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Dec 19 (Reuters) - Tech Mahindra Ltd TEML.NS:

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BENGALURU, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Indian IT firms Infosys INFY.NS, Wipro WIPR.NS and LTIMindtree LTIM.NS beat estimates for quarterly revenue on Thursday and pointed to improving demand in the back half of the year as clients show more willingness to fund AI projects.

Their upbeat results follow a strong showing by market leader Tata Consultancy Services > last week and bode well for the $283 billion sector, which has struggled in the past few quarters as customers cut discretionary spending amid tariff-related uncertainty.

"We are benefiting from consolidation plays on automation and on using AI for efficiency. That's the big focus that we see from our clients across industries," Infosys CEO Salil Parekh said on a conference call, noting there was a "huge" opportunity in the enterprise AI space.

Buzz around artificial intelligence is prompting more companies to consider funding projects tied to the technology to improve efficiency and drive automation, potentially opening up a major revenue stream for Indian IT firms.

Infosys, which topped analyst estimates for profit and revenue in the second quarter, sees full-year revenue growth of 2-3%, compared with its prior view of 1-3%.

Jefferies analysts said the forecast was achievable due to its "strong" deal bookings.

Smaller peer Wipro, which expects its revenue to range between a 0.5% decline and a 1.5% rise for the third quarter, is also gaining from clients warming up to AI projects.

"New demand that's picking up is AI," Wipro CEO Srini Pallia said. "Clients want to move away from proof of concepts to implementing AI and agentic AI across business processes and workflows."

RISING TIDE LIFTS ALL BOATS

Analysts viewed the quarter as a signal that the IT sector had put the worst behind it.

"The results highlight a stabilizing IT sector gradually regaining traction amid shifting client priorities toward AI and digital acceleration," StoxBox analyst Sagar Shetty said.

Anand Rathi's Sushovon Nayak confirmed that most of the IT firms, which had reported results, had shown "green shoots."

The sector has particularly gained from a recovery in spending by financial services firms.

Infosys and LTIMindtree beat second-quarter revenue estimates, driven by strength in the banking segment.
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BENGALURU, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Indian software services exporter Tech Mahindra TEML.NS reported better-than-expected second-quarter revenue on Tuesday, aided by strength in its banking and manufacturing verticals despite U.S. tariff-related uncertainty and mounting risks from a tightening U.S. visa regime.

Consolidated sales for the September quarter rose 5.1% on-year to 139.95 billion Indian rupees ($1.58 billion), beating analysts' average estimate of 137.20 billion rupees, according to data compiled by LSEG.

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By Sai Ishwarbharath B and Haripriya Suresh

BENGALURU, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Indian outsourcing giant Tata Consultancy Services' TCS.NS decision to cut over 12,000 jobs signals the start of a broader AI-fueled trend that could end up eliminating around half a million jobs over the next two to three years from the $283 billion sector, experts said.

While TCS pegged the move to shed 2% of its workforce to skill mismatches rather than AI-related productivity gains, experts viewed the largest-ever layoffs by India's top private employer as the beginning of things to come in the labour-intensive sector. Roughly 12,200 TCS middle and senior management jobs will be lost.

The industry, which has played a crucial role in creating a middle class in India, is increasingly seeing AI being used for everything from basic coding to manual testing and customer support.

The sector employed 5.67 million people as of March 2025 and accounted for over 7% of India's GDP. It has a huge multiplier effect due to the direct and indirect jobs it creates and the cars-to-homes consumption it drives in the world's fifth-largest economy.

It has historically absorbed a majority of India's engineers but that will change as rising AI use ekes out more efficiencies and demands newer skills that many current employees lack, according to half a dozen industry veterans, analysts, and staffing firms.

"We are in the midst of a massive transition that will transform white-collar work as we know it," said Silicon Valley-based Constellation Research founder and chairman Ray Wang, echoing other experts who warned that more layoffs are likely on the cards.

The most vulnerable employees include pure people managers with minimal tech knowledge, those in charge of testing or identifying bugs and ensuring user-friendliness before delivering software to clients, and infrastructure management staff who provide basic tech support and ensure networks and servers are working well, experts said.

