HCL Tech q3 2019 Investor Release
HCL Tech q3 2019 Investor Release
HCL Tech q3 2019 Investor Release
Financial Highlights 2
Corporate Overview 4
Performance Trends 5
Financials in US$ 13
Client Metrics 18
Financials in ` 20
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(Amount in ` Crores)
GROWTH
PARTICULARS Q3 FY’19
QoQ YoY
(Amount in US $ Million)
GROWTH
PARTICULARS Q3 FY’19
QoQ YoY
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Key Highlights
− This quarter, HCL delivered a solid industry leading 5.6% sequential growth in constant currency. The growth
was driven by services across Verticals and Geographies led by Mode-2 services that grew 13.1%, Mode-3
6.2% and Mode-1 3.9%.
▪ Mode 2 crosses US$ 1.5 bn run rate. The robust growth in Mode-2 Services was fueled by all the components
that include Digital & Analytics, Security, IoT and Cloud Native services.
▪ Mode-1 growth was driven by IMS, ERS and Applications, all of them demonstrating strong traction.
− HCL continues its strong deal win momentum, signing 17 transformational deals this quarter, which are a mix
of Mode 1 and Mode 2 services across all our service lines. These deals were led by sectors such as Financial
Services, Technology & Services and Manufacturing.
− HCL’s strong growth at 13% YoY in constant currency, was broad based across Verticals led by
Telecommunications, Media, Publishing & Entertainment 40.3%, Technology & Services 24.4%, Life Science
and Healthcare 23.4%, Retail and CPG 21.5%. (on YoY Constant Currency basis)
− All geographies reported double-digit growth. Americas 12.9%, Europe 14.5% and RoW (ex-India) 12.1%.
(on YoY Constant Currency basis)
− This quarter, HCL announced a definitive agreement to acquire select IBM software products for an aggregate
value of US$ 1,775 mn.
− Operating Cash Flow / Net Income conversion at 95% (on LTM basis).
− Return on Equity at 25.1% and Return on Invested Capital at 28.7% (on LTM basis).
− Dividend of ` 2 per share, 64th consecutive quarter of dividend pay out has been announced.
FY’19 Guidance
− Revenue: FY'19 Revenues are expected to grow between 9.5% to 11.5% in Constant Currency
* Revenue Guidance is based on FY’18 (April to March) average exchange rates.
The above constant currency guidance translates to 7.9% to 9.9% in USD terms based on Dec 31, 2018 rates.
− Operating Margin (EBIT): FY’19 expected Operating Margin (EBIT) range is from 19.5% to 20.5%.
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“Digital & Technology innovations are causing disruptions to traditional models of not just business, but all aspects
of our lives. Leveraging these innovations to exponentially enhance society’s potential and create solutions for its
problems has been HCL’s guiding philosophy. Aided by a strong push on next-generation business, we continue
to deliver value to all our stakeholders and remain at the forefront of supporting sustainability, diversity and inclusion
for the industry.”, said Shiv Nadar, Chairman & Chief Strategy Officer, HCL Technologies Ltd.
“Our revenues grew 5.6% sequential in constant currency, reflecting strong execution across our entire suite of
services & products. We crossed US$ 1.5 billion run rate in our Mode 2 next generation offerings. We once again
set a new bookings’ record this quarter. We are entering 2019 with a healthy growth outlook backed by the strong
relevance of our propositions in the market.”, said C.Vijayakumar, President & CEO, HCL Technologies Ltd.
“We are happy to announce an all-round solid Q3 performance. We have delivered strong revenue growth at 13%
year on year in constant currency at stable 19.6% EBIT margin. It is heartening to note that our EBITDA has
exceeded US$ 2 bn milestone on run rate basis. Our Cash EPS on LTM basis stands at a robust ` 82.0 increasing
11.4% over pervious year. We continue to post handsome Return on Equity (ROE) and Return on Invested Capital
(ROIC) at 25.1% and 28.7% respectively, on LTM basis.”, said Prateek Aggarwal, CFO, HCL Technologies Ltd.
