There is an uptake in spend in financial services and the technology and services segment
HCL is expected to overtake the third-largest IT services firm Wipro in revenue terms in FY19
HCL announced this month that it would acquire select IPs from IBM, making it the largest acquisition in the domestic IT services space
Say it needs long-term commitment of resources to develop successful products from acquired IPs of IBM
Industry experts are of the view that the company has taken a risky bet by investing in those IPs
The Street is concerned about execution and management bandwidth to drive the product business, incremental investments required to expand the business, and the sales potential
HCL said the acquisition will give it scale in areas such as retail, financial services and transportation
The stock dipped 7% to Rs 943 on BSE on Friday after the company said it will acquire select IBM software products for $1.8 billion (approximately Rs 127 billion) in an all-cash deal.
HCL will leverage its investments in AI and automation to transform the user experience for over 80,000 Barclays employees spread across 26 countries
Europe accounted for 26.8 per cent of HCL Technologies' revenues for the quarter ended September 2018
HCL's revenue had surpassed Wipro, the third largest in IT, for the first quarter of this financial year
IT services major HCL Technologies will invest Rs 750 crore to set up two facilities in Andhra Pradesh that will help create 7,500 jobs in 10 years. According to an official statement, HCL is setting up its operations in Andhra Pradesh in two phases. In the first phase, the Noida-based company will invest Rs 400 crore to build a R&D centre in Kesarapalli village in Gannavaram. The facility is expected to accommodate more than 4,000 IT professionals, it said. The phase-I will commence with the foundation stone laying ceremony on October 8 and is expected to be completed in seven years' time, employing more than 4,000 IT professionals, the statement added. The phase II will be taken up later in Amaravati, the new capital of Andhra Pradesh in a campus of 20 acres. The investment for this phase is expected to be Rs 350 crore and will include about 3,500 IT professionals in five years' time.
HCL is strengthening its core areas such as infrastructure management and engineering services
HCL Technologies hit a record high of Rs 1,125, up 2.6% in intra-day trade, surpassing its previous high of Rs 1,107 recorded on April 23, 2018, on the BSE.
In July, HCL Technologies had announced the buyback programme for FY19 at Rs 1,100 per share
The buyback is part of the company's strategy to return more than 50% of the company's net income to the shareholders
HCL has tied up with banks to provide loans for the training, which would be repayable in easy instalments from the employees' salary once they get confirmed
In Q1 of FY18, HCL's dollar term revenues grew 0.8 per cent to $2.05 billion
In April, the country's fourth largest IT services firm had said it has partnered SEP to acquire Actian Corporation in an all-cash deal
The stock slipped 2.3% to Rs 982 after the company said it had received its board's approval to conduct a share buyback of up to 36.3 million equity shares worth up to Rs 40 billion.