{"id":78,"date":"2019-08-05T11:52:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T11:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.assetmultiplier.co.in\/blog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2019-10-03T11:58:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T11:58:46","slug":"infosys-infy-in-constant-currency-growth-rate-pick-up-in-1qfy20-management-ups-revenue-guidance-for-fy20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.assetmultiplier.co.in\/blog\/2019\/08\/05\/infosys-infy-in-constant-currency-growth-rate-pick-up-in-1qfy20-management-ups-revenue-guidance-for-fy20\/","title":{"rendered":"Infosys (INFY IN): Constant currency growth rate pick-up in 1QFY20, management ups revenue guidance for FY20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>1QFY20 Results<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dated: 15th July 2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Infosys (INFY) reported 10.6% YoY revenue growth in USD terms; highest in last 10 quarters, to USD 3,131 mn in 1QFY20. The digital business revenues (36% of the total company revenues) increased by 39% YoY to USD 1,119 mn while core business revenues declined by 0.8% YoY to USD 2,012 mn.\u00a0<br>\u2022 The revenues in INR terms increased by 14% YoY to Rs 2,15,390 mn. Appreciation of INR v\/s USD impacted the revenue growth during the period.<br>\u2022 Depreciation increased by 56% YoY to Rs 6,810 mn (v\/s Rs 4,360 mn in 1QFY19) and financial interest stood at Rs 400mn on account of the adoption of IFRS 16-Leases effective April 1, 2019.<br>\u2022 The operating margins declined by ~320 bps YoY to 20.5%. Consolidated PAT grew by 5% YoY to Rs 37,980 mn<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Management Commentary<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 The management has raised the revenue growth guidance for FY20E from 7.5%-9.5% to 8.5%-10% YoY. It maintained operating margins guidance of 21%-23% for FY20 v\/s 22.8% in FY19.<br>\u2022 INFY has till date bought back shares worth Rs 59.34 bn of its previously announced share buyback of Rs 82.60 bn.\u00a0<br>\u2022 INFY revised Capital Allocation Policy of the Company after taking into consideration the strategic and operational cash requirements. It increased the pay-out from 70% of Free Cash Flow (FCF) to ~85% of FCF cumulatively for over a 5-year period through a combination of semi-annual dividends\/share buyback \/ special dividends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consensus Estimate (Source: market screener website)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 The closing price of INFY was Rs 727\/- on 15-Jul-19. It traded at 19.0x \/ 17.0x the consensus EPS for FY 20E \/ FY 21E EPS of Rs 38.2 \/ 42.7 respectively.&nbsp;<br>\u2022 Consensus target price of Rs 792\/- implies a PE of 18.5x on FY21E EPS of Rs 42.7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1QFY20 Results Dated: 15th July 2019 Infosys (INFY) reported 10.6% YoY revenue growth in USD terms; highest in last 10 quarters, to USD 3,131 mn in 1QFY20. The digital business revenues (36% of the total company revenues) increased by 39% YoY to USD 1,119 mn while core business revenues declined by 0.8% YoY to USD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[88,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assetmultiplier.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assetmultiplier.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assetmultiplier.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assetmultiplier.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assetmultiplier.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.assetmultiplier.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/www.assetmultiplier.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assetmultiplier.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assetmultiplier.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assetmultiplier.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}