Birlasoft Ltd. share price target

ecosystem. The company's consultative and design thinking approach makes societies more productive by helping customers run businesses. Birlasoft offers IT services worldwide from development centers in India and Australia. BSOFT and KPIT's IT services business has merged to form a leading publicly listed Enterprise...

We continue to remain positive and retain our BUY rating on the stock Target Price and Valuation: We value Birlasoft at | 475 i.e. 25x P/E on FY23E EPS Key triggers for future price performance: Revenue growth is expected to be achieved via client mining, cross sell,...

Improving client mining, healthy deal pipeline, cross selling opportunities, increase in deal sizes, project ramp ups, reversal of discounts and anticipated higher net new growth bode well for long term revenue growth. Further, robust margins and healthy cash balance (inorganic expansion or healthy dividend payout) prompt us to maintain BUY rating with a revised...

Sustained improvement in margins expected; going forward Birlasoft reported healthy margins in the quarter led by higher utilisation and offshoring. Going forward, we expect margins to improve mainly led by pyramid rationalisation, rationalisation of support staff & sub-contracting cost and increase in annuity revenues & fixed price projects partially offset by investment in reskilling of employees & geographic expansion. Hence, we expect margins to improve 259 bps YoY to 14.5% in FY21E and another 130 bps YoY to 15.8% (the company has guided margins to sustain over...

Birlasoft Ltd (Birlasoft) dollar revenues declined 4.6% QoQ mainly due to milestone achievement in large deal won in lifescience segment (which declined 20.5% QoQ), discounts and project deferrals. However, the company continues to execute well on margins front, which improved 158 bps QoQ (up 288 bps YoY) to 13.9% mainly led by rationalisation of SG&A; expenses and higher utilisation partially offset by higher onsite revenues. Net profit increased 22.7% QoQ to | 69.1 crore due to higher other income. The company has declared a dividend of | 1/share. Birlasoft's order book is...

Revenue from operations declined 1.6% QoQ to | 1061.3 crore (vs. our estimate of | 1092.6 crore). Revenues from IT services and solutions declined 6.6% QoQ to | 563.6 crore while revenue from the Engineering division grew 4.7% QoQ to | 497.6 crore Reported EBITDA was down 208 bps QoQ to 11.5%, largely due to...

3QFY19 revenue declined 1.7% QoQ in constant currency (3% miss). While Engineering SBU (43% of revenue) grew 6.4% QoQ, IT Business dragged with a decline of 7.5% QoQ 16 January 2019 due to completion of a few large projects. EBITDA margin shrank 60bp QoQ (excluding translation loss) 110bp miss due to weaker revenue. PAT declined 25% QoQ (+6% YoY) to INR656m, 14% below our estimate due to the operational miss. 3QFY19/9MFY19 data of the IT and Engineering businesses. The key surprise for us was the 9MFY19 EBITDA margin in Engineering Services, which stood at 11.8% v/s 15.4% for IT Services.

Maintain BUY with TP of Rs 285, 13x Sep-20E EPS. KPIT Tech (KPIT) posted in-line revenue (PES, Digital and Product led growth), profitability beat (business-mix, utilisation). Revenue came at USD 152.5mn, 1.3/7.4% QoQ/YoY. EBITDA% stood at 13.6%, +147bps QoQ and margins expected to improve ahead with lower G&A.; Revenue guidance of 8 to 10% YoY maintained (9.7% YoY in 1HFY18), while EBITDA margin guidance raised to 14% (ex-transaction expense) vs. 11.5 to 12.5% earlier.

ICICI Securities Ltd | Retail Equity Research KPIT reported better than expected margin performance in Q2FY19 while dollar revenues were in-line with our estimates. Revenues in constant currency grew 2.9% sequentially on the back of healthy growth in engineering services. Among geography, dollar revenue growth was led by Europe (15.5% QoQ). EBITDA margins surprised on the positive side and expanded 150 bps QoQ to 13.6% (above our estimate of 11.1%). Better than...