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Shares of FMCG company Krishival Foods are in focus today August 19 2025 as the company has informed exchanges that the meeting of the board of directors of the company is scheduled to be held on Monday August 25 2025. During the meeting the board will fix the record date for the declaration of a dividend. The stock started the trading session at Rs 390 against the previous close of Rs 388.50 on the BSE. It later jumped to touch a high of Rs 392. This is a gain of 0.90 from the closing price of the last trading session. On the NSE the counter opened flat at Rs 388 and touched the intraday high and low of Rs 392 and 375 respectively. The market cap of the company stood at Rs 847.22 crore. Technically Krishival Foods is trading higher than the 5-day 20-day 50-day 100-day and 200-day moving averages. Earlier the company which specialises in premium nuts dried fruits and ice cream informed exchanges that its board of directors approved the investment in Hamma Foods Private Limited and BVK Foods Private Limited. The investment was made through its subsidiary company by subscribing to 49 per cent of the total paid-up share capital. The stock has given a multibagger return of 279 per cent in five years and has gained 68 per cent in one year. It has surged over 50 per cent so far this year. However the stock has corrected by 4.71 per cent in the last month. Meanwhile equity benchmark indices climbed in early trade on Tuesday extending their previous days gap-up opening. The 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 203.44 points to 81477.19 in early trade. The 50-share NSE Nifty went up by 53.4 points to 24930.35. From the Sensex firms Reliance Industries Bharti Airtel Adani Ports NTPC Titan and Infosys were the major gainers. However Bajaj Finance Bharat Electronics Mahindra & Mahindra and HCL Tech were among the laggards.