"About 400,000 to 500,000 professionals are at risk of being laid off over the next two to three years as their skills don't match client demands," tech market intelligence firm UnearthInsight's founder Gaurav Vasu said, adding that about 70% of those layoffs would impact workers with 4-12 years' experience.

"This (fear stemming from TCS layoffs) may hurt consumer demand for tourism, luxury shopping and even delay long-term investments such as real estate," Vasu said.

TCS and its peers Infosys INFY.NS, HCLTech HCLT.NS, Tech Mahindra TEML.NS, Wipro WIPR.NS, LTIMindtree LTIM.NS, and Cognizant CTSH.O collectively employ over 430,000 workers with 13 to 25 years of experience, according to staffing firm Xpheno.

"At the moment, they may appear like the big fat middle layer," Xpheno's co-founder Kamal Karanth said. None of the IT firms responded to Reuters queries seeking comment.

"With cost optimization being the key driver for new deal wins, clients are asking for productivity benefits - a trend which is also growing due to the rise in AI adoption. This requires IT firms to do more work with the same number of employees or the same work with fewer employees," Jefferies analyst Akshat Agarwal said in a research note.

ADAPT OR PERISH

TCS, which had more than 613,000 workers before the layoffs, said in its late July announcement it was gearing up to be "future-ready" by investing in new technologies, entering new markets, deploying AI at scale for its clients and itself, and realigning its workforce model. It did not answer Reuters queries on how many layoffs were tied to AI adoption and why it could not redeploy the affected employees.

"This is very devastating news," said a 45-year-old, Kolkata-based TCS employee affected by the latest layoffs. "It is very difficult for people my age to get new jobs."

Some others who are still at TCS fretted over its mediocre performance bonuses for senior employees in recent quarters, a new "bench policy" that limits the time somebody could be without a project regardless of personal circumstances or past performance, on-boarding delays, and the emotional turmoil caused by the layoffs.

"All these developments have tanked the morale of mid-career folks like me," a Pune-based TCS employee said.

The Indian outsourcing sector has been a key employment engine since the 1990s, offering upward mobility to millions of engineers. But revenue growth has weakened recently as its clients, stung by inflation and U.S. tariff uncertainty, defer discretionary spending and demand better cost management.

"The tech industry is at an inflection point, as AI and automation move to the very core of how businesses operate," industry body Nasscom said.

During past tech revolutions, disruption was felt at the organisational level.

"With AI, for the first time, the onus is on the individual to reinvent or re-skill themselves," former Tech Mahindra CEO CP Gurnani said.

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BENGALURU, July 23 (Reuters) - India's Infosys INFY.NS narrowed its forecast for the current fiscal year on Wednesday, after posting bigger-than-expected first-quarter revenue on a boost from Europe market.

The Bengaluru-based firm changed its annual forecast to 1%-3% from the flat-to-up-3% range announced in the previous quarter.

Analysts were largely expecting the firm to lift the bottom end of the range to 1%.

The company's consolidated sales rose 7.5% year-on-year to 422.79 billion rupees ($4.89 billion) in the June quarter.

Analysts, on average, expected 418.06 billion rupees, as per data compiled by LSEG.

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** India's fifth-largest IT services firm by revenue, Tech Mahindra TEML.NS, drops 1.5% to 1,583.4 rupees in pre-open trade

** Co marginally missed first-quarter revenue estimates as sales in its Americas market posted steepest decline in nearly five years

** At least 11 brokerages out of 41 covering the stock reduced rating on the stock, while 10 cut price targets - data compiled by LSEG

** Mohit Joshi, CEO at Tech Mahindra said the market is very, very volatile and added that the company is seeing a continued slowdown in the auto and manufacturing products

** Stock down ~7% so far in 2025

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BENGALURU, July 16 (Reuters) - India's Tech Mahindra TEML.NS reported a marginally lower-than-expected first-quarter revenue on Wednesday as clients tightened non-essential spending amid tariff-related uncertainty.

