Cognizant Technology Solutions
$60.88Change from previous close: +5.99%Absolute change: +$3.44
Valuation
Data as of October 2, 2026
Valuation multiples
- Market cap
- $28.8B
- Enterprise value
- $28.47B
- P/E (trailing 12 months)
- 13.2
- Forward P/E
- 9.61
- PEG
- 0.84
- Price/book
- 1.90
- Price/sales
- 1.33
- EV/EBITDA
- 7.05
- EV/revenue
- 1.32
Profitability and growth
- Gross margin
- 33.4%
- Operating margin
- 17.5%
- Net margin
- 10.3%
- ROE
- 14.9%
- ROA
- 10.7%
- Revenue growth (year over year)
- 4.5%
- Earnings growth (year over year)
- 3.8%
Financial health
- Total cash
- $1.05B
- Total debt
- $2.09B
- Debt/equity
- 0.14
- Current ratio
- 2.18
- Quick ratio
- 1.68
Dividends
- Annual dividend per share
- $1.32
- Dividend yield
- 2.2%
- Payout ratio
- 27.5%
- Ex-dividend date
- August 18, 2026
Analysts and estimates
- Average price target
- $65.10
- Median price target
- $66.00
- High price target
- $84.00
- Low price target
- $47.00
- Analysts with a price target
- 25
- Consensus
- Buy
- Forward EPS
- $6.33
- EPS estimate, current year
- $5.74
Shares and trading
- Beta
- 0.83
- Average volume
- 7.93M
- Shares outstanding
- 473M
- Float
- 449.13M
- Institutional ownership
- 116.3%
- Insider ownership
- 0.1%
- Short interest (% of float)
- 8.0%
- Short ratio (days)
- 6.38