CTSH
Cognizant Technology Solutions CorporationEvidence as of 2026-09-02Overview · Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation, a professional services company, provides consulting and technology, and outsourcing services in North America, Europe, and internationally. It operates through four segments: Financial Services; Health Sciences; Products and Resources; and Communications, Media and Technology. The company offers customer experience enhancement, robotic process automation, analytics, and AI…
Management team
- Mr. Rajesh Varrier · President of Operations & MD of Cognizant IndiaFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Surya Gummadi · President of AmericasFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Balu Ganesh Ayyar · President of Intuitive Operations & AutomationFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. John Sunshin Kim · Chief Legal Officer, Chief Administrative Officer & Corporate SecretaryFind on LinkedIn
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Moneyta sentiment
Where the published evidence leans after the desk debated it — not a rating or a recommendation.
+0.0 on a −2 to +2 scale.
What builds the score
Solid bars are analyst rubric scores; faded bars are computed directly from data. Claims dropped in debate count for nothing; weakened claims count at half weight.
Editor's note
Written after the debate settled — the rest of the page is the evidence behind it.
The evidence balance is Mixed. In fiscal quarter Q1 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-04-24) revenue was $5,413,000,000 versus $5,115,000,000 in fiscal quarter Q1 2025 (fiscal quarter ended 2025-04-25), an increase of $298,000,000 (≈ 5.8%). Operating income edged down from $853,000,000 to $843,000,000, causing operating margin to compress from about 16.7% to about 15.6% (a decline of ≈ 1.1 percentage points), while net income was essentially flat at $662,000,000 versus $663,000,000.
Cash-flow and balance-sheet signals show cash and cash equivalents declining from $1,980,000,000 as of 2025-03-31 to $1,510,000,000 as of 2026-03-31 and operating cash flow in the quarter falling from $400,000,000 to $274,000,000. Weighted-average diluted shares outstanding fell from 495,000,000 in Q1 2025 to 477,000,000 in Q1 2026 as reported cash used for share repurchases rose from $209,000,000 to $444,000,000.
How this note was made
every stage ran before the note was writtenAnalyst desk
Mercer, Oakes, Nash, Ellis, Yates, Talbot and Archer. The desk: named AI agents, not people. Each reads one slice of the evidence and nothing else — no outside knowledge, no browsing — so every finding traces to a source you can open.
Reads the XBRL figures companies file with the SEC — revenue, margins, income, debt and share count, quarter by quarter — and reports which way the trend is running.
Revenue in the fiscal quarter Q1 2026 (2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31) was $5,413,000,000 versus revenue in the fiscal quarter Q1 2025 (2025-01-01 to 2025-03-31) of $5,115,000,000, an increase of $298,000,000 (≈5.8%).
XBRL companyfacts · 0001058290-26-000016Operating income in the fiscal quarter Q1 2026 (2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31) was $843,000,000 compared with operating income in the fiscal quarter Q1 2025 (2025-01-01 to 2025-03-31) of $853,000,000, a decrease of $10,000,000.
XBRL companyfacts · 0001058290-26-000016Reads the filings themselves, above all the year-over-year diff of Item 1A risk factors: which risks a company added, dropped or quietly reworded since its last annual report.
Which filings the desk reads
The desk reads the annual 10-K in full — its risk factors, and how they changed since last year. Quarterly 10-Qs and event filings (8-Ks, insider Form 4s) are listed for context but not read line by line: the 10-K is where the material risk disclosures live. A brand-new company, or one we have only just begun tracking, may have no annual report on file yet — its risk analysis fills in once that lands.
A Form 4 for Cognizant was filed on 2026-08-27 (filed_date 2026-08-27) under the 4 filed 27 August 2026 and the evidence record shows parse_status as "pending".
4 filed 2026-08-27A Form 4 for Cognizant was filed on 2026-08-27 (filed_date 2026-08-27) under the 4 filed 27 August 2026 and the evidence record shows primary_doc_url as null.
4 filed 2026-08-27Reads the signal panel above — momentum, volatility, drawdown, relative strength and beta — and ranks each against the whole research universe rather than judging it in isolation.
Beta vs SPY is 0.22 and correlation vs SPY is 0.07 as of 2026-09-01.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-09-01Short-term momentum is mixed: 3-month momentum is +15.0% while 6-month momentum is -0.8% and the 12_1 momentum measure is -21.6% as of 2026-09-01.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-09-01weakened in debateReads which funds hold the name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings, to show the exposure you may already carry through index funds.
As of 2026-09-02, CTSH appears in multiple ETFs with reported fund weights including VO at 0.46%, XLK at 0.41%, JEPI at 0.34%, VGT at 0.32%, and VTV at 0.18%.
ETF constituents · market dataThe latest reported 13F quarter, as of 2026-03-31, shows institutional 13F holdings totaling $12.3M, with 2 reporting holders, 1 new position, and a quarter-over-quarter value change of +193.8%.
13F holdings · 2 filers · as of 2026-03-31Reads recent headlines that are genuinely about this company, ignoring rating chatter and market-wide stories. Findings argue in the debate but never move the sentiment score.