Consolidated sales at India's fifth largest IT services firm by revenue rose 2.7% year-on-year to 133.51 billion rupees ($1.55 billion) in the June quarter.

Analysts, on average, expected 133.83 billion rupees, as per data compiled by LSEG.

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• TECH MAHINDRA AND PININFARINA SIGN 6 MILLION EURO FINANCING AGREEMENT

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HYDERABAD, April 24 (Reuters) - Indian software services exporter Tech Mahindra TEML.NS reported a smaller-than-expected fourth-quarter revenue on Thursday as weakness in communications and hi-tech verticals continued to drag the company's revenues.

Consolidated revenue rose 4% to 133.84 billion rupees ($1.57 billion) year-on-year in the quarter ended March 31. Analysts, on average, expected revenue to come in at 134.52 billion rupees, as per data compiled by LSEG.

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April 24 (Reuters) - Tech Mahindra Ltd TEML.NS:

• TECH MAHINDRA UNVEILS 'AI DELIVERED RIGHT': A COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY TO HELP ENTERPRISES SCALE AI WITH PURPOSE AND PRECISION

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By Haripriya Suresh

BENGALURU, April 4 (Reuters) - India's $283-billion IT sector should brace for a rough year ahead as tariffs are likely to stoke inflation in its key U.S. market and force clients to cut spending, analysts said.

Although President Donald Trump did not impose direct tariffs on IT services, Indian firms are expected to feel the heat as clients, especially in manufacturing, logistics and retail sectors, adjust to the new levies.

That could slow deal cycles, delay existing projects and hurt revenue growth, analysts said. Bernstein and ICICI Securities rushed to cut their ratings on the Indian IT sector soon after the tariff announcement.

The tariffs come at a time the sector was counting on Trump to revive client confidence and discretionary spending after years of weak revenue growth.

The U.S. accounts for more than half of India's $190 billion software exports, making the sector sensitive to shifts in spending confidence among businesses in the world's largest economy. J.P.Morgan on Friday lifted global and U.S. recession odds to 60% after Trump's tariff announcement.

"With a rising risk of U.S. recession and uncertain decision-making, we think chances of fiscal 2026 being a complete washout are rising," J.P. Morgan said in a note on Friday, without giving specific numbers.

At least six analysts expect Indian IT firms to issue a "conservative" annual revenue growth forecast when quarterly results start next week.

Companies with a greater exposure to discretionary spending are expected to bear the brunt of any tariff-fueled slowdown.

"Discretionary IT spend will likely see an impact across the industry verticals. Companies to get impacted will typically be the high-growth companies in the large caps and some of the mid-caps where the exposure usually is much higher on the discretionary side," BNP Paribas analyst Kumar Rakesh said.

He added the impact of a potential slowdown could be apparent by the September quarter.

India's Nifty IT index .NIFTYIT fell 3.6% on Friday to take its losses for the week to 9.15%, the steepest weekly fall for the index in more than five years.

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• TECH MAHINDRA AND SERVICENOW PARTNER TO DELIVER NEXT-GEN BROADBAND SOLUTIONS FOR COMMUNICATION SERVICE PROVIDERS

  
  

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** Shares of Tech Mahindra TEML.NS rise 2% to 1,423.45 rupees apiece

** TEML is the top percentage gainer in IT index .NIFTYIT which is up 0.5%

** J.P.Morgan upgrades TEML to "neutral" from "underweight", citing likely margin expansion in an environment of subdued growth

** J.P. Morgan says macro uncertainty in the U.S. will weigh on March quarter earnings in the sector

** Brokerage downgrades HCLTech HCLT.NS to "neutral" from "overweight", citing likely weak March quarter results, soft deal wins

** HCLT shares down 0.7% on the day

** TEML shares are down 18.2% in 2025 so far, HCLT sheds 20% compared to Nifty IT's 16.5% drop

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Feb 28 (Reuters) - Tech Mahindra Ltd TEML.NS:

• TECH MAHINDRA LTD - APPROVES MERGER OF COMVIVA USA WITH COMVIVA AMERICAS

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Feb 18 (Reuters) - Tech Mahindra Ltd TEML.NS:

• APPROVES MERGER OF WHOLLY-OWNED SUBSIDIARIES

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By Manvi Pant

Jan 20 (Reuters) - Wipro's shares WIPR.NS surged about 8% on Monday, set for their best day in nearly four years, after India's No. 4 IT services company joined its peers in signaling a revival in demand.

