On a day when its closest rival Tata Consultancy Services achieved the distinction of becoming the first Indian IT company to cross $100 billion in market cap, top leaders of Infosys led by newly appointed Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director Salil Parekh were busy convincing investors in Mumbai how they are trying to build a company that has put in place all the building blocks to emerge as a leader in the digital space, where most of the client budgets are going today.

BENGALURU: Market regulator Sebi has accepted a settlement application filed by Infosys following the latter’s inquiry into alleged inadequate disclosures and procedural lapses in the severance agreement with former CFO Rajiv Bansal, sources told TOI.

The settlement application is now before Sebi’s Advisory Committee headed by Vijay C Daga, retired judge of the Bombay high court, for a decision on the quantum of monetary penalty, the sources said.

Infosys’ shares slid 3 per cent after the Indian IT services giant said it expected operating margins lower than the previous year’s.

The firm is forecasting an operating margin of 22-24 per cent this year, lower than previous year’s 23-25 per cent view. That fell short of investors’ expectations, Citigroup analyst Surendra Goyal said, given its annual sales forecast only managed to match estimates.

Infosys' constant currency revenue growth guidance of 6-8% year-on-year (y-o-y) for FY19 was on expected lines. The marginal beat can be ascribed to a weaker exit in 4Q (0.6% CC) than our expectation (1.5% CC). This implies that the compounded quarterly growth rate (CQGR) will be better if the guidance is met.

To meet its guidance range of 6-8% y-o-y constant currency (CC) revenue growth in FY19, Infosys will have to clock a CQGR of 1.8-2.5% in the next year.

As Infosys closed the financial year 2017-18 with its numbers meeting the Street’s expectations, it also made an effort to erase part of its recent past, in which differences emerged between the company and its founders, and then Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Vishal Sikka quit the firm.

The new regime made clear its intention to grow the digital business by announcing an acquisition in the space. The company also said it would sell two key acquisitions, Panaya and Skava, which were bought under the leadership of Sikka.

Infosys results Q4 2018: Infosys share price was trading little changed on BSE and NSE ahead of the Infosys results Q4 2018 on Friday as India’s second-largest IT company Infosys is all set to announce the financial results for the quarter and the year ended 31 March 2018 today, 13 April 2018. Infosys results will mark the beginning of corporate earnings for the Q4 and the fiscal year 2017-2018 by the top 100 company on Indian exchanges.

Infosys is set to announce its fourth-quarter numbers on April 13. On a year-to-date basis, the stock has rallied around 10 per cent and has outperformed the Nifty IT index that gained around 9 per cent during this period. By comparison, the Nifty50 index slipped around 2 per cent YTD.

Analysts expect information technology (IT) firms to report an improvement in earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) margins in Q4FY18, aided by currency, operational efficiency and automation.

Indian stock markets have fared quite well in the last one year except the period beginning from February which has steered the benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty to drop by 8% from the respective all-time highs. In the last one year, there were many blue-chip stocks that have out done the returns of the key indices such as Titan Company, Avenue Supermarts and Maruti Suzuki.

Bengaluru: Infosys Ltd, under chairman Nandan Nilekani, appears to have drawn lessons from the ugly public spat with its first non-founder chief executive to draw a contract with current CEO Salil Parekh that leaves little scope for potential disagreements or legal trouble.

This development underlines the new board’s decision to keep at bay all potential conflicting issues raised in the past, including a few tetchy issues in former CEO Vishal Sikka’s employment contract .

India’s second-largest IT services company Infosys on Thursday said it has made a follow-on investment of $1.5 million in Waterline Data Science. The company will make the investment through its corporate venture fund — Infosys Innovation Fund. The Fund, with a corporate fund of $500 million, was set up in 2015 during former CEO Vishal Sikka’s initiative to invest in technology companies.

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