Transformational approach to client partnerships drive record large deals of $7.13bn in Q3
- Breakthrough year of performance continues with 6.6% YoY CC growth in Q3
- Digital crosses 50% of revenues
BENGALURU, India, Jan. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Infosys (NSE: EQINFY) (BSE: 500209) (NYSE: INFY), a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, delivered its highest Q3 sequential growth of 5.3% in 8 years in constant currency. On a year on year basis, revenues grew by 6.6%, digital revenues grew by 31.3% and overall digital revenue crossed more than half of total revenues. Large deal TCV was at all time high of $7.13bn with 73% being net new. Strong and steady operating margin at 25.4%. Revenue and margin guidance band increased to 4.5%-5.0% and 24.0%-24.5% respectively on the back of continued strong performance.
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"The Infosys team has delivered another quarter of excellent results. Execution of client relevant strategy focused on digital transformation continues to drive superior growth, well ahead of the industry. The scale of new client partnerships with leading global companies such as Vanguard, Daimler and Rolls-Royce demonstrate the depth of digital and cloud capabilities of Infosys. The commitment and skills of our employees to support and drive the digital journey of clients are matters of great pride for me", said Salil Parekh, CEO and MD. "With the intense focus on client needs and the comprehensive foundation built on differentiated capabilities, I remain confident about the future."
$7.13bn 31.3% YoY 6.6%YoY 25.4% 16.5% YoY
Large deal signings Digital CC growth CC growth Operating margin Increase in EPS (INR terms)
-- Q3 revenues grew year-on-year by 8.4% in USD; grew by 6.6% in constant
currency
-- Digital revenues cross 50% of total revenue, year-on-year growth of
31.3% in constant currency
-- Q3 operating margin at 25.4%, year-on-year increase of 350 bps
-- Robust Q3 net profit at $705 million, year-on-year growth of 12.6%
-- Continued strong Q3 free cash flow at $772 million, year-on-year growth
of 15.1%; FCF conversion at 109.0% of net profit
-- Q3 voluntary attrition for IT services declined to 10.0% from 15.8% in
Q3 20
-- Year-to-date revenues grew by 3.5% in constant currency
-- Year-to-date operating margin at 24.5%, an expansion of 310 bps
-- FY 21 revenue growth guidance increases to 4.5%-5.0% in constant
currency
-- FY 21 operating margin guidance increases to 24.0%-24.5%
In Q3, Infosys further enhanced its digital investments in Infosys Cobalt - the cloud services, platforms and solutions portfolio launched last quarter. The company expanded the Infosys Cobalt portfolio by unveiling Infosys Modernization Suite to help enterprises modernize their legacy systems and Infosys Live Enterprise Application Management Platform to deliver cloud-powered, managed services for IT operations. Infosys Applied AI converges the power of AI, analytics and cloud to deliver new business solutions and perceptive experiences.
Infosys also reached a significant milestone in its ESG journey by becoming carbon neutral in 2020, thirty years ahead of 2050, the timeline set by the Paris Agreement. Infosys reiterated its commitment to Environment, Social and Governance causes by announcing its ESG 2030 vision and ambitions.
1. Financial Highlights -Consolidated results under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
For the quarter ended December 31, 2020
Revenues were $3,516 million, growth of 8.4% YoY and 6.2% QoQ
Operating profit was $893 million, growth of 25.6% YoY and 6.4% QoQ
Basic EPS was $0.17, growth of 12.5% YoY and 7.9% QoQ
For nine months ended December 31, 2020
Revenues were $9,948 million, growth of 3.8% YoY
Operating profit was $2,441 million, growth of 19.1% YoY
Basic EPS was $0.45, growth of 10.6% YoY
"The resilience of Infosys has been severely tested over the past several quarters and I am delighted with our response marked by strong revenue performance, large deal wins, healthy operating metrics and continued low attrition," said Pravin Rao, COO. "This outstanding performance has been made possible by reimagining Infosys, over the last three years, as a live enterprise with fully transformed digital infrastructure - Infosys Lex for learning, InfyMe for employee engagement, Infosys Meridian for collaboration, and Infosys DevSecOps platform to empower application teams to rapidly build and deploy new features. These highly differentiated systems and processes, redesigned for a digital-first world, are built on a strong foundation of robust connectivity to customer networks and fully secured personal devices. Not only does this give us an advantage in these times of distributed working but also a distinct long-term lead into the future."
