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Key numbers — 40 extracted
19.7%
20%
59.2%
41.2%
23.0%
40%
48%
20.6%
1.2%
27.7%
13%
15%
Guidance — 20 items
C O R P O R A T E P A R T I C I P A N T S
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“As we look ahead, our sustained momentum in FY 22, large deal wins, robust deal pipeline and client confidence in our capabilities give us comfort to provide a guidance of 13% to 15% for growth in FY23, in constant currency terms.”
C O R P O R A T E P A R T I C I P A N T S
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“We plan to expand the capabilities by scaling our cloud capabilities even further, expanding our digital work, expanding on our automation, increase relevance with large enterprises and the technology native companies and strengthen our employee value proposition.”
C O R P O R A T E P A R T I C I P A N T S
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“Our focus on staying ahead in the cloud and digital ecosystem, and the focus on employees, and some of the costs which are coming back after the COVID phase is behind us, result in operating margin guidance to be at 21% to 23% for FY23.”
C O R P O R A T E P A R T I C I P A N T S
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“4 Salil, you started FY22 with a guidance of 12% to 14% and finally ended with 19.7% growth for FY23.”
C O R P O R A T E P A R T I C I P A N T S
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“This year again you are starting with a guidance of 13% to 15%, is there conservatism built into it?”
C O R P O R A T E P A R T I C I P A N T S
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“And the macro environment is far more uncertain now, economists are bringing down their GDP forecast, do you see any impact on technology budget as your client face a squeeze?”
C O R P O R A T E P A R T I C I P A N T S
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“And for Nilanjan, what led to the sharp 200 bps margin decline in Q4, your guidance 21% to 23% is also lower than the 23% that you closed FY22 with.”
C O R P O R A T E P A R T I C I P A N T S
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“Based on what we have had in terms of large deals $9.5 bn in FY22, $2.3 bn in the fourth quarter, 40% of our large deals being net new, 48% in the fourth quarter and what we are seeing in our pipeline going ahead gives us good confidence that this is the guidance in which we start the year at 13% to 15%.”
C O R P O R A T E P A R T I C I P A N T S
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“Nilanjan Roy On the margin question first, on the quarter on quarter, I think we were clear at the beginning of the year, we gave a margin guidance band of 22% to 24% and we have ended up exact in the middle at 23.0%.”
C O R P O R A T E P A R T I C I P A N T S
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“We have taken a specific commercial contractual provision for a client which we expect to recover in the times ahead.”
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Risks & concerns — 10 flagged
And the macro environment is far more uncertain now, economists are bringing down their GDP forecast, do you see any impact on technology budget as your client face a squeeze?
— C O R P O R A T E P A R T I C I P A N T S
And for Nilanjan, what led to the sharp 200 bps margin decline in Q4, your guidance 21% to 23% is also lower than the 23% that you closed FY22 with.
— C O R P O R A T E P A R T I C I P A N T S
But overall, I think we have added 22,000 people in this quarter and this is looking ahead for the demand environment and some of that cost pressure stem in the quarter ahead.
— C O R P O R A T E P A R T I C I P A N T S
Our approach on Russia I just outlined, we are transitioning our work from Russia, and we have real concern for what is going on, on the ground and we are providing humanitarian support and help on that.
— C O R P O R A T E P A R T I C I P A N T S
Chandra Ranganathan Decision to cease operations in Russia came on the back of that controversy that is why I am asking you since she is part of the promoter family, is this a concern, has it been taken up at the Board level?
— C O R P O R A T E P A R T I C I P A N T S
Salil Parekh So, on the inflationary pressure I think what we see with clients and what we see in the environment all around, we see most industries are facing inflation in their own businesses and they appreciate and understand, that we also have wage increases and other aspects to our business that have been put in place, so yes there are discussions we are having more today with our clients, which relate to discussions on pricing.
— C O R P O R A T E P A R T I C I P A N T S
Salil, with Infosys ending the year was nearly 20%- dollar growth due to the FY21 base effect and with the kind of order book we close the year, what is the challenge to replicating a similar growth rate in FY23 and for Nilanjan the margin band maintained at 22% to 24%, what is the big challenge to the margin given cost pressures, what are the levers to ensure you are at the upper end of the band?
— C O R P O R A T E P A R T I C I P A N T S
We feel attrition is definitely something which we have seen a small decline from the previous quarter, and we will watch it to see how it plays out in the quarters ahead.
— C O R P O R A T E P A R T I C I P A N T S
What is the impact of Russia-Ukraine conflict on Europe business and do you see any reservations or step back on spends?
— C O R P O R A T E P A R T I C I P A N T S
Salil Parekh So, on the first point, the clients that we are working with, and we are interacting with in Europe today we do not see any impact of the situation between Ukraine and Russia directly with those clients.
— C O R P O R A T E P A R T I C I P A N T S
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Opening remarks
C O R P O R A T E P A R T I C I P A N T S
Salil Parekh Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director Nilanjan Roy Chief Financial Officer Rishi Basu (Emcee) Corporate Communications J O U R N A L I S T S Reema Tendulkar CNBC-TV18 Sai Ishwar The Economic Times Ayushman Baruah Mint Chandra Ranganathan Moneycontrol N R Sethuraman Reuters News Reshab Shaw Deccan Herald Uma Kannan The New Indian Express Anisha Jain ET Now 1 Harshada Sawant CNBC Awaaz Sajeet Manghat BloombergQuint Kushal Gupta Zee Business Shivani Shinde Business Standard Shilpa Phadnis The Times of India Swathi Moorthy Moneycontrol Surabhi Agarwal The Economic Times 2 Rishi Basu A very good evening, everyone and thank you for joining Infosys’ fourth quarter financial results. My name is Rishi and on behalf of Infosys I am delighted to welcome all of you at our campus today. All participants at this press conference are fully vaccinated and adhering to COVID-19 protocols. With that, let me invite our Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Salil Parekh, for his opening remarks.
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