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Overall Company (last five years for 12 months ended December)
8,393 1,652
7,617 1,512
6,746 1,373 1,380
In USD Mn
In USD Mn
6,139 1,239
5,692
DEC'14 DEC'15 DEC'16 DEC'17 DEC'18 DEC'14 DEC'15 DEC'16 DEC'17 DEC'18
1,420 82.0
1,366 73.6
1,184 1,198
In INR
In USD Mn
1,103 61.9
54.4 51.4
DEC'14 DEC'15 DEC'16 DEC'17 DEC'18 DEC'14 DEC'15 DEC'16 DEC'17 DEC'18
In USD Mn
1,069
62,812 906
60,374 60,202
DEC'14 DEC'15 DEC'16 DEC'17 DEC'18 DEC'14 DEC'15 DEC'16 DEC'17 DEC'18
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31-December-18
PARTICLUARS SEGMENTS
QoQ YoY LTM YoY
Telecommunications, Media,
35.4% 40.3% 8.4%
Publishing & Entertainment
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Public Services include Oil & Gas, Energy & Utilities, Travel - Transport - Logistics and Government.
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HCL continues to create a sustained positive impact on the economic ecosystem it operates in, by powering
enterprises, stakeholders and partners through next-gen digital transformational services, participative value
creation and innovation driven initiatives.
• HCL continues its strong deal win momentum, signing 17 transformational deals this quarter, which are a mix
of Mode 1 and Mode 2 services across all our service lines. These deals were led by sectors such as Financial
Services, Technology & Services and Manufacturing. The Mode 2 services business has now crossed
US$ 1.5 billion annual run rate.
• HCL Technologies celebrated the 10-year anniversary of its first US-based Global Delivery Center, located in
North Carolina, with Honorable Governor Roy Cooper, HCL’s senior leadership, customers, and members of
state organizations and academia. In the spirit of social responsibility, HCL and its employees also made a
contribution to the North Carolina Hurricane Irma Relief Fund.
• HCL launched its US Women’s Leadership Center, headquartered in Cary, NC. Following the success of the
Women Lead Australia program, this is a critical step in HCL’s commitment towards Diversity and Inclusion,
working with the ecosystem to facilitate STEM training, leadership development and mentorship opportunities
for women. The Women Leadership Center will be a collabroration with eminent leaders from customers,
communities, government, educational institutions, and HCL.
• HCL Technologies celebrated its 10-year anniversary in the Nordic region with Honorable Mikael Damberg,
Minister for Enterprise and Innovation and India's ambassador to Sweden Ms Monika Kapil Mohta. The
celebration coincided with the opening of a new office at HCL Nordic headquarters in central Stockholm. This
year the Nordic region grew to become HCL’s largest market in Europe. Today, HCL employs more than 1,600
professionals in the Nordics representing 31 nationalities, with 55 large-scale transformational clients including
four out of the six Fortune Global 500 companies in the region.
• HCL opened a new Delivery Center in Adelaide, inaugurated by Honorable David Ridgway, Member of the
Legislative Council (MLC) of the Parliament of South Australia and Minister of Trade, Tourism and Investment
Australia. HCL further expanded its global footprint by opening offices in Stockholm, Paris, Amsterdam and
Ghent (Belgium).
• HCL was recognized as a “Gold Standard” organization by Investor in People for distinctive people practices
this year. Investors in People is the international standard for people management, defining what it takes to
lead, support and manage people effectively to achieve sustainable results.
• Continuing its tradition of ‘ideapreneurship’ and a culture of innovation, HCL filed 19 patents this quarter.
Research, discovery and invention came from HCL professionals in next-generation technologies and
platforms, including data analytics and simulation, automation and machine learning, among others.
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• HCL was recognized by Microsoft as an Azure Expert MSP (service provider), citing HCL Technologies’
investment in resources, training, and technology to deliver successful outcomes for their customers on Azure.
• HCL Technologies and Pivotal Software, Inc. (NYSE: PVTL) collaborated to accelerate the cloud-native journey
for large enterprises.This partnership will help enterprises transform businesses by creating new generation
cloud-native applications and platforms running on digital infrastructure.
• HCL enrolled into the Google Account Acceleration Program as a Premier Partner for Google Cloud Platform
(GCP), to accelerate account interlock for target accounts and drive joint Google and HCL Business.
• HCL partnered with Cloudify, the provider of a leading cloud native orchestration platform, to bring Network
Function Virtualization (NFV) orchestrated network slicing to telecom providers. HCL’s Engineering and R&D
Services (ERS) team is using Cloudify’s platform and capabilities for a new solution that enables telecom to
create dedicated, reliable Software-Defined Network (SDN) connections.
• HCL and NetBrain Technologies, Inc., a leading network automation solutions provider, launched HCL NetBot,
a joint collaborative technology that offers network visibility and network automation capabilities for enterprise
IT teams. This will help in catalyzing and scaling HCL’s network automation offering, with the ultimate goal of
making networks proactive and self-aware, and enabling more flexible and agile network operations across the
enterprise.
