NASDAQ:CTSH - Cognizant Technology Solutions Stock Price, Forecast & News

Cognizant Technology Solutions trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "CTSH."

Cognizant Technology Solutions announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, February 5th. Investors of record on Tuesday, February 18th will be given a dividend of $0.22 per share on Friday, February 28th. This represents a $0.88 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.29%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, February 14th. This is an increase from Cognizant Technology Solutions's previous quarterly dividend of $0.20. View Cognizant Technology Solutions' Dividend History.

Cognizant Technology Solutions shares split before market open on Monday, March 10th 2014. The 2-1 split was announced on Wednesday, February 5th 2014. The newly issued shares were payable to shareholders after the market closes on Friday, March 7th 2014. An investor that had 100 shares of Cognizant Technology Solutions stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

Cognizant Technology Solutions declared that its Board of Directors has approved a stock buyback program on Wednesday, February 5th 2020, which permits the company to repurchase $2,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to purchase up to 5.8% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are generally a sign that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp (NASDAQ:CTSH) announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, February, 5th. The information technology service provider reported $1.07 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.04 by $0.03. The information technology service provider had revenue of $4.30 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $4.23 billion. The firm's revenue was up 4.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the business earned $1.13 EPS. View Cognizant Technology Solutions' Earnings History.

Cognizant Technology Solutions is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 7th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Cognizant Technology Solutions.

Cognizant Technology Solutions updated its FY20 earnings guidance on Wednesday, February, 5th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $3.97-$4.13 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $4.13. The company issued revenue guidance of $17.14-$17.47 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $17.25 billion.

24 analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Cognizant Technology Solutions' shares. Their forecasts range from $57.00 to $81.00. On average, they expect Cognizant Technology Solutions' share price to reach $68.38 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 0.1%. View Analyst Price Targets for Cognizant Technology Solutions.

24 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Cognizant Technology Solutions in the last year. There are currently 7 sell ratings, 10 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Cognizant Technology Solutions.

News headlines about CTSH stock have been trending somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Cognizant Technology Solutions earned a news impact score of 2.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the information technology service provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Cognizant Technology Solutions.

Cognizant Technology Solutions saw a increase in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 10,200,000 shares, an increase of 6.6% from the January 15th total of 9,570,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 2,720,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.8 days. Currently, 1.9% of the company's stock are short sold. View Cognizant Technology Solutions' Current Options Chain.

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Cognizant Technology Solutions' stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (4.24%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (3.60%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (3.55%), Franklin Resources Inc. (2.65%), FMR LLC (2.26%) and Artisan Partners Limited Partnership (1.79%). Company insiders that own Cognizant Technology Solutions stock include Allen Shaheen, Brian Humphries, Debashis Chatterjee, Francisco Dsouza, Gajakarnan Vibushanan Kandiah, James Patrick Lennox, John E Klein, John Nelson Fox Jr, Karen Mcloughlin, Leo S Jr Mackay, Malcolm Frank, Matthew W Friedrich, Maureen Breakiron-Evans, Rajeev Mehta, Robert Telesmanic, Sean Middleton, Srinivasan Veeraraghavachary, Sumithra Gomatam and Venkat Krishnaswamy. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Cognizant Technology Solutions.

CTSH stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Matthews International Capital Management LLC, Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, FIL Ltd, Pendal Group Ltd, FMR LLC, Schroder Investment Management Group, Coronation Fund Managers Ltd. and Eaton Vance Management. Company insiders that have sold Cognizant Technology Solutions company stock in the last year include Allen Shaheen, Francisco Dsouza, Gajakarnan Vibushanan Kandiah, James Patrick Lennox, John E Klein, Karen Mcloughlin, Malcolm Frank, Matthew W Friedrich, Rajeev Mehta, Robert Telesmanic, Srinivasan Veeraraghavachary and Venkat Krishnaswamy. View Insider Buying and Selling for Cognizant Technology Solutions.

CTSH stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Artisan Partners Limited Partnership, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Alyeska Investment Group L.P., Renaissance Technologies LLC, First Trust Advisors LP, Madison Asset Management LLC, Marshall Wace LLP and MUFG Securities EMEA plc. View Insider Buying and Selling for Cognizant Technology Solutions.

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One share of CTSH stock can currently be purchased for approximately $68.42.