Stocks to watch today: Mindtree, Tata Metaliks will report their June quarter 2022 (Q1FY23) results on Wednesday, July 13; NMDC will be removed from the Nifty CPSE index post hive off of NMDC Steel.
HCL Tech had a total contract value (TCV) of new deals worth $2 billion, a growth of 23.4 per cent YoY
Top management, while reporting results for HCL Tech Q1FY23 on Tuesday, said attrition rate was "expected to remain high in coming months"
The company's consolidated revenue grew 4% sequentially at Rs 23,464 cr in the June quarter
Analysts expect Ebit to contract sequentially due to increase in retention costs as well as higher travel costs
On the flipside, the company's Ebit margins are expected to decline by up to 108 bps to 16.9 per cent over the preceding quarter due to elevated attrition.
Earlier in May, analysts at JP Morgan had downgraded the Indian IT sector citing growth concerns. Rising margin headwind in the near-term, JP Morgan had said then, was one of the key concerns.
The Nifty IT index tanked over 3 per cent in early trade on Monday when compared with a 0.5 per cent fall on the Nifty50 index
The company is expected to post a revenue growth of 2.9 per cent QoQ on a constant currency basis, brokerage firms predicted
The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite surged 3.3 per cent on Friday, as investors reassessed the expected path of Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes.
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Fears of a recession in the US grew after Federal Reserve's biggest rate hike in nearly three decades, followed by Swiss National Bank raising its policy interest rate for the first time in 15 years.
In the Sensex pack, Tech Mahindra, Hindustan Unilever, HCL Technologies, Asian Paints, NTPC, Tata Steel, Infosys, Axis Bank, and Bajaj Finserv were among the biggest laggards
The country's top 50 promoter families earned Rs 709.4 crore on average from their companies in FY22, while the median income of these promoters was Rs 123.2 crore in the last fiscal
HCL Technologies had recently reported over three fold jump in its consolidated net profit for fourth quarter ended March 2022 at Rs 3,593 crore
HCL Technologies reported dollar revenue growth of 11 per cent year-on-year at $2.99 billion for FY22
Also on offer: Higher promotions, work flexibility, eldercare & childcare support to track attrition.
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Though HCL Tech has bit the bullet, industry majors, which too are battling high attrition, have not given any such signal, so far.
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