NEW DELHI: Most auto stocks were trading with gains during afternoon trade on Friday.The BSE Auto index was trading 1.82 per cent up at 24,807 around 02:20 pm.
Shares of Ashok Leyland (up 6.35 per cent), Balkrishna Industries (up 5.97 per cent), Hero MotoCorp (up 4.24 per cent), Tata Motors (up 3.77 per cent) and Apollo Tyres (up 3.36 per cent) were among the top gainers in the auto index.Motherson Sumi Systems (up 2.64 per cent), TVS Motor Company (up 2.62 per cent), Bharat Forge (up 2.27 per cent), Bajaj Auto (up 2.07 per cent), Exide Industries (up 1.78 per cent) and Mahindra Mahindra (up 1.59 per cent) too were witnessing decent traction in their share prices.Shares of Cummins India (up 0.78 per cent), MRF (up 0.26 per cent) and Maruti Suzuki India (up 0.17 per cent) also were in the green.Meanwhile, Bosch (down 0.87 per cent) and Eicher Motors (down 0.66 per cent) were the two stocks that were in the red around that time.Market sentiment was positive amid mixed global cues.Buying in heavyweights Reliance Industries, Tata Consultancy Services, Larsen Toubro and Hero MotoCorp were keeping equity benchmarks in the green.The BSE Sensex was up 182 points at 35,756, while the NSE Nifty50 index was up 51 points at 10,801.Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 30 were trading in the green, while 20 were in the red.
In the Sensex index, 20 stocks were advancing while 11 were declining.