Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp (NASDAQ:CTSH)’s traded shares stood at 1.67 million during the latest session, with the company’s beta value hitting 0.93. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $77.03, to imply an increase of 4.70% or $3.46 in intraday trading. The CTSH share’s 52-week high remains $90.82, putting it -17.9% down since that peak but still an impressive 17.19% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $63.79. The company has a valuation of $37.97B, with an average of 3.5 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 4.35 million shares over the past 3 months.
Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Hold for Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp (CTSH), translating to a mean rating of 2.76. Of 10 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give CTSH a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 7 advise Hold as 3 recommend it as a Buy.
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp (NASDAQ:CTSH) trade information
After registering a 4.70% upside in the latest session, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp (CTSH) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is 6.81%, and 0.76% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is 0.17%. Short interest in Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp (NASDAQ:CTSH) saw shorts transact 17.6 million shares and set a 3.87 days time to cover.
The extremes give us $95 and $95 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, CTSH has been trading -23.33% off suggested target high and -23.33% from its likely low.
An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings grew an estimated 6.50% for the past 5-year period. While 2025 is set for a 6.34% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 7.48% annually.
CTSH Dividends
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp has its next earnings report out on 2025-Apr-29. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp has a forward dividend ratio of 1.21, with the share yield ticking at 1.57% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year. The company’s average dividend yield trailing the past 5-year period is 1.47%.
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp (NASDAQ:CTSH)’s Major holders
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp insiders hold 0.10% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 100.00% of the shares at 100.09% float percentage. In total, 100.00% institutions holds shares in the company, led by VANGUARD GROUP INC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 58.17 million shares (or 11.7043% of shares), all amounting to roughly $3.96 billion.
The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is BLACKROCK INC. with 53.01 million shares, or about 10.6658% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $3.6 billion.
We also have VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Dodge & Cox Funds-Dodge & Cox Stock Fund as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp (CTSH) shares. Going by data provided on Dec 31, 2024 , VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund holds roughly 15.53 shares. This is just over 3.15% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $1.19 billion. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 14.42, or 2.93% of the shares, all valued at about 1.11 billion.
