Lenskart, Urban Company, Tata Motors among buzzing stocks as SENSEX trades flat; NIFTY below 24,400

While the benchmark indices, SENSEX and NIFTY50, recovered from their intraday lows, they continued to trade in negative territory during the afternoon session on Thursday, August 13, amid a sell-off in metal and cement stocks.

The SENSEX dropped as much as 0.4% to hit an intraday low of 77,665.89, while the NIFTY50 declined as much as 0.5% to touch the session’s low of 24,311.40.

At 1:50 PM, the SENSEX was trading flat, with a negative bias. The S&P BSE SENSEX slumped by 49.31 points, or 0.06%, to trade at 77,917.04. NSE’s NIFTY50 stood at 24,383.75, reflecting a 52.20-point, or 0.21% fall.

Buzzing stocks on August 13: Check list

Shares of Astral Ltd surged as much as 9.2% to hit an intraday and one-month high of ₹1,598.70 apiece on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) on Thursday, August 13, after the company reported robust earnings for the first quarter of the 2026-27 financial year (Q1 FY27).

The company posted a 47.97% year-on-year (YoY) growth in its consolidated net profit to ₹120 crore during the quarter under review, compared to ₹81.1 crore in the April-June quarter of the 2025-26 fiscal year (Q1 FY26), according to a regulatory filing dated August 12.

Its revenue from operations increased by 15.9% YoY to ₹1,578 crore in the first quarter of FY27, from ₹1,361.2 crore in the year-ago period.

The stock of Lenskart jumped 7% to hit a 52-week high of ₹626.95 per equity share on Thursday, as investors focused on the company’s fourfold net profit growth in the Q1 earnings report along with the latest MSCI index addition move.

Lenskart’s Q1 earnings print showed that the eyewear maker posted a 270% YoY increase in the consolidated net profit to ₹222 crore in the April to June quarter of the financial year 2026-27, in comparison to ₹60 crore in the same period a year ago.

The NSE filings also showed that the company’s revenue from core operations advanced 43% YoY to ₹2,714 crore in the first quarter of FY27, compared with ₹1,894 crore in the same period a year earlier.

Furthermore, as per the latest official release, global index services provider MSCI on Thursday said that it will be adding four Indian companies to its ‘Global Standard Index’ while removing three firms as part of the August 2026 review. Lenskart is among those four companies that will be added to the MSCI index in the upcoming period, effective after the market close of August 31, 2026, and from September 1, 2026.

Tata Motors shares gained as much as 6.11% to hit an intraday high of ₹485 per unit on the NSE on August 13, after the leading commercial vehicle maker on Wednesday reported an 83% jump in consolidated net profit to ₹2,556 crore in the first quarter ended June 30, 2026, led by a mark-to-market gain on investments in Tata Capital Ltd.

The company had posted a consolidated net profit of ₹1,397 crore in the corresponding quarter of the previous fiscal year, Tata Motors Ltd said in a regulatory filing.

Consolidated total revenue from operations in the first quarter stood at ₹20,667 crore as against ₹17,324 crore in the year-ago period, it added. Vehicle wholesales in the quarter stood at 1,08,700 units, a growth of 26% over the year-ago period, it said.

Vadilal Industries stock jumped 9.2% to hit an all-time high level of ₹8,447 per equity share on the NSE, after the company’s June quarter earnings boosted investors' sentiment.

The dairy products firm reported a 96% jump in consolidated net profit to ₹131 crore for Q1 FY27, compared to ₹67 crore in the same period last year.

The Ahmedabad-headquartered company’s revenue from operations increased 34% YoY to ₹680 crore in the April-June period, up from ₹507 crore in the year-ago period.

Along with the earnings, Vadilal’s board of directors also approved and declared an interim dividend of ₹17 per equity share of 10 each fully paid-up capital of the company for FY27. The firm has set a record date of August 21, 2026, to determine the members eligible to receive the interim dividend.

Gujarat Fluorochemicals shares soared as much as 9% to hit a 52-week high of ₹4,958.90 apiece, after it recorded a 21% surge in its consolidated net profit to ₹221 crore in the June quarter of FY27, compared YoY with ₹182 crore in the same period a year earlier.

Its revenue from core operations increased 24% YoY to ₹1,588 crore in the first quarter of FY27, from ₹1,281 crore in the same period a year earlier, as per the exchange data.

The stock of Lincoln Pharmaceuticals jumped as much as 9.12% to reach the session’s peak of ₹646.95 per equity share on the NSE, as the firm posted a 30.9% YoY increase in its consolidated net profit to ₹36.23 crore in the quarter ended June 30, 2026, as against ₹27.67 crore in the year-ago period.

Its revenue from operations grew 15.1% YoY to ₹177.28 crore for the reporting quarter, from ₹154.07 crore in Q1 FY26.

Urban Company shares surged 5% during the trading session on Thursday, August 13, as stock market investors focused on global index provider MSCI's latest index rejig after the August 2026 review, along with a ₹428 crore block deal update.

According to NSE data collected on Thursday, Urban Company recorded a more than ₹428 crore block deal action during the morning market hours, in turn further supporting the rise of the company’s stock on August 13.

The exchange data showed that an unnamed set of buyers and sellers carried out a 3,15,00,022 equity share transaction valued at ₹428.40 crore during the morning block deal window on Thursday’s market.

Additionally, Global index services provider MSCI, as part of its August 2026 review, announced that several Indian listed companies will be added to their indices, while many will be removed as part of the latest rejig.

Out of the 12 companies added, Urban Company is one of the newly added constituents in the global index provider’s list.

Shares of Vodafone Idea and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) were trading in the green zone as the latter entered into a strategic partnership with Vodafone Business, the enterprise arm of VodafoneThree, the United Kingdom’s largest mobile operator.

“The partnership will support collaboration across priority areas such as cloud transformation and migration, AI and automation, cyber security, network modernisation and digital infrastructure, data and analytics, IoT and connected business applications, managed services, and operational transformation,” according to a regulatory filing.

Under the agreement, TCS will help Vodafone Business further strengthen its ability to support UK organisations with “secure, resilient, and scalable” digital foundations for growth and modernisation.