"Navigating your next strategy coupled with razor sharp focus on our operating model and efficiencies continues to deliver superior shareholder value creation," said Nilanjan Roy, CFO. "I am also delighted with the announcement of Infosys ESG vision 2030 simultaneously with our climate neutrality achievement, a journey we had embarked on ten years ago. As a responsible corporate citizen, Infosys is committed to its vision of shaping and sharing solutions that serve the development of businesses and communities."
2. Client wins & Testimonials
The unstinting support extended to Infosys by clients motivates our teams to bring greater benefits of digital transformation and the best of Infosys to their business.
-- Infosys formed a strategic partnership with Daimler AG, one of the
world's most successful automotive companies, to support a
technology-driven IT infrastructure transformation. Jan Brecht, Chief
Information Officer, Daimler and Mercedes-Benz, said, "Software becomes
modular and IT infrastructure becomes big. Daimler will take three steps
at once to transform its IT infrastructure: consolidation, scaling and
modernization. We need to think infrastructure beyond the size of our
company. With Infosys we found a partner to scale, to innovate and to
speed up. Moreover, this is a strategic partnership for Daimler's IT
capabilities and Infosys' automotive expertise. Infosys wants to grow
with us in the automotive industry, which gives career opportunities for
our employees. With this partnership, Daimler also strengthens its
overall technology investment and partnership strategy."
-- Infosys was selected by El Paso Water, a municipal utility in El Paso,
Texas, to transform its legacy customer information systems (CIS) with
Oracle Utilities Customer to Meter (C2M). Marcela Navarrete, Vice
President at EPWater, said, "This is an ambitious undertaking with
multiple system upgrades simultaneously, but it's a necessary project to
help us make a leap forward to improve both efficiency and customer
satisfaction."
-- Infosys partnered with Rolls-Royce, one of the world's leading aerospace
and defence technology companies, for sourcing engineering and R&D
Services for Rolls-Royce's Civil Aerospace business. Kishore Jayaraman,
President, Rolls-Royce India & South Asia, said, "India has grown to
become a key contributor to the Rolls-Royce global engineering
ecosystem, delivering high levels of technical capability to support a
broad range of complex business demands. Our vision is to continue this
high capability engineering work in India, in partnership with Infosys.
Infosys has been a valued partner to Rolls-Royce for many years, and we
now look forward to building on this strategic partnership to secure the
full range of our engineering capabilities here, while ensuring future
growth potential for our engineering talent. We are committed to India
and remain positive about the long-term prospects in this market."
-- Resimac, a leading non-bank lender in Australia and New Zealand,
selected Infosys Finacle's Digital Banking SaaS to achieve end-to-end
digital modernization for providing enhanced customer experience across
all its brands in Australia and New Zealand. Scott McWilliam, Chief
Executive Officer, Resimac, said, "At Resimac, we are engineering for
the future. Our 'customer first' digital strategy recognizes that
lending in the future will look fundamentally different from today. Our
partnership with Infosys Finacle will enable us to seamlessly adapt to
the dynamic and complex lending landscape, while serving our customers'
financial needs in a secure manner. We are confident that Finacle's
solutions delivered on the cloud will accelerate our transformation into
a digital-first lender and help deliver a range of multi-accessible,
flexible and innovative financial solutions."
