Infosys Limited
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Management on call
We Continue To Gain Market Share With Our Cobalt Cloud Capabilities And The Differentiated
Digital Value Proposition For Our Clients. Growth Continues To Be Broad
based across business
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5.5%
21.4%
25%
18.4%
33.2%
61%
37.5%
20%
50%
24.3%
84.7%
13%
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Guidance — 20 items
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“Additionally, we expect normalization of costs like travel and other overheads.”
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“Whilst we retain our operating margin guidance of 21% to 23%, we expect to be at the bottom end of the range.”
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“The revenue guidance for the year has been revised to 14% to 16% from 13% to 15% earlier.”
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“So in that sense we are quite confident and that is why we have talked about 21% to 23% range and we will be at the bottom end of the range.”
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“So you cannot just have higher freshers and expect them to start contributing from day 1.”
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“But we think this is something which is going to stand up in good stead in terms of attrition and we have seen three quarters of the attrition benefits and expect it to continue.”
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“The second is in terms of salary increases is it only for the associate level this quarter and if so then the question is that we have 145,000 associates JL3 and below and 130,000 people in the mid level and general understanding is mid level obviously as a percentage of the employee cost it should be higher so the thought process was about should not your margin impact be even higher next quarter - if you could just help with that thought process that will be very helpful?”
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“And the way I would look at it is with all of that given our pipeline we have increased our revenue guidance.”
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“On the guidance for growth, as we have shared in the past, the approach we take is we see how things are as we look at the financial year today.”
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“Based on that, we felt comfortable to increase the revenue growth guidance, whether it is conservative or realistic that is the approach we take to make sure that we then share what we think the revenue is going to look like from here.”
Risks & concerns — 14 flagged
Clients are monitoring the emerging macro situation and the impact of that on their business.
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But, like I said discounts have come down as we have started negotiating with our clients in terms of pricing but that is the net impact of all these.
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So if you just think about this 360 basis point decline, how much of that is really investment which you think can be recouped as we go forward from here?
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We have seen less impact of discounts, etc., we are going back to clients in terms of COLA adjustments at the time of renewals.
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So, it is quite complicated if you have a different utilization in onsite, different in offshore and then the impact of the freshers in the pyramid in that utilization.
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At the end of the fourth quarter, and not just Infosys but across the industry what the management commentary had indicated compared to that the margin performance appears to be a sharper decline.
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You have seen these numbers of decline pretty much across industries.
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So it appears the supply side pressure was higher than what we were earlier expecting.
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Increase for middle to higher level to senior force will happen in July but not the same margin impact of quarter one which was very broad based.
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What is the risk to that hypothesis because this growth margin paradox seem to be a mere reflection of what is happening in U.S.
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So what is the risk that margins will remain structurally lower than even the pre-COVID levels going ahead because demand tends to be more cyclical while some of these supply costs tend to be more sticky?
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Typically, this is a number which is a little bit more volatile because we only report deals which are larger than $50 million in our large deals and so that is really the way you can look at.
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What is the impact of attrition, how much wage hikes will come in, new hires - it is very dynamic, how the pricing plays out.
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My sense is we have seen examples that Nilanjan was sharing earlier where we are working, we have worked with clients to demonstrate to them the impact of compensation increases and that has translated to COLA or price benefits.
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Opening remarks
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We signed 19 large deals in Q1 with a TCV of $1.69 bn. This comprises of the 50% net new. We have signed 5 large deals in retail and CPG, 4 in Hi-Tech, 3 each in financial services and energy utility resources and services and 2 each in manufacturing and communications verticals. Region-wise 15 were in Americas and 2 each in Europe and RoW. In Financial Services clients continue to focus on digital customer experience, contact center transformation and virtual branches aimed at improving customer engagement. While the order pipeline remains strong across regions, we are seeing some slowness in mortgage industry and lending business due to increased interest rates. We remain watchful of impacts of emerging global developments on budget for clients. 7 In the retail segment the pace of Digital transformation large-scale cost breakouts and improving business resilience continues to be on the rise across various subsegments. Our focus on proactive engagement has helped us in creating a robu
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