Europe accounted for 26.8 per cent of HCL Technologies' revenues for the quarter ended September 2018
HCL's revenue had surpassed Wipro, the third largest in IT, for the first quarter of this financial year
IT services major HCL Technologies will invest Rs 750 crore to set up two facilities in Andhra Pradesh that will help create 7,500 jobs in 10 years. According to an official statement, HCL is setting up its operations in Andhra Pradesh in two phases. In the first phase, the Noida-based company will invest Rs 400 crore to build a R&D centre in Kesarapalli village in Gannavaram. The facility is expected to accommodate more than 4,000 IT professionals, it said. The phase-I will commence with the foundation stone laying ceremony on October 8 and is expected to be completed in seven years' time, employing more than 4,000 IT professionals, the statement added. The phase II will be taken up later in Amaravati, the new capital of Andhra Pradesh in a campus of 20 acres. The investment for this phase is expected to be Rs 350 crore and will include about 3,500 IT professionals in five years' time.
HCL is strengthening its core areas such as infrastructure management and engineering services
HCL Technologies hit a record high of Rs 1,125, up 2.6% in intra-day trade, surpassing its previous high of Rs 1,107 recorded on April 23, 2018, on the BSE.
In July, HCL Technologies had announced the buyback programme for FY19 at Rs 1,100 per share
The buyback is part of the company's strategy to return more than 50% of the company's net income to the shareholders
HCL has tied up with banks to provide loans for the training, which would be repayable in easy instalments from the employees' salary once they get confirmed
In Q1 of FY18, HCL's dollar term revenues grew 0.8 per cent to $2.05 billion
In April, the country's fourth largest IT services firm had said it has partnered SEP to acquire Actian Corporation in an all-cash deal
The stock slipped 2.3% to Rs 982 after the company said it had received its board's approval to conduct a share buyback of up to 36.3 million equity shares worth up to Rs 40 billion.
Apart from TCS and HCL Technologies, country's second largest software services firm Infosys also came out with such an offer last year to buyback Rs 130 billion worth shares
HCL Technologies was up 4% to Rs 1,000 on the BSE in early morning trade as the company said on Monday after market hours that it will consider share buy-back on July 12.
SEZs are developed as export hubs and they contribute about 25 per cent in the country's total exports
HCL Technologies stock closed at Rs 961.25, up 1.68 per cent, on BSE
Founded in 1996, H&D specialises in IT infrastructure, application services particularly in R&D IT, shop floor IT and engineering services
HCL Technologies has proposed to develop the project at an area of 10.43 hectares
The stock dipped 7% to Rs 924 in early morning trade, extending its Wednesday's 5% fall on the BSE.
In the next 2-3 years, we think Mode 2 and 3 will be 40 per cent and Mode 1 will be 60%, says C Vijayakumar
HCL expects its revenues to grow in the range of 9.5-11.5 per cent on constant currency basis in 2018-19