WIPRO stated that for FY23, it expects to grow in double digits and margins for the medium term is expected to hold in the 17-17.5% band. However, for the next 2-3 quarters, WIPRO expects to see slightly lower margins.
Q&A Insights: Kumar Rakesh from @BNPParibas asked about the operations of Rizing. Rajan Kohli MP said that Rizing will operate under Application and Data business, adjacent to SAP business. The idea is to drive synergies between Rizing and Wipro’s SAP business and go to market.
Q&A Insights: Kumar Rakesh of @BNPParibas enquired about growth outlook and how it’s panning out through the year. Thierry CEO replied that the reality is that it continues to be a solid growth for 7 quarters now. And 1-3% is the level where WIPRO feels it is comfortable for 1Q.
Q&A Insights: Ravi Menon from @Macquarie asked about the rough proportion of revenue that engineering services contributes. Thierry Delaporte CEO said that engineering services is a significant practice for WIPRO and it has gained real scale. It is a little over 10% of revenues.
Q&A Insights: Gaurav Rateria of @MorganStanley asked how the company is managing supply challenges in the near term. Jatin Dalal CFO replied that the growth is absolutely front and center to WIPRO’s strategy and to its execution as it looks at FY23.
Q&A Insights: Pankaj from @CLSAInsights asked about quantitative/qualitative view on order book. Thierry CEO said that on quality, about 40% of WIPRO’s order book today is coming from cloud. And about 50% of deals closed in 4Q were in partnership with some of its larger partners.
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Q&A Insights: Sanjay Shah of KSA Securities asked about opportunities for HFCL in FY23, FY24. Mahendra MD replied that FY23 comes up with multiple opportunities in India. With 5G coming probably in June, there will be large demand for fiberoptic cable and wideband backhaul radios
Q&A Insights: Sanjay Shah of KSA Securities asked about the progress on defense equipment side. Mahendra MD said that whatever design HFCL has finished, it’s undergoing trial. Also govt.’s plan to indigenously procure defense equipment would help HFCL a great deal in its business
LAURUSLABS said that based on its healthy product pipeline, it continues to invest in FDF infrastructure. And brownfield expansion at Unit 2 is progressing as per expectation and is expected to add significant capacity to FDF operations, taking the capacity to 10 billion units.
Q&A Insights: Tushar Manudhane of @MotilalOswalLtd asked about the selling prices of ARV, its fall over last 6 months and drivers of it. Satyanarayana Chava CEO said that ARV sales in FY22 for most companies were significantly lower. API and ARV prices both were down around 10%.
Q&A Insights: Mahrukh Adajania from @EdelweissFin asked about transfer of standard assets to ARC. Puneet Sharma CEO said AXISBANK has not transferred standard assets to ARC. There was only one transfer, which was an NPA of INR 215.78 crores, that was sold to an ARC in 4Q.
Q&A Insights: Rohan Mandora from @EquirusGroup enquired about the segments where the bank will look to grow faster. Puneet Sharma CEO replied that the focus segments would be the mid-corporate segment and commercial banking segment.
HINDUNILVR said it expects near-term operating environment to remain challenging. The company added that its margins will decline in short-term as price versus cost gap increases.
HINDUNILVR reported that the company crossed the INR50,000 crore turnover mark in FY22. The company remains confident of outpacing FMCG market growth and recovering margins in a phased manner.
Q&A Insights: Prayesh Jain of @MotilalOswalLtd asked about business going ahead with the merger between HDFC Limited and HDFC bank. Navneet Munot MD said this will facilitate more efficient cross-selling of banking and financial services products that includes insurance and MF.
Q&A Insights: Prayesh Jain of @MotilalOswalLtd asked how the company’s expenses are panning out. Navneet Munot MD replied that opex has been around 13 bp which has been the trend. However, despite business promotion, marketing, NFO etc. HDFCAMC has maintained the expenses.
For FY23, KPIT said it’s looking at revenue growth in the range of 18-21% in constant currency, 18-19% EBITDA margin and about 25% volume growth.
Q&A Insights: Karan Uppal from @Phillip_Capital asked about the $125 million client wins in 4Q and if all were T21 clients. Kishor Patil CEO said KPIT’s focus has been on T21 and most of the wins were for T21.