The company beat third-quarter profit estimates on Friday and forecast revenue in the current quarter could increase sequentially by up to 1%, compared with no growth last quarter, with CEO Srinivas Pallia saying, "We see discretionary spending slowly coming back" after macroeconomic challenges in 2024.

"The guidance is an improvement from the previous quarter, while the deal bookings, that include small- to mid-sized deals, indicate some revival in discretionary tech spending," said Piyush Pandey, an analyst at Centrum Broking.

Wipro's shares were also among the top percentage gainers on the benchmark Nifty 50 .NSEI index, which was trading flat. At least eight brokerages raised their rating on Wipro's stock, while 16 raised their price targets, as per LSEG data.

The company's forecast of a more promising 2025 echoed the view of larger peers TCS TCS.NS, Infosys INFY.NS and HCLTech HCLT.NS after the $254 billion IT services sector's growth was strangled for several quarters by clients reining in spending due to macroeconomic uncertainties and inflationary pressures.

Wipro's 11% increase in latest-quarter revenue from the BFSI (banking, financial services and insurance) segment, which accounts for about a third of total revenue, shows a pick up in discretionary spending, Jefferies analysts said in a note.

Asian Market Securities' analysts said Wipro's operating margin spiking to a three-year high of 17.5% was much faster than they anticipated and driven by rigour in deal execution.

Wipro expects revenue could range between a drop of 1% and an increase of 1% sequentially in the current quarter.

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Jan 17 (Reuters) -

• TECH MAHINDRA EXEC: FOCUSSED ON IMPROVING GROWTH CAPABILITIES

• TECH MAHINDRA EXEC: REVENUE MIX TO MEET FY27 GROWTH TARGET

• TECH MAHINDRA EXEC: STEEP CURRENCY MOVEMENTS IMPACTED REPORTED NUMBERS IN QUARTER

• TECH MAHINDRA EXEC: DESPITE CHALLENGES IN AUTOMOTIVE SECTOR, SEE OPPORTUNITIES

• TECH MAHINDRA EXEC: SEEING MOMENTUM IN SERVICENOW PRACTICE

• TECH MAHINDRA EXEC: CLIENT ADOPTION OF SERVICENOW PLATFORM BOOSTED BY AI INTEREST

• TECH MAHINDRA EXEC: GROWTH IN Q3 WAS LED BY BFSI, COMMUNICATIONS SEGMENTS

• TECH MAHINDRA EXEC: AREAS OF INVESTMENT INTEREST INCLUDE GENAI TOOLS, PARTNERSHIPS

• TECH MAHINDRA EXEC: WE WILL HAVE TO DEPLOY MULTIPLE LEVERS IF CURRENCY SITUATION MOVES ONE WAY OR OTHER

• TECH MAHINDRA EXEC: IN MEDIUM-TO-LONG TERM, HAVE WELL-DIVERSIFIED REV STREAMS

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Dec 20 (Reuters) - Tech Mahindra Ltd TEML.NS:

• TECH MAHINDRA LTD - YABX TECHNOLOGIES ENTERS AGREEMENT WITH SC VENTURES AND FURAHA HOLDINGS

• TECH MAHINDRA - YABX ACQUIRES 1.2 MILLION ORDINARY SHARES, 1.8 MILLION C ORDINARY SHARES OF FURAHA

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By Haripriya Suresh

BENGALURU, Dec 20 (Reuters) - India's Tech Mahindra TEML.NS is stepping up focus on its banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) business in a bid to bridge the gap with larger peers which have historically made more revenue from the lucrative segment, its CEO said in an interview.

