Hexaware Technologies shares surged as much as 12% in intraday trade on the BSE on Friday, 9 October, with a strong spurt in volume. Hexaware Technologies share price opened at ₹533 against its previous close of ₹510.85 and jumped 12.4% to an intraday high of ₹574.45, looking set to extend gains for the fifth consecutive session. The stock witnessed a more than 9.83 times spurt in volume in Friday's session.
The jump in stock prices on Friday followed the company's announcement of a multi-year partnership with Anthropic on Thursday, 8 October. Under the partnership, Hexaware
becomes a preferred partner in Anthropic’s Claude Partner Network.
"Hexaware has more than 1,100 Claude-certified professionals. Hexaware and Anthropic will work together on go-to-market, joint solution development, and customer deployments, and Hexaware will expand Claude training across its delivery teams," said the company.
The stock is up 13% over the last six months, compared to a 6% fall in equity benchmark Sensex and a 10% decline in the BSE IT index.