TCS Q3 results: Profit down 11.7% but revenue up 2%, ₹57 dividend declared

TCS Q3 results 2025-26: Revenue of Tata Consultancy Services rose 2% sequentially to ₹67,087 crore, even as net profit fell 11.7% to ₹10,720 crore.

Updated on: Jan 12, 2026, 17:28:07 IST

By Tushar Deep Singh

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Growth at Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. sustained in the October-December quarter but the bottomline faltered, even as India's largest IT services firm doubled down on its AI strategy.

Consolidated revenue of the Tata Group firm rose 2% over the previous three months to ₹67,087 crore in the three months ended 31 December, according to an exchange filing on Monday (12 January 2026). That compared with the ₹66,849-crore estimate of analysts tracked by Bloomberg.

TCS Q3 Results 2025-26 (Consolidated, QoQ)

Revenue up 2% at ₹67,087 crore (Estimate: ₹66,849 crore)
EBIT up 2% at ₹16,889 crore (Estimate: ₹16,732 crore)
EBIT margin flat at 25.2% (Estimate: 24.9%)
Net profit down 11.7% at ₹10,720 crore (Estimate: ₹13,006 crore)

One basis point is one-hundredth of a percentage point.

Separately, TCS declared a third interim dividend of ₹11 and special dividend of ₹46 per share of face value ₹1 each.

On Monday, TCS shares rose 0.86% to ₹3,235.70 apiece on the BSE even as the benchmark Sensex ended the day 0.36% higher at 83,878.17 points. The quarterly results were declared after market hours.

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Tushar Deep Singh
Tushar Deep Singh is a business journalist and digital editorial leader with 12 years of experience in financial journalism. Currently Assistant Editor at Hindustan Times, he is building the HT Business vertical and managing the newsletters for both Livemint and HT. When not in the newsroom, he can be found on a motorcycle. Throughout his career, Tushar has been instrumental in scaling digital publishing operations at some of India’s largest financial news websites. His six-year tenure at Mint—the first job—saw him plunge into online media to deliver record-breaking digital engagement for Livemint.com, including 7.2 million page views on 2017 UP Election Results day. He held fort at Livemint during a senior-level leadership transition later that year. That won him the HT Media Star Award (Bronze) in 2017 and a Certificate of Appreciation for Editorial Excellence in 2018. As the head of the digital desk at ETtech, he curated two daily, full-stack newsletters from an editorial as well as product perspective. At NDTV Profit, he transitioned from website editor to principal correspondent, reporting on the auto sector for the TV channel and website, thereby adding yet another layer to his editorial expertise. He is a post-graduate in journalism from Xavier Institute of Communications, Mumbai, and a graduate from St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad.Read More

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