TCS Vs Infy which Stock to Choose from???

There are so many listed IT companies in  India but even today TCS are Infosys are the well known names across the world and they changed India prospect in the world also as today is leader in IT services thanks to these 2 companies specially. 

We often get confused which out of these two should we buy for long term as they have long term value creation history. Just take at few stats about these companies in respect to share gain and dividend yield only:-

Now we will clearly see the dominance of TCS Vs Infy since year 2004. But things are not same in past 5 years:-

Apart from above %age gains following are the dividend given by TCS and Infy:-

Now if you have invested Rs. 1 lacs  in TCS Share 5 years ago and after considering %age appreciation over the period of 5 years and dividend yield over the period of 5 years. Total gain will be as below:-

Now if you have invested Rs. 1 lacs in Infosys 5 years ago and after considering %age appreciation over the period of 5 years and dividend yield over the period of 5 years. Total gain will be as below:-

Now everyone can clearly see that now in past 5 years Infosys is leading the race.

In above considerations buyback of both shares haven't taken into account as for long term investors buyback is not the thing which will bother them.

But this doesn't mean now TCS will underperform the Infosys. There will be always remains some race going on between these 2 shares and so keep watching these 2 shares as these shares are market leaders in IT industry.