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Press Conference Call January 14, 2026

CORPORATE PARTICIPANTS:

Salil Parekh Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director

Jayesh Sanghrajka Chief Financial Officer

Rishi Basu Associate Vice President and Global Head - Corporate Communications

ANALYSTS

Ritu Singh CNBC TV18

Mansee Dave ET Now

Shristi Achar The Economic Times

Chandra R. Srikanth Moneycontrol

Haripriya Suresh Reuters

Avik Das Business Standard

Sanjana B. The Hindu BusinessLine

Jas Bardia Mint

Poulomi Chatterjee Financial Express

Uma Kannan Deccan Herald

Padmini Dhruvaraj The New Indian Express

Rishi Basu

A very good evening, everyone, and wishing you all a very Happy New Year. Thank you for joining

us today. My name is Rishi. And on behalf of Infosys, I would like to welcome all of you. As always,

since this is the New Year, my rules do not really change, one question from each media house. We

try our best.

But with that, let me invite our Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Salil Parekh, for his opening remarks.

Over to you, Salil.

Salil Parekh

Thanks, Rishi. It is good to see that you are very consistent, and I am sure the media team is as well.

Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for being here. Warm wishes for the new year to all of you.

We have had a strong performance in Q3. Our revenue grew 0.6% sequentially and 1.7% year-on-

year in constant currency terms. Our large deals were at $4.8 bn, with 57% net new. This was across

26 deals.

Our adjusted operating margin was 21.2%. We generated free cash flow of $915 mn. One of the

most significant large deals we won was with the National Health Service in the U.K. This $1.6 bn

deal expands our work in the healthcare sector. We will help NHS leverage AI to streamline

operations and improve patient care for U.K. citizens.

We have deepened our Topaz AI capability with an agent services suite called Topaz Fabric. This

suite helps our clients manage and implement AI agents across the enterprise. We had strong

momentum in AI adoption across our client base. Today, we work with 90% of our largest 200 clients

to unlock value with AI. We are currently working on 4,600 AI projects. Our teams have generated

over 28 mn lines of code using AI. We have built over 500 agents. We are scaling our forward

deployed engineer team.

We are now witnessing six AI-led value pools emerging that could unlock a large incremental

opportunity. We also see productivity-led benefits that compress some legacy areas. The six large

AI-led value pools are:

- AI engineering services,

- Data for AI,

- Agents for operations,

- AI software development and legacy modernization,

- AI deployed in physical devices and

- AI trust and risk services

We believe we are uniquely positioned to capture market share across these value pools and emerge

as the leading AI value creator for global enterprises. We will share a comprehensive view of our

approach at an investor day later this quarter.

With a strong performance in this quarter, we have revised our revenue growth guidance for the

financial year. The new revenue growth guidance for this financial year is 3% to 3.5% growth in

constant currency. Our operating margin guidance for the financial year remains the same at 20%

to 22%.

With that, let us open it up for questions.

Rishi Basu

Thank you, Salil. We will now open the floor for questions. Joining Salil is Mr. Jayesh Sanghrajka,

Chief Financial Officer, Infosys. The first question is from Ritu Singh from CNBC TV18.

Ritu Singh

Hi. Thank you. Rishi, sorry, this is our only chance to speak with the management every quarter. So

we will have to exceed that one question limit. With that, Salil and Jayesh, to begin with, I wanted to

start with your headcount number. We have seen an increase of 13,246 over the last two quarters.

And this is interesting because it is coming at a time when your peer, TCS, is cutting 30,000 jobs.

How should we read into this? I mean, is this a real indicator of how you see the demand environment

improving?

And with that, I wanted to get to your guidance figure being raised to 3% to 3.5%. How much of that

upgrade is because of large deals like NHS being factored in? How much of the Versent acquisition,

which is yet to be completed as we understand, is baked into that number? And, last quarter, you

were telling us, for instance, there are segments like Retail that remain the weakest link, so where

are you seeing improvement that has led you to upgrade your guidance? That is one.

Also, sequentially, we have seen a bit of a marginal dip in your margins that is to 20.8%. This is at a

time when there are tailwinds emerging from the rupee depreciation. So if you could break down why

that has been the case? And while you continue to tell us about how you are uniquely placed to

exploit that AI opportunity, and the likes of HCLTech and TCS have been giving us concrete

numbers. Why does Infosys refrain from doing so? Thank you.

Salil Parekh

So let me start. On margin, Jayesh might have some points.

I think the first part, I missed a little bit, it was the headcount increase, right? Yes, so on the headcount

increase, I think it demonstrates that we have confidence in where the market is and what we are

seeing in terms of the demand. And that also feeds in, in a way to the second point you had in terms

of how are we raising the growth guidance.

So first, in terms of the growth guidance, we are just finishing the third quarter, so only one quarter

is left. We have had a lot of large deals in the previous few quarters. Plus we had a very strong

execution in this quarter.

You asked a little bit about the industries. We have seen, for example, in Financial services, and we

have seen in Energy, Utilities, Resources, Services, we see that the way the deals have come, the

way we have become AI partner of choice with our largest clients, we see a good outlook even as

we look into the next financial year. And that in part helped us to increase the guidance, which is

only for this financial year, which is ending in March.

Jayesh Sanghrajka

So first of all, very Happy New Year to all of you. Before I come to margin, I just wanted to also touch

upon the headcount part. If you recollect last year, we had called out that we are going to hire 20,000

freshers this year. We have onboarded roughly around 18,000 freshers, and we are well on our way

to finish our 20,000 number for this year, which, in a way, reflects in a headcount also because many

of them are under training. And if you look at our utilization, including trainees, has come down. So,

that is our investment into building capacity for future in a way. So that is on the headcount.

If you look at margins, we have expanded our margin this quarter by 20 basis points versus the last

quarter. We are now on a nine-month basis at 21% margin, which is midpoint of the guidance that

we have given. The puts and takes of 20 basis point expansion this quarter is 40 basis points came

from currency, 50 basis points came from the Project Maximus, mainly on account of value-based

selling and the lean & automation that we have done on multiple projects, offset by the furloughs and

lower working days that we had. We also accrued a higher variable pay compared to last quarter,

which was offset by some of the one-offs that we got. So that is the broad margin walk in a way.

But if you look at the nine months period margin, which is 21%, we have invested in our sales and

marketing, which has gone up by 50 basis points on a year-on-year basis. So that has been absorbed

in the margin. The lower utilization of almost 1% has been absorbed in our margin. So this margin is

after absorbing all of that, where on one side, we are building capacity for future, on the other side,

we are investing in sales and marketing, and we still had a stable margin plan.

Ritu Singh

Do you have an outlook for next year now that you are completing this 20,000 for the year? You have

had a lower attrition as well this quarter.

Jayesh Sanghrajka

We will have an outlook once we give our guidance for next year in April.

Ritu Singh

And also the wage hikes, what is planned for the year and what kind of impact that could have on

the margins from here on?

Jayesh Sanghrajka

So we just finished one cycle of our wage, which was in two parts in January and April. We have not

yet decided on the next part yet. We will decide on that as we progress.

Salil Parekh

On AI, I think one of the points I shared, and we have a lot of that sort of information was with our

largest 200 clients, with over 90% of them, we are doing AI work. What we are doing in AI is unique

AI services with clients. And also, we have reshaped all of our existing services, leveraging AI in. For

example, we are using agents in several of our service lines to help enhance either growth or

productivity. So that is what we are sharing in terms of what our impact is.

Rishi Basu

Thank you, Ritu. The next question is from Mansee Dave from ET Now.

