Goldman rates Infy, HCL Tech as outperformers

NEW DELHI: Global investment bank Goldman Sachs said on Tuesday it had rated

Infosys Technologies and HCL Technologies as market "outperformers"

and NIIT Ltd. as a market "performer".

Goldman forecast a calendar 2000 earnings per share (EPS) of $0.5 for HCL

Technologies, $1.48 for Infosys and $1.01 for NIIT Ltd.

It said the EPS would grow 51 per cent for HCL Technologies, 71 per cent for

Infosys and 32 per cent for NIIT.

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