Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation (CTSH)

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Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $13 billion in fiscal 2016 to $21 billion in fiscal 2025, up 5.1% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 1% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 2.0% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 66% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 33 sales (33 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-10, buying about $210 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation earned about 15 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 27 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.6% over the year (the filed statements).

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Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation's standing among 33 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $21 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 2% by size; a net margin of 10.6% ranks in the top 29%; revenue growth of 2.8% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 41% (its annual reports).

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Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Singisetti, Ravi Kumar (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2023-01-17, 3.8 years (top 42% of its family); the 20 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.2 years (bottom 39%); 7 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 20 people in charge now (top 4%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $1.9 billion against debt of $543 million leaves 6.6% of its assets as net cash, bottom 44% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 12.3% of revenue (top 27%) (its annual report).

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Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 2.8% a year over the last three filed years against 5.1% over all 10, slowing (bottom 47% of its family); the newest year grew 7% (top 32%); capital spending grew -4.6% a year (bottom 46%) (its annual reports). Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

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Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $21 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 6.1% above the $20 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 26% of its family); net income of $2.2 billion against a prior three-year average of $2.2 billion (bottom 47%); a net margin of 10.6% against 11.4% before (top 40%) (its annual reports).