Financial Performance

Revenue Performance

  • Total revenue: ₹957 million, up 14% year-over-year (YoY)
  • Revenue breakdown by product mix:
  • Technology programs: ₹680 million, up 16% YoY
  • BFSI & Other programs: ₹277 million, up 9% YoY
  • Revenue breakdown by go-to-market (GTM) mix:
  • Enterprise GTM: ₹618 million, up 8% YoY
  • Consumer GTM: ₹339 million, up 27% YoY

Profitability Metrics

  • EBITDA: ₹(14) million loss, improved from ₹(63) million loss in Q1 FY26
  • Treasury Income: ₹175 million, compared to ₹176 million in Q1 FY26
  • PAT: ₹81 million, up 85% YoY from ₹44 million in Q1 FY26
  • EPS: ₹0.6, higher than ₹0.3 in Q1 FY26

Operational Metrics

  • Order Intake: ₹953 million for Q1 FY27

Business Highlights and Strategic Developments

Portfolio Expansion and AI Offerings

  • Launched new AI offerings including Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs), Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), and AI Auditors
  • Expanded AI portfolio to address full lifecycle of enterprise AI adoption: building, deploying, operating, and governing AI solutions at scale
  • AI programs represent approximately 9% of revenue in Q1 FY27
  • FY27 priority: Scale AI programs and expand GCC/Indian enterprise penetration through outcome-led reskilling and role redesign

Awards and Recognition

  • RPS Consulting named Google Partner of the Year for the fourth consecutive year for the Asia Pacific Region

Corporate Restructuring

  • Completed merger of RPS Consulting and IFBI with NIIT Limited in Q1 FY27
  • This merger strengthens NIIT's Enterprise and Consumer portfolios

Events and Engagement

  • Hosted fourth edition of World Digital Architect Conclave (WDAC) 2026 with theme 'Architecting for Tomorrow's Experiences in an AI-First World'
  • 177 external attendees from 57 companies
  • Conducted BAL&NCE 4.0 event in Chennai with 31 leaders from 22 organizations
  • Hosted enterprise AI webinars with 821 attendees from 74 organizations
  • Unveiled India Skills Gap Report 2026 with YouGov, based on 3,500+ respondents

Market Environment Context

The presentation included analysis of the current market environment:

  • AI Anxiety: 40% of workers fear AI could replace their jobs, up from 28% in 2024
  • Reskilling has become bigger priority than hiring
  • BFSI hiring has become more selective with hiring shifting from volume to specialist roles (AI, cyber, compliance, wealth management)
  • IT freshers hiring under strain: Top-5 IT firms cut 7,389 jobs in FY26; FY27 freshers hiring outlook cut to 25K
  • GCCs continue to outperform traditional IT hiring
  • Enterprise hiring remains subdued due to productivity gains taking precedence over headcount expansion
  • Learning investments increasingly expected to demonstrate measurable business ROI
  • Growth in edtech remains muted with sector consolidation wave continuing

Three-Part AI Talent Opportunity Strategy

NIIT outlined its response to AI workforce transformation:

1. Reskill - Existing employees whose roles are evolving: GenAI + Agentic AI programs; AI coaching for banks, GCCs & Indian enterprises; Outcome-led role redesign

2. Retool - Staff displaced by AI productivity gains: Unified StackRoute + RPS deep reskilling at scale; Capability orchestration for judgment, AI output verification, agentic workflow design

3. Onboard - New early-career talent into AI-era roles: Iamneo College to Corporate bridge; Synthetic Work platform + Architect on Graduation product

People Metrics

  • Headcount: Down 65 quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) and down 19 year-over-year (YoY)
  • Excludes project retainers

Shareholding Pattern

| Category | Q1 FY26 | Q2 FY26 | Q3 FY26 | Q4 FY26 | Q1 FY27 |

| Promoters | 39.4% | 40.0% | 40.6% | 41.7% | 39.9% |

| FPIs | 11.3% | 11.2% | 11.2% | 11.2% | 11.2% |

| DIIs | 12.2% | 11.8% | 11.3% | 10.1% | 8.1%* |

| Individuals and Corporates | 37.2% | 37.0% | 37.0% | 37.0% | 40.9% |

*Includes impact of dilution in shareholding percentage due to exercise of ESOPs

Management Commentary

Reflections indicate that investments in Go-To-Market and AI portfolio continue to drive growth, and continuing investments in Go-to-Market and in AI portfolio are ongoing.

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