Mansee Dave

Good afternoon, Salil and Jayesh. This is Mansee Dave from ET Now, ET Now Swadesh. My

question is on demand visibility, tech spending and AI adoption. Now looking at the constant currency

growth scenarios and commentary around fewer billing days and deal timing, how are clients thinking

about calendar year 2026 tech spending, especially discretionary versus transformational-led

programs? And at the same time, pace of enterprise AI adoption as well as tech spending outlook

are amongst the key monitorables which we were looking towards. How does the scenario look like?

And how are the pricing models evolving according to you?

Salil Parekh

So I will start with that, maybe a little bit on the pricing, Jayesh might have some views.

On the demand, we see good demand outlook, we have had strong large deals. Our large deals

pipeline remains healthy. And we are seeing in the two industries that I mentioned, on Financial

services, on Energy Resources, Utility, Services, a way that our work on AI is going and the way the

deals have shaped up, we see a good outlook as we look even beyond this financial year into the

next financial year.

On Financial services, specifically, we see discretionary spend and good traction in what we are

seeing across the market. Having said that, overall, we want to still see all of the other industries and

segments start to show that. But these two are definitely something that we are seeing today.

Jayesh Sanghrajka

And on the pricing, I think as the newer and newer technology evolve, every time there is a change

like that, you see a new pricing model evolving as well. We are seeing multiple new pricing models

evolving. Some of them are being led by us, whether it is outcome-based pricing or whether it is

pricing, which is specific to agents, etc. So a little early in my mind in terms of calling out specifically

what are the pricing models going to evolve on this. But everybody is testing new pricing models at

this point in time.

Rishi Basu

Thank you. The next question is from Shristi Achar from The Economic Times.

Shristi Achar

Hi. Happy New Year to all of you. So a couple of quick questions on, one, I wanted to know on the

sharp decline in operating margins that we are seeing. So I want to know if the impact is beyond the

labor code charges that the company has taken.

And I also wanted to know, there has also been a sequential decline in your revenue contribution

from your top 5 and top 10 clients. So can you give us a sense of why that is happening? And what

the next couple of quarters look like on that?

On the third, sorry, this is the last one. So, I also wanted to know on the whole H-1B row that is going

on. So, this morning also, we saw some claims of employees being deported on the same as well.

So I wanted to just know what is going on around that.

Salil Parekh

You want to start on the labor code?

Jayesh Sanghrajka

Yes, so if you look at the margins, if you are looking at reported margins, yes, the reported margins

were impacted because of labor code. But if you look at the adjusted margins, as we have called it

out also, the adjusted margins have actually expanded. If you exclude the impact of labor codes,

adjusted margins have expanded by 20 basis points sequentially. And on a full year basis, it has

remained 21%, which is similar to our last year margin.

And that, as I said earlier, that was after absorbing the investment that we have done in sales and

marketing, which would have impacted margins by 50 basis points, after absorbing the impact of

lower utilization, which is building capacity for future. So after absorbing both of that, we have been

able to maintain margins. You had a second question?

Rishi Basu

Client contribution.

Jayesh Sanghrajka

Yes. Client contribution. I think sequentially, client contribution is not a way to see in my mind

because there is a seasonality involved. Every Q3, you typically have furloughs, etc., which would

have impacted certain specific clients and larger the clients, larger will be the impact of furloughs if

there is one in that account. Typically, you will see that year-on-year, and we do not really see a

significant change in the year-on-year client metrics.

Salil Parekh

On your last question, I just want to read out, no Infosys employee has been apprehended by any

U.S. authority. A few months ago, one of our employees was denied entry into the U.S. and was sent

back to India.

Rishi Basu

Thank you. The next question is from Chandra Srikanth from Moneycontrol.

Chandra Srikanth

Hi, Salil. Just a follow-on to that, so this employee who was not allowed and sent back, are you

contesting that in any form? Secondly, one of the big trends this quarter we have seen is a big

acquisition from Coforge, where they acquired Encora for $2.35 bn; TCS has acquired Coastal Cloud

for $700 mn. So, can we expect more action on the M&A front? Are there assets that are attractive,

if you can take us through your M&A strategy? Thank you.

Salil Parekh

On M&A, as we have looked at over the last few quarters, we have done acquisitions on cyber, on

consulting and energy services. And we will continue with that sort of an approach. We have a good

pipeline of possible companies that we are looking at and discussions. We have strong support in

terms of our balance sheet. So, we will continue with that. It is not something that is different in that

sense from what we were doing in the past. We have a set of areas we are also looking in

geographies which are new we are looking at expanding in some service areas where we can go

deeper. So that will continue on.

Chandra Srikanth

On the ICE, any other details that you can share?

Salil Parekh

That is what I have to share.

Chandra Srikanth

Okay. Jayesh, sorry, just one thing on the labor code. So, according to your fact sheet, Infosys has

incurred `1,289 crores on account of labor codes. So, has the full impact been absorbed? Or will it

sort of be staggered? How will that work?

Jayesh Sanghrajka

So, whatever is to be accrued till this quarter end has been accrued in the books. Labor code has

impact across multiple aspects, whether it is gratuity, whether it is other aspects of wage, and that

has been accrued. There will be an ongoing impact of roughly around 15 basis points. That will

happen on an annual basis. That is a regular impact of the labor code as we go ahead.

Rishi Basu

Thanks, Chandra. The next question is from Haripriya Suresh from Reuters News.

Haripriya Suresh

Good evening. A few questions. One, on the H-1B front, will you be looking at making new

applications? Or is it primarily just hiring in the U.S. and the employees that you have already? In

Retail, is there specific softness because of how America is right now? And when do you sort of see

that recovery? And third is, Salil, your term for a CEO ends in March 2027. That is the five-year term.

What is succession plan? Has that started? And what is that looking like? Thank you.

Salil Parekh

On the first one, on H-1 and what the recruiting is. So, our approach is very clear. We have, as we

have shared in the past, majority of our employees in the U.S. who are not requiring any visa, we

are continuing with our deployments and our delivery using a mix of what we have work in the U.S.

and work in India. So, no changes to that approach. At this stage, we are continuing with our process

because there is an existing set. We will examine it as it comes up in the future.

On Retail, what we are seeing is there are some places where we see positives, there are some

places where we see different client situations, which are under some cost containment for that

subvertical within that. So, we are waiting and we are pushing to make sure that the Retail pipeline,

which is growing, becomes converted into what we drive into the Retail growth.

On my own situation, no comment.

Haripriya Suresh

Like overall as a company.

Salil Parekh

Yes. No comment from my side.

Rishi Basu

Thank you, Haripriya. The next question is from Avik Das from The Business Standard.

Avik Das

Thank you. Quick questions. One, a little bit more on the BFSI commentary because what we

understand that Financial services, BFSI, overall has been improving in the North American

geography. So which sectors or which sub-segments within that sector is actually growing, if you can

just throw some more light, Salil?

And North America seems to have de-grown in a constant currency basis. Any reason? Was it a

client specific? Or was it any sector specific? Maybe Retail that pulled it down, if you can just throw

some more light?

And Jayesh, there seems to be that idea that new large deals will be smaller or maybe far and few

to come by as more AI-led deals sort of take the center stage. Keeping that in consideration, how do

you think the margins are going to play out across the industry and for you in specific in the long run?

Thank you.

Salil Parekh

So, I will start off on Financial services, we see a good traction across most of the subverticals we

have within Financial services, we are seeing good traction with retail banks. We are seeing good

traction with what are considered mid-market banks. We are seeing good traction on payments. We

are seeing good traction in the mortgage area. So overall, pretty strong. Some are stronger, some

are less strong. But overall, we see a good demand environment. There is good adoption of AI across

the spectrum with our large financial services clients. We recently announced, for example, a

partnership with Cognition, which is very strong, and we are working with them jointly in some of the

financial services companies.

On North America, nothing very specific. It is a mix of different industries and different plays. The

overall situation on Energy, Utilities, on Financial services remains strong, on some of our other

verticals remains something that is coming back over time, but not yet.

