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The rise in the Cyient share price came after the company announced that it has incorporated Cyient Semiconductors Private Limited as a wholly owned subsidiary of the company.
On the bourses, Mphasis has rallied 26.7 per cent in the last three months, driven by expectations of interest rate cuts in the US and early signs of recovery in the US-BFS sector.
The rally in IT stocks came on the heels of a major drop in US jobless claims, which fell to 233,000 for the week ending August 3-the largest decline in nearly a year.
Prior to this, the IT sector was divided into software, services and hardware technology
Domestically, foreign institutional investors were net buyers on July 16, acquiring shares worth Rs 1,271.45 crore, whereas domestic institutional investors sold shares worth Rs 529.48 crore.
The equity segment, equity derivative segment, and SLB segment will remain closed for the entire day on July 17.
Why are stock markets rising: A large part of Friday's rally in Sensex, Nifty50 indices was led by information technology (IT) stocks
The uptick in stock price came after the company announced the strategic expansion of its semiconductor business with the establishment of a fully owned subsidiary
IT stocks outlook: TCS can potentially rally another 6 per cent from present levels; while Infosys, Wipro and LTIMindtree can rally up to 15%, suggest charts.
IT stocks today: TCS, Mphasis, Accelya Solutions India, Sonata Software, and Kellton Tech Solutions rose in the range of 3 per cent to 6 per cent
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is expected to register a single-digit growth in revenue and profit for the April-June quarter of fiscal year 2024-25 (Q1FY25)
Given the bottoming out of revenue growth rate, analysts expect the earnings per share (EPS) downgrade cycle to come to an end for the sector
The Nifty IT index has outperformed surging 14% in the last one month owing to the recent portfolio shift after the election outcome, and hope for a better calendar year 2025.
What Accenture results mean for Indian IT: Analysts believe FY25 Street estimates for Indian IT companies have been adequately rationalised, implying little downgrade risk from current levels
Infosys, Wipro, Coforge, Persistent Systems, Mphasis and LTIMindtree rallied up to 6% on the NSE
The NSE Nifty 50 index was up 1% at 23,060 points and the S&P BSE Sensex added 1.2% to 75,941 points after the rate decision
The share was also the top gainer on both the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and National Stock Exchange (NSE)
The company informed the stock exchange that it has advanced its icxPro platform with NVIDIA AI Enterprise to boost customer experience (CX) solutions powered by AI.
Traditional software companies' earnings and valuations are at risk because their business models are not evolving with the times, said Deven Choksey, managing director of DRChoksey FinServ Pvt
Indices post biggest gains in two weeks