Tech Mahindra surged 10% in intraday trading to ₹1309/share despite lackluster financial results for Q4 FY24 and FY24. The company aims for ambitious objectives by FY27, but brokerage firms like Nuvama, Centrum, and Systematix maintain Reduce or Sell ratings due to near-term challenges.
Global brokerage firm UBS raised the target price on Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the largest Indian IT services company, to ₹4,700 per share from the earlier target price of ₹4,050 per share.
After a long phase of almost two decades, during Covid there was a sudden phase of expansion in price earning multiples which IT stocks were getting. Now as nothing is permanent on markets, a phase of mean reversion or readjustment of valuations started after October 21. It has been more than two years that largecap IT stocks have been going through this and after a gap of a long time, they are showing some early indications at worst might be over. But because there has been a major technological shift in the last two years, it is a trade that only investors with patience should look at taking. Stock Reports Plus, powered by Refinitiv, is a comprehensive research report that evaluates five key components of 4,000+ listed stocks - earnings, fundamentals, relative valuation, risk, and price momentum to generate standardized scores.
Nifty IT index is probably among very few sectoral indices which are still below the high they had touched in October 2021. Yes, the sector has some headwinds which not many had thought would appear two years back. But the bigger question is whether this phase of underperformance is about to get over or not. It might be too early to say as short term performance could be many reasons, but the way stocks have reacted to bad news and see sharp upward movement with slightly positive news, it might be worth bringing them back on watch list and shed the bias of looking at all IT stocks with a coloured lens. Stock Reports Plus, powered by Refinitiv, is a comprehensive research report that evaluates five key components of 4,000+ listed stocks - earnings, fundamentals, relative valuation, risk and price momentum to generate standardized scores.
One of the basic principles of figuring out whether the stock prices have bottomed out or have topped out is how they react to the negative and positive news. Now let s use the same thing on Infy, TCS and HCL tech Q3 results reaction. The companies which have seen muted growth and given similar guidance did not do something which was very different in Q3 results. No great expansion in margins nor any indication that tech spending is back in a major way. The only difference was the expectation of the street which has been extremely low. That is why the positive reaction was witnessed and that probably the worst of the slowdown has been priced in.