IT company Hexaware today said its consolidated net profit has dipped 25 per cent to Rs 66.2 crore for the quarter ended December 31, 2012 from Rs 88.2 crore in the year-ago period.

Its revenues, however, increased 16.3 per cent to Rs 502.3 crore ($ 92.4 million) during the reported quarter from Rs 431.9 crore in the corresponding period last year.

"The Q4 2012 revenue was at $ 92.4 million, in-line with the revised quarterly revenue guidance of $ 92 million," Hexaware said in a statement.

Hexaware Technologies had lowered its revenue outlook for the October-December quarter, citing changes in a contract and a $ 4,50,000 hit on account of Hurricane Sandy.

For the full year 2012, net profit grew 22.7 per cent to Rs 327.6 crore, while revenue increased 34.3 per cent to Rs 1,948.2 crore.

"With the investments made to strengthen our competencies and expansion of our field force strength in accordance with our strategic plan, we remain confident of delivering double digit revenue growth for the year 2013," Hexaware Technologies CEO and Vice Chairman P R Chandrasekar said.

For the January-March 2013 quarter, Hexaware expects revenue to be in the region of $ 94-95 million, a sequential growth of 1.7 per cent to 2.8 per cent.

The company has declared final dividend of Rs 1.20 per share (60 per cent) on equity shares of Rs 2 each. The total dividend for 2012 stood at Rs 5.40 per share (270 per cent) as against Rs 4 per share (200 per cent) for the year 2011.

"The Board has decided to continue with the liberal dividend policy and Hexaware intends to distribute about 50 per cent of net profit as dividend. Given the financial strength and evident growth prospects, dividend will continue to be declared every quarter," Chairman Atul Nishar said.

The banking and capital markets segment, which contributed 30.5 per cent of revenues, grew 28 per cent in 2012.

Travel & Transportation and Healthcare & Insurance verticals accounted for 20.5 per cent and 16.3 per cent, respectively, of the FY'12 revenues. Emerging segments vertical contributed 32.7 per cent of the revenues.

In terms of geography, Americas contributed 53.7 per cent of the annual revenues, while Europe and Asia Pacific accounted for 27.3 per cent and 7.3 per cent, respectively.

"The revenue contribution from APAC is likely to be around 8 per cent in 2013 en-route to attaining the stated objective of generating 10 per cent of the company's revenues over the medium term," it said.