Avik Das

On the third on the margin?

Jayesh Sanghrajka

Yes. On the large deals, if you look at the deals that we have signed, we have signed $4.8 bn this

quarter if you look at it even on a nine-month basis, compared to the last year, our deals, large deal

signings have gone up. So, while there is always a productivity ask that goes up because of AI, etc.,

there is also a lot of deals that are getting structured because of cost optimization, cost takeout, etc.,

from the client side. So, a lot is getting bundled when you look at it.

And on the margin side, large deals always have slightly lower margin than the company average.

But as a portfolio, you always make up on a margin because the new work that comes up, comes

up at a better margin, etc., so that is a trend that we have seen. We have not seen a change in the

trend from that perspective.

Rishi Basu

Thank you, Avik. The next question is from Sanjana from The Hindu BusinessLine.

Sanjana B.

Hi. Good evening, gentlemen. So Manufacturing and Europe they have grown significantly for Infosys

this quarter. Both of these were previously seeing some softness. So can you expand on what were

some factors contributing to this growth? And also, I think the tech budgets for the calendar year

2026 are expected to be rolled out soon. Based on client conversations, what are you hearing? Is

there any sign of uptick in discretionary spending?

And also, the guidance was raised upwards despite seasonalities and uncertainties. Any reasons for

this? And the last question, regarding the collaboration with Cognition, which is an AI startup, what

were the gaps in your AI portfolio that you were looking to bridge with this particular collaboration?

How is this contributing to your whole AI momentum? Thank you.

Salil Parekh

So starting on Manufacturing and Europe. Firstly, I think Europe has been in a good position for us

for many quarters. And actually, even Manufacturing has had a strong activity across the board, we

have seen good traction. There are pieces within the Manufacturing client base, which are benefiting

massively from the AI growth. For example, we work with companies that provide power solutions.

We work with companies that provide manufacturing into those solutions that provide engine

capacity, that provide generating capacity. So there is a lot of those pieces which are doing well,

those client industry components, which are doing well and where our team is really active on that.

We have also got some good traction within Manufacturing on the engineering part of the work,

engineering services part of the work.

Rishi Basu

Guided tech budgets for 2026. Discretionary spend.

Salil Parekh

On the discretionary spend overall. So first, on Financial services, we are definitely seeing that what

we shared earlier. We are seeing a good set of deals which have happened, and then we see that

with the AI traction we have in that industry, the next financial year, we will have better outcomes

than this financial year on that, and Financial services, is going well this year.

Similarly, on Energy and Utilities, we are seeing a good set of deals that have come together across

the whole industry vertical, and that is helping us with that momentum. So, those are the ones we

are seeing.

On the others, we are not seeing any deterioration, so which is one sign. And we see overall, the

macro environment seems to be where people are expecting maybe some interest rate cuts. So we

will see if that happens, especially in the U.S. And then some of the other expansions we are doing,

for example, we have a program where we are working with some of our smaller sets of clients, and

those are growing pretty well. So overall, we feel that as we look out into the next year, these are

things that support our growth.

Then on AI itself, we are seeing what I shared earlier in these six areas, where we see a potential

good growth over the next several years, not just in the next year, and as we start to execute on that,

that will help us.

Rishi Basu

Cognition.

Salil Parekh

On Cognition, so it is not so much a gap. So what the Cognition people are doing is they have built

an agent which is working to do software development. And we are working with our clients as a

partner with them, where we are building agent capacity, and we are enabling those agents to work

in a client environment.

So, the advantage is that we have a detailed understanding of how the client technology landscape

is set up and we have a good understanding of what are the industry constraints or opportunities

are. And that, combined with the software agent with Cognition, becomes a very powerful

combination in many clients. So, that is something that will expand quite nicely.

Rishi Basu

Thank you. The next question is from Jas Bardia from The Mint.

Jas Bardia

Good evening, sir. Just two-pronged questions. In what segments and for what clients will you all be

using these AI software engineers? And how will this impact delivery? How will this impact billing?

And more importantly, how will it impact future hiring? That is FY-'27 onwards, considering you are

using a lot of these AI software engineers to work in client projects actively.

Salil Parekh

So, what we see there first, where will it be used? My sense is as I have interacted with our clients

and with some of these partner companies, the usage is going to be across essentially every

industry, every client over time. So, it is a function of what is the client landscape and what it is that

they want to achieve.

My sense is there are, for example, in those six that I described earlier, there are places where the

economics have changed completely from a client perspective. If you take legacy modernization,

here, if you use software agents, plus our expertise, plus our knowledge, the whole economics from

a client perspective becomes much better, and that allows a lot of these projects, which were not

happening before to start happening.

So, it is not the case of something which was being done, which is now being done differently, that

will also happen. But this is more a case of something which was not being done, which will now

start to happen. So in that light, we will continue to hire. As Jayesh mentioned earlier, we will

announce as we do in April, our plan for next year, we are going to hire on campus. We know that.

And this year till today, we have done 18,000. We will do 20,000 campus hires and we will continue

in that sort of a range for next year because these are new areas of demand. And so it is incremental

to what we are doing. And we will have our people working and these software agents, which makes

the overall economics for the client much better.

Jas Bardia

The billing?

Salil Parekh

The value that we create will drive the billing. So, lot of these things will be based on the traditional

ways, as Jayesh was saying on billing. And a lot over time, will change as the AI market itself

develops. So today, there is not any immediate change. But over time, we will see that.

Rishi Basu

Thank you, Jas. The next question is from Poulomi Chatterjee from The Financial Express.

Poulomi Chatterjee

Good evening. So, I wanted to ask, recently, we have seen across Indian IT, there has been a slew

of like AI-related acquisitions. So, what is your approach with regards to that? And also IT companies

are now competitively hiring specialized AI talent among freshers who are getting paid significantly

more. So, what does the talent pool look like? And what are you looking at when you are hiring these

set of people?

Salil Parekh

So, in terms of acquisitions, in the landscape, there are not so many AI services companies today

that we see. What we do see are companies where we are partnering, which are really AI, whether

they build agents or models or foundational tools, which exists, and those are the ones we are

partnering with. We will look in an acquisition approach to AI as they start to appear as larger AI

services companies. And we have some that we are looking at, which is part of our overall

acquisition, meaning there are other things in the acquisition as well.

In terms of the compensation, I think Infosys has always been a leader in making sure that we put

new constructs in regard to our employees and the new people we recruit. What we have now done

with the most recent approach and launch is put together an approach for very good software

engineers who will work in AI and who will have that level of expertise to be specialized engineers

within our structure and with different and higher or much higher compensation levels.

So, in the AI world, there will be different types of people working jointly with AI agents with different

levels of training. And we want to make sure that we remain in the leading position in that recruitment

environment. And with that, what we have launched for specialized engineers, that is the approach

we have put in place.

Rishi Basu

Thank you, Poulomi. The next question is from Uma Kannan from Deccan Herald.

Uma Kannan

Good evening, gentlemen. So last year, you announced AI-first GCC model. So, I want to understand

how it is shaping up? And a follow-up question on partnership. This month alone, you have

announced a couple of partnerships. Going forward, will there be more AI-native collaboration?

And one more question. Some of your peers have made it mandatory to stay at the office for six

hours. So, do you have any plans when it comes to office hours' requirement or will you continue the

present hybrid flexible model? Thank you.

Salil Parekh

So, on the GCC, we have, as you mentioned, launched the AI-specific approach. We have a lot of

client activity in that. We have some clients we are already working on that. There are several others

which are in the pipeline for large AI-specific capability building in GCC. So beyond regular GCC

work that we are doing, and that is going pretty well at this stage.

