Stocks to Watch, 11 March: Stocks like Infosys, Waaree Renewable Technologies, Arvind SmartSpaces, Waaree Energies, Central Bank of India, Hindustan Zinc, Adani Enterprises, SEDEMAC Mechatronics, HG Infra Engineering, Polycab India, InterGlobe Aviation, and Eicher Motors will be in focus on March 11
The development comes nearly 6 years after Vanguard and Infosys announced a partnership under which the IT firm assumed day-to-day operations, while Vanguard builds a tech GCC in Hyderabad
Several frontline IT stocks featured among the top gainers on the Nifty today. HCLTech and Tech Mahindra shares rose about 1.9 percent each. TCS stock gained 1.5 percent, Wipro added 1.3 percent, and Infosys advanced around 1.2 percent in the morning trade.
The technology industry body has advised its member companies to enable work-from-home arrangements for all employees in the region.
Middle East & North Africa is a strategic region for most IT services companies, currently accounting for 1-2% of total revenue but remains critical for the industry to diversify beyond North America.
“AI not a substitute for critical thinking. We cannot outsource our thinking,” Vishal Sikka, Founder of Vianai Systems and former Infosys CEO said at Rising Bharat Summit 2026.
Engineering disciplines, he stressed, are becoming even more critical in the AI era
At a time when artificial intelligence is being framed either as an economic miracle or a mass job destroyer, industry veterans NR Narayana Murthy and Aditya Puri are striking a more measured note. Former HDFC Bank CEO Puri argues that AI today is surrounded by “too much hype” as well as exaggerated fears of large-scale job losses, stressing that while roles will evolve, wholesale replacement is unlikely. Infosys founder NRN Murthy, drawing from his own experiments with generative AI, says productivity gains accrue to sharper, more disciplined minds, urging young professionals to master these assistive technologies rather than fear them. Moneycontrol's Chandra R Srikanth spoke to them recently at the Indian Institute of Management in Bengaluru.
In a recent and rare joint interview, the Infosys founder and former HDFC Bank CEO weighed in on the the advancements around artificial intelligence and why there is too much negativism on job losses.
As AI upends the labour-arbitrage model, Indian IT faces its toughest reinvention yet
Execution challenges, legacy tech stacks and data readiness — not model capability — are the biggest barriers to scaling AI in enterprises, Infosys chief delivery officer tells Moneycontrol
Nilekani recalled how PM Modi gave them a suggestion to extend AI application to dairy besides agriculture.
Speaking at the AI summit in India, Sunak said nothing in our lifetimes would be “more transformative” than AI
The resentment of the blue collar workers led to the train wreck of globalisation. The resentment of the white collar workers is going to lead to the train wreck of AI, Nilekani said.
Infosys shares fell nearly 20%, but brokerages remain positive after its AI Day 2026. Infosys aims to scale enterprise AI adoption, with AI services now 5.5% of revenue.
FIIs’ combined investment in IT stocks declined to Rs 4.49 lakh crore as of February 15, the lowest level in four years. This compares with Rs 5.34 lakh crore at the end of January 2026.
Emkay Global Financial is bullish on Infosys has recommended buy rating on the stock with a target price of Rs 1750 in its research report dated February 18, 2026.
Prabhudas Lilladher is bullish on Infosys has recommended buy rating on the stock with a target price of Rs 1900 in its research report dated February 18, 2026.
Motilal Oswal is bullish on Infosys recommended buy rating on the stock with a target price of Rs 1850 in its research report dated February 17, 2026.
The broad message from the management is that AI should be viewed as an opportunity for IT service companies
India’s largest IT services firm TCS is running at about $1.8 billion in AI services revenue, while peer HCLTech has reported $146 million, or roughly 4% of total revenue.
Stocks to Watch, 18 Feb: Stocks like Infosys, Saatvik Green Energy, Hexaware Technologies, Eternal, Dilip Buildcon, Dabur India, Bharat Heavy Electricals, Healthcare Global Enterprises, NDL Ventures,and Engineers India will be in focus on February 18.
Earlier shifts allowed enterprises to add a front-end or move applications from on-premise systems to the cloud without changing core processes but AI has upended the pace, Nilekani has said
While AI presents a major opportunity, the bigger risk for companies is execution. 'It’s not an opportunity risk, it’s an execution risk,' says the Infosys chairman
Nilekani said enterprises will need new skills focused on AI engineering, agent orchestration, and managing non-deterministic systems, where the same prompt can generate different outcomes each time.