Strong order book, diversified portfolio drive Street's confidence in TCS

The positive from TCS' point of view, which reported flat sales growth QoQ, was the strong order book which topped the $10.2-billion mark

The Street shrugged off a muted first quarter of financial year 2023-24 (Q1FY24) and a cautious near-term outlook by India’s largest information technology (IT) services company, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). The stock was the top Nifty50 and Sensex gainer on Thursday, rising 2.5 per cent, as investors took comfort from a robust order book and an encouraging pipeline.

Like its larger peer, HCL Technologies’ (HCL Tech), too fell short of the Street’s expectations on the revenue and margin fronts given cuts in discretionary expenditure. While the margin impact for TCS was on account of higher wage costs, a lower profitability in