HCL Foundation, the CSR arm of HCL Technologies, continued to create sustained impact through its key
programs: HCL Grant, HCL Samuday, Power of One, and HCL Uday.
• HCL Samuday continued to make sustained impact in uplifting rural villages of Uttar Pradesh, holistically across
six sectors. Implemented in 765 villages from 164 gram panchayats (village councils), the program reaches out
to 90,000 households covering a total population base of around 600,000 people.
• Under the 'Power of One’ program, 36,000+ employees continued to donate towards the social and economic
upliftment of vulnerable communities. This quarter, our HCL Community Champions have contributed over
160,000 volunteering hours across India.
• In 2018, HCL Foundation supported over 172 academically bright students from low income families from NCR,
Chennai, Bangalore, Madurai, Hyderabad, and Vijayawada with education scholarships, and 30 students
received sports scholarships (in addition to 21 existing sports scholars). This initiative is exclusively funded by
‘Power of One’ donations by HCLites.
• HCL Uday continued its effort across 11 cities to break the cycle of urban poverty and achieve long-term
systemic changes. The program reached out to 103,167 people living in underserved, migratory communities
through interventions across thematic areas of Education, Health, Livelihood and Environment using an
Integrated Community Development Approach (ICDA).
• Under ‘Uday Upvan’, 13,632 saplings have been planted in the urban forest, developed and maintained by HCL
Foundation in Sorkha, Noida across schools, residential areas, public spaces. This is a part of HCL Uday’s
endeavour to create green and healthy communities. The spirit of volunteerism that connects the HCL
ecosystem to these communities is an integral component of the program.
• HCL Foundation contributed and mobilized 20 tons of relief material to support communities affected during
various disaster situations across India.
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Leading industry experts and analysts continue to recognize HCL for its business leadership and relevance across
its broad spectrum of business offerings. Examples of HCL’s distinctions include:
• Rated as a Leader in Public Cloud Transformation, Managed Public Cloud Services and IaaS Enterprise Cloud
in ISG Provider Lens Cloud Transformation/ Operation Services & XaaS Quadrant Global report 2019.
• Positioned as a “Leader” and “Star Performer” in Everest Group’s PEAK Matrix ™ for Cloud Services, 2019,
November 2018
• Positioned as a Leader and Star Performer in Everest Group’s Application Services in Global Capital Markets
PEAK Matrix™ 2018 Assessment
• Positioned as a Leader and Star Performer in Everest Group’s Application Services in Global Banking PEAK
Matrix™ 2018 Assessment
• Rated as a Leader and is positioned in Top 8 among 24 service providers in Avasant RadarView on Hybrid
Enterprise Cloud Services
• Awarded the Cisco 2018 Award for Excellence in Software and Cloud. This award recognizes HCL
Technologies for delivering outstanding collaborative performance in all areas and supporting Cisco’s strategy
for business model evolution.
• Rated as a “Leader” and “Star Performer” in Everest group PEAK Matrix TM assessment 2018 for digital
workplace services.
• Rated as a Leader in both North America and Europe’s Managed workplace services magic quadrants. HCL
has been rated highest in completeness of vision in North America magic quadrant.
• Positioned as a Leader in the Zinnov Zones for Retail Digital Services, October 2018. HCL is strongly positioned
to provide digital retail services and it continues to gain momentum in the segment.
• Positioned as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Global IoT Services for Connected Business Operations
• Positioned as among the industry leaders in 'Zinnov Zones 2018 - ER&D Services', an analysis of the Global
Engineering R&D landscape, evolving customer preferences, and assessment of Service Providers in this
space. It is also recognized as a leader in verticals such as Aerospace, Automotive, Computer Peripherals and
Storage, Construction & Heavy Machinery, Consumer Electronics, Industrial Automation, Medical Devices,
Semiconductor, Telecommunication and Transport ratings.
• Bestowed with the Nokia Quality Award for ‘Driving Quality Experiences in Engineering’, making HCL the first
R&D software outsourcing company to be nominated in the last 20 years for the same. HCL’s innovation
framework, stringent quality process and reliable prediction models has helped the client in ontime delivery,
enhancing the product quality and optimizing budget.
• Positioned as a Leader in Everest Group PEAKMatrix™ in Medical Device Engineering Services Assessment
2019.
