HCL Technologies, India's fourth-largest software services exporter, reported a 47.8% rise in quarterly net profit, just shy of expectations, after winning more outsourcing orders amid the global economic uncertainty.
HCL Technologies said on Wednesday consolidated net profit for the fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30 rose to Rs 854 crore from Rs 603 crore a year earlier.
Analysts had forecast a net profit of Rs 675 crore for the company, whose customers include Xerox Corp and Readers Digest Association Inc, according to Thomson Reuters data.
HCL's dollar revenue went up 3% at USD 1,079.6 million versus USD 1,047.9 million QoQ. The rupee revenue is up 13.5% at Rs 5,919 crore.
The company had a forex loss of USD 10.5 million.
HCL and bigger rival Infosys Ltd are part of India's USD 100 billion information technology and back-office services sector earning the bulk of their revenues from customers in the United States and Europe.
An uncertain global economy and increased competition from global rivals such as Accenture Plc make the outlook a tough one for the Indian providers. Infosys, on July 12, provided a worse-than-expected forecast of dollar-sales growth for the year ending March 2013.
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