Is the price fair?
What CTSH's price assumes
Cognizant trades at 13.5× earnings against 19.4× for the median Information Technology Services name, cheaper than its own group.
13.5
Trailing P/E · Information Technology Services median 19.4 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Price / sales
- 1.36
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 12%
Free cash flow yield · Information Technology Services median 12%
- Growth the price implies
- −6.1%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for −6.1% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered −2.7% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 1.93
- EV / EBIT2026-Q1
- 8.31
- EV / sales2026-Q1
- 1.31
- Technology median P/E376 names
- 37.0
- Information Technology Services median P/E40 names
- 19.4
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $2.47B
- Market capitalisation
- $20.7B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +3.3%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- −2.7%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $73.25 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $77.01 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $95.71 |
| 52-week range | $40.95 – $85.66 |
| Today | $62.07 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Information Technology Services
Ranks #17 of 37 by Smart Score