HCL Tech share price: H1 will see strong bookings and drive growth momentum in subsequent quarters: C Vijayakumar, HCL Tech

C Vijayakumar, CEO & MD and Prateek Aggarwal, CFO, HCL Tech in conversation with ET Now after announcement of Q4 results. Vijayakumar says: “ Overall, our deal momentum is good. We have a strong pipeline. We believe the first half of the year will be strong bookings and that will drive good growth momentum in … Read more

Mastek: Second half of FY25 will be much stronger for IT industry: Mastek CEO

Hiral Chandrana, CEO, Mastek, says “if you remove the small acquisition that we did in FY24, we still grew at a fairly healthy rate compared to competition. We expect FY25 to be along the same lines or potentially even better. It will be a little tough in the next two quarters. It seems customers are … Read more

biopharma companies: Expect Syngene revenue to grow from high single digits to low double digits next year: Jonathan Hunt

Jonathan Hunt, MD & CEO, Syngene International, says the company deployed $55 million last year. Next year, they will be a little bit ahead of that – about $60 million. There are the usual themes within their business – automation, digitisation, improving productivity through an upgrading of technologies. About half of that should go towards … Read more

Swaminathan Aiyar | Swaminomics: BJP giving a Hindu vs Muslim twist to a socialist idea of redistributing wealth from rich to poor: Swaminathan Aiyar

Swaminathan Aiyar, Consulting Editor, ET Now, says this kind of misinterpretation of the Congress manifesto should not be taking place, although it does happen. When you see the Election Commission is pulling up somebody for a mere remark about Hema Malini, it should take action on this as it is a much more serious defamation … Read more

Tejas Networks: Wireless equipment, wireline offer significant opportunities of replacement: Tejas Networks management

Anand Athreya, CEO & MD and Arnob Roy, COO & ED, Tejas Networks , in conversation with ET NOW. Though BSNL has given the biggest order, a significant amount of the order book is for other customers and for Tejas’ wireline products. The order book is mainly the business and tenders that they have won … Read more

Persistent Systems: Our aspiration is to make Persistent a $2 billion plus company in next three years: CEO

Sandeep Kalra, CEO, Persistent Systems, says “as we go ahead, as the market conditions stabilise, that will give us the opportunity to have the leverage of all the investments we have done whether they are in the next generation technologies like generative AI or increased sales and marketing investments, etc, and that should help us … Read more

wealth creation: Investing in passive funds? Keep it simple and don’t overthink: Pratik Oswal

Pratik Oswal, Head – ETFs and Index Funds, Motilal AMC, says when it comes to passive funds, keep it very simple. There are a lot of options out there – , ETFs, index funds. Between ETFs and index funds, keep it very simple, do whatever you think is convenient, do not overthink it. When it … Read more

GAIL: After GSPL, tariff cuts for GAIL also can’t be ruled out. Gajendra Singh of PNGRB explains why

Gajendra Singh, Member, PNGRB (Petroleum & Natural Gas Regulatory Board), says PNGRB has come out with pricing revision because the companies, because of the volume growth, had made more than 12% returns Since this is a regulated entity, PNGRB is only ensuring that whatever the fine print was, if they are making returns of more … Read more

Shrini Viswanath: Dons of Dalal Street: Upstox Co-founder Shrini Viswanath’s first bet was a US stock

Stock broker Shrini Viswanath, who runs the discount broking platform, Upstox, says his personal investing journey started with Wall Street when we invested in the company he was working for. “From there, I realised that the company you work for is also a company that you can invest in; and that the work you’re doing … Read more

global it spending: Naveen Mishra on why Gartner is optimistic about worldwide IT spending guidance

Naveen Mishra, VP, Team Manager, Gartner, says in ‘25 we anticipate CIOs would execute their Gen AI strategy and as a part of it, every service provider especially the large data centre companies are spending into servers, network etc. While you have upgraded your worldwide IT spend guidance with respect to the forecast that you … Read more