Cognzant reported $4,184M revenue for the quarter ending December 2020, down -2.3% from the same period in 2019. With an operating profit margin of 11.1% down from 14.6% in 2019. In the context of COVID and the changes happening in Cognizant these results are good. With flat (-0.8%) revenue growth for 2020.
NTT Data reported 580B Yen up 2.5% over the same period last year, maintaining 7.5% operating margin for the quarter. Dollar growth for the year was up 1.3% (Market Prescience conversion at quarterly market exchange rates).
Tech Mahindra reported $1,309M revenue for the quarter, down -3.3%. With operating margin of 15.9% – again in the context of current market conditions this is a solid performance. They posted a slight decline in revenue for 2020 as a whole (-1.5%).
Persistent Systems also posted Q4 (calendar 2020) results – with revenue of $146M, up 11.8% over the quarter and 9.6% up for the year.
As I mentioned in my first of the blogs this is a placeholder for the Q4 2020 data – so the charts here will change and get updated as more results come in. So apologies if the text doesn’t change that much here – the data is really telling the story and that is what is being updated.
Looking at the first chart we can see the results on a quarterly basis for all these firms – the top chart plotting year on year growth for the quarters and the bottom chart showing operating margin. You can see calendar Q4 2020 results have continued to show improvement and these companies navigate away from the COVID-19 related problems of Q2 and Q3. It’s encouraging that all of the firms have see sharp improvements in growth and have maintained robust margins. This has been limited to just the global major providers as the chart was starting to get very busy, but I have posted a full chart with growth lower down in Exhibit 4. Don’t forget that the key on this chart can be used to highlight the provider you want to see and you can see the exact data used for any data point by rolling the cursor over it.
Exhibit 1 – Digital IT Services quarterly results 2018 to 2020 for the global major providers
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Source: Market Prescience Analysis of Company Financials. All quarters as a close to calendar quarter as possible.
Whilst you can see a strong curve back to growth for all of the players, the stellar Q3 and Q4 helping to get Infosys back on track – with growth in this quarter similar to rates pre-pandemic.
The second chart shows the calendar year performance of these companies – with the total revenue and annual growth. This just combines the revenue from the four calendar year quarters.
Exhibit 2 – Digital IT Services annual results 2018 to 2020 for players with published Q4 2020 results
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Source: Market Prescience Analysis of Company Financials. All quarters as a close to calendar quarter as possible.
Of the large services firms HCL, Accenture and Infosys have managed to grow revenues for the year, and are likely to have grown market share given the likely flat overall growth.
The third chart shows the results for each supplier in calendar Q4 2020 on a grid comparing operating margin against revenue growth.
Exhibit 3 – Digital IT Services quarterly results Q4 2020 (Calendar)
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Source: Market Prescience Analysis of Company Financials. All quarters as a close to calendar quarter as possible.
As you can see the performance from all most of the players has been a marked improvement over Q2 and Q3 2020. Which further shows investment in digital platforms and business agility has been a priority not just in spite of the pandemic, but in some cases because of it.
As the number of results increases some of the charts can become a little busy, so I have included a chart with just the revenue growth for all of the players at Exhibit 4.
Exhibit 4 – Digital IT Services quarterly growth all players so far
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Source: Market Prescience Analysis of Company Financials. All quarters as a close to calendar quarter as possible.
Watch this space as I will be providing further updates as the results continue to come in Table 1 shows the timeline for the rest of the service players results. By all means contact me if you think I should include another services firm.
Table 1 – Results Calendar for Q4 2020
|
Supplier |
Publication date quarterly results to Dec 2020 |
| Coforge | End Jan (est) |
| AWS | 4th Feb |
| Unisys | 4th Feb (est) |
| Genpact | 9th Feb |
| DXC | 11th Feb |
| Virtusa | 11th Feb (est) |
| Hexaware | 15th Feb (est) |
| Capgemini | 17th Feb |
| Tieto Evry | 17th Feb |
| Atos | 18th Feb |
| EPAM | 18th Feb |
| EXL | 20th Feb (est) |
| SopraSteria | 26th Feb |
| T-Systems | 26th Feb |
Indra | 4th Mar |
