Stocks to watch today: Tata Motors reported 10 per cent YoY increase in domestic December sales at 72,997 units as against 66,307 units sold last year
For FY23, Accenture has maintained its 8-11 per cent growth guidance. This is reportedly the first time since FY17 that the company has not upgraded its full-year guidance after the first quarter
Recently, HCL Technologies said that its FY23 revenue could be at the lower end of the guidance; Credit Suisse warned valuation-led correction in these stocks amid US macro headwinds.
Indian IT valuations, the brokerage and research house argues, are at large premium to history despite material correction from the top
With in the Tata Group space, except for Indian Hotels, others like TCS, Tata Motors, Trent and Tata Coffee seem poised for a buoyant rally in the near term.
The US market ended higher overnight, led by gains in technology stocks, after US Federal Reserve chairman indicated that the central bank may slow pace of rate hikes. Nasdaq Composite jumped 4.4%
Stocks to Watch Today: In the F&O space, BHEL, Delta Corp, Indiabulls Housing Finance and PNB are the stocks in ban period on Thursday.
The digital marketplace will bring together fragmented sources of rail data into one digital service, to accelerate innovation in the transport sector and enhance the passenger experience
Metals, state-owned oil marketing companies, and export/global economy-linked sectors may not see any meaningful rally
According to the technical analyst from Anand Rathi, TCS can decline to Rs 3,160; whereas Page Industries can witness a sharp rally to Rs 48,500 level.
More than 3,000 Illinoisans currently work for TCS - including 1,100 who were hired within the last five years
Action against moonlighting can ruin a person's career and hence, it is important to show empathy while dealing with the issue, a top official from TCS has said. Nothing prevents the country's biggest IT services exporter from taking action against employees for moonlighting when it has evidence because it is a part of the service agreement, but young kids will have to be dissuaded, the company's chief operating officer N Ganapathy Subramaniam told PTI. "The consequences (of taking action) will be that the person's career will be ruined. Background check for the next future job will fail for him...We have to show some empathy," Subramaniam said. He said the company looks at an employee like being a part of the family and given the consequences of any action, would rather focus on dissuading the family member from going astray. It can be noted that in the past few months, amid increased demand for talent, moonlighting or side hustles have come to the fore in the over USD 220 billion
TCS MD & CEO says attrition is way beyond the firm's comfort levels
"We are trying to bring in some of these elements for a certain section of our employees. We are doing a proof of concept of creating a gig workforce within the company," says Lakkad.
HR experts also point that pre-pandemic industry attrition was in the range of 12-13 per cent, to come back to that level is going to take some time.
TCS Q2 earnings review: Its attrition inched up to 21.5 per cent over the preceding quarter's 19.7 per cent. It said the quarterly annualized attrition has peaked in Q2 and should taper down from here
The IT major reported net profit of Rs 10,431 crore, up 8.4 per cent year-on-year (YoY) and 10 per cent quarter-on-quarter (QoQ)
There is an "Inverse Head and Shoulder" pattern getting established on the daily chart. Technically, this pattern breakout over Rs 3,150 levels would add aggressive bets on the stock.
In Q2FY23, TCS saw an eight per cent year-on-year (YoY) jump in its net profit to Rs 10,465 crore, beating the estimates
"Attrition will need at least four quarters to come down to 20%. But the overall number of people leaving the company will come down significantly," said Milind Lakkad, Chief HR Officer of TCS.