In terms of partnerships, we will have a number of different partnerships because there are several

companies, smaller companies, but with great capability on AI on the foundation model, on coding,

on agent development, on customer service. So, we will continue with that because those are the

areas which our clients are most interested in, and we will continue. We are already working with

those companies, but we will have these sort of strategic announcements as well. And the third one?

Rishi Basu

Work from home.

Salil Parekh

Work from home. No, we are not making any change to our approach. We will remain flexible in the

way we are today and the way that our employees are interacting with the company and with our

clients.

Rishi Basu

Thank you, Uma. The next question is from Padmini Dhruvaraj from The New Indian Express.

Padmini Dhruvaraj

Hi. Good evening. Sorry if these questions have been already asked. So one is, going forward, do

you see labor code having an impact on profit margins? And do you see this having an impact on

your appraisals going forward? And the U.S. government plans to cap the credit card limit, interest

limit at 10%. So do you see this also having an impact?

Salil Parekh

So let me start with the second one, Labor code, Jayesh mentioned, I can also mention on the

appraisal. On the U.S. credit card, what you mentioned, that is something that the U.S. banking

system will look at and how they have to implement it. What we do with our clients, with the large

banks is help them as they have to go through different regulatory changes. And if that requires our

help and support, we will continue to do that. On the margin impact, Jayesh mentioned the number

and on the appraisals, there will be no change in our appraisal approach.

Jayesh Sanghrajka

Yes. So on the labor code, whatever is the impact till December end is already taken in our financial

statement. That is a one-time impact because the regulation has changed, and there is an impact

for the number of years that employees would have served for us, etc. So that impact has already

been taken in the financial statements. There will also be an ongoing impact because of the wage

code that has changed, and that will be taken as and when we go through that. That is approximately

15 basis points on an annual basis.

Rishi Basu

Thank you, Padmini. Thank you. With that, we come to the end of this press conference. We thank

our friends from media. Thank you, Salil, and thank you, Jayesh.

Before we conclude, please note that the archived webcast of this press conference will be available

on the Infosys website and on our YouTube channel later today. Thank you very much, and please

join us for high tea outside.

Infosys Limited

Q3 FY'26 Earnings Conference Call January 14, 2026

CORPORATE PARTICIPANTS:

Salil Parekh Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director

Jayesh Sanghrajka Chief Financial Officer

Sandeep Mahindroo Financial Controller and Head - Investor Relations

ANALYSTS

Ankur Rudra JPMorgan

Bryan Bergin TD Cowen

Ashwin Mehta Ambit Capital

Abhishek Pathak Motilal Oswal

Jonathan Lee Guggenheim Securities

Vibhor Singhal Nuvama Equities

Keith Bachman BMO Capital Markets

Gaurav Rateria Morgan Stanley

Sandeep Shah Equirus Securities

Jamie Friedman Susquehanna International Group

Dipesh Mehta Emkay Global

Moderator

Ladies and gentlemen, good day, and welcome to Infosys Limited Q3 FY'26 Earnings Conference

Call. As a reminder, all participant lines will be in the listen-only mode, and there will be an opportunity

for you to ask questions after the presentation concludes. Should you need assistance during this

conference call, please signal an operator by pressing star, then zero on your touch-tone phone.

Please note that this conference is being recorded.

I now hand the conference over to Mr. Sandeep Mahindroo. Thank you, and over to you, Mr.

Mahindroo.

Sandeep Mahindroo

Hello everyone, and welcome to Infosys earnings call for Q3 FY'26. Let me start by wishing all of you

a very Happy New Year. Joining us on this call is CEO and MD, Mr. Salil Parekh, CFO, Mr. Jayesh

Sanghrajka, along with other members of the leadership team. We will start the call with some

remarks on the performance of the company, subsequent to which the call will be opened up for

questions.

Please note that anything we say that refers to our future outlook is a forward-looking statement that

must be read in conjunction with the risks that the company faces. A complete statement and

explanation of these risks is available in our filings with the SEC, which can be found on

www.sec.gov.

I would now like to pass on the call to Salil.

Salil Parekh

Thanks, Sandeep. Good evening and good morning to everyone on the call. Thank you for joining

us. Warm wishes to you for the new year.

We had a strong performance in Q3. Our revenues grew 0.6% sequentially and 1.7% year-on-year

in constant currency terms. Our large deals were at $4.8 bn with 57% net new. This was across 26

deals. Our adjusted operating margin was 21.2%. We generated free cash flow of $915 mn.

One of the most significant large deals we won was with the National Health Service in the U.K. This

$1.6 bn deal expands our work in the Healthcare sector. We will help NHS leverage AI to streamline

operations and improve patient care for U.K. citizens. We have deepened our Topaz AI capability

with an agent services suite called Topaz Fabric. This suite helps our clients manage and implement

AI agents across the enterprise.

We are expanding our strategic partnerships with AI companies. We recently announced a

partnership with Cognition. Here, we will combine Cognition's Devin software agent with Infosys'

knowledge of the client landscape and industry expertise. We are already working with them across

clients.

Industry analysts recognize Infosys for its leadership in AI. In financial year 2026, we were

recognized as a leader across 12 ratings. We had strong momentum in AI adoption across our client

base. Today, we work with 90% of our 200 largest clients to unlock value with AI. We are currently

working on 4,600 AI projects. Our teams have generated over 28 mn lines of code using AI. We have

built over 500 agents. We are scaling our forward deployed engineer team.

Our clients are turning to us as trusted partners to drive value realization from AI investments. Some

of the areas they focus on are fragmented data, legacy application landscape and business

workflows that are not conducive for AI. We bring together a deep understanding of clients'

technology landscape, strong data engineering and process reimagination capabilities to help them

capture value at scale from AI.

We aspire to make AI work for clients delivering business outcomes for cost, revenue growth and

innovation. We are witnessing six AI-led value pools emerging that could unlock a large incremental

opportunity for us. We also see productivity-led benefits that compress some legacy areas.

The six value pools of opportunity in AI services we see are,

- AI engineering services,

- Data for AI,

- Agents for operations,

- AI software development and legacy modernization,

- AI and physical devices and

- AI trust and risk services

We believe we are uniquely positioned to capture market share across these value pools and emerge

as the leading AI value creator for global enterprises. We will share a comprehensive view on our

approach at an Investor Day later this quarter.

In Financial services, we see good traction in large deals and discretionary projects. In Financial

services and in Energy, Utilities, Resources and Services verticals, we expect acceleration in

financial year 2027 over financial year 2026. This is based on good deal wins and AI preferred partner

status with 15 of our largest 25 clients in each of these verticals.

With the strong performance in this quarter, we have revised our revenue guidance for the financial

year. The new revenue growth guidance for this financial year is 3% to 3.5% growth in constant

currency. Our operating margin guidance for the financial year remains the same at 20% to 22%.

With that, let me hand it over to Jayesh for his update.

Jayesh Sanghrajka

Thank you, Salil. Good morning, good evening, everyone, and thank you for joining the call today.

First of all, a very Happy New Year to all of you.

Coming to the quarter, our Q3 performance demonstrates continued momentum we saw in the last

two quarters, underscoring resilience of our business model, relevance of our offerings and our

disciplined execution.

We had another quarter of growth, despite seasonal weakness and reduction in third party costs.

The results for Q3 FY'26 include a charge associated with change in labor codes in India, which had

an impact on operating profit, net profit, EPS and free cash flow for the quarter. Reference to the

adjusted numbers exclude the impact from the same.

Revenue for Q3 was $5.1 bn, up 0.6% sequentially and 1.7% year-on-year basis in constant currency

terms. Operating margins including the impact of change in labor codes stands at 18.4%, adjusting

for the same, it is at 21.2%.

