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Infosys: High Quality Growth of 1.5% Year-on-year (constant Currency) With Expanded Operating Margin at 22.7%
BENGALURU, India, July 15, 2020 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

     "Our Q1 results, especially growth, are a clear testimony to the relevance 
of our service offerings and deep understanding of clients' business priorities 
which is resonating with them in these times. It also demonstrates the 
remarkable dedication of our employees and leadership during this period," said 
Salil Parekh, CEO and MD. "Our confidence and visibility for the rest of the 
year is improving driven by our Q1 performance and large deal wins."
 

     25.5% YoY
     Digital CC growth
 
     1.5% YoY
     CC growth
 
     22.7%
     Operating margin
 
     $1.74bn
     Large deal signings 
 

     - Revenues declined year-on-year by 0.3% in USD; grew by 1.5% in constant 
currency 
     - Digital revenues at $1,389 million (44.5% of total revenues), 
year-on-year growth of 25.5% in constant currency 
     - Operating margin at 22.7%, increase of 220 basis points year-on-year 
     - Free Cash Flow at $728 million; year-on-year growth of 50.1% 
     - Voluntary attrition for IT services declined to 11.7% from 20.2% in Q1 
20 
     - FY 21 Revenue growth guidance in the range of 0%-2% in constant currency 
     - Operating margin for FY 21 to be in the range of 21%-23%


    1.  Financial Highlights - Consolidated results under International 
Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) 


    For the quarter ended June 30, 2020

    Revenues were $3,121 million, decline of 0.3% YoY and 2.4% QoQ 

    Operating profit was $708 million, growth of 10.1% YoY and 4.9% QoQ. 
Operating margin was 22.7% 

    Basic EPS was $0.13, growth of 3.8% YoY and decline of 5.4% QoQ
 

    "During the last few months, we took multiple steps aimed at employee 
safety and well-being while providing seamless services to our clients. Clients 
have recognized us for the speed, security and effectiveness of our remote 
enablement efforts", said Pravin Rao, COO. "The strength and diversity of our 
portfolio was evident in good revenue performance, sizeable large deal wins, 
high focus on operating metrics and significant decline in attrition."

    
    "Operating margin expanded to 22.7% driven by preemptive deployment of our 
strategic cost levers along with tactical opportunities triggered by the COVID 
situation", said Nilanjan Roy, CFO. "Collections were robust and capex was 
focused, which led to 50% year on year increase in Free Cash Flows. Our liquid 
and debt free Balance Sheet is a huge source of strength in these times."

    
    2.  Board changes

    
    The Board, based on the recommendation of the Nomination and Remuneration 
Committee, appointed Bobby Parikh as an additional and Independent Director of 
the Company effective July 15, 2020 for a period of 3 years, subject to the 
approval of the shareholders. 

    
    3.  Client wins & Testimonials

    
    Infosys partnered with the State of Rhode Island in launching a 
privacy-first contact tracing solution to help Rhode Islanders and state 
officials slow the spread of coronavirus throughout the state. The application, 
called "CRUSH COVID RI," will utilize Infosys' Location Based Services platform 
to create individualized location diaries, while protecting user privacy. 
    
    Infosys was selected by GlobalFoundries (GF), the world's leading specialty 
foundry, as its partner for the company's Digital Transformation program. 
Through this partnership, Infosys will provide expertise and analytical 
solutions to optimize the overall efficiency and agility of GF's manufacturing 
and business operations. 
FE CREDIT, a subsidiary of VP Bank, the market leader in consumer lending in 
Vietnam, upgraded its Finacle Digital Banking solution suite to the latest 
version and migrated it from an on-premise deployment to a 
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. Finacle's cloud-native, microservices-based 
digital banking solution suite will run on the AWS cloud. 
    
    A large CPG company selected Infosys as the strategic transformation 
partner for IT services. With this engagement Infosys will provide end-to-end 
support for enabling integrated operations across Applications, Infrastructure 
and Cybersecurity.
    
