CTSH

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation
NasdaqGSUSDEQUITY Technology DELAYED
Last price
57.24
▼ 0.93 (1.60%)
MARKET · —

Price

1D — H — L — Range — Vol —
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Open
58.16
Prev close
58.17
Day high
58.72
Day low
56.93
Volume
5.40M
Market cap
$25.77B
P/E (TTM)
12.52
52W range
37.08 – 87.03

Day trading desk

Current session · delayed
Gap from prior close
-0.02%
Prior close 58.17
VWAP
57.44
-0.34% from price
Relative volume
0.84×
Normal
Session range
6.52%
56.00 – 59.65
Position in range
34%
Mid range
ATR (14D)
2.27
3.97% of price
Prior day high
58.81
PDH
Prior day low
57.74
PDL
Bid / ask spread
—
Quote not published
Session volume
6.59M
Avg 7.82M

VWAP and the session figures are computed from the delayed intraday series on this page, so they lag the live tape and will not match a broker's real-time VWAP exactly. Turn on Prior day H/L/C, Opening range and Volume profile in the chart's Studies menu to see these levels drawn on price.

Trailing performance

Price return · vs SPY
Returnvs SPY
1W
+0.67% -1.3%
1M
-8.17% -9.3%
3M
+34.86% +30.3%
6M
-6.94% -25.1%
YTD
-31.06% -45.3%
1Y
-15.43% -31.8%
3Y
-15.53% -97.8%
5Y
— —

Price return only. Dividends are not reinvested, so total return on a dividend payer will be higher than shown.

Unusual options activity

Account required
Nothing crossed the thresholds in the expiries we scanned.
That is the normal state — most contracts trade well inside their existing open interest.
Free account required

Contracts trading at or above their open interest, ranked by notional and where the print landed.

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Options chains and analytics, valuation ratios, insider filings, analyst targets and ownership. No card, no trial, nothing to cancel.

Insider net activity

6m · Form 4 rollup
Net shares
+106.48K
Net buying
Buy transactions
39
124.33K shares
Sell transactions
9
17.85K shares
Net transactions
+48
Buys less sells
Sell : buy shares
0.1 : 1
Mixed
Insider-held shares
585.58K
Total on file
Bought 124.33KSold 17.85K

Insider transactions

Account required
DateInsiderAction SharesValueHeld
Sep 15, 26
KERDMAN ALINA
Officer
— 200 — Direct
Sep 15, 26
SINGISETTI RAVI KUMAR
Chief Executive Officer
— 5.99K — Direct
Sep 15, 26
AYYAR BALU GANESH
Officer
— 849 — Direct
Sep 15, 26
GUMMADI SURYA KUMARI
Officer
— 2.00K — Direct
Sep 15, 26
KIM JOHN SUNSHIN
Officer
— 1.65K — Direct
Sep 15, 26
DIAZ KATHRYN
Officer
— 749 — Direct
Sep 14, 26
KERDMAN ALINA
Officer
SELL 134 $8.36K Direct
Sep 2, 26
KIM JOHN SUNSHIN
Officer
SELL 2.50K $158.43K Direct
Sep 1, 26
DALAL JATIN PRAVINCHANDRA
Chief Financial Officer
— 6.45K — Direct
Sep 1, 26
VARRIER RAJESH
Officer
— 544 — Direct
Sep 1, 26
KERDMAN ALINA
Officer
— 621 — Direct
Sep 1, 26
SINGISETTI RAVI KUMAR
Chief Executive Officer
— 15.09K — Direct
Sep 1, 26
AYYAR BALU GANESH
Officer
— 2.06K — Direct
Sep 1, 26
GUMMADI SURYA KUMARI
Officer
— 5.22K — Direct
What this is, and what it is not

These are SEC Form 4 filings — officers, directors and 10% owners reporting their own trades in the company's stock. Filing is due within two business days of the transaction, so this lags reality by days, and the provider adds its own lag on top.

A sale is not automatically bearish. Executives sell on scheduled 10b5-1 plans, to cover tax on vesting equity, and to diversify. Purchases with cash are generally the more informative signal, and they are far rarer.