Key highlights of the quarter are as follows:

1. We achieved strong revenue growth despite seasonality and lower third-party costs. Third-party

as a percentage of revenue reduced by 0.3% sequentially and approximately 2.4% on a year-

on-year basis.

2. With three strong quarters of performance, our revenue growth in 9 months stood at 2.8%, which

is at the higher end of our earlier guided range. This is despite the lower third party, which has

reduced by approximately 1% compared to the same period last year and now stands at 7.3%.

3. Momentum in Financial Services continues with 3.9% year-on-year growth in constant currency

terms.

4. Among geos, Europe continued to lead the growth by 7.2% year-on-year in constant currency

terms.

5. Volumes continue to remain soft for the quarter and the year.

6. On a 9-month basis, RPP increased, reflecting continued momentum of value-based selling and

productivity increases that we have achieved.

7. Adjusted operating margins increased by 20 basis points sequentially to 21.2%.

8. We continue our investments in sales and marketing, which has increased by double digits this

year to date and impacting margins by approximately 50 basis points

9. Utilization, excluding trainees was down by 1% sequentially at 84.1% and including trainees, was

down by 2.2% to 80% as we continue to create capacity for future growth opportunities.

10. Our adjusted margins for 9 months are at 21% at midpoint of guidance after absorbing

accelerated investment in sales and marketing as well as lower utilization.

11. On-site mix further reduced by 10 basis points in Q3 and by 70 basis points in 9 months FY'26.

12. Investment in talent continues. Net headcount increased by 5,000 to 337,000 employees. LTM

attrition declined by 2% sequentially and 1.4% on a year-on-year basis, reflecting both market

conditions and our focus on employee retention and upskilling.

13. Large deal TCV was robust at $4.8 bn in Q3 with 57% net new. Total large deal TCV for 9 months

stood at $11.7 bn, exceeding the total large deal TCV of full year FY'25. Net new deal TCV for 9

months was up by 40% as compared to the same period last year. Large deal pipeline continues

to be healthy.

14. Our razor-sharp focus aided by the deployment of AI agents on our order to receivable cycle has

resulted in decline of 5 days in DSO, including net unbilled to 82 days sequentially.

15. Driven by strong collections, free cash flow generation adjusted for labor codes remained robust

at $965 mn, which is 113% of adjusted net profit. Adjusted free cash flow conversion for 9 months

stood at 118%.

16. Adjusted EPS in rupee terms for 9 months FY'26 grew at double digits at 11.5%.

17. During the quarter, we successfully completed our largest ever buyback, returning INR18,000

crores to our shareholders, which will help EPS accretion. We also paid out interim dividend for

FY'26 in line with our capital allocation policy.

Adjusted operating margins for Q3 expanded by 20 basis points to 21.2% sequentially. Major

components of changes are as below:

Tailwinds of

- 40 basis points from currency movement,

- 40 basis points from Maximus comprising primarily of value-based selling, critical portfolios and

lean & automation,

offset by

- 70 basis point impact from furloughs and lower working days.

The impact of higher variable pay was partly offset by one-off benefits during the quarter.

Consolidated cash and investments were at $3.9 bn at the end of the quarter after returning $3 bn

to the shareholders in the form of dividend and buyback.

Yield on cash balance was at 6.19% and ROE stood at 32.8%.

We signed 26 large deals during the quarter, including two mega deals. This includes 10 in Financial

services, 4 in Retail, 3 each in Life Sciences and Manufacturing, 2 each in Communication, EURS

and Hi-tech. Region-wise, we signed 16 deals in America, 9 in Europe and 1 in Rest of World.

Coming to verticals.

We see continued momentum in Financial services with approximately 5% growth in last 9 months,

led by large deal wins and uptick in discretionary spends across sub-verticals like banking, payments,

mortgages, along with asset and wealth management. There is elevated interest in AI-led

transformation, platform modernization and vendor consolidation. We are seeing a shift from

compliance to business growth. Significant core transformation across all FS sub-vertical is creating

strong long-term strategic pipeline, providing good IP platform partner opportunities. We are now a

preferred AI partner for top 15 out of 25 banking clients. Uptick in discretionary spend in

aforementioned sub-verticals and deal wins in recent quarters positions us favorably for better growth

in FY'27.

Manufacturing vertical is also impacted by tariff uncertainties, which is preventing clients from

committing to long-term investments. Discretionary spend is under pressure and decision-making is

slow. Industrial and Aero are doing well, but Auto sector remains challenged. Clients are prioritizing

cost discipline, consolidation and efficiency, and we are supporting them through digital

rationalizations and AI-led productivity initiatives. Overall pipeline remains healthy and focus on cost

takeouts, infra consolidation and ERP modernization.

EURS companies are increasingly allocating budgets towards AI infrastructure, data readiness,

cloud and software platforms. There is demand for setting up GCCs across sectors with most clients

looking at SIs to complement their GCC strategy. We are a preferred AI partner for top 15 out of top

25 clients. We are seeing an increase in discretionary demand in Utilities and Energy, which should

lead to growth acceleration in FY'27. Utility sector is witnessing increase in demand driven by

massive investments in infra and AI data centers. While discretionary demand in energy sector is

focused on decarbonization and low-carbon solutions, there is also focus on cost optimization and

consolidation due to enterprise AI adoption.

Retail and CPG clients continue to experience uncertainty due to the ongoing tariff negotiations and

evolving geopolitical equations. Clients are prioritizing cost takeouts and AI-led productivity deals

while discretionary spends remains soft apart from SAP, DNA, testing and AI augmented services.

We continue to leverage Topaz and our AI Next platform to deliver measurable business value with

robust guardrails around privacy, governance and augmenting customer and employee experiences.

Communication sector continues to be impacted by geopolitical uncertainty. However, our deal wins

in prior quarters are helping us driving growth acceleration year-on-year over last few quarters.

Telcos are prioritizing AI automation and transformation productivity increases, while traditionally IT

remains under pressure. Clients are increasingly seeking partnerships with SIs for scaling and

innovation within complex ecosystems. Focus is on outcome-based engagement models rather than

traditional effort-based pricing model. Our stellar execution in a seasonally weak quarter is a clear

reflection of our ability to navigate the uncertain environment effectively.

Strong year-to-date performance and robust deal wins have enabled us to revise our revenue

guidance for FY'26 upward to 3% to 3.5%. This does not include any revenues from the joint venture

with Telstra as we still await the regulatory approvals. Our operating margin guidance remains at

20% to 22%.

With that, we can open up for the questions.

Moderator

Thank you very much. We will now begin the question-and-answer session. The first question is from

the line of Ankur Rudra from JP Morgan. Please go ahead.

Ankur Rudra

Hi. Thank you, and Happy New Year to you too. Good to see a nice print here. Just first couple of

questions on the revenue and the demand side. You know, the signs have been quite strong for the

last couple of quarters. And momentum has been quite strong as well.

I am just curious why the outlook, the implied outlook for fourth quarter cannot be stronger than it is.

And secondly, I just want to confirm that your comment is for a growth acceleration in FY '27 for the

overall business and not for a segment alone?

And are you seeing any signs of short-cycle projects or discretionary spending expanding beyond

financial services and energy also, especially when you think about FY '27? Thank you.

Salil Parekh

So first, on what we are seeing in terms of the momentum and the deals, all of that has led to the

increase in the guidance keeping in mind the overall picture. So Jayesh mentioned a little bit about

financial services, about energy, utilities, the overall deals.

And then if you look at some of our other sectors, we are still seeing those sectors starting to come

up, but not at that level. So, keeping all of that in mind, we have increased the guidance for what we

see in Q4.

On the numbers for next year – so, what we have shared today is in the two verticals, Energy, Utilities,

Resources and Services, and in Financial services, we see that the growth on financial year '27 to

'26 will be good. And that is because of the deals we have won large and other deals and the AI

where we have partners with 15 of our large 25 clients.

