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Company Atlas/Info Tech/Infosys
NSE: INFY· Info TechNot in Aug top-30Large cap

Infosys

Tactical IT floor trade

Last close
₹1,015.40
29 Sept 2026 · reference
1D · 1M
+1.2% · −11.2%
price-only
Weight
0.7%
31 Jul 2026 · Aug rank —
Thesis review
8 Sep 2026
Why We Own, p49
Coverage owner: Research (per book); latest results Q Jun-26Buoyant AIF I Top 30 Holdings - Aug 2026.pdf · p1Buoyant_Why_We_Own_What_We_Own_Sep2026.pdf (portfolio as of 31 July 2026) · p49Screener ↗Tijori ↗NSE ↗
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What the company does

Infosys · Information Technology Services

Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. It enables clients in several countries to navigate their digital transformation. With over four decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, the company expertly steer clients, in several countries, as it navigates their digital transformation powered by cloud and AI. It enables them with an AI-first core, empower the business with agile digital at scale and drive continuous improvement with always-on learning through the transfer of digital skills, expertise, and ideas from its innovation ecosystem. It is deeply committed to being a well-governed, environmentally sustainable organization where diverse talent thrives in an inclusive workplace.

Full profile (Yahoo)

Infosys Limited provides consulting, technology, outsourcing, and digital services worldwide. The company offers insight services, such as applied and generative AI, sustainability services, and Infosys Topaz, an AI-first set of services, solutions, and platforms; blockchain, Internet of Things, and engineering services; cybersecurity and quality engineering services; and enterprise agile DevOps, API economy and microservices, application modernization, and digital process automation. It also provides digital supply chain, Microsoft business application services, Microsoft cloud business, Oracle, SAP, service experience transformation, Salesforce, energy transition, network transformation services, infrastructure services, global capability center, and Infosys Cobalt, a suite of services, solutions, and platforms. In addition, the company offers experience services, including digital marketing, digital commerce, digital interactions, digital workplace services, digital experience, metaverse, and Infosys Aster, a marketing suite; and EdgeVerve, Infosys Finacle, Infosys Live Enterprise Suite, Infosys Cortex, Infosys Meridian, Panaya, Infosys Equinox, Infosys Topaz Fabric, Infosys Wingspan, Infosys Helix, and Infosys Polycloud platforms. It serves aerospace and defense, agriculture, automotive, chemical manufacturing, communication services, consumer packaged goods, education, engineering procurement and construction, financial services, oil and gas, private equity, professional services, public sector, healthcare, high technology, industrial manufacturing, information services and publishing, insurance, life sciences, logistics and distribution, media, entertainment, mining, retail, semiconductor, travel and hospitality, utilities, and waste management industries. The company was formerly known as Infosys Technologies Limited and changed its name to Infosys Limited in June 2011. Infosys Limited was incorporated in 1981 and is headquartered in Bengaluru, India.

Sector (Yahoo)
Technology
Industry (Yahoo)
Information Technology Services
Employees
3,28,062
Website
infosys.com

Key people: Mr. Nandan M. Nilekani (Co-Founder & Non-Executive Chairman) · Mr. Salil Satish Parekh (MD, CEO & Director) · Ms. Inderpreet Sawhney (Executive VP, Chief Legal Officer & Chief Compliance Officer) · Mr. Anand Swaminathan (Executive VP and Segment Head of Communication, Media & Technology) · Mr. Karmesh Gul Vaswani (Executive VP & Segment Head of CPG, Logistics & Retail) · Mr. Anant Raghavendra Adya (Senior VP & Service Offering Head)

Who are the competitors of Infosys?

Infosys major competitors are HCL Technologies, Wipro, Tech Mahindra, LTM, Oracle Finl. Service, Persistent Systems, Coforge. Market Cap of Infosys is ₹4,18,611 Crs. While the median market cap of its peers are ₹1,22,775 Crs.

Is Infosys financially stable compared to its competitors?

Infosys seems to be less financially stable compared to its competitors.Altman Z score of Infosys is 7.27 and is ranked 7 out of its 8 competitors.