Mohit Joshi, who took the helm of India's No.5 software services exporter in December 2023 after more than two decades at Infosys INFY.NS, wants to increase the share of BFSI in Tech Mahindra's revenue mix by up to 25% by March 2027, from about 16% currently.

Some of Tech Mahindra's peers in the $254 billion Indian IT sector already make as much as a third of their revenue from this sector.

"We still have a lot of room to catch up," said Joshi, who started out as a banker with ABN Amro and ANZ before joining Infosys. "I do expect that the relative share of BFSI revenue within TechM will increase, but...organically."

Unlike its peers, Tech Mahindra has relied heavily on telecom clients to boost revenue. That will change as Joshi tries to take advantage of his own expertise and experience dealing with financial services firms to turn the company around.

"BFSI is the single largest spender from a tech services perspective. It's very important for us to play aggressively in this space. Large banks typically spend over $10 billion a year in terms of technology," Joshi said.

Tech Mahindra, which has lagged its peers in both revenue and profit, will focus on core banking, payments, asset and wealth management and custodian services, as well as insurance, he said. Joshi has already shored up its BFSI leadership.

GENERATIVE AI

Generative artificial intelligence is a friend and not a foe for the sector, according to Joshi.

"GenAI is the best spokesperson for why we need more money to be spent on technology," he said, adding it is not the end of the road for software developers.

"I do feel that the overall demand for developers is not going to reduce, because there is a lot more work to be done candidly than there are people just now."

Joshi played down concerns about any potential hit to customer service roles at Tech Mahindra.

"I'm very skeptical about whether we'll see a wholesale replacement of contact centers with GenAI because when it comes to critical issues, people prefer to speak with human beings."

(Reporting by Haripriya Suresh; Editing by Dhanya Skariachan and Varun H K)

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Dec 11 (Reuters) - Tech Mahindra Ltd TEML.NS:

• ANNOUNCES MERGER OF EVENTUS SOLUTIONS GROUP WITH TECH MAHINDRA (AMERICAS)

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Dec 2 (Reuters) - Tech Mahindra Ltd TEML.NS:

• APPROVES MERGER OF WHOLLY-OWNED SUBSIDIARIES

• PLAN OF MERGER OF TWO SUBSIDIARIES OF ALLYIS INC USA HAS BEEN APPROVED

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** Shares of India's Tech Mahindra TEML.NS climb ~3% to 1729 rupees

** IT firm's revenue rose 1.9% YoY, 0.7% sequentially

** Growth of 0.7% QoQ ahead of our estimate (0.3%); believe co on path of recovery with gradual turnaround underway - Antique

** Brokerage maintains "buy" rating; hikes PT to 1,875 rupees from 1,725 rupees

** Q2 results were "encouraging with revenue beat surprising positively," says Jefferies, but maintains "underperform" on rich valuations

** Co rated "hold" on an average - LSEG data

** TEML top pct gainer in Nifty IT index .NIFTYIT, which is flat on the day

** YTD stock has jumped ~36% vs 18% gains in NIFTYIT

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** IT services firm Tech Mahindra TEML.NS rises 3.3% to 1,629 rupees, making it the top Nifty 50 .NSEI gainer

** CLSA upgrades to "outperform" from "hold", hikes TP to 1,749 rupees, citing likely expansion in profit margin

** Adds focus on BFSI, healthcare, manufacturing indicates more balanced industry mix with reduced telecom reliance

** Says the company's 15% EBIT margin target by FY27 is unambitious due to levers like offshoring, subcontracting

** Overall, analysts' avg rating on TEML is the equivalent of "hold"; median PT is 1,553 rupees -LSEG data

** TEML now up ~28% YTD, top performer on IT index .NIFTYIT which is up ~19%

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Sept 24 (Reuters) - Tech Mahindra Ltd TEML.NS:

• MITSUBISHI UFJ FINANCIAL GROUP SOLD AN INDIRECT INTEREST IN TECH MAHINDRA

• MUFG HAS 2.96% STAKE IN TECH MAHINDRA AS ON SEPTEMBER 19

• MUFG SOLD 2.05% STAKE IN TECH MAHINDRA

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