{"id":1045896,"date":"2026-10-30T09:24:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T03:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1045896"},"modified":"2026-10-30T10:09:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T04:39:57","slug":"indias-it-firms-hold-margins-as-ai-gains-offset-cost-pressures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/30\/indias-it-firms-hold-margins-as-ai-gains-offset-cost-pressures\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s IT firms hold margins as AI gains offset cost pressures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s major IT services companies largely maintained or improved operating margins in the July-September quarter, as AI-led productivity measures and tighter cost controls helped offset subdued client spending, pricing pressure and economic uncertainty in key overseas markets. <\/p>\n<p>Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) reported an operating margin of 24%, unchanged from the previous quarter, while Infosys held its margin at 21%. HCLTech\u2019s margin rose 131 basis points sequentially to 18.2%, Tech Mahindra\u2019s increased 40 basis points to 14.8%, and Wipro\u2019s climbed 50 basis points to 16.5% in Q2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s major IT services companies largely maintained or improved operating margins in the July-September quarter, as AI-led productivity measures and tighter cost controls helped offset subdued client spending, pricing pressure and economic uncertainty in key overseas markets. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) reported an operating margin of 24%, unchanged from the previous quarter, while Infosys held its margin at 21%. HCLTech\u2019s margin rose 131 basis points sequentially to 18.2%, Tech Mahindra\u2019s increased 40 basis points to 14.8%, and Wipro\u2019s climbed 50 basis points to 16.5% in Q2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045896","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045915,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045896\/revisions\/1045915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}