    
    4.  Recognitions

     - Positioned as a leader in IDC MarketScape: EMEA Digital Transformation 
Service Providers for Oil and Gas Industry 2020 Vendor Assessment 
     - Ranked as a leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Blockchain Services 
2020 Vendor Assessment 
     - Ranked as a leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Business Analytics 
Consulting and Systems Integration Services 2020 Vendor Assessment 
     - Ranked as a leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud Business 
Analytics Services 2020 Vendor Assessment 
     - Positioned as a leader in Everest Group's Open Banking IT Services PEAK 
Matrix Assessment 2020 
     - Positioned as a leader in Everest Group's Risk & Compliance PEAK Matrix 
Assessment 2020 
     - Ranked number one in HFS Top 10: Agile Software Development, 2020 
     - Recognized as a leader in HFS Top 10: Enterprise Blockchain Services 
2020 
     - Recognized as a leader in NelsonHall Mortgage & Loan Services NEAT 2020 
     - EdgeVerve Systems was positioned as a Leader in Process Discovery and 
Mining in NelsonHall NEAT 2020 
     - Won the award for 2020 Microsoft Datacenter Migration Partner of the 
Year 
     - Won the "2020 BEST Awards" by The Association for Talent Development 
(ATD), USA 
     - Won the Pega Partner Award for Excellence in Growth and Delivery. 
     - Awarded the 2020 IBM Beacon Award for our Cognitive Digital Commerce 
platform 
     - Celent recognized Emirates NBD's millennial focused digital-only bank 
Liv as 'The Best Digital Bank' for driving a compelling digital-only 
proposition leveraging Finacle Core Banking solution 
     - Infosys' Investor Relations (IR) function was recognized as the top IR 
functions amongst Indian companies in an annual survey conducted by FinanceAsia 
     - Adjudged as the company most committed to social causes and amongst top 
three in environmental stewardship in India by FinanceAsia
    
    
    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)
 
                                             June 30, 2020       March 31, 2020
     ASSETS 
     Current assets 
     Cash and cash equivalents                  2,515			2,465
     Earmarked bank balance for dividend (3)      536             	    -
     Current investments                          371			  615
     Trade receivables				2,487			2,443
     Unbilled revenue				  949			  941
     Other Current assets (4)			  865 			  748
     Total current assets			7,723			7,212
     Non-current assets
     Property, plant and equipment and 
     Right-of-use assets			2,354			2,361
     Goodwill and other Intangible assets	  956		  	  950
     Non-current investments			  853			  547
     Other non-current assets			1,151			1,190
     Total non-current assets			5,314			5,048
     Total assets			       13,037			12,260
 
    LIABILITIES AND EQUITY 
 
     Current liabilities 
     Trade payables				  366			  377
     Unearned revenue				  410			  395
     Employee benefit obligations		  253			  242
     Other current liabilities and provisions	2,400			1,743
     Total current liabilities 			3,429			2,757
     Non-current liabilities 
     Lease liabilities				  512			  530
     Other non-current liabilities 		  288			  272
     Total non-current liabilities		  800			  802
     Total liabilities 				4,229			3,559
     Total equity attributable to 
     equity holders of the company		8,747			8,646
     Non-controlling interests			   61			   55
     Total equity				8,808			8,701
     Total liabilities and equity 	       13,037		       12,260
 


     Extracted from the condensed consolidated statement of comprehensive 
income under IFRS for:
      (Dollars in millions except per equity share data)
  

 					     3 months ended	3 months ended
					     June 30, 2020	June 30, 2019
     Revenues					3,121			3,131
     Cost of sales				2,071			2,122
     Gross profit				1,050			1,009
     Operating expenses:
      Selling and marketing expenses		  151			169
      Administrative expenses			  191			198
     Total operating expenses			  342			367
     Operating profit				  708			642
     Other income, net (5)			   57			100
     Profit before income taxes			  765		        742
     Income tax expense 			  201			196
     Net profit (before minority interest)	  564			546
     Net profit (after minority interest)	  558			546
     Basic EPS ($)				 0.13		       0.13
     Diluted EPS ($)				 0.13		       0.13
 

     NOTES: 

     1. The above information is extracted from the audited condensed 
consolidated Balance sheet and Statement of Comprehensive Income for the 
quarter ended June 30, 2020 which have been taken on record at the Board 
meeting held on July 15, 2020. 
     2. A Fact Sheet providing the operating metrics of the Company can be 
downloaded from www.infosys.com 
     3. Represents bank balance earmarked for final dividend. Payment date for 
dividend was July 3, 2020.  
     4. Other receivables include $80 million towards redemption of mutual 
funds. 
     5. Other Income includes Finance Cost.

     IFRS-INR Press Release: 
https://www.infosys.com/investors/reports-filings/quarterly-results/2020-2021/q1/documents/ifrs-inr-press-release.pdf 


     Fact Sheet: 
https://www.infosys.com/investors/reports-filings/quarterly-results/2020-2021/q1/documents/fact-sheet.pdf 


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