This does not include congressional or senate trading. That comes from STOCK Act disclosures filed with the Senate eFD system and the House Clerk, which this data source does not carry.

Free account required

Officer and director trades in their own stock, straight from Form 4 filings.

Insider holders

10 reporting
NameRelationShares heldLatest
ABDALLA ZEIN M.
Director 25.43K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
AYYAR BALU GANESH
Officer 115.08K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
DALAL JATIN PRAVINCHANDRA
Chief Financial Officer 49.05K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
GUMMADI SURYA KUMARI
Officer 40.82K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
KIM JOHN SUNSHIN
Officer 40.67K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
MACKAY LEO S. JR.
Director 29.98K Stock Award(Grant)
PATSALOS-FOX MICHAEL
Director 39.42K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
SINGISETTI RAVI KUMAR
Chief Executive Officer 132.32K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
TELESMANIC ROBERT J
Officer 34.71K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
VELLI JOSEPH M
Director 29.72K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security

Fundamentals

TTM · reported
Market cap$25.77B
Enterprise value$26.82B
Revenue (TTM)$21.64B
Gross profit$7.24B
EBITDA$4.04B
Net income$2.22B
EPS (TTM)$4.57
Free cash flow$2.22B
Total cash$1.05B
Total debt$2.09B
Book value / share$32.00
Shares outstanding450.44M
Float449.13M
Short % of float8.01%
Dividend yield2.31%
Beta (5Y)0.85

Valuation & profitability ratios

Account required
Trailing P/E12.52
Forward P/E9.03
PEG ratio0.85
Price / sales—
Price / book1.79
EV / revenue1.24
EV / EBITDA6.65
Gross margin33.44%
Operating margin17.48%
Profit margin10.26%
Return on equity14.92%
Return on assets10.73%
Debt / equity14.48
Current ratio2.18
Free account required

Fourteen ratios including P/E, PEG, EV/EBITDA, margins and return on equity.

Financial statements

As reported · 4 years · 5 quarters
Blank means not reported, not zero
Line item2025202420232022YoY
Total revenue $21.11B$19.74B$19.35B$19.43B +7.0%
Operating revenue $21.11B$19.74B$19.35B$19.43B +7.0%
Cost of revenue $13.99B$12.96B$12.66B$12.45B +8.0%
Gross profit $7.12B$6.78B$6.69B$6.98B +5.0%
Selling, general & admin $3.24B$3.22B$3.25B$3.44B +0.5%
Total operating expense $3.79B$3.75B$3.77B$4.01B +1.0%
Operating income $3.33B$3.03B$2.92B$2.97B +9.9%
Net interest income $68.00M$65.00M$85.00M$40.00M +4.6%
Pre-tax income $3.48B$2.94B$2.79B$3.02B +18.4%
Tax provision $1.26B$713.00M$668.00M$730.00M +76.4%
Net income $2.23B$2.24B$2.13B$2.29B -0.4%
Net income to common $2.23B$2.24B$2.13B$2.29B -0.4%
Basic EPS 4.574.524.214.42 +1.1%
Diluted EPS 4.564.514.214.41 +1.1%
EBIT $3.52B$2.99B$2.83B$3.04B +17.5%
EBITDA $4.07B$3.53B$3.38B$3.60B +15.1%
Basic shares 488.00M496.00M505.00M518.00M -1.6%
Diluted shares 489.00M497.00M505.00M519.00M -1.6%

Options analytics

Account required
Put / call volume
1.73
Put-heavy session
Put / call open interest
1.65
Positioning, not flow
Max pain
30.00
-47.6% from spot
ATM implied vol
0.8%
Nearest strike to spot
Skew (10% OTM)
0.0%
Calls bid over puts
Call volume
363
Contracts, this expiry
Put volume
628
Contracts, this expiry
Heaviest call OI
90.00
12 contracts
Heaviest put OI
30.00
31 contracts

Max pain is the strike at which the largest dollar value of open contracts expires worthless. It describes current positioning; it is not a forecast and it moves as open interest changes.

Free account required

Put/call ratios, max pain, implied volatility skew and where open interest is concentrated.

