Stocks to watch: Asian Paints, ONGC, Godfrey Phillips, Waaree Energies

Indian equities in the previous day's trade ended lower for the seventh straight day with the IT stocks leading the losses.

Here are the stocks to remain in focus today:

PSU stocks: The DIPAM has issued a change in guidelines for companies in the space with respect to dividend and share buyback among others.

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Asian Paints: The stock will trade ex-dividend today for Rs 4.5 per share dividend.

Waaree Energies:The company in the previous session announced its July-September results. For the Q2, the company's consolidated net profit rose 17 per cent year-on-year to Rs 375.6 crore.

ONGC: For an interim dividend for the current fiscal year, the company's scrip will trade ex-dividend.

NTPC: The company's renewable energy arm will launch its Rs 10,000 crore public issue today.

Bajaj Finance: In a business update, the company said that its deposits as of September grew by 21 per cent to Rs 66,131 crore.

Ashok Leyland: The company's scrip will also trade ex-dividend in respect of its dividend of Rs 2 for the fiscal year 2025.

InfoEdge: The multiservices company's scrip will also go ex-dividend for its Rs 12 per share interim dividend.