So those two things especially are giving us that view. We are not making a comment on the overall

business. We are not saying anything on the overall at this stage.

Ankur Rudra

Appreciate that. Thank you so much.

Jayesh Sanghrajka

Ankur, if I can just add to what Salil was saying on guidance and your question on why Q4 guidance

cannot be elevated more. You should also remember that there is a lower working day / calendar

day impact in this quarter, which is usually seasonally there. So, that is also a headwind from the

guidance perspective.

Ankur Rudra

Appreciate it. Just a question for you, Jayesh, as well on the margin side. Margins appear to be down

20 basis points if I adjust the gains from the property sale this time. Could you highlight if you are

seeing any kind of pricing pressure? And also, how do you see the puts and takes going forward?

Also, given a lot more disclosure on the AI side, which is appreciated, I am curious if AI is a headwind

or a tailwind on your margins when you do these 4,600 AI projects.

Jayesh Sanghrajka

Yes. So you are right, there was a benefit that we got this quarter, and I did call that out that benefit

was largely offset by the higher variable pay that we also provided in the financial statements this

quarter. So that is the put and take of the margin.

On the pricing, if you look at our consistent pricing commentary has been that our pricing is accretive.

We have seen consistently our pricing going up on back of various factors, including AI, including

Project Maximus. New gen pricing is part of the Project Maximus, which includes how do you price

these new AI projects, etc.,. So, we do not really see an impact or a headwind coming because of

the AI projects on pricing, especially.

Ankur Rudra

Understood. Thank you and best of luck.

Moderator

Thank you. Next question is from the line of Bryan from TD Cowen. Please go ahead.

Bryan Bergin

Hi, good evening. Thank you. I wanted to ask on North America. So just your comment on your view

going forward here, at least in the coming quarters, you see it just dipped down to a contraction of

minus 1% on a year-on-year basis. Was that due to any particular industries? And just how do you

see that progressing here as you go through March and beyond?

Jayesh Sanghrajka

Yes so, this is what we had called out at the beginning of the year when we provided our original

guidance that looking at the deals in the pipeline, looking at the projects that we have and the projects

or large deals that were under execution.

We expected this year, the third-party cost and therefore, the third-party revenue to be lower than

the last year. It is across segments. Of course, the impact of it by segment could vary, but the impact

is across segments.

Bryan Bergin

Okay understood. And then just as it relates to the commentary on budgets going forward, can you

just comment on the conversations you are having with enterprises now as it relates to their calendar

'26 budgets. As you think about this right now versus this time last year, any key changes worth

noting?

Salil Parekh

I think what we see now is, first, the comment that we made earlier on Energy, Utilities vertical and

Financial services. In Financial services, we also see discretionary work that is more prevalent. And

then we see much more activity on AI. And in the AI area, what we are starting to identify as the six

value pools areas where we can drive faster growth. We are seeing traction on that.

And with some of the partnerships we have announced and some others that we are already working

with companies on, we see good momentum. So, those are the two things that we are seeing. Some

of the discretionary in FS, good momentum in those two Energy Utilities and Financial services. And

then in AI, more activity, which is different from this time of last year.

Bryan Bergin

Thank you.

Moderator

Thank you. Next question is from the line of Ashwin Mehta from Ambit Capital. Please go ahead.

Ashwin Mehta

Yes, hi. So just one question in terms of healthcare. It seems to have done pretty well this quarter,

almost $44 mn of incremental revenues, which is nearly double of our overall incremental revenues.

So, what is the driver of the healthcare growth? And secondly, was there any contribution from the

NHS deal in this quarter?

Jayesh Sanghrajka

Yes, Ashwin, healthcare did benefit from the contribution from the NHS deal that we signed.

Ashwin Mehta

And we expect residual contribution as you get into the next quarter or this is kind of scaled up?

Jayesh Sanghrajka

Ashwin, we do not provide deal by deal revenue estimates per se, right? But yes, healthcare did

benefit from the NHS.

Ashwin Mehta

Fair. And the second question is in terms of wage hikes. I missed the initial comments, but any

decision in terms of the wage hikes? And are they expected in 4Q?

Jayesh Sanghrajka

So on the wage hike, whenever we decide that we have always considered multiple factors; when

was the last wage hike was done, what are the market scenarios, the inflation, etc. If you look at this

calendar, we have already rolled out wage hikes in two stages, effective - one part was effective

January, the other one was effective April, like we always do. So, we have not decided the next cycle

yet.

Ashwin Mehta

Okay. Fair enough. Thanks a lot, and all the best.

Moderator

Thank you. Next question is from the line of Abhishek Pathak from Motilal Oswal. Please go ahead.

Abhishek Pathak

Hi, team, congrats on a good quarter. So, a couple of questions. Firstly, do you think this is the year

when clients kind of move from the AI strategy being good to have to something of a necessity, right,

which means that, is this a year when foundational AI work starts getting taken seriously across

verticals? That is the first one.

And secondly, on the Cognition deal, being a very interesting sort of partnership. Very curious to

know how you are pricing this, how you are taking it to clients? I mean, is Devin kind of initially

leading to a bit of cannibalization in revenues? And how are those contracts structured? And over

the next 1 to 2 years, how do you expect a typical deal with, let us say, an agent like Devin and

yourself sort of structured? So those are two questions.

Salil Parekh

So, on the first one, what we are seeing is there is more and more interest in AI work across different

industries. So, we will continue to see that going through the year. We will now watch and see

because every quarter so far and especially in Q3, we have seen that interest, our pipeline, the

number of projects, our penetration of our large 200 clients with AI work, all of that is going up, and

it is across those different verticals.

There is much more activity there, which we called out in financial services, but we also see that in

Telco, we see that in pharma, healthcare, we see that in Energy, Utilities. We see a little bit in Life

sciences. So, it is not like only one sector. But yes, in FS, it is quite a bit more.

On Cognition, the way that works is basically the Devin software agent and our work, we are doing

joint work in clients already today. So, what tends to happen is there are certain sets of activity. For

example, we see some things on legacy modernization where in the past, that was a large long

commitment for clients. With this combination between a software agent and Infosys and our

knowledge of the client landscape and of the industry - things become much more addressable.

And so those newer areas, those are the six value pools that I referenced earlier. This is one of them.

Those are the new areas that start to come into play. And in this particular case with Devin, that is

one example. There are others where that agent can be used in different places. And that is the type

of growth we are seeing because that is new work that would ordinarily not have been done at all,

but now can be attempted in a combination.

Abhishek Pathak

Got it. Thanks, and all the best.

Moderator

Thank you very much. Next question is from the line of Jonathan Lee from Guggenheim Securities.

Please go ahead.

Jonathan Lee

Great. Happy New Year and thanks for taking my questions. Can you speak to the level of visibility

and certainty you have in your implied fiscal 4Q revenue growth relative to the visibility you have had

in prior years around this time?

Jayesh Sanghrajka

Hi, Jonathan, this is Jayesh here. I mean, whenever we have looked at the guidance, we do take

into account multiple factors, the deals that we have signed, the deals that are ramping up and the

usual factors affecting the quarter like calendar days, working days, etc. So, I think that is what has

gone into guidance this time as well. What I can tell you is at the lower end we have baked in a

higher amount of uncertainty. And at the higher end, we have baked in a better macro environment

Jonathan Lee

That is good color. Thank you. And a follow-up, can you help us reconcile what you are seeing

around subcontractor usage in the quarter versus the downtick in utilization you are seeing? Is there

a skill gap that you might be facing and how should we think about that dynamic going forward?

Jayesh Sanghrajka

Yes, so subcon historically, you are right, is always a factor of where the skill gaps are, where the

skills that you need depending on the geography, depending on the tenure of the requirement, etc.

