Tata Consultancy Services Q1 net profit up 13 percent

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's largest software services exporter, Tata Consultancy Services , said on Thursday quarterly net profit rose 13 percent, beating estimates.

Net profit rose to 57.09 billion rupees ($900 million) for its fiscal first quarter to June 30, TCS said in a statement. Analysts on average had expected a net profit of 54.40 billion rupees.

Revenue rose 16.1 percent from a year earlier to 256.68 billion rupees.

($1 = 63.4100 rupees)

(Reporting by Nivedita Bhattacharjee and Devidutta Tripathy; Editing by Sunil Nair)