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16 Mar

No direct impact of Russia-Ukraine conflict on IT sector– Tech Mahindra

Update on the Indian Equity Market:

On Wednesday, NIFTY50 closed 312 points higher at 16,975 (+1.87%). All the sectoral indices closed in the green with REALTY (+3.6%), METAL (+2.6%), and PRIVATE BANK (+2.4%) being the top gainers. Among the individual stocks, ULTRACEMCO (+4.6%), AXISBANK (+3.5%), and BAJAJ-AUTO (+3.3%) were the top gainers while CIPLA (-1.3%), SUNPHARMA (-0.4%), and TATACONSUM (-0.1%) were the top losers.

Excerpts of an interview with Mr. C.P. Gurnani, MD & CEO, Tech Mahindra, published in Mint on 15th March 2022:

  • The main demand drivers are 5G and digital transformation, the legacy businesses preferring to move towards cloud; high demand for electric vehicles; increasing needs for cybersecurity; and sustainability.
  • Keeping that in mind, Tech Mahindra is betting big on opportunities in 5G and digital transformation. With the recent launch of TechMVerse, it has forayed into the metaverse space. For the first year, the company is planning to hire 1,000 people dedicated to TechMVerse. The operations will be spread across four hubs – Dallas, Hyderabad, London, and Pune.
  • Along with that, expanding the global reach by opening up new centers in tier-2, tier-3 cities like Latvia, Romania, and Costa Rica is creating more requirements for new hires. The company is targeting to hire from tier-2 cities like Bhubaneshwar, Chandigarh, Kolkata, Indore, and Coimbatore, as the level of skills is extremely good and attrition rates are much lower.
  • Although metaverse is a key differentiator, being a new technology, it will be initially incubated in a smaller group and then shared with the clients. Initially, the metaverse offerings including DealerVerse – metaverse-based car dealership; Middlemist – an NFT marketplace; or Meta Bank – a virtual bank, will be run as a separate unit. Eventually, will work together with various other verticals. The early adopters of metaverse are the gaming, healthcare, retail, and banking sectors.
  • The company has made 8 acquisitions in FY22 to build capability, de-risking the portfolio, and for geographic expansion.
  • Concerning the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, the company will have no direct impact as the Indian IT sector is not dependent on either of the two countries.

Asset Multiplier Comments:

  • The intensity of tech spending is expected to increase as clients are willing to spend on IT via Capex and Opex. Cloud spend is a minimum 3- 4 years opportunity for the IT sector. The second round of IT spend is on artificial intelligence, augmented reality, virtual reality, data analytics, and IoT.
  • We believe Tech M is well positioned to capture a fair share of 5G network services spends and strong growth in communication will continue in FY23E. Spreading talent base to Tier 2 cities in India and Nearshore centres will help reduce employee cost by ~15% and also lower attrition rate. We expect increase in utilization rate and gradual reduction of sub-con costs (on the back of reducing attrition rate) will lead to margin expansion in FY23E.

 Consensus Estimate: (Source: Marketscreener & TIKR website)

  • The closing price of Tech Mahindra was ₹1,488/- as of 16-March-2022. It traded at 21x/ 18x the consensus earnings per share estimate of ₹72/₹81.5 for FY23E/FY24E respectively.
  • The consensus target price of ₹1,787/- implies a P/E multiple of 22x on FY24E EPS estimate of ₹81.5/-

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16 Feb

Deal closures in the USD 700mn- 1bn band expected to continue – Tech Mahindra

Update on the Indian Equity Market:

On Wednesday, NIFTY50 ended the volatile session in the red at 17,322 (-0.2%). Among the sectoral indices, REALTY (+1.1%), CONSUMER DURABLES (+0.8%), and PHARMA (+0.5%) were the few gainers. PSU BANK (-1.2%), MEDIA (-0.6%), and METAL (-0.6%) led the laggards.

Among the NIFTY50 constituents, DIVISLAB (+3.1%), ONGC (+2.7%), and ADANIPORTS (+2.3%) led the gainers. SBIN (-1.9%), ICICIBANK (-1.7%), and NTPC (-1.7%) led the laggards.

