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Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp Class A (CTSH) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Cognizant provides consulting, technology and outsourcing services across North America, Europe and other regions, organised into four segments: Financial Services, Health Sciences, Products and Resources, and Communications, Media and Technology. It builds and maintains software, manages infrastructure and security, runs business-process outsourcing, and sells AI-led automation and a digital-experience offering it calls Cognizant Moment.

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for CTSH, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Versus its index AI Users — the name, its sleeve and the index over day, week and month

Versus its index

The name against its Closelooknet index and its own sleeve — equal-weight, nightly closes.

AI Users · as of 2026-11-05

DayWeekMonth3 months
CTSH+1.2%+6.4%+16.6%+15.4%
Implementation & Service Delivery+1.0%+3.7%+21.4%—
AI Users−1.5%+1.2%+8.0%—

Against the index: 5.2 pts ahead on the week, 8.6 pts ahead on the month; against its Implementation & Service Delivery sleeve 4.8 pts behind on the month.

Returns from the index workers’ nightly closes; equal-weight sleeves. A relative reading from the research diary, not advice.

Mentioned on Closelooknet 5 pieces · newest: Report, “AI Users — Builders Up 66%, the Companies Using AI Flat” (2026-10-25)

Mentioned on Closelooknet

Where CTSH appears in the diary — 5 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Long reads

Dailies

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 44/100 · S&P 500 fund at 48, above its 200-day averageEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-11-05
  • Factor regime Defensive rotation — low-vol leading, regime-change watchMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): below its 50-day trend, 73th percentile of the window, -21.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-11-04
  • Sector × region Technology in US: −14.0% week · −19.4% month · −13.5% quarter · +5.3% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLK.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-11-05
  • Sovereign pressure Index -2.05 · down 2.95 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-11-05
How it trades on rate days beta 0.49 to TLT · on the worst bond days it held up better than the market

How it trades on rate days

How CTSH has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.49 — shows only a loose link to bond moves for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp Class A moved 0.49% on average · correlation 0.11 · higher than 44% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 2.00 more rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days +0.79% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days −3.33% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against AI Users · Implementation & Service Delivery · 6 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

AI Users · Implementation & Service Delivery

Compared against CTSH on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp Class A

CTSH in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Cognizant provides consulting, technology and outsourcing services across North America, Europe and other regions, organised into four segments: Financial Services, Health Sciences, Products and Resources, and Communications, Media and Technology. It builds and maintains software, manages infrastructure and security, runs business-process outsourcing, and sells AI-led automation and a digital-experience offering it calls Cognizant Moment. Clients span banking, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, travel, media and technology. The company is based in Teaneck, New Jersey, and has been listed on Nasdaq since 1998.
Where it sits in the stack
Cognizant sits in the AI Users index, under Implementation & Service Delivery, the section covering firms that bring AI into client work and into their own service delivery. By October 2025 it reported about 30% of its internal code as AI-generated, linking this to a 70 basis-point rise in adjusted operating margin and an 8% rise in revenue per employee year on year; it first disclosed AI-generated code accepted into client projects, running at 150,000 lines a month, in October 2024. Multi-agent workflows on its TriZetto health-plan platform, handling member requests such as ID cards and claim status, were disclosed in October 2025 and act on their own on routine requests, while the code-generation use assists engineers rather than replacing them.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet groups it with the other Implementation & Service Delivery names in AI Users: Accenture, Capgemini, Genpact, Infosys, IBM and TCS; Wipro is the additional name the market usually places alongside them.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
Cognizant holds a Nasdaq-100 seat and a section seat in AI Users under Implementation & Service Delivery. It carries a Closelooknet score with one module scored so far, so the score is still being built.
What the diary watches
Whether the roughly $1bn generative-AI investment set out in November 2023 for completion by 2026 shows through in margin and productivity, and whether the share of AI-generated code moves from about 30% toward the 50% level management has since flagged as a possible future mark.

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp Class A (CTSH) trades on US exchanges, classified under Technology.

The Closelooknet company score reads 65/100 composite (momentum 73, quality 56, valuation 75) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-10-25. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

The Street on this name 2 analyst actions on the wire · latest: price target by Mizuho, 2026-11-02

The Street on this name

Analyst actions and the latest print for CTSH from the Closelooknet wires — third-party opinions on the record, not our readings.

