Q1-FY24 · Salil Parekh
We had a strong quarter in Q1. Our Q1 growth was solid at 4.2% year-on-year and 1% quarter-on-quarter in constant currency.
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We had a strong quarter in Q1. Our Q1 growth was solid at 4.2% year-on-year and 1% quarter-on-quarter in constant currency.
We are changing our revenue growth guidance for this financial year to growth of 1%-3.5% in constant currency.
We have an ambition to improve our operating margin in the future periods. Our operating margin guidance for the financial year remains unchanged at 20%-22%.
We started the financial year with a strong performance in quarter one across multiple dimensions, including broad-based revenue growth, expansion operating margins, strong large deal wins, and strong cash generation.
We are seeing early signs of improvement in financial services vertical in the U.S.
We are very confident of our margin guidance.
We had a strong start to a financial year. Our revenues grew 2.6% sequentially and 3.8% year-on-year in constant currency terms.
While Q1 was strong, if you look at the environment underlying, it hasn't really changed. Q2, we are not really seeing the signs of significant environment changes.
We are the only large India-based technology services company to be positioned as a leader in Gartner's 1st Generative AI Consulting and Implementation Services quadrant.
Our growth was 2.3% quarter-on-quarter and 2.5% year-on-year in constant currency. Our operating margin was at 21.2%. Large deals was of the highest ever for us at $7.7 billion, and 48% of this was net new.
We are changing our growth guidance for this financial year to be growth of 1% to 2.5% in constant currency. Our operating margin guidance for the financial year remains unchanged at 20%-22%.
These large and mega deal wins help us to build a strong foundation for our future. We continue to see the overall environment where digital transformation programs and discretionary spends are low and decision-making is slow.
We had a strong performance in Q2, with robust and broad-based growth, stable operating margins, strong cash generation, strong large deals, and increased employee headcount.
Our aspiration continues to remain to increase our margins in the midterm.
We are building enterprise-wide generative AI platforms. We're building a small language model that will be rolled out across industries, and we've launched already what are called multi-agent solutions.
We had a strong performance in Q2 with increased market share gains.
Our client interactions show strong focus on deploying AI across the enterprise for growth and on cost-efficiency programs.
We are delivering more than 2,500 generative AI and AI projects and 200+ agentic AI projects for our clients.
We see lower traction for digital transformation programs and more activity for cost and efficiency programs and increasing interest in generative AI programs.
Our large deal TCV is over $13 billion, which is the highest ever for any comparative period.
We have 100,000 employees trained in generative AI areas.
Our revenue grew 1.7% quarter on quarter and 6.1% year on year in constant currency terms.
Large deals were at $2.5 billion. Operating margin at 21.3%. Free cash flow for the quarter was at an all-time high of $1.26 billion.
In generative AI, we have built four small language models for banking, for IT operations, for cyber security and broadly for enterprises.
We are witnessing six AI-led value pools emerging that could unlock a large incremental opportunity for us.
Our adjusted operating margins increased by 20 basis points sequentially to 21.2%.
We are now a preferred AI partner for top 15 out of 25 banking clients.
Our large deal wins in the prior financial year will help us in financial year 2025 for our revenue.
We have called out that we expect BFSI in FY 2025 to be better than FY 2024.
We are not guiding which part of the 2022 we will be. As I said earlier, our endeavor is to improve margins from where we are.
We feel the performance has been solid all around across the year.
At the bottom end of the guidance, we have baked in some deterioration in the environment, some heightened uncertainty.
We have not seen a change in that. However, the guidance has factored in what we anticipate in different scenarios because all of this is happening in the last few days.
We see a large addressable market for AI services across six areas: AI strategy and engineering, data process, legacy modernization, physical AI and trust.
The competitive intensity in the market has gone up and the productivity will get passed back to the client.
We have not seen in one or two quarters the change that you referenced. Though what we are seeing is a competitive intensity is pretty high.