How is Cognizant (CTSH) doing?

Cognizant is a company in the information technology services industry, based in Teaneck, NJ, worth $26.7B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.

Updated Oct 9, 2026

P3 score

Middling

Cognizant shares are down 13% over the past year, 25 points behind the S&P 500. Its type is Bottom Fished. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 23rd percentile on market beat, the 53rd on staying power and the 29th on business growth. It appears on 6 of our dashboards.

$59.20−13% in a yearWorth $26.7B

Compare with ACN · IBM · EPAM · DXC · G · GLOB

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Past year

The past year

Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.

CTSH against the S&P 500, past year

$100 a year ago. Cognizant −13%, the S&P 500 +16%.

CTSHS&P 500

What kind of stock is it?

Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.

Bottom Fished

LaggingSteadySlowingBought

Lagging steadily on a soft business, but buyers are stepping in.

NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepNow

Bottom Fished this month; Coiled Spring before that.

Also Bottom Fished (51 in all): TDY · EPAM · ACN · CAR · GLOB · DXC

EmbracedToppingAccumulatingRejectedStable rankBellwetherDistribution TopCoiled SpringWallflowerHolding rankFaith TradeRolling OverBottom FishedSleepy StapleUnsteady rankHot HandChurning WinnerTurning UpShow-Me GrowerBouncy rankSpeculative PopExhausted RallyFalling KnifeBroken Year

How is it doing against its group?

Its group is IT services, 32 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. IT services, consulting and outsourcing.

CTSH, past year−13%16 of 32 in the group

Rest of the group−7%equal-weighted

S&P 500+16%past year

Cognizant is −13% over the past year, against −7% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 16th of 32 in IT services.

CTSHRest of the group

Best in the groupSNX TD Synnex+70%MAN ManpowerGroup+36%CLH Clean Harbors+35%

Worst in the groupKD Kyndryl−61%ACM AECOM−55%CNXC Concentrix−46%

Its closest rivalsACN Accenture−17%IBM IBM−22%EPAM EPAM Systems−25%DXC DXC Technology−7%G Genpact−15%

All iT services and consulting stocks ›IT services on Stox ›

How much does it move?

Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.

About usual Cognizant typically moves 4.0% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings more than 63% of large US stocks.

Typical day4.0%about $2.39 a share

Its usual3.5%about usual, 1.2× its year’s average

Against the S&P 5003.2×the index’s typical day is 1.1%

Unusual day±8.1%twice its typical day

Deepest fall, past year−55%now 32% below its high

In the S&P’s down weeks122%of the index’s fall, three years; beta 0.9

Typical daily move (ATR)Its year’s average 3.50%

CTSH on our dashboards

Every question where Cognizant appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with CTSH highlighted. Select a column to sort.

Question	Reading	Place	Details
How much are stocks swinging? Market health	88Stormy	26 of 60	Daily move now 2.9% · Usual 2.3% · 1M change +2%
Which stocks are cheapest on cash flow? Value	91Cheap	45 of 60	Cash yield 9.7% · Price / FCF 10.3× · Cash margin 12%
Which stocks are cheap against their own history? Value	96Cheap	54 of 60	P/E now 12.7x · 10-yr median 18.9x · Earnings, 1Y −5%
Who is buying back their own stock? Dividends and buybacks	90Shrinking	50 of 60	Shares, 1Y −5.3% · Bought back $2.4B · % of value 9.0%
Which companies return the most cash to shareholders? Dividends and buybacks	96Generous	20 of 60	Total 11.3% · Dividends 2.3% · Buybacks 9.0%
Where is money flowing in? Who’s buying and selling	95Inflow	24 of 60	30 days 76 · 5 days 26 · Net buying +17%

Go deeper on Stox

CTSH’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.

Open CTSH on Stox ›All 16 types on Atlas ›Its group on Stox ›

How to read this page

How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.

Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.

Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.

Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.

Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.

For financial statements, earnings and news, see CTSH’s full profile on Stox.

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