Earnings calendar tightens

India’s March-quarter earnings rush starts this week, with banks and technology companies set to deliver the first broad read on business demand before April ends. (livemint.com) BSE’s forthcoming-results calendar shows ICICI Bank scheduled for April 18, 2026, and Infosys scheduled for April 23, 2026. Wipro said it will report its quarter ended March 31, 2026 on April 16 after Indian market hours. (bseindia.com) (wipro.com) Business Today, citing exchange data, said HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and Yes Bank are due on Saturday, April 18, while ICICI Prudential Life Insurance is scheduled for April 14 and ICICI Lombard General Insurance and HDB Financial Services for April 15. The same report listed HDFC Life Insurance, HDFC Asset Management, Angel One and CRISIL on April 16. (businesstoday.in) HDFC Bank separately told exchanges on March 24 that its board will meet on April 18 to approve audited standalone and consolidated results for the quarter and year ended March 31, 2026 and to consider a dividend. Infosys told exchanges on March 15 that its board will meet on April 22 and April 23 to approve audited results and consider a final dividend. (bseindia.com) (infosys.com) The timing matters because the reporting week bunches together India’s two heaviest market groups: private banks and information-technology services. Livemint said roughly 50 companies are due to report in the coming week, putting management guidance on loan growth, deposits, margins and client spending in focus. (livemint.com) For technology companies, investors are watching whether large clients are still delaying projects and how much artificial-intelligence work is turning into revenue. Livemint cited Motilal Oswal as expecting Wipro to post 1% constant-currency growth, helped by a two-month contribution from the Harman acquisition, while margins could contract by 50 basis points to 16.0%. (livemint.com) For lenders, the questions are different: how fast loans and deposits grew in the January-to-March quarter, whether funding costs eased, and whether bad-loan charges stayed contained. Livemint cited Motilal Oswal as expecting HDFC Bank’s advances to rise 3.8% quarter on quarter and deposits to grow 5.5%, with credit costs around 42 basis points. (livemint.com) Infosys lands a week later than Wipro, which extends the earnings test for software exporters into April 23. Its filing says investor and analyst calls are also scheduled for April 23, with the trading window reopening on April 27. (infosys.com) By April 23, investors should have results or board decisions from Wipro, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and Infosys, giving the market a compact snapshot of India’s banking and technology leaders at the end of the fiscal year. (wipro.com) (bseindia.com) (infosys.com)