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Infosys (NYSE: INFY) Announces Results for the Quarter and Year Ended March 31, 2016BANGALORE, April 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- - Q4 Revenue Growth at 1.6% qoq in USD Terms; 1.9% in Constant Currency Terms - Q4 Operating Margin at 25.5%; Increase of 0.6% From Q3 Operating Margin of 24.9% - FY 16 Revenue Growth at 9.1% in USD Terms; 13.3% in Constant Currency Terms - FY 17 Revenue Guidance at 11.5%-13.5% in Constant Currency and 11.8%-13.8% in USD Terms at March 31, 2016 Exchange Rates - Board Recommended a Final Dividend of INR 14.25 per share Financial Highlights Consolidated results under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for the quarter and year ended March 31, 2016 Quarter ended March 31, 2016
Year ended March 31, 2016
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130122/589162 ) "I am proud of our company's achievements in my first fiscal year as CEO of Infosys. At the same time, I am humbled by the task that is still in front of us. We started the year just two quarters into a strategy to completely reimagine the notion of services and to transform Infosys. Over the course of this year, we saw this strategy, of bringing automation and innovation to our clients, on a foundation of learning and education, start to show results in the organic growth of our client relationships, in our win rates in large deals, and in the types of projects we are seeing in strategic areas where we never participated before. I am proud of what our teams have achieved this quarter and in the year," said Dr. Vishal Sikka, CEO. "And yet despite these heartening results, they are still based on metrics of the past, of the way the industry has been. The world of our future looks entirely different - it is a world that is being fundamentally reshaped by digital technologies, and it is our endeavor to create great value for every business through solutions built on our AI technology and open, cloud platforms, to have Infoscions amplified by intelligent technology, to bring purposeful innovation to life, and in that sense, we are still very much at the beginning of this journey." "Employee attrition reduced further in Q4, and is reflective of increased engagement with our people all through the year, and our steps to make Infosys an exciting place for the world's best talent. We continue to reimagine our internal processes to increase organizational agility," said U B Pravin Rao, COO. "The momentum of large deal wins continued this quarter and bookings were strong." "Our growth trajectory improved in FY 16 and we navigated the external business environment well. We will continue to focus on leveraging operational efficiency levers for consistent profitable growth," said M.D. Ranganath, CFO. "During the quarter, cash generation was strong. We managed a volatile currency environment effectively." Outlook* The Company's outlook (consolidated) for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2017, under IFRS is as follows:
*AUD/USD - 0.73; Euro/USD - 1.10; GBP/USD - 1.51 **AUD/USD - 0.77; Euro/USD - 1.14; GBP/USD - 1.44 Management Changes The Company announced that Mr. Mohit Joshi, Mr. Ravi Kumar S and Mr. Sandeep Dadlani have been appointed as Presidents of the company effective immediately. Business Highlights This quarter we made significant advances in our strategy to deliver automation and innovation through our traditional and new service offerings, our platforms and tools, and through investments in the broader ecosystem - enabling us to create more depth in existing client relationships, win more deals and specifically large deals, and open up entirely new types of strategic projects for Infosys. Driving depth in client relationships, and winning large deals
Growing momentum in new services, platforms and tools We continued to see new strategic projects coming to Infosys based on our Aikido service offerings as well as our platforms and tools. IIP - Completed more than 220 engagements leveraging IIP; announced availability of IIP on AWS. This quarter we announced the availability of IIP on Amazon Web Services Marketplace (AWS Marketplace). Businesses will now be able to gain robust data insights quickly, while tapping into the flexibility and the lower cost of a cloud-based platform. Hershey's LLC, North America's largest chocolate maufacturer, recently used IIP on AWS to analyze retail store data. The company wanted to gain valuable, revenue-generating insight faster than a traditional analytics implementation could deliver. Hershey needed to establish its Hadoop landscape and extend its analytics and big data capabilities quickly. Partnering with the client, we had the landscape up and the data lake seeded for their analysts in less than a week. Using the Infosys Information Platform on AWS accelerated the deployment by weeks IAP - More than 125 engagements in IAP across segments; 21 additional deployments in this quarter across key accounts. Johnson Controls (JCI) is transforming the role IT plays in accelerating growth and delivering value to the business. One of JCI's goals for this transformation is to drive and improve efficiency across the enterprise through Automation. Infosys is helping JCI in this journey to delivery leading edge Enterprise Automation capabilities. JCI will automate business processes, with the help of Infosys's industry leading tools and services including Self-service, Robotic and Assisted Automation, Predictive Diagnostics, and Self-Healing capabilities. Panaya, Skava & EdgeVerve Panaya and Skava continued to gain traction both as part of large client engagements where these products were central to the value proposition, and as standalone deals.
