Is it safe?
Can CTSH take a bad year?
Cognizant holds $949M more cash than debt, so a bad year is a question about profits, not about lenders.
$949M
Net cash
- Net debt / EBITDA
- net cash
Net debt / EBITDA · no net borrowings to measure against earnings
- Altman Z-score
- 4.92
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 106×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $568M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.52B
- Net cash
- $949M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $3.93B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $3.38B
- Debt / equity
- 0.04×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.14×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 32%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −54%
- Below its 52-week high
- −28%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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