Snapshot and what to watch · Tijori · 14 Sep 2026
  • Infosys is an IT services provider with ~$19.9B FY26 revenue. Financial Services is 27.9% of revenue. North America is 56.4%.
  • It sells the Finacle banking suite and the Topaz Fabric AI platform. Buyers include banks, healthcare, manufacturing, rail and retail clients.
  • AI services are 8.2% of revenue with double-digit QoQ growth. Core work is soft. Q1FY27 large deals are $3.6B but convert slowly.
  • Per management, its AI-first framework and partner ecosystem can industrialise enterprise AI at scale.
  • The mix is shifting toward AI-led work. Two acquisitions are closed. Versent is pending.
  • Near-term profit depends on AI offsetting soft core work. Management guides FY27 growth 1.5–3% CC, cut from 1.5–3.5%, with OM 20–22%.
  • The unresolved US H-1B investigation is an overhang. Any penalty could materially affect the business.

Yahoo profile 23 Sept 2026 · Tijori 23 Sept 2026

Segments

Revenue mix and market share

Product Wise Break-Up
  • Software and professional services95.2%
  • Software products and platforms4.8%
Location Wise Break-Up - Financial Services
  • North America64.2%
  • Europe16.9%
  • Rest of the World14.6%
  • India4.4%
Location Wise Break-Up - Retail
  • North America69.3%
  • Europe25.2%
  • Rest of the World5.1%
  • India0.3%
Location Wise Break-Up - Communication
  • North America60.3%
  • Europe21.2%
  • Rest of the World17.6%
  • India0.9%
Location Wise Break-Up - Energy Utilities, Resources and Services
  • North America53.7%
  • Europe37.7%
  • Rest of the World7.4%
  • India1.2%
Location Wise Break-Up - Manufacturing
  • Europe57.3%
  • North America39.7%
  • Rest of the World2.5%
  • India0.4%
Location Wise Break-Up - Hi-Tech
  • North America93.6%
  • India3.6%
  • Europe2.3%
  • Rest of the World0.6%
Location Wise Break-Up - Life Sciences
  • North America72.7%
  • Europe25.6%
  • Rest of the World1.4%
  • India0.3%
Location Wise Break-Up
  • North America56.4%
  • Europe32.2%
  • Rest of the World9.0%
  • India2.5%
Verticals
  • Financial Services27.9%
  • Manufacturing15.9%
  • Energy Utilities, Resources and Services13.4%
  • Retail12.8%
  • Communication12.0%
  • Life Sciences8.0%
  • Hi-Tech7.7%
  • Others2.3%
Operating Profit Break-Up
  • Financial Services32.1%
  • Retail14.9%
  • Manufacturing14.8%
  • Energy Utilities, Resources and Services13.8%
  • Communication10.3%
  • Hi-Tech8.0%
  • Life Sciences5.4%
  • Others0.7%
Onsite vs Offsite
  • Onsite52.1%
  • Offshore47.9%
Digital vs Core - Financial Services
  • Digital54.9%
  • Core45.2%
Digital vs Core - Retail
  • Digital65.9%
  • Core34.1%
Digital vs Core - Communication
  • Digital66.1%
  • Core33.9%
Digital vs Core - Energy Utilities, Resources and Services
  • Digital62.7%
  • Core37.3%
Digital vs Core - Manufacturing
  • Digital71.6%
  • Core28.4%
Digital vs Core - Hi-Tech
  • Digital64.3%
  • Core35.7%
Digital vs Core - Life Sciences
  • Digital63.4%
  • Core36.6%
Digital vs Core
  • Digital revenue62.2%
  • Core revenue37.8%
Contract Type - Financial Services
  • Time-and-material56.2%
  • Fixed-price43.8%
Contract Type - Retail
  • Fixed-price63.2%
  • Time-and-material36.8%
Contract Type - Communication
  • Fixed-price60.7%
  • Time-and-material39.3%
Contract Type - Energy Utilities, Resources and Services
  • Fixed-price58.1%
  • Time-and-material41.9%
Contract Type - Manufacturing
  • Fixed-price51.3%
  • Time-and-material48.8%
Contract Type - Hi-Tech
  • Fixed-price51.0%
  • Time-and-material49.0%
Contract Type - Life Sciences
  • Time-and-material53.3%
  • Fixed-price46.7%
Contract Type
  • Fixed-price52.5%
  • Time-and-material47.5%
Client Break-Up
  • $1+ Mn69.1%
  • $10+ Mn22.4%
  • $50+ Mn5.7%
  • $100+ Mn2.8%

Latest reported mix as compiled by Tijori from company disclosures; percentages of revenue.