• Won 2 awards at Pivotal Spring One Platform 2018, “ANZ GSI of the year 2018” and “The System Integrator
Rising star award”
• Recognized as a Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Manufacturing PLM Systems Integrator and BPO
Services 2018 Vendor Assessment.
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Through Mode 1 services, HCL delivers core services in areas of Applications, Infrastructure, Engineering and
R&D and Business Services, leveraging DRYiCETM Autonomics to transform clients' business and IT landscape,
making them 'lean' and 'agile'.
• HCL has been selected to manage the end-to-end Reconciliation Services for the largest Global Securities
Custodian covering all business verticals across the globe. As a part of this engagement, HCL will leverage its
deep domain expertise coupled with its capabilities around digital technologies to design and implement the
future state operating model thereby enhancing process efficiency and providing superior customer experience.
• HCL has been selected by an international financial institution as a Strategic Vendor for IT systems
Implementation and Support Services. HCL will leverage its expertise in delivering services from multiple
locations in a competitive scenario to deliver value to this institution.
• One of the largest retail banks in Ireland has reaffirmed its relationship with HCL to deliver consistent value and
streamline operations. As a part of this relationship HCL will continue to manage its Treasury, SAP, Enterprise
Data Warehouse and Payments landscape for the next 5 years. The relationship will leverage a new delivery
centre at Madurai, India.
• HCL has further extended its long-standing preferred partnership with a large, global financial services
company. Under this agreement HCL provides the entire range of Mode 1-2-3 services with a focus on the
latest data analytics technologies and digital services as well as providing access to the portfolio of HCL’s wide
range of software offerings.
• A leading US based bank holding company offering clients a complete range of financial services has selected
HCL for Application Development and Maintenance deployment
• A leading Canadian multinational investment bank and financial services company selected HCL to support,
enhance and develop multiple applications.
• A leading cosmetics retalier has chosen HCL as one of their strategic vendors for Digital, Applications and
Infrastructure deployment.
• One of the leading global producers of industrial materials and a worldwide distributor of speciality chemicals
selected HCL to manage their end user operations, Data Centre infrastructure and Application management
scope for middleware and databases.
• HCL has been selected by one of the largest waste management services companies, serving municipal,
commercial, industrial and residential customers, to manage their data centres.
• HCL has been engaged by a global technology company to provide eCAD library management, PCB Layout,
and mCAD drafting services to the the company’s devices team for the purpose of development of its devices.
• HCL has been selected by one of the world’s biggest electric utility companies, located in France, to transform,
modernize and run their IT infrastructure and application services. HCL will completely migrate SAP to public
cloud and will help set up foundation for digital transformation for the client. HCL extended its decade long
Engineering Services Partnership with a leading North American Printer OEM to provide product development,
testing & maintenance services for multiple product lines until end of 2021. This continued relationship sets the
platform for a greater collaboration between both the companies in the coming years.
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As part of Mode 2, HCL delivers experience–centric and outcome–oriented integrated offerings across Digital &
Analytics, IoT WoRKS™, Cloud Native Services and Cybersecurity & GRC services.
• HCL entered into a Preferred Services Partnership with Broadcom Inc., a Global supplier of semiconductor and
infrastructure services for its Enterprise Software Products. As part of this engagement, HCL would be providing
next generation professional services and education services that leverages our Mode 2 capabilities across
Cybersecurity, DevOps and Agile.
• HCL signed a deal with one of the world’s leading consumer product companies for engineering services,
S4/HANA basis support, automation and migration of workloads to the cloud, by leveraging HCL’s cloud
management platform.
• HCL was selected by one of the top global consumer credit reporting agencies to provide technology-led,
integrated digital operations and apps support for multiple business lines and a digital omni-channel ecosystem
to provide superior customer experience to customers.
• HCL was awarded a sourcing engagement with a global infrastructure services company. HCL will provide end-
to-end Managed Infrastructure Operations across Datacenter, App Ops, Network & Security and Cloud
services. The engagement will consist of all services lines within Mode 1-2-3 – including components of DRYiCE
portfolio, cloud adoption, security operations, automation, Datacenter hosting and traditional infrastructure
operations.
• HCL embarked on a strategic joint development SaaS / cloud journey for the next several years as partner for
a leading global Cyber Security company. HCL will help the customer to re-build one of its on-premise solutions
with a completely new SaaS offering targeting the Small and Medium Business market. HCL will provide
engineering services for SaaS platform development, cloud connectivity, UI/UX and related API development.
