{"id":984987,"date":"2026-01-13T09:09:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T03:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984987"},"modified":"2026-01-13T09:12:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T03:42:04","slug":"tcs-q3-profit-falls-14-per-cent-as-exceptional-costs-and-legal-hits-drag-fy26-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/13\/tcs-q3-profit-falls-14-per-cent-as-exceptional-costs-and-legal-hits-drag-fy26-results\/","title":{"rendered":"TCS Q3 profit falls 14 per cent as exceptional costs and legal hits drag FY26 results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Monday reported a 14 per cent year-on-year drop in consolidated net profit for Q3FY26 to \u20b910,657 crore from \u20b912,380 crore in Q3FY25, missing Street estimates, as large exceptional charges linked to restructuring, labour law changes and a US legal provision weighed on earnings for the quarter. <\/p>\n<p>Profit before exceptional items and taxes in Q3FY26 stood at \u20b917,469 crore, up 4.81 per cent over \u20b916,666 crore in Q3FY25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Monday reported a 14 per cent year-on-year drop in consolidated net profit for Q3FY26 to \u20b910,657 crore from \u20b912,380 crore in Q3FY25, missing Street estimates, as large exceptional charges linked to restructuring, labour law changes and a US legal provision weighed on earnings for the quarter. Profit before exceptional items and taxes in Q3FY26 stood at \u20b917,469 crore, up 4.81 per cent over \u20b916,666 crore in Q3FY25.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984987","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=984987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}