-- Mobile Health AG, a Switzerland-based Health Tech startup, selected
Infosys to enhance the go-to-market (GTM) strategy for its
electronically patient-reported outcomes (ePRO) platform, Consilium
Care(TM). Frank Gulitz, CIO, Mobile Health AG, said, "After a rigorous
selection process we selected Infosys as strategic partner for our Cloud
Provider Due Diligence, the global setup of Microsoft Azure, as well as
partner for the Infrastructure Operation and Platform Application
Managed Service. Infosys was leading against competitors by their
well-established Cloud Management Services combined with strong Security
Consulting Offerings and Health Industry Insight. We are looking forward
to commonly develop new markets for Consilium Care(TM), our award
winning CE-marked platform."
-- "We embarked on our finance transformation journey in 2018 with an
aspiration to save and automate one million hours of manual work. We
have now achieved this goal with the help of Infosys BPM in enabling
digital transformation. This is among the largest and most complex
automation programs undertaken, and the collaborative efforts between
the Philips and Infosys BPM teams was key for the success of the
program. Infosys BPM defined and implemented the automation program,
with formal design principles to standardize and automate the selected
use cases. The AssistEdge RPA platform (EdgeVerve) from Infosys was
leveraged to enable digital workers deployed globally with bots
concurrently managing finance processes, including complex
record-to-report month-end reconciliations" - Abhijit Bhattacharya,
Chief Financial Officer, Member of the Executive Committee, Royal
Philips, a global leader in health technology.
Awards & Recognitions
-- Ranked as a leader in The Forrester Wave(TM): Multicloud Managed
Services Providers, Q4 2020
-- Rated as a leader in Everest - System Integrator (SI) Capabilities on
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2021 NEW
-- Positioned as a leader in Everest - System Integrator (SI) Capabilities
on Microsoft Azure Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2021
-- Rated as a leader in Everest - System Integrator (SI) Capabilities on
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Compendium 2021
-- Positioned as a leader in NelsonHall - Cloud Infrastructure Brokerage,
Orchestration & Management 2020
-- Ranked as a leader in Everest - ServiceNow Services PEAK Matrix
Assessment 2021
-- Ranked as a leader in IDC MarketScape: Asia/Pacific Salesforce
Implementation Services 2020 Vendor Assessment
-- Positioned as a leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Professional
Services Firms for Mining Operational Process Optimisation 2020 Vendor
Assessment
-- Ranked as a leader in HFS Research Top 10 Healthcare Sector Service
Providers
-- Positioned as a leader in Everest - Next-generation Application
Management Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2021
-- Ranked as a leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Testing
Services, Worldwide
-- Ranked as a leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Retail Commerce
Platform Service Providers 2020 Vendor Assessment
-- Positioned as a leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Headless Digital
Commerce Applications 2020-2021 Vendor Assessment
-- Positioned as a leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Manufacturing
Service Life-Cycle Management Systems Integrators/Business Process
Outsourcing 2020 Vendor Assessment
-- Positioned as a leader in IDC MarketScape Worldwide Oracle Cloud
Implementation Services
-- Positioned as a leader in Everest - Application and Digital Services in
Capital Markets PEAK Matrix 2020
-- Won 1st Runner up for Excellence in Diversity & Inclusion in SHRM HR
Excellence Awards
-- Infosys Finacle was awarded 'Best Use of IT in Corporate Banking with
Bank of the West BNP Paribas'
-- Infosys Finacle received the award for 'Most Impactful Project in the
use of Blockchain in Banking: Infosys Finacle and Royal Bank of
Scotland'
-- Infosys achieved over 1,000 Mulesoft certifications. As a strategic
MuleSoft partner, Infosys is committed to helping mutual customers
accomplish cloud-first outcomes in transforming legacy apps, modernizing
integration on cloud, developing digital apps, and building API-led
ecosystems
About Infosys
Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. We enable clients in 46 countries to navigate their digital transformation. With nearly four decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer our clients through their digital journey. We do it by enabling the enterprise with an AI-powered core that helps prioritize the execution of change. We also empower the business with agile digital at scale to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer delight. Our always-on learning agenda drives their continuous improvement through building and transferring digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem.