• A US based agency specializing in strategic media planning, buying and analytics, chose HCL to manage their
Azure subscription requirements covering five major program tracks: Architecture Blueprint, Cloud Foundation
Set-up, End Customer Migration, DB/Server Migration, and Product Modernization (Refactor + Re-Arch).
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HCL leverages its expertise in building software IP-led businesses over the last forty years to execute its Mode 3
strategy, in an evolving world of high automation and cloud platforms. This strategy is well positioned to enable
HCL to emerge as a strong leader at the end of this tectonic shift in various software arenas including IT Automation,
Orchestration, Hybrid Data, Security and Collaboration.
• HCL announced a definitive agreement under which HCL will acquire select IBM software products for $1.8
billion. The transaction is expected to close by mid-2019, subject to completion of applicable regulatory reviews
and approvals. Below are illustrative comments made by key analysts assessing the deal:
– In a recent IDC report “HCL Acquires Software from IBM to Achieve Non-Linear Growth”, analysts were of
the opinion that these solid well-established products with loyal customers will provide an interesting growth
market opportunity potentially generating additional $625 million revenue in the first year and $650 million
in the following years for HCL.
– According to 451 Research, an IT industry analyst firm the software portfolio that HCL is purchasing from
IBM gives it direct access to some software-installed bases (Notes and Domino, as well as Unica and
Commerce) that it should now be in a stronger position to upgrade to its own platform as part of
transformation projects.
– According to TBRi, HCLT’s planned acquisition of the product sets from IBM will elevate the security,
commerce and collaboration expertise in HCLT’s portfolio. Following the addition of IBM’s salesforce around
these products through the acquisition. HCLT will also improve its position within a variety of vertical markets
as the products will bring existing product users, building its expertise around environment management.
• Nine (9) generally available (GA) products were released to the market for purchase/consumption this quarter:
HCL AppScan Standard, HCL Clara, HCL HERO, HCL OneTest Suite, HCL OneTest Embedded, HCL
RealTime Software Tooling (RTist), HCL UrbanCode Deploy, HCL Integration Platform, HCL Informix on Cloud
– Azure Edition.
• HCL continues its momentum in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomics with its DRYiCE TM portfolio of products,
platforms and services.
– HCL DRYiCETM products iAutomate, MyCloud and MyXaltics were chosen by a leading global diversified
building materials group.
– The second largest Belgian electricity producer and energy supplier chose iAutomate as their preferred
platform for AIOPS automation
– World’s leading confectionery, food, and beverage company has chosen DRYiCETM Lucy as their enterprise
cognitive virtual assistant
– World’s leading producer of industrial minerals and specialty chemicals has chosen DRYiCE TM Mycloud as
the enterprise wide hybrid cloud management platform.
– DRYiCETM iAutomate version 3.0 was launched with additional capabilities such as Change Request Tasks
and Service Requests Tasks.
– DRYiCETM Lucy is now available in French and Spanish languages. A new Framework developed for
dynamic generation of Data Model APIs was also launched for Lucy.
– HCL has signed agreements with three new channel partners to market, sell, implement and support
DRYiCETM products.
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(Amount in US $ Million)
WEIGHTED AVERAGE
31-Dec-17 30-Sep-18 31-Dec-18
NUMBER OF SHARES
OUTSTANDING OPTIONS
31-Dec-17 30-Sep-18 31-Dec-18
(in equivalent number of shares)
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(Amount in US $ Million)
AS ON
PARTICULARS
31-Mar-18 31-Dec-18
Assets
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(Amount in US $ Million)
Proceeds from sale of property and equipment (including advance) 4.3 0.8
Restricted Cash - Investment in term deposit with banks under lien for buy back - 59.9
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GEOGRAPHIC MIX 31-Dec-17 30-Sep-18 31-Dec-18 LTM Mix
Telecommunications, Media,
7.4% 7.2% 9.2% 7.8%
Publishing & Entertainment
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Public Services include Oil & Gas, Energy & Utilities, Travel - Transport - Logistics and Government.
