TCS vs Infosys stock comparison | Q2FY21 Analysis

TCS vs Infosys stock comparison | Which one is better? Q2FY21 results analysis

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Introduction

Recently, both the IT giants, TCS and Infosys declared their quarterly results, you must be wondering if should I buy Infosys share or TCS. Both the companies have delivered results that beat the estimates of analysts. In Q1FY21, management commentaries of these companies were a bit skeptical about continuing such stellar performance in the future, however, Q2FY21 results have turned out much better. In this blog, let us analyze and compare the performance of these two IT companies (TCS vs Infosys share) based on seven parameters.

TCS vs Infosys

Q2FY21 results

• TCS turnover has registered greater QoQ growth in terms of revenue (both INR and USD) and Infosys have registered higher YoY growth in terms of revenue (both INR and USD)
• For operating profit from a growth point of view, Infosys has performed better than TCS.
• Both the companies have performed quite well on the operating margin front posting healthy margins of ~25-26%.
• For this quarter, TCS has made some provisions where it might have to pay some fine regarding a claim. Excluding this provision, TCS reported a net profit of INR 7475 crore.
• TCS has posted better net profit growth on a QoQ basis, while Infosys has posted better net profit growth on a YoY basis.

Free Cashflow Q2FY21

• Here as well, from a growth perspective, Infosys has posted better growth in Free cash flows as compared to TCS.

Client Parameters

• Overall Infosys is quite aggressive at adding new clients in almost all the categories.

Revenue by Geography

• TCS has a higher revenue contribution from the European region as compared to Infosys, whereas Infosys has a higher revenue contribution from North America.

Revenue by business segment

• Infosys has a higher revenue contribution from Communication & Media, while TCS has higher revenue from Life Sciences and Healthcare.
• Revenue contributions from the remaining segments for TCS and Infosys are almost similar.

Employee Metrics

• TCS has almost 2x the employees as compared to Infosys.
• However, Infosys workforce is more diversified and has a lesser attrition rate as compared to TCS.

Other Parameters

•  TCS market cap in USD is almost ~2.5x Infosys market capitalization. As seen from the comparison with median PE and current PE, of Infosys PE Ratio it is evident that all IT stocks are trading at premium valuations.

• Both the companies are open for inorganic growth in the form of acquisitions and mergers on account of healthy cash balances.
• From a Sales growth perspective, TCS and Infosys have similar growth rates for 3 years and 5 years, whereas Infosys is better placed in terms of TTM sales growth.
• Except for TTM net profit growth, TCS has better growth rates as compared to Infosys, whereas Infosys has healthy TTM net profit growth.

• As of Sept’20, TCS has a very high promoter holding of 72.1%, whereas Infosys has a promoter holding of ~13%. There is a huge difference in the free-float market capitalization of both companies.
• Due to this, Infosys has greater weightage in indices like NIFTY 50 and SENSEX as compared to TCS.
• This is also one of the reasons for the higher valuation of TCS as there is lesser free float, the demand for shares is greater than supply.

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