Earnings

History & consensus estimates
Reported vs expected · EPS
QuarterEst.ActualSurprise
Jun 2026 1.381.37 -0.7%
Mar 2026 1.331.40 +5.0%
Dec 2025 1.321.35 +2.0%
Sep 2025 1.301.39 +6.7%
Forward consensus
PeriodEPSAnalystsRevenueGrowth
Current quarter 1.46 23 $5.65B +4.3%
Next quarter 1.52 22 $5.65B +5.9%
Current year 5.76 27 $22.19B +5.1%
Next year 6.34 27 $23.24B +4.7%

Analyst targets & ownership

Account required
Mean target$65.90
High target$93.00
Low target$47.00
Implied upside15.14%
Analyst count25
ConsensusBUY
Strong buy / Buy3 / 10
Hold16
Sell / Strong sell0 / 0
Held by insiders0.13%
Held by institutions116.37%
Institutions holding1.39K
Free account required

Price targets, consensus spread, insider and institutional ownership.

Moving averages & technicals

Computed from 2Y daily closes
SMA 10
57.94
-1.22% from price
SMA 20
59.25
-3.43% from price
SMA 50
59.34
-3.57% from price
SMA 100
53.25
+7.48% from price
SMA 200
60.71
-5.75% from price
EMA 12
58.52
-2.19% from price
EMA 26
58.96
-2.91% from price
EMA 50
57.85
-1.05% from price
RSI (14)
44.4
Neutral
MACD (12,26,9)
-0.43
Hist -0.31
ATR (14)
2.27
3.97% of price
Realised vol 30D
40.3%
Annualised
Bollinger upper
63.46
20, 2σ
Bollinger lower
55.04
20, 2σ
50 / 200 cross
Death
59.34 vs 60.71
Trend bias
Below 200
-5.75%

Options chain

Account required
Expiry
Spot 57.24
Calls
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
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Puts
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
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Free account required

Every listed expiry, both sides of the book, with volume, open interest and implied volatility.

Risk profile

Daily returns · 1Y window
Beta vs SPY
0.23
Less volatile than market
Correlation to SPY
0.07
Largely independent
Realised vol 30D
40.3%
Annualised
Market vol 1Y
13.0%
SPY, annualised
Max drawdown 1Y
-55.3%
Peak to trough
Max drawdown 5Y
-58.4%
Peak to trough
ATR 14
2.27
3.97% of price
Beta (reported)
0.85
5Y monthly, from filing

Short interest

Semi-monthly exchange report · lags by ~2 weeks
Shares short
36.04M
Prior 35.60M
Change vs prior
+1.2%
Shorts adding
% of float
8.01%
Normal
% of shares out
8.00%
Against total outstanding
Days to cover
6.4
Crowded exit
Float
449.13M
Freely tradeable shares

Exchanges publish short interest twice a month with a settlement lag, so this is roughly two weeks behind. Days to cover divides shares short by average daily volume — it estimates how long covering would take, not whether it will happen.

Rating changes

383 on file
DateFirm ActionFromTo
Oct 2, 26 Wedbush MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Sep 18, 26 Deutsche Bank MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Sep 18, 26 TD Cowen MAINTAINED Hold Hold
Jul 30, 26 Citigroup MAINTAINED Neutral Neutral
Jul 30, 26 Susquehanna MAINTAINED Positive Positive
Jul 30, 26 Morgan Stanley MAINTAINED Equal-Weight Equal-Weight
Jul 30, 26 TD Cowen MAINTAINED Hold Hold
Jul 30, 26 Wells Fargo MAINTAINED Overweight Overweight
Jul 27, 26 Guggenheim MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Jul 24, 26 JP Morgan MAINTAINED Overweight Overweight
Jul 24, 26 RBC Capital MAINTAINED Sector Perform Sector Perform
Jul 13, 26 Citigroup MAINTAINED Neutral Neutral

Dividends & splits

Declared · from the issuer
Forward rate$1.32 / yr
Forward yield2.31%
5-year avg yield1.61%
Payout ratio27.53%
Ex-dividend dateAug 18, 2026
Next pay dateAug 25, 2026
Last split2:1
Split dateMar 10, 2014

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