Edited excerpts of an interview with Mr. Milind Kulkarni, CFO, Tech Mahindra (Tech M) published in Financial Express on 16th February 2022:

  • Due to furloughs, Q3 was a slow quarter. In 3QFY22 the communication, media, and entertainment (CME) vertical grew faster than the enterprise vertical for Tech M.
  • There are supply-side pressures for which the company has various offset actions. It has increased its presence in tier-II and tier-III cities. The company expects to mitigate the supply side pressure over the next few months and be on the path articulated in the past.
  • Attrition has been reduced by 300bps in 3QFY22 on the LTM (last 12 months) basis. This is a reversion of the trend witnessed in previous quarters.
  • The new deals were worth USD 704mn in 3QFY22. This was an increase from the average order book of USD 400mn. The deal pipeline in the last 8 quarters has gone up. The deal closures in the USD 700mn- 1bn range are expected to continue.
  • The company has hired 10,000 freshers in 9MFY22 and plans to hire 15,000 freshers in FY23. The intention is to get freshers, train them, put them on the right project early, and benefit from the structural change. This is the opposite of doing just lateral hiring.
  • Tech M will continue to hire in the business process services segment, and IT as there is a continuous demand for transformation projects- artificial intelligence, metaverse, etc.
  • Tech M is getting into more tier-II cities such as Coimbatore, Vijayawada, Nagpur, Indore, Bhubaneshwar, and Chandigarh to get access to talent and help in containing attrition. It is also expanding existing centers such as Pune, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad. The company is developing virtual centers in Mexico, Costa Rica, Romania, and Latvia.
  • The BFSI vertical was separated into two separate revenue streams as insurance is a prominent vertical that requires different skill sets. This followed the recent acquisition of European IT solutions provider Com Tec Co. As the company has another large insurance company as a customer, it has made a separate vertical for insurance.
  • The M&A strategy is to fill up niche capability gaps, and certain verticals it wants to scale up. The specific verticals are manufacturing, digital engineering, and BFSI. The focus is on areas such as cloud capability, where it will grow organically.
  • On the 5G front, IT firms will be providing support to service providers and for Tech M, it will boost the CME vertical. It will be playing a bigger role to boost demand for services and application in the telecom sector.

Asset Multiplier Comments

  • The entire IT sector faced supply-side pressures in FY22 due to a sudden spurt in demand. With WFH (work-from-home) settling down, in FY23 the focus is likely to be on reducing attrition and improving utilization levels.
  • Tech M has been investing in the areas of 5G, customer experience, data analytics, AI, IoT, and Cloud capabilities through organic or inorganic routes over the past few years. These investments are yielding results in terms of higher deal TCVs.
  • 5G has been a focus area for Tech M for the past few years. With 5G activity gradually picking up among the Indian telecom companies, Tech M’s investments into this vertical will start yielding results in terms of higher revenue growth.

Consensus Estimate (Source: market screener website)

  •  The closing price of Tech Mahindra was ₹ 1,440/- as of 16-February-2022. It traded at 23x/ 20x/ 18x the consensus earnings estimates of ₹ 63/ 72/ 82/- for FY22E/FY23E/FY24E respectively.
  • The consensus target price of ₹ 1,791/- implies a P/E Multiple of 22x on FY24E EPS estimate of ₹ 82/-.

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20 Jan

CTC acquisition enables to scale up in insurance sector – Tech Mahindra

Update on the Indian Equity Market:

On Thursday, NIFTY closed in the red at 17,757 (-1%). Among the sectoral indices, METAL (+0.5%) and REALTY (+0.2%) were the only gainers while PHARMA (-1.7%), IT (1.66%), and HEALTHCARE (-1.3%) closed in the red. POWERGRID (+4.8%), BHARTIARTL (+2.2%), and GRASIM (+1.7%) were the top gainers. BAJAJFINSV (-4.6%), BAJAJ-AUTO (-3.7%), and DIVIS (-2.9%) were among the top losers.

Tech Mahindra recently announced the acquisition of Com Tec Co IT (CTC), an East-European IT Services company with a presence in the digital engineering and outsourced product development space, for EUR 310m.

