 2026. The board will also consider and declare a second interim dividend for the current fiscal year.

Further details about the interim dividend issue will be released along with the Q1 results.

Shares of LTM Ltd climbed as much as 5.01% to hit the session’s peak of ₹4,239.80 apiece on the NSE on July 13, as the company partnered with Anthropic to accelerate Claude adoption and expand enterprise delivery.

The company, in a regulatory filing dated July 13, stated that it has partnered with Anthropic, the frontier AI company behind Claude, to accelerate enterprise-scale adoption of Claude, Claude Code and Claude Cowork across engineering, modernisation, and business workflows.

LTM will combine Claude, Claude Code and Claude Cowork with its enterprise implementation expertise to help clients move from pilots to production with market-leading productivity, throughput, and quality, it said.

The company will specifically bring this expertise and capability to Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI), Hi-Tech, Consumer, and Production Industry domains.

Personal care firm Cupid stocks fell over 3% during the trading session on Monday, as investors focused on booking their profits after a stellar share price rally this year, with the company entering the BSE Group ‘A’ category, as per the latest update due to an exchange reclassification move.

After BSE’s periodic review of its listed entities, the exchange decided to reclassify Cupid’s stock from BSE Group ‘B’ to BSE Group ‘A’, which is expected to increase the visibility of the company to a wider base of domestic and foreign investors.

“Cupid is pleased to announce that its equity shares have been reclassified from BSE Group ‘B’ to BSE Group ‘A’ by the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) pursuant to the Exchange’s periodic review of listed companies,” the company informed the stock exchanges.

Shares of Avenue Supermarts, doing business as DMart, slipped as much as 4.24% in the opening deals to ₹3,908 apiece on the NSE on Monday, July 13, after the company posted ‘soft numbers’ for the quarter ended June 30, 2026 (Q1 FY27).

The company on Saturday posted an 11.33% increase in its consolidated net profit to ₹860.44 crore for the June quarter of FY2026-27 (Q1 FY27).

The company had posted a net profit of ₹772.81 crore in the April-June quarter a year ago, according to a regulatory filing from Avenue Supermarts.

“PAT margin stood at 4.6% in Q1FY27 as compared to 4.7% in Q1FY26,” the company said in its earnings statement on Saturday evening.

The stock of Swiggy Ltd slipped as much as 2.6% to ₹266.13 apiece on the NSE in the early trade on Monday, July 13. The fall in price was witnessed following the food regulator FSSAI’s action on Saturday.

FSSAI said it has issued nine notices to quick-commerce platform Swiggy Instamart following several consumer complaints, including of alleged supply of rotten and expired food products, against the platform.

In a social media post on X, the Food Safety Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) said it has "issued 9 notices to Swiggy Instamart following multiple consumer complaints alleging violations under the FSS Act 2006."

The FSSAI stated that the consumer complaints "alleged the supply of expired, spoiled, rotten, contaminated and otherwise unsafe food products through Swiggy Instamart".

The regulator has directed the platform to submit a detailed explanation along with a compliance report. Failure to address the concerns could lead to appropriate legal action against the company.

NTPC shares rallied nearly 2% to hit an intraday high of ₹350.45 apiece on the NSE on Monday, July 13, as the state-run power giant's board on Saturday approved a ₹20,456.70 crore investment for 1,600 MW Lara Super Thermal Power Project Stage-III in Chhattisgarh.

"The Board of Directors of NTPC Limited in its meeting held today, i.e., 11th July 2026, has, inter alia, approved investment proposal for Lara Super Thermal Power Project, Stage-III (2x800 MW) at current estimated cost of Rs 20,456.70 crore," the company said in an exchange filing on Saturday.

On June 5, NTPC sought bids from technology solutions players to help its sub-critical thermal power units operate at lower loads and ensure flexibility for the electricity distribution network to use both thermal and renewable energy more efficiently.