Technical analyst Hitendra Vasudeo has maintained 'buy' rating on HCL Technologies Limited stock.

The analyst said that the interested investors can buy the stock between Rs 490-472.

If investors want to hold the stock, they can hold it with a stop loss of Rs 460.

Today, the stock of the company opened at Rs 501.25 on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).

The share price has seen a 52-week high of Rs 517.50 and a low of Rs 348.15 on BSE.

Current EPS & P/E ratio stood at 15.51 and 32.88 respectively.

HCL Technologies registered a better-than-projected 33% increase in net profit for the three month period ended March 2011.

HCL Technologies posted a net profit of around Rs 4.68 billion in Jan-March period, whereas revenue grew by 31.5% to Rs 41.38 billion.

Profit was likely to increase 25% to Rs 4.3 billion, as per a Reuters poll of 17 analysts.

Revenue of the company remained at Rs 40.79 billion.