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REPORTED 31-Dec-17 31-Mar-18 30-Jun-18 30-Sep-18 31-Dec-18
Revenue ($ Mn) 1,987.5 2,038.0 2,054.5 2,098.6 2,201.5
Growth QoQ 3.1% 2.5% 0.8% 2.1% 4.9%
Growth YoY 13.9% 12.2% 9.0% 8.9% 10.8%
CONSTANT CURRENCY (QoQ) 31-Dec-17 31-Mar-18 30-Jun-18 30-Sep-18 31-Dec-18
Revenue ($ Mn) 1,991.7 2,011.7 2,093.9 2,115.7 2,215.8
Growth QoQ 3.3% 1.2% 2.7% 3.0% 5.6%
CONSTANT CURRENCY (YoY) 31-Dec-17 31-Mar-18 30-Jun-18 30-Sep-18 31-Dec-18
Revenue ($ Mn) 1,941.2 1,965.9 2,044.8 2,130.2 2,245.5
Growth YoY 11.2% 8.2% 8.5% 10.5% 13.0%
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NUMBER OF MILLION DOLLAR QoQ YoY
31-Dec-17 30-Sep-18 31-Dec-18
CLIENTS (LTM) CHANGE CHANGE
20 Million dollar + 85 90 95 5 10
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MANPOWER DETAILS 31-Dec-17 30-Sep-18 31-Dec-18
(Amount in US $ Million)
Dec-18
Cash & Cash Equivalents 317
Fixed Deposits 748
Investment Securities, Available for Sale 346
Total Funds 1,412
Dec-18
Borrowings 557
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(Amount in ` Crores)
WEIGHTED AVERAGE
31-Dec-17 30-Sep-18 31-Dec-18
NUMBER OF SHARES
OUTSTANDING OPTIONS
31-Dec-17 30-Sep-18 31-Dec-18
(in equivalent number of shares)
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(Amount in ` Crores)
AS ON
PARTICULARS
31-Mar-18 31-Dec-18
Assets
Investments in Affiliates 27 35
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HCL Technologies (HCL) is a leading global technology company that helps global enterprises re–imagine and
transform their businesses through Digital technology transformation. HCL operates out of 44 countries and has
consolidated revenues of US$ 8.4 billion, for 12 Months ended 31st December, 2018. HCL focuses on providing an
integrated portfolio of services underlined by its Mode 1–2–3 growth strategy. Mode 1 encompasses the core
services in the areas of Applications, Infrastructure, BPO and Engineering & R&D services, leveraging DRYiCE TM
Autonomics to transform clients' business and IT landscape, making them 'lean' and 'agile'. Mode 2 focuses on
experience–centric and outcome–oriented integrated offerings of Digital & Analytics, IoT WoRKS™, Cloud Native
Services and Cybersecurity & GRC services to drive business outcomes and enable enterprise digitalization. Mode
3 strategy is ecosystem–driven, creating innovative IP–partnerships to build products and platforms business.
HCL leverages its global network of integrated co-innovation labs and global delivery capabilities to provide holistic
multi–service delivery in key industry verticals including Financial Services, Manufacturing, Telecommunications,
Media, Publishing, Entertainment, Retail & CPG, Life Sciences & Healthcare, Oil & Gas, Energy & Utilities, Travel,
Transportation & Logistics and Government. With 132,328 professionals from diverse nationalities, HCL focuses
on creating real value for customers by taking 'Relationships Beyond the Contract'. For more information, please
visit www.hcltech.com
Certain statements in this release are forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks, uncertainties,
assumptions and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking
statements. All statements, other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward
looking statements, including but not limited to the statements containing the words 'planned', 'expects', 'believes',
'strategy', 'opportunity', 'anticipates', 'hopes' or other similar words. The risks and uncertainties relating to these
statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding impact of pending regulatory
proceedings, fluctuations in earnings, our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services, Business
Process Outsourcing and consulting services including those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage
increases in India, customer acceptances of our services, products and fee structures, our ability to attract and
retain highly skilled professionals, our ability to integrate acquired assets in a cost effective and timely manner,
time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration,
our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas,
disruptions in telecommunication networks, our ability to successfully complete and integrate potential acquisitions,
the success of our brand development efforts, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the
companies / entities in which we have made strategic investments, withdrawal of governmental fiscal incentives,
political instability, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, and unauthorized use
of our intellectual property, other risks, uncertainties and general economic conditions affecting our industry. There
can be no assurance that the forward looking statements made herein will prove to be accurate, and issuance of
such forward looking statements should not be regarded as a representation by the Company, or any other person,
that the objective and plans of the Company will be achieved. All forward looking statements made herein are
based on information presently available to the management of the Company and the Company does not undertake
to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the Company.
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HCL Technologies Ltd., Technology Hub, SEZ, Plot No. 3A, Sec-126, Noida - 201304, India. www.hcltech.com
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