India's TCS rises as margins steady despite AI investments
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- ✓TCS stock rose 6.2% to 2,204 rupees as the firm kept operating margins steady at 24%.
- ✓While AI disrupts the software sector, TCS grew its annualised AI revenue to $3.1 billion.
- ✓Research analyst Rishubh Vasa said, "If your margins are held steady, it's a positive thing" for the company.
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The stock rose as much as 6.2% to 2,204 rupees, trimming its year-to-date decline to 30.3%
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AI is disrupting India's $315-billion software services sector by undermining its billable hour business model, but is also creating new demand as clients buy services built on the technology. Companies are ramping up investments to capture this emerging demand and cushion the hit to their core business.
"The sector is currently facing the AI deflation impact," said Rishubh Vasa, research analyst at Indsec Securities. "If your margins are held steady, it's a positive thing."
Vasa added that if AI-related pressures ease and profitability improves from current levels, "then it becomes a re-rating case."
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