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Stock analysis: Tata Consultancy Services
This article is about Tata Consultancy Services.
Tata Consultancy Services Limited and its subsidiaries provide IT services, consulting and business solutions and have been partnering with many of the worlds largest businesses in their transformation journeys for the last fifty years. The Group offers a consulting-led, cognitive powered, integrated portfolio of IT, business and engineering services and solutions.
Market capitalization and stock price history
Tata Consultancy Services has a market capitalization of 12.025 trillion, at the time of making this video.
Its stock price made an all time high of rupees 3176 on 11 January 2021.
In past five years, the stock price made a low of rupees 1050 on 11 November 2016.
Stock returns
This stock gave compounded annual growth of 44 percentage over past one year, 31 percentage over past three years, and 22 percentage over past five years.
Revenue and profits
In past 12 months, Tata Consultancy Services had a revenue of rupees 1.6 trillion, and a gross profit of rupees 687.0 billion.
As compared to previous fiscal year, in the past 12 months, it has seen a revenue growth of 2.2%.
On 31/3/2020, Tata Consultancy Services reported a total revenue of rupees 1.6 trillion, and has seen a revenue growth of 7.2% from the previous year.
The company reported an EBITDA of rupees 467.0 billion.
Fundamental analysis
Now let us look at some key financial ratios to guage how good or bad this stock is.
Its "beta" value, which is a measure of volatility of stock, is 0.68.
This means the stock moves with less volatility than the market. High-beta stocks are supposed to be riskier but provide higher return potential; low-beta stocks pose less risk but also lower returns.
Based on the last twelve months, the price to earnings ratio is 39.05.
The price to earnings ratio indicates whether the stock is undervalued or overvalued.
Based on the last twelve months, the earnings per share value is 83.24.
Now, we will compare some key financial ratios with the top 1000 NSE stocks.
For this purpose, we divide the distribution of these key indicators in to four parts or "quartiles".
Quartile region is obtained by dividing all the stocks in 4 buckets, so that each bucket contain same number of stocks.
As compared to top 1000 stocks in NSE, Tata Consultancy Services has its beta value in the first quartile.
This means the stock exhibits very low volatility.
Tata Consultancy Services has earnings per share of 83.24, which is higher than 93% of top 1000 NSE stocks.
The earnings per share value is very good.
Earnings per share is a company's net profit divided by the number of outstanding shares. This is a wildly used metric to estimate corporate value.
Tata Consultancy Services has price to earnings ratio of 39.05, which is higher than 51% of top 1000 NSE stocks.
The price to earnings ratio is in the third quartile, this means the company stock may be overvalued.
A high price to earnings ratio may also mean that investors are expecting high growth rates in the future.
Price to earnings ratio measures its current share price relative to its per-share earnings.
Tata Consultancy Services has price to book value ratio of 14.81, which is higher than 92% of top 1000 NSE stocks.
The price to book value ratio is in the fourth quartile, this means the stock may be hyped.
The price-to-book ratio compares a company's market value to its book value. Book value is net assets of the company.
This ratio should be looked at in conjunction with return on equity ratio. A low return on equity combined with high price to book ratio means stock is overvalued.
Tata Consultancy Services has return on equity value of 38.19%, which is higher than 88% of top 1000 NSE stocks.
The return on equity for this stock is in the fourth quartile, which is very good.
The return on equity is calculated by taking company's net earnings after taxes, subtracting preferred dividends, and dividing by the total equity.
Tata Consultancy Services has debt to equity ratio of 9.88, which is higher than 25% of top 1000 NSE stocks.
The debt to equity ratio for this stock is in the second quartile, which is good.
A debt to equity ratio is company's total liabilities divided by shareholder's equity, and lower value of this ratio is preferred.
This ratio is a measure of the degree to which a company is financing its operations through debt versus wholly-owned funds.
A higher value of this ratio tend to indicate higher risk to the investors.
Tata Consultancy Services has operating cash flow of 385.5 billion in the past 12 months, which is higher than 92% of top 1000 NSE stocks.
The operating cash flow for this stock is in the fourth quartile, which is very good.
Tata Consultancy Services has levered free cash flow of 357.6 billion in the past 12 months, which is higher than 82% of top 1000 NSE stocks.
The levered free cash flow for this stock is in the fourth quartile, which is very good.
Tata Consultancy Services has payout ratio of 48.05%, which is higher than 79% of top 1000 NSE stocks.
The payout ratio of this stock is in the fourth quartile, which is very good.
The dividend payout ratio provides an indication of how much money a company is returning to shareholders versus how much it is keeping on hand to reinvest in growth, pay off debt, or add to cash reserves.
Income Statement
The company reported an EBITDA of rupees 467.0 billion in year 2020, which is 7% more than the EBITDA from the previous year.
The company showcased earnings per share of 86.2 in year 2020, which is 4% more than the EPS from the previous year.
Balance sheet
Tata Consultancy Services has shown year on year decrease in stockholder's equity by -5.9% in year 2020.
This stock showed year on year increase in stockholder's equity by 5.1% in year 2019.
This stock showed year on year decrease in stockholder's equity by -1.3% in year 2018.
Cash flow
Tata Consultancy Services has free cash flow of rupees 357.6 billion in the past twelve months.
The free cash flow for the year 2020 was rupees 291.2 billion.
Fundamental analysis
Here you can see statistics related to number of shares.
72.06% of shares are help by insiders
16.11% of shares are help by institutions
Tata Consultancy Services is at position 2 in terms of market capitalization among the nifty 50 stocks.
Tata Consultancy Services is at position 7 in terms of annual revenue among the nifty 50 stocks.
Tata Consultancy Services is at position 1 in terms of free cash flow among the nifty 50 stocks.
Here, we presented a very simplified assessment of fundamental indicators. We categorized the performance on each indicator by comparing it with top 1000 NSE stocks.
On your side, go thoroughly through the financial data before deciding on investing in this stock.
