Commentary on Trump’s tariffs, offshoring employees, fewer mega deals, generative AI pipeline and hiring plans will be in focus
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With this decline in headcount, TCS now employs 6,07,354 people.
TCS Q3 results: IT major misses revenue estimates at Rs 63,973 crore; the company also declared a third interim dividend of Rs 10
The focus will remain on the management’s generative AI deals commentary, trajectory of the BSNL deal as it has run past its peak revenue contribution phase, margin impact from the rupee depreciation, client budgets and large deals outlook.
The company said that they have now over 600 AI/GenAI engagements deployed successfully in production or in various phases of development.
Return of demand with improving macro among several positive factors
During Q4 earnings conference in April, Lakkad had shared that the company will be rolling out wage hikes in the range of 4-5 percent with double digit hikes for top or exceptional performers starting from April 1.
K Krithivasan, CEO of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), will be completing a year of steering the country’s largest IT services company through choppy waters, amidst macroeconomic uncertainties and lack of visibility around demand, delayed deal closures. The company has still managed to report its highest quarterly deal pipeline of $13.2 billion, along with an improvement of over 100 bps in operating margins for the fourth quarter sequentially to 26 percent. Net profit too beats Moneycontrol’s estimates, though revenue growth has been moderate in comparison. With all of these factors at play. Krithivasan believes there’s still headroom for improving margins. In an interview with Moneycontrol's Chandra R Srikanth and Debangana Ghosh, he discusses upcoming price hikes, FY25 expectations, generative AI opportunity and more.
IT services major Tata Consultancy Services kicked off the earnings season for tech companies with its Q4 FY24 financial results on April 12. TCS reported 9.1 percent rise in consolidated net profit at Rs 12,434 crore on year-on-year basis for the quarter ended 31 March, 2024. The IT services firm had reported a net profit of Rs 11,392 crore in the year-ago period. Catch Nandita Khemka, Moneycontrol with Sreeram Ramdas, Vice President at Green Portfolio, PMS and Mayuresh Joshi, Head of Equity Research, William O’Neil India as they decodes TCS Q4 numbers.
TCS will be announcing its third quarter earnings for FY24 today. This quarter was largely a slow quarter for not just TCS but the IT sector overall
“We are going to have 100% variable pay for 70% of our workforce. The rest of the workforce will get paid based on the business unit performance,” Chief Human Resources Officer Milind Lakkad said.
IT bellwether TCS kicks off the Q1 earnings season. IT stocks have underperformed in the recent rally as analysts expect revenues to be under pressure because of a likely recession in the United States. Watch the management share key commentary and outlook ahead for the company followed by a discussion on their quarterly performance with a panel of experts, right here on Moneycontrol.
"This structure was put in place after all the internal discussion so there is no rush to do anything,” CEO designate K Krithivasan told analysts.
Subramaniam said TCS will have a centre of excellence around generative AI
Chief Human Resources Officer Milind Lakkad said that while there have been delays of 1-2 months in onboarding, the company has honoured all past offers.
Outgoing CEO Rajesh Gopinathan will stay on till September 15 to help with the transition.
The net headcount addition in FY23 has seen a steep decline of 78 percent from FY22. The company had previously also attributed the decreased hiring in FY23 to increased hiring in the preceding fiscal.
IT bellwether TCS kicks off the Q4 earnings season. Will the tech giant outperform its peers or buckle under the pressure from global headwinds? Watch the management share key commentary and outlook ahead for the company followed by a discussion on their quarterly performance with a panel of experts, right here on Moneycontrol.
For senior employees, the individual variable payout is based on business unit performance.
In an interview to Moneycontrol, Rajesh Gopinathan said the company doubled its typical trainee intake during the quarters of increased demand in the 2021 calendar year.
More normal hiring trend on the cards with TCS planning to hire 1.25-1.5 lakhs this year. Along with an expected normalisation of attrition levels, the company hopes to have sufficient capacity to take care of growth
TCS Q3 Earnings: The company said that growth this quarter was driven by cloud services and market share gains through vendor consolidation.
A contraction in the net addition number of TCS was seen previously in the first quarter of FY21.