Surprisingly, Reliance Jio is already profitable at PAT level

Reliance Jio has reported revenue of Rs 7,213 cr, including GST, and an operating profit of Rs 261 cr for the second quarter of the financial year. However, after deducting costs related to the wear and tear of its machines, Reliance Jio reported a pretax loss of 414 cr. This means that on the bottom […]

Reliance Jio breaks even on opg level, 9.62 GB avg consumption per month

Reliance Jio has reported revenue of Rs 7,213 cr and an operating profit of Rs 261 cr for the second quarter of the financial year. Per capita data consumption was 9.62 GB per user per month. Average voice consumption was 626 minutes per month during the period, it added. This is the first quarter of […]

TCS Q2 results comes largely in line with expectations

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, the country’s largest IT services exporter, reported revenue largely in line with expectations, while net profit fell slightly. Revenue was 30,541 cr, up 4.3% on year. Dollar and constant currency numbers have not yet been revealed. Operating margin was 25.1%, up 1.7%, but still below historical averages. Net profit was up […]

Hindustan Unilever says early sales in Jul-Sep quarter affected by ‘GST myths’

Hindustan Unilever, the country’s largest consumer company that owns daily brands such as Rin, Wheel, Kissan and Surf, said the roll-out of the goods and services tax caused some confusion among retailers and distributors. “Early part of SQ’17 (July-September 2017) was affected by various myths in trade,” the company said at Arisaig Consumer Symposium today. […]

Bharti Airtel profit down 75%, says market remains “turbulent”

Bharti Airtel Limited reported a drop of 14% in its revenue for the first quarter, at Rs 21,958 crore. Adjusted for sale of its units, the drop was 11%, it said. Net profit fell 75% to 367 crore rupees for the first quarter. Operating profit was down 18%. India revenues for Q1’18 at Rs 17,244 […]

Bharti Airtel Q1 revenue up 10%, profit down 12%

Tower provider Bharti Infratel reported a 10% growth in its revenue and profit for the first quarter. The Consolidated revenues for the quarter, at Rs. 3,524 Crore, was up by 10% over the corresponding period last year. Consolidated profit from operations improved to Rs 1,575 Crore, up 12% compared to last year. Operating margin was […]

Bharti Airtel is successfully adopting the Reliance Jio model

It is not every day that a new entrant forces the established players in the market to overhaul their business models. But Reliance Jio seems to be doing just that, and rivals like Bharti Airtel are proving to be quick, if slightly unwilling, learners. In the three months from January to March this year, Airtel saw […]

Vitara Brezza lifts Maruti Suzuki’s fortunes in FY17

Maruti Suzuki said its revenue increased 20.3% in the three months from January to March this year compared to the same quarter last year, while net profit jumped 16%. “Growth in volumes, increase in share of the Company’s higher segment models, benefits due to full capacity utilization and cost reduction efforts contributed to increase in […]

Infosys guides for FY18 growth of 6.5-8.5% in constant currency

Infosys Ltd said it expects its revenue to grow by a modest 6.5-8.5%, stripped off the impact of currency movements, in the year that started this month. The street was expecting a guidance of 7-9% growth. The guidance is well below the traditional guidance range of low two digit percentages. Last year, it had guided for a growth […]

KEC International reports 22.5% rise in operating profit

KEC International Ltd, the infrastructure unit of RPG Group, reported a 22.5% rise in EBITDA to Rs 185 cr for its second quarter of FY17. EBITDA margin, which shows how profitable the company’s operations are, increased by 140 bps to 8.7% from 7.3%, reflecting a 28.11% growth in EBITDA to Rs 154.79 cr. “We have consistently […]

Cognizant cuts FY growth guidance to 8.5%-9.0% from 8.5%-9.5%

Cognizant, the low-margin, high-growth IT services company, seems to also have fallen prey to the ongoing slowness in the IT outsourcing sector. The company reported revenue growth of just 2.5% — less than that of Infosys — for the third quarter of this calendar year. Infosys had reported a growth of 3.5% in dollar terms, […]