Excerpts from an interview of Mr. Vivek Agarwal, President, BFSI, HLS, and Corporate Development, Tech Mahindra with ET NOW dated 18th January 2022:

  • Tech Mahindra is optimistic about the insurance industry in digital transformation and the industry itself is going through a significant transformation largely due to disruptive technologies.
  • Mr. Agarwal said CTC brings deep domain competence and a successful track record, in the long run, to serve insurers for transforming their journey.
  • Mr. Agarwal further added, the basic capability set that Tech Mahindra gets from CTC is digital engineering talent as a service line and as a capability, it’s a very high growth segment as enterprises transform for the future. Tech Mahindra expects this capability adds more value to existing customers of the company as well as new customers.
  • As Europe is becoming a big talent hub Tech Mahindra established a presence in Latvia and Belarus through CTC acquisition. The talent quality coming from that region is exceptional and the company expects to grow on the talent base in that region.
  • Tech Mahindra’s acquisitions are driven by close integration and driving synergies. From the CTC acquisition, Tech Mahindra stands to gain vertical synergy in the insurance sector. The company expects that it can directly sell services to the client base of CTC.
  • Tech Mahindra is looking to work on and exploit the service line synergy around digital engineering and clients also want the top-class capability to help them to transform, with the combination of Tech Mahindra and CTC company will be able to offer those capabilities to their clients.
  • The insurance and reinsurance industry has a huge presence in Europe but the company not only focuses on Europe it serves a global client base. From the financial metrics perspective, Mr. Agarwal expects the business to generate industry-leading EBIT margins and this would reflect in the EPS and free cash flow.
  • Tech Mahindra is looking for those sectors which has high growth opportunity and the insurance sector is one of those. The insurance industry has a mile in terms of digital transformation and some of the peers of Tech Mahindra have a strong presence in that sector and the company expects that they will perform higher than the industry average rate.
  • CTC is going to be an integral part of Tech Mahindra’s business and does not consider a subcontracting base. This will become a more important base for Tech Mahindra to expand its talent supply pool.

Asset Multiplier comments:

  • We think the CTC acquisition enable Tech Mahindra to expand its footprint in the insurance sector and expand its Eastern European presence.
  • It will provide Tech Mahindra with tech talent having differentiated capabilities in end-to-end digital engineering which can be scaled up across different industries.

Consensus Estimate: (Source: Market screener website)

  • The closing price of Tech Mahindra was ₹ 1,669/- as of 20-January-2022.  It traded at 26x/23x/20x the consensus Earnings per share estimate of ₹ 64.2/ 73.9/ 82.6/- for FY22E/FY23E/FY24E respectively.
  • The consensus average target price is ₹ 1,864/- which implies a PE multiple of 23x on FY24E EPS of 82.6/-.

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28 Dec

CP Gurnani’s plan for Tech Mahindra amid Covid-19 uncertainty

Update on the Indian Equity Market:

On Tuesday, the benchmark index NIFTY 50 closed at 17,233 (+0.9%), 147 points higher. Among the sectoral indices, CONSUMER DURABLES (+1.4%), AUTO (+1.3%), and PSU BANK (+1%) led the gainers and there were no losers today. Among the NIFTY50 components, SUNPHARMA (+3.1%), ASIANPAINT (+2.8%), and M&M (+2.6%) were the top gainers while POWERGRID (-0.34%) and INDUSINDBK (-0.27%) led the laggards.

Excerpts of an interview with Tech Mahindra’s CEO and Managing Director CP Gurnani with Business Standard on 25th December 2021:

  • 50% of revenues for TECHM come from telecom service providers and the telecom ecosystem. The 3 factors that would really help telecom grow are; the first one being network up-gradation to 5G, second- newer platforms that will drive consumption of telecom and the third one which is the most dominant according to Mr. Gurnani is that the more work from home happens the more everyone would appreciate the importance of network service providers.
  • TECHM has not abandoned the ORAN (Open Radio Access Network), it is just that the number of players in this space has increased. Other than Rakuten, Microsoft, VMware, and Mavenir have come up with their own ORAN ecosystems. TECHM is definitely committed but to remain neutral, it was important for them to not be seen as execution partner to one. So, their strategy is to not be a product company but execute with some of the leading players.
  • There is a new way of managing networks which has become a theme for telcos. All the players in the telecom sector are trying to find viable alternate proofs of concept at a certain scale and volume and Mr. Gurnani believes that they are execution partner to every player including Airtel and Jio.
  • Talent is an industry-wide issue at this point as consumption from IT service providers, global technology and start-ups have increased. There is definitely a talent war going on.
  • TECHM anticipated the talent issue and opened offices in Tier 2 cities in Coimbatore, Vizag, Thiruvananthapuram, Indore, Nagpur, Calcutta, and Bhuvneshwar. So, the focus is on people’s preferences to work from their home locations.
  • TECHM has now opened offices in Vietnam, Bangladesh, and in the Eastern European block. As a strategy they are trying to catch young talent, train them and participate in their career development.
  • Work from the office is voluntary at Tech M till December-end due to safety reasons. A survey of TECHM’s employees showed that those below the age of 35 want to come to the office, 35-50 age group is leaning towards a hybrid model and 50 and above prefer working from home. TECHM’s work policy will be formed taking into account their client and employee needs.
  • TECHM will continue to try and be among the top 3 IT services companies in India.