This quarter the EdgeVerve business sustained momentum with 18 wins and 24 go-lives for both the Finacle and Edge suite of solutions across various market regions.
Design-led services - Now in every engagement and rapidly reaching all our clients. In the last quarter, we saw a significant increase in the adoption of Design Thinking by our clients globally. More than 225 Design Thinking workshops have been conducted to date, with more than 10 design led transformation programs this quarter from across industry segments. A very significant development is that our clients are increasingly engaging with our consultants to develop and execute strategic business transformation ideas and initiatives. Building a Culture of Innovators Zero Distance - Covers more than 95% of the projects base lined and managed by Infosys. Zero Distance, our program to drive innovation in every project, empowering all employees to be innovators, now covers almost all projects and is establishing a new way to achieve project management excellence. Jeroen Korstanje, IT Change Manager Enterprise Content Management, ABN AMRO, said, "We have been partnering with Infosys over 10 years. In the last 3 years our partnership has reached a higher maturity and we are truly acting as partners. The Zero Distance and Design Thinking movement within the Infosys organization is adding additional value to the partnership. Looking pro-actively at opportunities to make the work easier and automate as much as possible we already implemented a number of improvements. To strengthen the partnership even more we jointly trained all staff in the Enterprise Content Management area in Zero Distance and Design Thinking. I am confident that this will bring even more value to the bank as a whole." Extending the Reach through our Ecosystem This quarter we announced an investment of USD 4 million in Waterline Data Science, a leading provider of data discovery and data governance software. This investment is testimony to our efforts to bring innovative data science solutions across our platforms and offerings, and commitment to deliver greater business value for our clients from their Big Data assets. Awards and Recognition
Beyond Business In fiscal 2016 over INR 216 crore ($ 33 million) contributed by Infosys has been utilized across projects related to healthcare, education, culture, destitute care and rural development. In addition, the company has spent INR 86 crore ($ 13 million) crore on multiple initiatives including Chennai flood disaster relief, environment sustainability and conservation of natural resources aimed at long term sustainability of eco system. As part of its mission to better prepare all students for an increasingly digital future, Infosys Foundation USA continued to engage with local communities and invest in computer science related programs. The Foundation announced a grant of $1M in partnership with NSF to support Computer Science (CS) professional development for teachers. This collaboration will provide opportunities for as many as 2,000 school teachers to deepen their understanding of CS. About Infosys Ltd Infosys is a global leader in consulting, technology, outsourcing and next-generation services. We enable clients, in more than 50 countries, to stay a step ahead of emerging business trends and outperform the competition. We help them transform and thrive in a changing world by co-creating breakthrough solutions that combine strategic insights and execution excellence. Visit http://www.infosys.com to see how Infosys (NYSE: INFY), with US$ 9.5 billion in LTM revenues and 194,000+ employees, is helping enterprises renew themselves while also creating new avenues to generate value. Safe Harbor Certain statements in this press release concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking statements regarding our future business expectations intended to qualify for the 'safe harbor' under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in earnings, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services including those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration, industry segment concentration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks or system failures, our ability to successfully complete and integrate potential acquisitions, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies in which Infosys has made strategic investments, withdrawal or expiration of governmental fiscal incentives, political instability and regional conflicts, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, and unauthorized use of our intellectual property and general economic conditions affecting our industry. Additional risks that could affect our future operating results are more fully described in our United States Securities and Exchange Commission filings including our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2015. These filings are available at http://www.sec.gov. Infosys may, from time to time, make additional written and oral forward-looking statements, including statements contained in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and our reports to shareholders. In addition, please note that the date of this press release is April 15, 2016, and any forward-looking statements contained herein are based on assumptions that we believe to be reasonable as of this date. The company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the company unless it is required by law.