And that is how the subcon uptick or downtick happens in the market in our scenario and that is what

has happened this quarter as well. There are some of the large deals, there are some of the deals

which would have started ramping up and we needed to dip into the subcontractors to fulfill those

requirements, which is what is reflected in the uptick.

Jonathan Lee

Appreciate that. Thank you.

Moderator

Thank you very much. Next question is from the line of Vibhor Singhal from Nuvama. Please go

ahead.

Vibhor Singhal

Hi, thanks for taking my question and congrats on a solid performance. Salil, my question was on

two key verticals, Manufacturing and the Hi-Tech division. So Manufacturing, just wanted to pick your

brains on how are you seeing the traction in this vertical, given the kind of headwinds the Auto

companies are seeing globally in terms of their EV rollouts and the competition. How are different

parts of the Manufacturing vertical looking like at this point of time and do you expect the momentum

to pick up in that?

On the Hi-Tech vertical, just again I think we saw a sharp drop in this quarter, might have been due

to seasonality of furloughs, but anything that you are looking at? This vertical has been around $370

mn, $380 mn kind of run rate for us for quite a while now. What are you looking at in this vertical in

terms of next drivers of growth and are we seeing any momentum building up in this in the near

future?

Salil Parekh

On Manufacturing, as you mentioned, there is weakness in automotive and in some parts of industrial

across Europe. We see some strength in some elements in Manufacturing and this is partially in

U.S., partially in Europe, is supplying capability, which is coming for the build-out of the data centers

and so on. So, there are some of those companies which are benefiting from that.

But, the automotive side, as you mentioned, we see that continuing to be weak. We are focused on

expanding our base there. So, we are looking at that and have successfully worked now with multiple

automotive companies. We also see that going beyond automotive in the broader manufacturing,

which is supplying capabilities to the boom in AI and data center activity, not the services, is what is

going to help us in Manufacturing.

On Hi-Tech, similarly, there is groups of companies which are strong, there are groups which need

more attention and we have a portfolio of those companies. Overall, there is still cost pressure in Hi-

Tech and we will push. There is a lot of productivity activity that is going on there where clients are

looking for productivity benefits.

And they are also looking some of them for where they will get their growth into. Again, some of the

companies which are supplying servers, etc., we are seeing those are doing pretty well with the AI

boom. The others are looking for where are the growth elements that are going to come and we are

supporting that work. And Hi-Tech also at this stage, we see some constraints in that industry.

Vibhor Singhal

But just to further on that. Do you see this vertical maybe picking up for us, not in immediate term,

but let us say, in the medium to long term, given that the widespread adoption of AI should be and

some of these companies should be at the forefront of that. Do you think this vertical could be a good

growth driver for us maybe sometime down the line?

Salil Parekh

So, I think in the medium term or longer, my sense is Hi-Tech is a good industry. We are very

comfortable to be in it, as you pointed out. With different ways of AI impacting it across different value

pools, they will also go through those changes.

But we have to make sure that we are providing them the services that they are looking for and in a

way that they have a lot of cost pressures today that becomes manageable in their cost structure.

There is no timeline in my mind. But yes, in the medium term or beyond, Hi-Tech is a good industry

for us.

Vibhor Singhal

Got it.. Just one last question for Jayesh. Jayesh, as this quarter we took this exceptional item on

the labor law impact. I would assume that the entire impact that we had to take has been taken. And

from next quarter, there would not be any exceptional item anymore. And what would be the recurring

impact of this new labor laws on our P&L in terms of margins?

Jayesh Sanghrajka

Yes. So, whatever is known at this point in time on back of the regulation that has changed is being

taken this quarter. We do not expect, unless, of course, there are changes in the regulation, we do

not expect any further impact going forward as one-off. The recurring impact of this would be 15

basis points on an ongoing basis approximately.

Vibhor Singhal

Got it, got it. Great, that is it. Thank you so much for taking my question and wish you all the best.

Moderator

Thank you very much. Next question is from the line of Keith Bachman from BMO Capital. Please

go ahead.

Keith Bachman

Yes. Thank you very much. Could you speak on how you anticipate revenue per employee changing

over the next couple of years and the spirit of the question is driven by trying to better understand

how you see Infosys in the industry. One of the core value propositions has been managing people

and growing in terms of managing agents instead of managing people?

Jayesh Sanghrajka

Yes. So, Keith, it is similar to what we have seen in any other technology wave. If you are ahead of

the curve, you will see an increase in your productivity because of the premium that you can keep

with you. If you are behind the curve, then you probably will see a dip. The only measurement that

would change here is the premium is measured now in terms of productivity. So, if you are delivering

better productivity, you would be able to keep some of that with you, which will get reflected in better

pricing.

If you are behind the curve in delivering the productivity, you would see a dip in pricing. So that is

how you will see in a traditional environment, the only change I would say is the pricing models per

se are also changing and emerging. There are newer and newer pricing models emerging, how do

you price agents, how do you price the underlying platform, etc. But early days to say at this point in

time, how will that reflect in terms of linearity or non-linearity.

Keith Bachman

Okay. And the second one is more micro - there's been some recent press reports about your

relationship with Daimler in terms of maybe that moving away. Could you speak on anything you

could comment on Daimler and/or is the Q4 guidance reflecting any attrition in contracts, large

contracts?

Or should we be thinking about if we look over the horizon into FY'27, should we be considering any

major attrition from any major contracts? And that's it for me. Thank you.

Jayesh Sanghrajka

Yes. So Keith, our current contracts are valid till December end, till December '26. So, we don't really

see any contracts within that expiring at this point in time. Beyond that, we don't really give a color

on a client-specific or a project-specific details.

Keith Bachman

Okay. All right. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Next question is from the line of Gaurav Rateria from Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead.

Gaurav Rateria

Yes, hi. My question is on the deal renewal cycle. Your comment did allude to significant productivity

benefit on the legacy services. So anything that you could share from what you have seen on the

renewals of your larger deals, specifically using some of the AI tools? What has been the learning

there? Has there been some amount of leakage, which has been higher than usual?

Salil Parekh

So, on the large deals, we are typically seeing, whether it's renewals or also deals which we are

winning from other companies where we are beneficiaries of consolidation. Typically, across the

Board, there is a large expectation from clients on AI productivity benefits.

What we have done is we have modeled in what we are seeing today and built a path to that because

these are typically three-five year deals. But we are also not in a position where sometimes the client

expectations over five years are very different.

So, we have what we are seeing and there we can view what that sort of a benefit is that we can

provide because these are multiyear deals.

In fact, we are winning large deals quite a lot. If you look at the numbers in the three quarters, we

have done more than the full year of the previous year. And Q3 was already $4.8 bn. We've seen

some net new deals, for example, NHS.

So yes, there is that productivity. But yes, we are also benefiting from consolidation and winning

things across the Board, where my sense is we are gaining on the market share side.

Gaurav Rateria

Got it. My next question on your visibility for CY '26, fair to say that looks better than the last year

because last year, you entered into the year where you had a big decline in the fourth quarter

because of some specific issues. And this year, your guidance alludes to kind of a much better fourth

quarter outlook.

So your exit rate is much better than the last year. Does it mean that it gives you a little bit of a

tailwind when you get into the FY'27 compared to last year when you got into FY'26? Thank you.

Salil Parekh

I think the way you have described it, you have done the maths on that one because what we can

see is, our guidance for the full year, we have the range, which gives us a good traction on Q4 with

a lot of the good deals that have come and what we saw in Q3. Then, we are seeing the discretionary

coming back in Financial services. Then we are seeing Energy, Utilities and Financial services

looking better in the next financial year than this financial year. And then we are seeing in AI services,

the six value pools where we see a good growth opportunity. So all in all, that gives us a good, let

us say, good view of next year.