Operating metrics

Company-reported KPIs (Tijori) · latest quarter

As the company reports them. They can differ from the ratio table on the Financials tab, which uses Tijori's own definitions (for example NIM on average total assets rather than on interest-earning assets); the Cross-check panel there lines both up.

Quarterly Inflow - Deal TCV31,320 Crs 2026-06
Constant Currency Growth - BFSI2.9 % 2026-03
Constant Currency Growth - Healthcare11.6 % 2026-03
Constant Currency Growth - Consumer Business0.5 % 2026-03
Constant Currency Growth - Energy6.7 % 2026-03
Constant Currency Growth - Technology-1.2 % 2026-03
Constant Currency Growth - Manufacturing2.4 % 2026-06
Constant Currency Growth - Communications9 % 2026-03
Constant Currency Growth - YoY - Others14 % 2026-03
Business model

How the company earns

India's second-largest IT services exporter (FY26 revenue Rs 1,78,650 cr / Q1FY27 $5.08 bn) providing application services, cloud (Cobalt), AI (Topaz - 8.2% of revenue in Q1FY27), engineering and BPM to ~1,900 clients, mainly in North America and Europe (financial services, retail, manufacturing, communications). Operating margin 21.1%, FCF conversion 116% of PAT, and a policy of returning ~85% of FCF (FY26 dividend Rs 48/share; Rs 18,000 cr buyback completed Dec-2025).

Economics and valuation note (book)

TTM P/E 14.2x vs Jefferies' cited 5-yr average of 24x and 10-yr average of 20.5x (Mar-2025 note) - a ~40% discount to its own history; stock is -37% from 52-wk high Rs 1,728 after the Feb-2026 AI (Anthropic Claude) sell-off. P/B computed 1087/225. EV/EBITDA not computed (net cash not sourced). EV/EBITDA n.m.; dividend yield 4.4%.

Competitive position · why this and not peers
TCSTCS trades at 15.2x with 2.8% yield and 52% ROE but 4.6% PAT growth in Q1; Infosys is cheaper (14.2x), yields 4.4%, and has larger net-new deal wins ($3.6 bn TCV, 61% net new) - Buoyant is buying the discount, not the franchise premium.
HCLTechHCL (19.2x P/E, 4.2% yield) grew INR revenue 14% with 16.9% margin; Infosys offers 420 bps higher margin (21.1%) at a ~25% lower multiple, though HCL's products/ER&D mix has the better growth.
WiproWipro is cheaper (12.9x, 6.4% yield) but has 8% 5-yr sales CAGR, flat Q1 PAT (+0.6%), 16% margin falling from 17.2%, and a 'cautious' Q2 guide - Infosys has structurally higher margin (21%) and ROE (32% vs 15.5%).
Segment economics

Reported revenue mix

Product Wise Break-Up

share of revenue, %
  • Software and professional services
    95.2%
  • Software products and platforms
    4.8%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Location Wise Break-Up - Financial Services

share of revenue, %
  • North America
    64.2%
  • Europe
    16.9%
  • Rest of the World
    14.6%
  • India
    4.4%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Location Wise Break-Up - Retail

share of revenue, %
  • North America
    69.3%
  • Europe
    25.2%
  • Rest of the World
    5.1%
  • India
    0.3%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Location Wise Break-Up - Communication

share of revenue, %
  • North America
    60.3%
  • Europe
    21.2%
  • Rest of the World
    17.6%
  • India
    0.9%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Location Wise Break-Up - Energy Utilities, Resources and Services

