{"id":1023297,"date":"2026-07-24T10:20:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T04:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023297"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:05:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:35:03","slug":"infosys-vs-tcs-guidance-trim-vs-24-margin-which-it-stock-offers-better-risk-reward-after-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/24\/infosys-vs-tcs-guidance-trim-vs-24-margin-which-it-stock-offers-better-risk-reward-after-q1\/","title":{"rendered":"Infosys Vs TCS: Guidance trim vs 24% margin\u2014which IT stock offers better risk-reward after Q1?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first quarter of FY27 showed that India\u2019s two largest IT services companies were no longer telling exactly the same story. Infosys reported a softer quarter, lowered the upper end of the FY27 constant currency revenue growth guidance and acknowledged that softer pricing and AI-led productivity gains were weighing on growth expectations. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) opened the year with stable revenue, industry-leading profitability, strong deal wins and continued cash returns to shareholders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first quarter of FY27 showed that India\u2019s two largest IT services companies were no longer telling exactly the same story. Infosys reported a softer quarter, lowered the upper end of the FY27 constant currency revenue growth guidance and acknowledged that softer pricing and AI-led productivity gains were weighing on growth expectations. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) opened the year with stable revenue, industry-leading profitability, strong deal wins and continued cash returns to shareholders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023334,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023297\/revisions\/1023334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}