Gaurav Rateria

Thank you, Salil.

Moderator

Thank you very much. Next question is from the line of Sandeep Shah from Equirus Securities.

Please go ahead.

Sandeep Shah

Yes. Thanks for the opportunity and congrats on a good set of numbers. Salil, first question, are you

witnessing the average size of AI-led deals going up materially on a Y-o-Y basis across sectors?

And just a follow-up, if answer to this is being yes, one can see clients are now in a state of mind

where they do not fear in terms of modernization of legacy applications. And if that is true, can it lead

to a better discretionary spend on that side of the services in CY '26 versus last year?

Salil Parekh

On the AI part, so there are two things. One is there are, like, deals which are only AI. One is where

AI is pervasive in every service we are offering. So, it is difficult, therefore, to say the size of the deal.

But in general, the usage of AI is much more across all our services. And the actual, only AI, if you

can call it like that, deals are also going better. So that is what is happening.

I think on that modernization, if I understood, yes, we are seeing that across the Board because AI

can open up that and make it a little bit more efficient for the client and therefore, they will have a

better return on that. And then will the discretionary come after that? That one, we do not know,

meaning it depends on the industry situation also for that.

Like what we see right now is in Financial services, we are seeing it. But the other industries, we will

see how they play out as each one we have given some color. That will be different for different

industries is what we think.

Sandeep Shah

Okay. And just a follow-up to this. Is there a traction in terms of number of deals below $50 mn has

now started increasing and this could be a trend to continue rather than volatile trend earlier? And

just two questions to Jayesh.

Is it fair to assume third-party items as their cost line, as a percentage to revenue for this year, which

we guided at the start of the year, may be stable here on or may further decline beyond FY'26. And

Jayesh, this INR165 crores profit on property, plant and equipment, will it be a headwind in the fourth

quarter?

Salil Parekh

Let me start on the first piece. Typically, below that $50 mn, we are not sharing because only the

large deals data we are sharing externally. The only comment we can share is, overall, our wins are

looking good. And also, we are doing work with smaller accounts, which is not to comment on the

overall $50 mn below deal, but on smaller accounts, there we are also seeing some good growth.

And then Jayesh, on the other parts?

Jayesh Sanghrajka

Yes. So, Sandeep, this is Jayesh here. If you look at the third-party deals this year, beginning of the

year, we had said we expect the third-party cost to be lower than the previous year on back of the

deals that we signed in last year that were getting ramped up, the deals that we saw in the pipeline.

So that is a combination that we need to look out for when we guide for that. We do not have all the

details at this point in time for the next year. We will get into next year, and we will let you know on

that at that point in time. So that was one. You had a second question on the INR165 crores. I did

not get the exact question on that, if you could repeat.

Sandeep Shah

Yes. What I meant is these kind of a line item may not reoccur every quarter. So is it fair to assume

35, 36 bps, which has been a benefit in this quarter could be a headwind in next quarter?

Jayesh Sanghrajka

Yes. So there are always some one-offs, right, that you get some headwinds, some tailwinds.

Sometimes, it is in revenue line item, sometimes it is a cost line item for a company of this size. So

that is always there. As I talked about in my margin walk also, this was largely or more than offset

by the increase in variable pay as well.

Sandeep Shah

Okay. Thanks and all the best.

Moderator

Thank you very much. Next question is from the line of Jamie Friedman from Susquehanna

International. Please go ahead.

Jamie Friedman

Hi. Good evening. I had two questions. I will just ask them upfront. Salil, it is great to see the

improvement in discretionary and financial services. I was wondering if you have any comment as

to whether you are seeing that or anticipating that expand into other verticals. And you mentioned

Energy and Resources.

And then my second question is, in terms of your thinking about the journey between AI and

agentification, it seems like your thinking has evolved more towards the agentification. I imagine you

will address this at the Analyst Day, but if you could describe how you are thinking about the

productization of your AI initiatives relative to those two dimensions. So first, AI and then

agentification? Thank you very much.

Salil Parekh

So, on the first, I think on Financial services, we are absolutely seeing that, which we shared. On

Energy Utilities, because of the deals and the fact that we are in the top 15 of 25 clients doing AI

work, we see clearly next financial year will be growth over this financial year. We are looking in

other places as that discretionary will start to come back. And as it does, we will absolutely share

that.

We do feel that overall, from what we see on AI, what we see with possibilities on the economic

growth, GDP growth and so on in the U.S. that those signs will give the clients the ability to spend

on tech. But as we see it, we will share that for sure on the other industries.

On AI, so first, agents are very much in a big play today. So, we are absolutely on the forefront of

that. So, what we have built within Topaz is fabric, Topaz Fabric, as we call it, is a set of purpose-

built agents, which work with many different native AI companies interfaces and can support a lot of

different functions within clients, horizontal and vertical. So that suite is going to be our agent suite.

Then there are agents of the other companies, which we will integrate, implement, expand, make it

work because we know the tech landscape of a client, and we know the industry depth. So there, we

feel quite good that we are in a better position than many people to put that.

In terms of productization, we have built four small language models. In our own product suite, in

Finacle, we will be much more AI orientated. But we are not at today's stage planning to do large-

scale foundational model work. We are going to do small language model work. We will do other

things. For example, there are a set of AI wrappers or orchestration modules that we can build, which

will enable clients to switch between foundation models, switch between agents, do a selection of

agents, so that is a different type of product platform, which is all in Topaz.

So that is the way we are thinking about it today. We may, in the future, have something more, but

that is like the current view.

Moderator

Sir, the line for the participant dropped. We move to the next participant. Next question is from the

line of Dipesh Mehta from Emkay Global. Please go ahead.

Dipesh Mehta

Yes. Thanks for the opportunity. Two questions. First about the six areas of AI services pool, which

you referred to. Can you provide some sense about the potential growth opportunities? And where,

let us say, Infosys is currently and how you expect it to evolve in maybe next three to five years?

Maybe if you can share some participation metrics, where we are and how you expect it to evolve?

Second question is on the CY '26 budget. If you can provide some early indication on how you expect

it to shape up? Thank you.

Salil Parekh

So on the first one, what we are thinking is in that six areas, today, we are starting to do work in

many of those areas. But what we want to do is in our Investor Day, go into a little bit more depth.

For example, we will share, like in several industries, what we are doing in some of the areas. We

will share like we have AI labs on campus, and we want to do a little walk through to show like

actually the work that is going on. And we will also share like the scale of what we think that

opportunity is and the possible growth dynamics in that. So, that is our planning for that Investor Day.

And the second one, what did you ask?

Dipesh Mehta

CY '26 budget.

Salil Parekh

So, that we will come to it in the April time frame, when we finish the year. We are now in the process

of working on that. We will share that in that April call.

Dipesh Mehta

Okay. Thanks.

Moderator

Thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, we will take that as the last question. I will now hand

the conference over to the management for closing comments.

Salil Parekh

Okay. Thank you, everyone for joining and for such a detailed and insightful set of questions. I just

want to leave a few comments. We have had a strong quarter, good large deals, increase in our

guidance. Our nine-month margin sits at 21%. We have actually done that after absorbing a very

strong increase in our sales cost of 50 basis points and with some lower utilization, which we are

building capacity for the future. We also see a huge shift on AI, which we shared in some of the six

areas plus some of the partnerships.

We start to see discretionary coming back in Financial services. And in Energy, Utilities and Financial

services, we start to see that next year looking better than this year. So overall, we feel good as we

go into the fourth quarter with our increase in guidance. Thank you, everyone, and catch you at the

next quarterly call.

Moderator

Thank you very much. Thank you, members of the management. Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf

of Infosys Limited, that concludes this conference. Thank you all for joining us, and you may now

disconnect your lines. Thank you.

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