Akshata Murty, the wife of Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, stands to earn Rs 68.17 crore in dividend income from her shareholding in India's second-largest IT firm Infosys. Murty, daughter of Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy, held 3.89 crore shares of Infosys at the end of December, according to company filings with the stock exchanges. Infosys declared a final dividend of Rs 17.50 per share for FY23 (April 2022 to March 2023). If she retains her shareholding till the record date, June 2, she would get Rs 68.17 crore. Together with an interim dividend of Rs 16.50 a share declared in October last year, she would get Rs 132.4 crore. For the previous fiscal, Infosys paid a total of Rs 31 per share dividend, giving her a total of Rs 120.76 crore. Her holding is worth just over Rs 5,400 crore at Thursday's closing price of Rs 1,388.60 per share on the BSE. Infosys is among the best dividend-paying companies in India. Sunak, 42, in October last year became Britain's first prime
The company recommended a final dividend of Rs 17.50 per equity share for the financial year ended March 31, 2023
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Infosys on Wednesday said it has extended collaboration with data and analytics company LexisNexis to provide information services across their range of content, enterprise and product applications. Infosys will provide LexisNexis end-to-end strategic IT services across multiple business domains that include their global content systems, global business systems and product development, according to a statement. These services will provide application maintenance and support, application development and validation, life cycle upgrades, application modernisation, and content modernisation. As part of the collaboration, Infosys will also offer strategic consultancy for LexisNexis' downstream, discretionary and strategic spending. "Building further on its 15-year-long relationship, Infosys will help ensure continued delivery excellence while enabling LexisNexis to seamlessly meet expected cost optimisation goals and business outcomes," the statement said.
Infosys is taking these steps to minimise inter-city travel for its employees and provide them with greater flexibility
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Five of the top 10 most valued firms together lost Rs 86,447.12 crore in market valuation last week, with Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services and State Bank of India taking the biggest hit. Last week, the BSE benchmark fell 462.8 points or 0.79 per cent. While Reliance Industries Limited, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), HDFC Bank, Infosys and State Bank of India suffered erosion from their valuation, ICICI Bank, Hindustan Unilever Limited, ITC, HDFC and Bharti Airtel posted gains. The market capitalisation (mcap) of Infosys tumbled by Rs 25,217.2 crore to Rs 5,72,687.97 crore. The valuation of State Bank of India fell Rs 21,062.08 crore to Rs 4,51,228.38 crore, and that of TCS tanked Rs 21,039.55 crore to Rs 11,42,154.59 crore. The mcap of Reliance Industries declined by Rs 13,226.53 crore to Rs 14,90,775.40 crore, and HDFC Bank dipped Rs 5,901.76 crore to Rs 8,71,416.33 crore. However, ICICI Bank added Rs 10,905.18 crore, taking its valuation to Rs 5,94,888.25 crore. The valuat
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