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Infosys Technologies
Cautious in the realm of rising uncertainty
Infosys Technologies (Infosys) hosted their annual analyst meet on Thursday, August 18, 2011. The essence of the meeting was that macro-uncertainty is increasing but hasnt resulted in any micro-level challenges. Demand is unscathed but cautiousness is increasing: The management clearly stated that the US credit rating downgrade has not resulted into any kind of negative news from the client portfolio side as of now. However, increasing macro-uncertainty is resulting in escalation in cautiousness on spending. The clients are now focusing on one program at a time rather than multiple initiatives. Also each program is broken into various parts typically over intervals of six to eight months to gauge value creation. CY2011 is different than CY2008: The management indicated that nature of IT spending has evolved post the CY2008 financial system crisis. The corporate have moved to much disciplined pattern of spending and not irrational spending like pre-CY2008. The various transformational initiatives undertaken are outcome based. The recovery in IT spending by clients has come back on stringent due-diligence undertaken by them with objectives to enhance 1) cost efficiency, 2) to be compliant to risk management frameworks as well as regulatory issues. Whereas pre-CY2008, the clients were spending on system upgrades, procuring large number of license which were not the need of business or linked to any strategic objective. Also fundamentally, CY2008 was result of sub-prime crisis with US corporate banks failing but this time it is the sovereign-debt which is alarming. Events like 1) a major corporate failure and/or 2) Euro zone government crisis especially in UK, Germany, and France etc can lead to repeat of CY2008 for Indian IT as industry has nil exposure to US government programs. Focus towards evolving business model to prepare for long-term: In 4QFY2011, the management undertook organization restructuring of classifying its business services in 1) Business operation (60%), 2) Consulting & System Integration (32%) and 3) Product, Platforms and Solution (PPS) (8%).This has made the resources fungible and as also enhanced the go-to-market with end to end services even incase of wireline players also. The company is focusing towards growing the non-linear segment PPS and scale it upto one-third of revenues with other two also expected to be at one-third. In terms of the geography, India (currently 2.5%) remains a focus area with outcome based work to protect margin. Outlook & Valuation: The Infosys management who is known for its conservative stance denied revisiting its revenue guidance of 19-21% YoY growth for FY2012 at this juncture as it hasnt seen any signs of budget cut or pricing cut. Also the company stated that there is no change in their hiring plans and they would honor their offers. Infact, the company has already begun its process of campus hiring for FY2013. We believe that amidst the rising macro challenges though FY2012 wont be impacted but rising uncertainty can pose a threat to FY2013 expectation. In CY2008, due to US banking corporate failures, the growth rates fell to as low as 3% (FY2010) and PE multiples contracted by ~45% from 18x to 10x. However, it is too early to expect such a systemic downgrade in demand as
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Stock Info Sector Market Cap (` cr) Beta 52 Week High / Low Avg. Daily Volume Face Value (`) BSE Sensex Nifty Reuters Code Bloomberg Code IT 135,106 0.8 3,494/2173 180,000 5 16,469 4,944 INFY.BO INFY@IN
`2,362 `3,200
12 Months
Shareholding Pattern (%) Promoters MF / Banks / Indian Fls FII / NRIs / OCBs Indian Public / Others 16.0 9.8 36.9 37.2
3m (8.9)
1yr (9.8)
(17) (15.8)
Srishti Anand
+91 22 39357800 Ext: 6820 srishti.anand@angelbroking.com
Ankita Somani
+91 22 39357800 Ext: 6819 ankita.somani@angelbroking.com
no negative news flow has come in the form of clients 1) laying off employees and/or 2) cutting down their growth guidance and /or 3) downsizing their IT budgets or asking of pricing cuts and/or 4) declaring corporate failure like CY2008. Also already the PE multiples have already contracted by more than 42% from 26x to 15x (at CMP) just on the fears of possible global slowdown which is unfair. We may revisit our estimates only incase of negative cues as described above emerges. Hence we continue to value the company at 20x FY2013 EPS of `160 with a target price of `3,200 and maintain a BUY on this stock.
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