share of revenue, %
  • North America
    53.7%
  • Europe
    37.7%
  • Rest of the World
    7.4%
  • India
    1.1%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Location Wise Break-Up - Manufacturing

share of revenue, %
  • Europe
    57.3%
  • North America
    39.7%
  • Rest of the World
    2.5%
  • India
    0.4%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Location Wise Break-Up - Hi-Tech

share of revenue, %
  • North America
    93.5%
  • India
    3.6%
  • Europe
    2.3%
  • Rest of the World
    0.6%
  • Others
    0.0%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Location Wise Break-Up - Life Sciences

share of revenue, %
  • North America
    72.7%
  • Europe
    25.6%
  • Rest of the World
    1.4%
  • India
    0.3%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Location Wise Break-Up

share of revenue, %
  • North America
    56.4%
  • Europe
    32.1%
  • Rest of the World
    9.0%
  • India
    2.5%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Verticals

share of revenue, %
  • Financial Services
    27.9%
  • Manufacturing
    15.9%
  • Energy Utilities, Resources and Services
    13.4%
  • Retail
    12.8%
  • Communication
    12.0%
  • Life Sciences
    8.0%
  • Hi-Tech
    7.7%
  • Others
    2.3%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Operating Profit Break-Up

share of revenue, %
  • Financial Services
    32.1%
  • Retail
    14.9%
  • Manufacturing
    14.8%
  • Energy Utilities, Resources and Services
    13.8%
  • Communication
    10.3%
  • Hi-Tech
    8.0%
  • Life Sciences
    5.4%
  • Others
    0.7%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Onsite vs Offsite

share of revenue, %
  • Onsite
    52.1%
  • Offshore
    47.9%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Digital vs Core - Financial Services

share of revenue, %
  • Digital
    54.9%
  • Core
    45.1%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Digital vs Core - Retail

share of revenue, %
  • Digital
    65.9%
  • Core
    34.1%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Digital vs Core - Communication

share of revenue, %
  • Digital
    66.1%
  • Core
    33.9%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Digital vs Core - Energy Utilities, Resources and Services

share of revenue, %
  • Digital
    62.7%
  • Core
    37.3%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Digital vs Core - Manufacturing

share of revenue, %
  • Digital
    71.6%
  • Core
    28.4%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Digital vs Core - Hi-Tech

share of revenue, %
  • Digital
    64.3%
  • Core
    35.7%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Digital vs Core - Life Sciences

share of revenue, %
  • Digital
    63.4%
  • Core
    36.6%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Digital vs Core

share of revenue, %
  • Digital revenue
    62.2%
  • Core revenue
    37.8%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Contract Type - Financial Services

share of revenue, %
  • Time-and-material
    56.2%
  • Fixed-price
    43.8%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Contract Type - Retail

share of revenue, %
  • Fixed-price
    63.2%
  • Time-and-material
    36.8%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Contract Type - Communication

share of revenue, %
  • Fixed-price
    60.7%
  • Time-and-material
    39.3%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Contract Type - Energy Utilities, Resources and Services

share of revenue, %
  • Fixed-price
    58.1%
  • Time-and-material
    41.9%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Contract Type - Manufacturing

share of revenue, %
  • Fixed-price
    51.3%
  • Time-and-material
    48.8%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Contract Type - Hi-Tech

share of revenue, %
  • Fixed-price
    51.0%
  • Time-and-material
    49.0%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Contract Type - Life Sciences

share of revenue, %
  • Time-and-material
    53.3%
  • Fixed-price
    46.7%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Contract Type

share of revenue, %
  • Fixed-price
    52.5%
  • Time-and-material
    47.5%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Client Break-Up

share of revenue, %
  • $1+ Mn
    69.1%
  • $10+ Mn
    22.4%
  • $50+ Mn
    5.7%
  • $100+ Mn
    2.8%
  • Others
    0.0%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Industry cycle

