IT services giant Infosys has seen its shares take a sharp, nearly 20 percent tumble on the bourses. However, brokerages remained positive on the beaten-down bellwether after Infosys’ AI Day 2026 where management outlined its AI-first strategy and positioning for the next technology cycle.

Infosys outlined its “AI-first value framework” as the core playbook to scale up enterprise AI adoption and capture the $300-400 billion AI services opportunity by 2030. It spans six areas, which include AI strategy and engineering, AI-ready data, process automation, agentic legacy modernisation, physical AI, and AI trust/governance.

The company is delivering AI services to 90% of its top 200 clients, with over 4,600 AI projects underway. AI-first services contributed ~5.5% of Q3 revenue. Use cases include risk detection and compliance automation in financial services, and an AI-first innovation hub with Citizens Bank.

Infosys is also expanding partnerships with AI-native firms to deepen capabilities as enterprise AI adoption scales. As per the management, ~60–80% of IT budgets are allocated to maintaining outdated systems, which creates a financial drain, heightens security risks, and slows innovation cycles.

Modern AI needs clean, accessible, well-governed data and flexible, API-driven architectures, which legacy estates often lack. As a result, modernization is becoming a precursor for AI implementation, with agentic tools now helping in code comprehension, reverse engineering, migration, and testing.

Therefore, Infosys' AI execution will be supported by the Topaz Fabric platform, which acts as a model-agnostic orchestration layer, integrating proprietary agents, third-party tools and enterprise systems.

What are brokerages saying?

Brokerages remain broadly positive on Infosys, though most stress that execution will be critical in the AI transition. BofA Securities said positioning looks strong, but enterprise AI monetisation will evolve gradually. With AI-first revenues at 5.5%, broadly in line with peers, the bigger risk lies in strategy and execution rather than opportunity size. Partnerships such as Anthropic underscore the role of services firms in enterprise AI adoption.

UBS expects AI opportunities to outweigh margin compression but will track Infosys’ investments in talent, platforms and partnerships. HSBC said that Infosys’ long client relationships and enterprise context position it well to drive wallet share gains through AI-led augmentation. Morgan Stanley added that the IT services player's management dismissed disruption fears, instead they highlighted the readiness through case studies.

On the stock front, most brokerages added that the valuations, following the sell-off, have turned attractive. Nuvama Institutional Equities said that the recent IT selloff is overdone, while Motilal Oswal expects a cyclical recovery but cautions that AI concerns may cap near-term re-rating.

"We see limited evidence for earnings cuts and believe cyclical recovery in core businesses is underway. However, concerns around terminal value and AI-led disruption may restrict near-term multiple re-rating," said Motilal Oswal.

Axis Securities, on the earnings front, noted that the sequential growth trajectory suggests a stable environment rather than an improving one. Management expects performance stability to be sustained going forward with better revenue visibility in FY27.