Visit www.infosys.com to see how Infosys (NYSE: INFY) can help your enterprise navigate your next.
Safe Harbor
"Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects, financial expectations and plans for navigating the COVID-19 impact on our employees, clients and stakeholders are forward-looking statements intended to qualify for the 'safe harbor' under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding COVID-19 and the effects of government and other measures seeking to contain its spread, risks related to an economic downturn or recession in India, the United States and other countries around the world, changes in political, business, and economic conditions, fluctuations in earnings, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services including those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration, industry segment concentration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks or system failures, our ability to successfully complete and integrate potential acquisitions, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies in which Infosys has made strategic investments, withdrawal or expiration of governmental fiscal incentives, political instability and regional conflicts, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, unauthorized use of our intellectual property and general economic conditions affecting our industry and the outcome of pending litigation and government investigation. Additional risks that could affect our future operating results are more fully described in our United States Securities and Exchange Commission filings including our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2020. These filings are available at www.sec.gov. Infosys may, from time to time, make additional written and oral forward-looking statements, including statements contained in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and our reports to shareholders. The Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the Company unless it is required by law."
Infosys Limited and subsidiaries
Extracted from the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet under IFRS as at:
(Dollars in millions)
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December 31, 2020
March 31, 2020
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ASSETS
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Current assets
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Cash and cash equivalents 3,022 2,465
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Current investments 454 615
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Trade receivables 2,629 2,443
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Unbilled revenue 1,050 941
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Other Current assets 832 748
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Total current assets 7,987 7,212
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Non-current assets
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Property, plant and equipment and Right-of-use assets 2,483 2,361
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Goodwill and other Intangible assets 1,155 950
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Non-current investments 1,094 547
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Other non-current assets 1,150 1,190
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Total non-current assets 5,882 5,048
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Total assets 13,869 12,260
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LIABILITIES AND EQUITY
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Current liabilities
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Trade payables 339 377
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Unearned revenue 544 395
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Employee benefit obligations 278 242
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Other current liabilities and provisions 1,905 1,743
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Total current liabilities 3,066 2,757
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Non-current liabilities
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Lease liabilities 600 530
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Other non-current liabilities 342 272
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Total non-current liabilities 942 802
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Total liabilities 4,008 3,559
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Total equity
attributable to equity holders of the company 9,800 8,646
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Non-controlling interests 61 55
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Total equity 9,861 8,701
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Total liabilities and equity 13,869 12,260
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Extracted from the Condensed Consolidated statement of Comprehensive Income under IFRS for:
(Dollars in millions except per equity share data)
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3 months ended December 31, 2020 3 months ended December 31, 2019 9 months ended December 31, 2020 9 months ended December 31, 2019
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Revenues 3,516 3,243 9,948 9,583
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Cost of sales 2,275 2,159 6,471 6,420
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Gross profit 1,241 1,084 3,477 3,163
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Operating expenses:
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Selling and marketing expenses 156 169 459 502
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Administrative expenses 192 204 577 612
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Total operating expenses 348 373 1,036 1,114
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Operating profit 893 711 2,441 2,049
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Other income, net (3) 77 110 203 294
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Profit before income taxes 970 821 2,644 2,343
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Income tax expense 263 194 718 597
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Net profit (before minority interest) 707 627 1,926 1,746
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Net profit (after minority interest) 705 626 1,916 1,741
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Basic EPS ($) 0.17 0.15 0.45 0.41
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Diluted EPS ($) 0.17 0.15 0.45 0.41
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NOTES:
((1. )(The above information is extracted from the audited condensed consolidated Balance sheet and Statement of Comprehensive Income for the quarter and nine months ended December 31, 2020 which have been taken on record at the Board meeting held on January 13, 2021.
))((2. A Fact Sheet providing the operating metrics of the Company can be downloaded from www.infosys.com)(.
))((3. Other Income includes Finance Cost.))
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