Saturday, May 18th 12:17 PM IST

NIIT Tech drops 10 percent after block sale of shares

Aug 2, 2012

Shares of NIIT Technologies  fell as much as 10.4 percent after the BSE showed 3.92 million shares, or 6.53 percent of the market capitalisation, changed hands at 267 rupees a share via block deals for a total value of Rs 105 crore.

Reuters

The block deal took place at a significant discount to NIIT’s closing price of 297.85 rupees on Wednesday.

Shares of the small provider of software training and education services were last down 5.57 percent.

Reuters

Also see

Firstpost encourages open discussion and debate, but please adhere to the rules below, before posting. Comments that are found to be in violation of any one or more of the guidelines will be automatically deleted:

Personal attacks/name calling will not be tolerated. This applies to comments directed at the author, other commenters and other politicians/public figures

Please do not post comments that target a specific community, caste, nationality or religion.

While you do not have to use your real name, any commenters using any Firstpost writer's name will be deleted, and the commenter banned from participating in any future discussions.

Comments will be moderated for abusive and offensive language.

Please read our comments and moderation policy before posting