Asset Multiplier Comments

  • We think Healthy deal wins, traction in the communication segment led by legacy modernization, 5G, customer care, automation, network, and cloud will help drive revenues.
  • Higher offshoring, synergies in portfolio companies, automation & operating leverage to help margin expansion going forward.

Consensus Estimate: (Source: market screener and Tikr website)

  • The closing price of Tech Mahindra was ₹ 1,806/- as of 28-December-2021. It traded at 28x/25x/22x the EPS estimates of ₹ 64/73/81/- for FY22E/FY23E/FY24E respectively.
  • The consensus target price of ₹ 1,794/- implies a P/E Multiple of 22 on FY24 EPS estimate of ₹ 81/-

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07 Dec

Acquired biz segment seeing steep growth – Tech Mahindra

Update on the Indian Equity Market:

On Tuesday, Nifty ended in the green amid weak global cues. It ended at 17,176 (+1.6%) after making a high of 17,251. METAL (+3.1%), PRIVATE BANK (+2.5%), and BANK (+2.5%) were the top sectoral gainers and there were no sectoral losers. Among the NIFTY50 stocks, HINDALCO (+5.1%), TATASTEEL (+4.0%), and AXISBANK (+3.6%) were the top gainers while BRITANNIA (-0.6%), CIPLA (-0.6%), and DIVISLAB (-0.4%) were the top losers.

Edited excerpts of an interview with Mr. Vivek Agarwal, President-BFSI and Corporate Development at Tech Mahindra (TECHM) with CNBCTV18 on 6th December 2021:

  • The last couple of years have opened a new segment of WFH, this acquisition helps TECHM service their customers with a new channel and takes. It takes away a lot of dependency on physical infrastructure and helps provide services from anywhere.
  • The entire WFH segment has been witnessing explosive growth over the last couple of years. From a long-term perspective, 55% of customer experience workers are expected to work from home or from anywhere by 2024. This represents huge a addressable market space for TECHM.
  • From a synergies viewpoint, the company will be taking these capabilities to their existing customers and Activus Connect has its customer base as well which represents a significant cross-sell opportunity for TECHM.
  • TECHM expects this explosive growth to continue over the next 3-4 years.
  • The acquired company has industry-standard margins and on the growth front, the business’ organic growth is been exceptional. From a long-term perspective of its core business, TECHM expects to generate 30-40% additional revenues through synergies and take these capabilities to the existing customers.
  • The acquired company has a unique technology platform that lets one apply all the good practices around data, security, and performance management for remote workers.
  • TECHM expects the business to have industry-leading growth on its own and is excited about the synergies that will be created out of this acquisition in the knowledge segment space.
  • The margins of this company are expected to be at par with what TECHM does which is their objective in every acquisition they do.
  • While certain capabilities are specific to particular sectors, the offering per se is sector agnostic.
  • Return to the office for TECHM employees is largely voluntary. Some of them are returning in hybrid mode and this work model is expected to continue. However, 15-20% of their workforce has started coming to the office which mainly comprises of the top management of the company.

Asset Multiplier Comments

  • TECHM has grown organically & inorganically (dollar revenue CAGR FY17-21 of 4%). The company will continue to acquire for scale, synergies, cross-sell benefits, and upselling.
  • We expect healthy deal wins, traction in the communication segment led by legacy modernization, 5G, customer care, automation, network, and cloud to drive revenues.
  • Higher offshoring, synergies in portfolio companies, automation, & operating leverage is expected to help margin expansion.