March 31, 2016 March 31, 2015 ASSETS Current assets Cash and cash equivalents 4,935 4,859 Available-for-sale financial assets 11 140 Trade receivables 1,710 1,554 Unbilled revenue 457 455 Prepayments and other current assets 672 527 Derivative financial instruments 17 16 Total current assets 7,802 7,551 Non-current assets Property, plant and equipment 1,589 1,460 Goodwill 568 495 Intangible assets 149 102 Investment in Associates 16 15 Available-for-sale financial assets 273 215 Deferred income tax assets 81 85 Income tax assets 789 654 Other non-current assets 111 38 Total non-current assets 3,576 3,064 Total assets 11,378 10,615 LIABILITIES AND EQUITY Current liabilities Trade payables 58 22 Derivative Financial Instruments 1 - Current income tax liabilities 515 451 Client deposits 4 4 Unearned revenue 201 168 Employee benefit obligations 202 171 Provisions 77 77 Other current liabilities 940 927 Total current liabilities 1,998 1,820 Non-current liabilities Deferred income tax liabilities 39 25 Other non-current liabilities 17 8 Total liabilities 2,054 1,853 Equity Share capital- INR 5 ($0.16) par value 2,400,000,000 (1,200,000,000) equity shares authorized, issued and outstanding 2,285,621,088 (1,142,805,132), net of 11,323,576 (5,667,200) treasury shares as of March 31, 2016 (March 31, 2015), respectively 199 109 Share premium 570 659 Retained earnings 11,083 10,090 Other reserves - - Other components of equity (2,528) (2,096) Total equity attributable to equity holders of the company 9,324 8,762 Non-controlling interests - - Total equity 9,324 8,762 Total liabilities and equity 11,378 10,615
Three months Three months Year ended Year ended ended March ended March March 31, March 31, 31, 2016 31, 2015 2016 2015 Revenues 2,446 2,159 9,501 8,711 Cost of sales 1,516 1,317 5,950 5,374 Gross profit 930 842 3,551 3,337 Operating expenses: Selling and marketing expenses 134 118 522 480 Administrative expenses 171 169 654 599 Total operating expenses 305 287 1,176 1,079 Operating profit 625 555 2,375 2,258 Other income, net 114 141 476 560 Share in associate's profit / (loss) - - - - Profit before income taxes 739 696 2,851 2,818 Income tax expense 206 198 799 805 Net profit 533 498 2,052 2,013 Other comprehensive income Items that will not be reclassified to profit or loss: Re-measurement of the net defined benefit liability/(asset) - (2) (2) (8) Items that may be reclassified subsequently to profit or loss: Fair value changes on available-for-sale financial asset 3 (2) 6 14 Exchange differences on translation of foreign operations 11 53 (436) (375) Total other comprehensive income, net of tax 14 49 (432) (369) Total comprehensive income 547 547 1,620 1,644 Profit attributable to: Owners of the company 533 498 2,052 2,013 Non-controlling interests - - - - 533 498 2,052 2,013 Total comprehensive income attributable to: Owners of the company 547 547 1,620 1,644 Non-controlling interests - - - - 547 547 1,620 1,644 Earnings per equity share Basic ($) 0.23 0.22 0.90 0.88 Diluted ($) 0.23 0.22 0.90 0.88 Weighted average equity shares used in computing earnings per equity share 2,285,620,95 2,285,610,26 2,285,616,16 2,285,610,26 Basic 7 4 0 4 2,285,750,31 2,285,667,25 2,285,718,89 2,285,642,94 Diluted 6 2 4 0 NOTE: Fact Sheet: http://origin-qps.onstreammedia.com/origin/multivu_archive/ENR/355774-infosys-fact-sheet.pdf IFRS-INR Press Release: http://origin-qps.onstreammedia.com/origin/multivu_archive/ENR/355777-infosys-inr-press-release.pdf 
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