Info Tech chapter

Info Tech — 6.5%: mostly not IT services

The internal "Info Tech" bucket holds four very different businesses and only one of them — Infosys, at 0.7% — is the tactical IT-services trade the house describes in its notes. That trade is deliberately small. Price a mature services company at zero terminal growth with 100% of profits paid out and an 8% required yield and the floor is about 12x earnings; the sector fell from roughly 30x toward that floor, which made a small dip worth buying. We see neither a case above 20x nor a collapse below 12x: a corridor of uncertainty held at 2–3% across the strategy, a position we expect to eventually exit. The reason the upside is capped is AI: the work does not go away (the back end of US banking still runs on 1970s books that must reconcile with new front ends) but far fewer people will be needed to do it. Infosys guides 1.5–3% constant-currency growth for FY27 with AI already 8% of revenue. The other three names are owned for entirely different reasons. Kaynes is electronics manufacturing — India's EMS market went from $10–12 bn in FY20 to $40–45 bn in FY25 and could exceed $150 bn by FY30 on the back of PLI, the ₹40,000 crore component scheme and import substitution. Paytm is a payments and lending platform in the world's largest real-time payment system (UPI: 24 bn transactions a month, +22%) whose regulator-inflicted crisis has passed. Indegene is a life-sciences commercialisation outsourcer riding the same $350 bn patent cliff as our pharma names — and its AI exposure is a tailwind, not a threat.

Datapoints the team can quote
  • Infosys FY27 guidance 1.5–3.0% CC growth (trimmed), margin 20–22%; Q1FY27 revenue $5,082 mn (+2.4% CC), large-deal TCV $3.6 bn, AI 8.2% of revenue — Company, Jul-2026
  • TCS AI revenue run-rate $2.6 bn with $9.5 bn AI order book; HCL annualised AI revenue $684 mn; Wipro guides −1.5% to +0.5% QoQ — Company releases, Q1FY27
  • India EMS market $40–45 bn (FY25) → >$150 bn by FY30; Electronics Component Manufacturing Scheme outlay raised to ₹40,000 cr in Budget FY27 — KPMG, Jun-2026; PIB
  • UPI: 24.51 bn transactions worth ₹29.82 lakh cr in Aug-2026 (+22%/+20% YoY); MDR on large merchants proposed in the 2026 tax amendment bill — NPCI; Business Standard
  • Pharma commercialisation services market $138 bn (2023) → $212 bn (2029); $350 bn of branded revenue faces patent expiry 2025–29 — IDBI Capital, Jul-2026
What we deliberately do not own

We do not own TCS, HCL Tech or Wipro because if we are going to hold a small tactical position in a sector with a capped upside we want the cheapest large franchise with the cleanest AI narrative — Infosys. Dixon (2.6–3% margins, PLI 1.0 expired, ROCE falling) is volume without value; Syrma and Amber are priced higher than Kaynes on trailing earnings with lower margins. PB Fintech is priced at 90x+ for an insurance-distribution model; Eternal is a quick-commerce cash-burn story we hold only in the AIFs. Persistent and Sagility lack Indegene's domain moat.

Market position

Market share (where tracked)

Software Testing Services Segment Market Share4 %as of Mar 18
Sector datapoints

From the one-pager

  • FY27 guidance: Infosys 1.5-3.0% CC (cut from 1.5-3.5%); Wipro guided Q2FY27 IT services revenue $2.574-2.627 bn (-1.2% QoQ in Q1); TCS gave no FY guidance; HCL grew INR revenue 14% in Q1FY27 with 16.9% margin.
  • AI deflation: Nifty IT fell 12.2% YTD by 12-Feb-2026 and >15% from the start of the sell-off (Rs 5.08 lakh cr wealth erased) after Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 / Claude Code launch raised fears of automated legacy modernisation…
  • AI monetisation: Infosys AI revenue 8.2% of total; TCS AI run-rate $2.6 bn with $9.5 bn AI order book; HCL $684 mn annualised (Q1FY27).
  • Sector valuation: TCS 15.2x, Infosys 14.2x, HCL 19.2x, Wipro 12.9x TTM P/E (screener, 8-Sep-2026) vs Infosys' 5-yr average of ~24x.