TCS kickstarts earnings season with worst Q3 performance in nine years
Live MintTata Consultancy Services Ltd kicked off the quarterly earnings season on a gloomy note, clocking the worst third-quarter revenue decline since December 2015. TCS reported December quarter revenue of $7.54 billion, down 1.7% from the September quarter, and close to the $7.55 billion estimated in a Bloomberg analysts' poll. “Given the seasonal weakness and software discretionary demand environment in this quarter, most of the verticals and markets saw a sequential negative growth on a quarter-on-quarter basis,” Krithivasan said at a post-earnings press conference. “TCS's weak Q3 performance was on account of muted revenue performance across key developed markets such as North America, UK and Europe as well as key clients across financial services, manufacturing, telecom, life sciences,” said Manik Taneja, executive director for IT services at Axis Capital.