Consensus Estimate (Source: market screener and Tikr websites)

  • The closing price of TECHM was ₹ 1,575/- as of 07-December-21. It traded at 25x/22x/19x the consensus EPS estimate of ₹ 64/73/81 for FY22E/ FY23E/FY24E respectively.
  • The consensus target price of ₹ 1,783/- implies a PE multiple of 22x on FY24E EPS of ₹ 81/-.

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27 Oct

Best Demand Environment in a Decade – Tech Mahindra

Update on the Indian Equity Market:

On Wednesday, NIFTY closed lower at 18,211 (-0.3%) dragged by MEDIA (-2.0%), METAL (-1.5%) and PRIVATEBANK (-1.4%). PSU BANK (+2.1%), IT (+1.0%) and PHARMA (+0.9%) were the gaining sectors. The top gainers in NIFTY50 were ASIANPAINT (+4.1%), UPL (+3.8%), and DIVISLAB (+2.3%). The top losers were AXISBANK (-6.5%), BAJFINANCE (-4.8%), and ONGC (-3.5%).

Edited excerpts of an interview with Mr. C P Gurnani, MD, and CEO of Tech Mahindra with CNBCTV18 on 26th Oct 2021:

  • The company is committed to the high growth trajectory over the full year of FY22, which resulted in its highest ever sequential growth in a decade. Every business segment has reported sequential growth in Q2FY22.
  • The Company has a best-in-class geographic mix with North America contributing less than 50%, Europe contributing 25%, and the Rest of the World Contributing 25%, with a geographical presence in 90 Countries. The company is well diversified in terms of geography.
  • The Company increased its guidance of around 500-600 Mn USD in Deal wins to 750 Mn to 1 Bn USD over the next few quarters, on the back of a robust deal pipeline and sustained growth in the demand environment.
  • The Company plans to improve its margins by keeping control on sub-contracting costs which are at historically high levels. Utilisation has reduced due to fresher intake in the last quarter, which the company expects to improve over time.
  • Cloud Migration and 5G are the biggest drivers of growth in new deal wins. There’s a huge movement in the legacy to digital business which is expected to continue over the next few quarters.
  • The company made two acquisitions during the quarter- Loadstone and WeMake website. Loadstone has revenue of about 35 Mn USD and is EPS accretive, the other acquisition was IP Driven and is insignificant to the topline.
  • Current levels of attrition are hurting the demand fulfillment of the company and the company plans to reduce attrition by shifting to tier-2 cities and new HR Policies.

 Asset Multiplier Comments

  • The management commentary of continued strength in end demand aided by significant deal wins, and healthy deal pipelines driven by 5G and cloud will help the company sustain its revenue growth guidance.
  • Attrition and supply-side issues are the biggest headwinds for IT Companies. The company’s bottom-line can only see sustained growth if these challenges are dealt with in the upcoming quarters.

Consensus Estimate (Source: market screener website)

  • The closing price of Tech Mahindra was ₹ 1,568/- as of 26-October-21. It traded at 25x/22x/19x the consensus EPS estimate of ₹ 64/73/81 for FY22E/ FY23E/FY24E respectively.
  • The consensus target price of ₹ 1,703/- implies a PE multiple of 21x on FY24E EPS of ₹ 81/-.

 

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02 Aug

Wage hikes impacted margins in Q1FY22 – Tech Mahindra

Update on the Indian Equity Market:

On Monday, NIFTY ended higher at 15,885 (+0.8%) as it closed near the intraday high level of 15,983. Among the sectoral indices, REALTY (+4.8%), AUTO (+1.4%), and IT (+1.1%) ended higher, and there were no sectoral losers. Among the stocks, TITAN (+3.6%), SHREECEM (+3.5%), and BPCL (+3.1%) led the gainers while UPL (-2.3%), TATASTEEL (-1.5%), and BAJAJFINSV (-0.6%) led the losers. 