  • Price target Mizuho — target 69 Target set to $69 (+4.8% to spot) 2026-11-02
  • Price target Guggenheim — target 80 from 65 Target raised to $80 from $65 (+15.4% to spot) 2026-10-27

2 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 2 target changes. Analyst wire → · Earnings wire →

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 1.95%, quarterly · buybacks 1.38 bn USD in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

What CTSH pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 1.30 USD per share · a 1.95% yield on the 2026-11-05 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-11-05
  • Change on the year +5.7% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 1.23 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.33 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-08-18
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.29 USD (partial) · 2024: 1.20 USD · 2025: 1.24 USD · 2026: 0.99 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-11-20
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 610 m USD 24% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 1.38 bn USD 4.7% of today's market value
  • Share count −3.0% in FY2025 181 m USD of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 1.99 bn USD · 77% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-11-06

Quick answers

What is Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp Class A (CTSH)?

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp Class A trades as CTSH on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Technology in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-11-06.

Is CTSH in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp Class A is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-11-06.

What is Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp Class A's Closelooknet composite score?

65 out of 100, with momentum 73, quality 56 and valuation 75 sub-scores, as of 2026-11-06. Scores are Closelooknet's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does CTSH trade against its moving averages?

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp Class A trades 6.6% above its 50-day and 13.7% above its 200-day moving average (1.3% above its 20-day). As of 2026-11-05 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How is CTSH doing against its Closelooknet index?

Over the past month Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp Class A is +16.6% against +8.0% for the AI Users — 8.6 points ahead of its index, as of 2026-11-05. Its Implementation & Service Delivery sleeve is +21.4% over the same month. The “Versus its index” table on this page carries the day, the week and the month for the name, its sleeve and the index.

How does Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp Class A compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (AI Users · Implementation & Service Delivery), Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp Class A (CTSH) sits 23.2% below its 52-week high, 6.6% above its 50-day average; Accenture plc (ACN) is 8.1% below, Genpact Limited (G) is 15.1% below, Capgemini SE (CAP.PA) is 15.4% below, as of 2026-11-05. Put any of them next to CTSH in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

How does Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp Class A trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp Class A had a beta of 0.49 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it shows only a loose link to bond moves, higher than 44% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved +0.79% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. As of 2026-11-05; The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

Where has Closelooknet written about Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp Class A?

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp Class A appears in 5 Closelooknet pieces as of 2026-11-06, most recently Report: AI Users — Builders Up 66%, the Companies Using AI Flat (2026-10-25); Midday 10: Chips — the open follows Seoul, then turns: chip index from −2.4% to +0.7%; small caps +1.6% (2026-10-20); Morning 10: AI Trade — builders and runners sold, users bought: chips enter a bear market, Accenture +9.9% on the week (2026-10-19). The "Mentioned on Closelooknet" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp Class A do?

Cognizant provides consulting, technology and outsourcing services across North America, Europe and other regions, organised into four segments: Financial Services, Health Sciences, Products and Resources, and Communications, Media and Technology. It builds and maintains software, manages infrastructure and security, runs business-process outsourcing, and sells AI-led automation and a digital-experience offering it calls Cognizant Moment. Clients span banking, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, travel, media and technology. Closelooknet groups it with the other Implementation & Service Delivery names in AI Users: Accenture, Capgemini, Genpact, Infosys, IBM and TCS; Wipro is the additional name the market usually places alongside them. (Company snapshot of 2026-10-25.)

Where does Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp Class A sit in the AI build-out?

Cognizant sits in the AI Users index, under Implementation & Service Delivery, the section covering firms that bring AI into client work and into their own service delivery. By October 2025 it reported about 30% of its internal code as AI-generated, linking this to a 70 basis-point rise in adjusted operating margin and an 8% rise in revenue per employee year on year; it first disclosed AI-generated code accepted into client projects, running at 150,000 lines a month, in October 2024. Multi-agent workflows on its TriZetto health-plan platform, handling member requests such as ID cards and claim status, were disclosed in October 2025 and act on their own on routine requests, while the code-generation use assists engineers rather than replacing them. Cognizant holds a Nasdaq-100 seat and a section seat in AI Users under Implementation & Service Delivery. It carries a Closelooknet score with one module scored so far, so the score is still being built. (Company snapshot of 2026-10-25.)

Does Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp Class A pay a dividend?

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp Class A has paid 1.30 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 1.95% on the 2026-11-05 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.33 USD on 2026-08-18. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 610 m USD in dividends and bought back 1.38 bn USD of its own shares, 77% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 3.0% over the fiscal year. As of 2026-11-05; the "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What has Wall Street done on Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp Class A recently?

The most recent analyst action on Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp Class A on the Closelooknet wire is a price target by Mizuho on 2026-11-02 (target 69). 2 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 2 target changes. Analyst actions are third-party opinions recorded by the wire, not Closelooknet readings. The “The Street on this name” block on this page lists the moves; the full feeds are the analyst wire and the earnings wire.

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