NTPC Ltd. 532555, -0.97% shares inched down 0.97% to 168.05 Indian rupees Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around grim trading session for the stock market, with the S&P BSE Sensex Index 1, -1.03% falling 1.03% to 61,067.24. NTPC Ltd. closed 14.75 rupees short of its 52-week high (182.80 rupees), which the company achieved on November 1. The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Wednesday, as Tata Power Co. Ltd. TATAPOWER, -1.86% fell 1.86% to 213.80 rupees and Torrent Power Ltd. TORNTPOWER, -0.50% fell 0.50% to 509.15 rupees. Trading volume (979,747) remained 216,671 below its 50-day average volume of 1.2 M. Editor’s Note: This story was auto-generated by Automated Insights, an automation technology provider, using data from Dow Jones and FactSet. See our market data terms of use.