Excerpts of an interview with Mr. CP Gurnani, MD&CEO, and Mr. Milind Kulkarni, CFO of Tech Mahindra (TECHM) with CNBC TV18 on 30th July 2021:

  • A few of the things that worked well for TECHM over 1QFY22 were that the company focused on bringing in large deals that help in bringing order backlog and predictability in the operations. 
  • All of the company’s capital allocation is towards cloud and artificial intelligence (AI). TECHM has also made 5G investments in software-defined networks and cloud-based networks. The company usually looks forward to deal wins of US$ 800-1,000 mn every quarter and has signed one of its largest deals in healthcare in 1QFY22.
  • The company did better in a seasonally weak quarter and was able to maintain margins of 15%. There could be tailwinds coming from operating leverage and headwinds coming in terms of a higher cost of the employee addition and retention. Yet, the company is confident of maintaining the EBITDA margin.
  • Speaking of the company’s costs, there have been two increases. One is the salary increments, second is that the company had to employ a higher number of onsite contractors due to Covid restrictions. The company recovered from the impact partly through operational efficiency with improved utilisation of 60 bps and through increased offshoring.
  • Inorganic growth is going to continue to be the company’s differentiator. The company has improved a lot of synergy goal delivery, and integration capability. The company is also getting a lot of management talent through its acquisitions.
  • The company had planned for 16-18% attrition as the overall demand is not only for Tech Mahindra. The management has repurposed the company to look at tier 2 cities like Nagpur, Trivandrum, Chandigarh, Bhubaneshwar, and Kolkata for hiring. But the management may give another salary hike if the market moves in that direction.

Asset Multiplier Comments

  • As the country recovers from the second covid wave, the strong demand for the entire IT sector augurs well for the company in the mid to long term.
  • With strong deal wins, robust pipeline, margin levers like automation, offshoring, and cost optimization by centralising the back offices of newly acquired entities, TECM is confident of delivering 15%+ EBIT Margins. We believe this confidence is justified. 

Consensus Estimate: (Source: market screener website)

  • The closing price of TECHM was ₹ 1,206/- as on 2-August-2021.  It traded at 19x/18x/16x the consensus earnings estimate of ₹ 63/69/77 for FY22E/FY23E/FY24E respectively.
  • The consensus target price of ₹ 1,210/- implies a PE multiple of 16x on FY24E EPS of ₹ 77/-.

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28 Oct

Goal is to reach double-digit growth in enterprise vertical in FY22: Tech Mahindra

Update on the Indian Equity Market:
On Friday, NIFTY closed in green at 11,889 (+1.0%). Top gainers in NIFTY50 were Kotak bank (+11.7%), Nestle (+5.9%), and Asian Paints (+5.7%). The top losers were HDFC (-2.1%), TCS (-2.0%), and ONGC (-1.8%). Top sectoral gainers were PVT BANK (+3.1%), BANK (+2.9%), and FIN SERVICES (+2.2%) and sectoral losers were IT (-1.1%), PSU BANK (-0.9%), and REALTY (-0.7%).

Excerpts of an interview with Mr. Manoj Bhat, CFO , Tech M with CNBC dated 26th October 2020:
• Reaching doubt-digit revenues growth would be their goal.
• They have seen bottoming out of the manufacturing, they have seen BSFI doing fairly well, and the other verticals like retail and healthcare are also doing okay so most of the components are doing well.
• Tech Mahindra’s second-quarter earnings beat estimates with the non-telecom business driving growth this time. The telecom recovery is still muted.
• In the telecom segment, the recovery in their client base is a bit slower so they do anticipate in coming one or two quarters they should start to see that normalise.
• 5G is probably something which will happen in FY22.
• Interestingly the whole ecosystem around 5G in terms of phones, in terms of devices, that is something which has seen a good amount of traction.
• A look at the deal funnel suggests it is almost at all-time high. Within that, what they are seeing is more traction in slightly smaller deals because decision-making by them has started moving at a faster pace.
• Larger ones will probably pan out in the next couple of quarters.

Consensus Estimate: (Source: market screener and investing.com websites)
• The closing price of TECHM was ₹ 828/- as of 27th October 2020. It traded at 17x/ 15x/ 13x the consensus earnings estimate of ₹ 49.2/ 56.0/ 63.6 for FY21E/22E/23E respectively.
• The consensus price target of TECHM is ₹ 942/- which trades at 15x the earnings estimate for FY23E of ₹ 63.6 /-.
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