Consolidation to gather pace among Tier-II IT firms: Crisil

03 Jul 2019 Evaluate

Ratings agency Crisil in its latest report has stated that scaling up and the need to build digital capabilities will lead to faster consolidation among the mid-tier information technology (IT) companies in India. As per report, exit by promoters of tier II firms in the past two years who are capitalising on higher valuations and better growth prospects will also drive this trend. It mentioned that the IT companies' legacy businesses such as time and material contracts have become commoditised, posing significant growth and profitability challenges.

It has analysed 22 such mid-tier IT firms with turnover between Rs 1,000 - Rs 10,000 crore and found that there is a consolidation opportunity in Rs 33,000 crore worth of market capitalisation. Without taking any names like Bengaluru's Mindtree which is being acquired by L&T, it said moves entailing switch of ownership for Rs 18,000 crore are already in progress.

Besides, it said scale is very important in the IT business as clients prefer to work with established players with proven execution records, and pointed out to slower revenue growth of 13 per cent posted by mid-tier players between FY13-19, which is 3 percentage points slower than the tier-I firms. The tier-II companies have been slower in embracing the digital services arena, which has grown at 30 per cent over the past three years. Accordingly, digital revenues for tier-II firms have grown at a slower pace (15 to 22 per cent in three years), than the same for tier-I firms (17 to 29 per cent).

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