{"id":950975,"date":"2025-07-30T07:35:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=950975"},"modified":"2025-07-30T07:46:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:16:01","slug":"are-mid-tier-it-companies-bracing-for-margin-volatility-hsbc-highlights-3-key-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/30\/are-mid-tier-it-companies-bracing-for-margin-volatility-hsbc-highlights-3-key-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Are mid-tier IT companies bracing for margin volatility: HSBC highlights 3 key concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first quarter earnings season has triggered sharp stock corrections for most of the mid-tier Indian IT companies and has turned out to be a reality check for them. HSBC has flagged margin volatility, capital intensity, and weak cash flow conversion as growing areas of concern. <\/p>\n<p>Even so, according to a report by HSBC, mid-tier IT offers higher growth potential compared to top-tier companies, on the back of factors like size advantage, relationship with upstream software vendors, margin arbitrage, and aggressive management incentives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first quarter earnings season has triggered sharp stock corrections for most of the mid-tier Indian IT companies and has turned out to be a reality check for them. HSBC has flagged margin volatility, capital intensity, and weak cash flow conversion as growing areas of concern. Even so, according to a report by HSBC, mid-tier IT offers higher growth potential compared to top-tier companies, on the back of factors like size advantage, relationship with upstream software vendors, margin arbitrage, and aggressive management incentives.<\/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-950975","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\/950975","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=950975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}