Multiple press releases on 2026-09-01 announce Cognizant's planned participation in upcoming investor conferences, indicating company-driven investor communication activity.
News · finance.yahoo.com · 2026-09-01On 2026-08-31 Cognizant and CrowdStrike announced an expanded collaboration introducing an OT security service branded Cognizant Cybersecurity for Operational Technology, a partnership story carried by at least two outlets.
News · finance.yahoo.com · 2026-08-31Reads parsed Forms 3/4/5 — who bought or sold, at what size, and whether a 10b5-1 plan was involved. Flags clustered open-market officer buying; treats plan sales as routine and never counts a fund or 10%-holder as an officer.
No insider transactions on file in the trailing 180 days.
Reads the implied-expectations math built from the company's own filings (the growth rate today's price would justify, and the multiples beside it) and argues whether the market's bar looks high or low for this business. Never turns the math into a target.
At the market price 63.39 on 2026-09-01, the model reports an implied free cash flow (FCF) growth rate of 15.38% (0.1538) that today's price would justify under the stated discount and terminal assumptions.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closePrice to trailing twelve-month free cash flow is 25.89 (price_to_fcf = 25.89), with FCF TTM of $1,168,000,000 and FCF per share of $2.4486.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeDebate and risk review
A bull and a bear contest the claims and the chair rules on each; the risk review stress-tests what survived.
A bull and a bear argue the analysts' claims across two rounds, then a chair rules on each one. Only what survives feeds the score — the argument is shown, not hidden, so you can judge the reasoning yourself.
Several pieces of company-filed and market-signal evidence jointly support a favorable read: Q1 2026 top-line growth of ≈5.8% (fundamentals-0, strong evidence from the 10-Q filing) combined with essentially flat net income (fundamentals-3, strong) while diluted share count materially fell due to increased repurchases (fundamentals-4, strong) implies earnings-per-share support even with operating-income compression. Valuation and market signals add context: a mid-teens trailing P/E of 13.78 and an EV/EBITDA of 7.47 (valuation-2 and valuation-3, moderate-to-strong) do not reflect excessive premium, and price trading above the 50- and 200-day SMAs with a meaningful dividend yield (market-4 and market-5, moderate) indicate investor interest and income support. Recent partnership and AI/OT product announcements (news-1, news-2, moderate) plus a small but large-percentage institutional inflow in the latest 13F (ownership-1, weak-to-moderate) provide corroborating business-development signals. The bear points about cash flow decline and cash balance reduction (fundamentals-5 and fundamentals-6, strong) are real but occur alongside explicit increased share repurchases and stable long-term debt (fundamentals-4 and fundamentals-7, strong), suggesting the deployment of cash into capital return rather than debt reduction; volatility and multi-year drawdowns (market-2 and market-3, strong) are important risk signals but coexist with technical recovery above SMAs (market-4, moderate).
Chair's verdict, claim by claim
Fragility · computed, not argued
balanced0.31
34 surviving claims rest on 18 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 24% of them, and 98% of what the desk raised survived the debate.
The surviving-read set is moderately concentrated: 34 claims come from 18 distinct sources, so many claims are supported but not highly redundant. One analyst contributed nearly a quarter of the claims and 98% of the desk’s points survived debate, which suggests strong internal coherence but also some dependence on a few contributors — treat the aggregate as informative but somewhat brittle to errors in the heavier-weighted sources.
Peer context · computed, not argued
12-1 momentum ranks 3rd of 7 in Information Technology Services (as of 2026-09-01).
90-day volatility ranks 6th of 7 in Information Technology Services (as of 2026-09-01).
dividend yield ranks 4th of 7 in Information Technology Services (as of 2026-09-01).
Disconfirming evidence · base rates · falsifiers
Context
Outside consensus, and where this name already sits in your own portfolio.
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What this was built from
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13 filings· 1 cited
SEC XBRL filings
Quarterly figures as filed with the SEC, read straight from EDGAR's structured data — not retyped or estimated.
Read by Mercer−0.3 to the score
10 documents· 2 cited
SEC filing documents
The filings themselves, including the year-over-year comparison of Item 1A risk factors.
Read by Oakes+0.0 to the score
1 signal set
Moneyta signal set
Computed from our own end-of-day price history and ranked against the whole research universe. No AI involved.
Read by Nash+0.0 to the score
3 holdings records· 2 cited
Fund holdings
Which funds hold this name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings.
Read by Ellis+0.3 to the score
8 headlines· 2 cited
News coverage
Recent headlines about this company, rating chatter excluded and nothing published after the report date.
Read by Yatesnothing survived
1 computation
Valuation inputs
TTM cash-flow figures from the company's own XBRL filings, priced with the stored closing price. Implied growth and multiples only; no fair-value dollar figure reaches the desk, by design.
Read by Archercontext only
1 record· 0 cited
Company profile
Sector, industry and company details.
1 record· 0 cited
Analyst consensus
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Written by AI, checked against sources
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