The company announced the results after market hours on Monday, 30 July 2012.

Meanwhile, the BSE Sensex was down 91.44 points or 0.53% to 17,052.24.

On BSE, 13,000 shares were traded in the counter as against average daily volume of 87,867 shares in the past one quarter.

The stock hit a high of Rs 76.15 and a low of Rs 73.50 so far during the day.

The mid-cap stock had underperformed the market over the past one month till 30 July 2012, falling 9.79% compared with the Sensex's 1.64% fall. The scrip had also underperformed the market in past one quarter, sliding 5.42% as against Sensex's 1.01% fall.

National Fertilizer's net sales rose 27.4% to Rs 1806.66 crore in Q1 June 2012 over Q1 June 2011.

National Fertilizer (NFL), incorporated in 1974, is India's largest state-run enterprise in fertilizers sector. NFL has five urea plants located at Nangal & Bathinda in Punjab, Panipat in Haryana and Vijaipur I & II plants in Madhya Pradesh. Apart from producing urea, NFL is also engaged in manufacturing & marketing of industrial products, trading of complex fertilizers and other agro products. The Government of India (GoI) holds 97.64% stake in NFL (as per the shareholding pattern as on 30 June 2012).