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Understanding the Recent Sell-Off of CTSH Shares

Cognizant Technology Solutions stock is trading -23.5% below its average target price of $86.86 after dropping -5.4% during today's afternoon session. Analysts are giving the Large-Cap Data Processing Services company an average rating of buy and target prices ranging from $75.0 to $103.0 per share.

Cognizant Technology Solutions has an average level of shares sold short, at 6.7% of its total share float. The stock's short ratio (also called days to cover) is 5.69. At 0.1%, the company's rate of insider ownership does not indicate that management is heavily invested in the corporation.

Institutional investors own 101.7% of Cognizant Technology Solutions's shares, which indicates they have a high level of confidence in the company.

Institutions Invested in Cognizant Technology Solutions

Date Reported Holder Percentage Shares Value
2025-06-30 Vanguard Group Inc 12% 59,854,530 $3,977,333,335
2025-06-30 Blackrock Inc. 10% 50,776,852 $3,374,121,660
2025-06-30 State Street Corporation 5% 25,381,572 $1,686,605,381
2025-06-30 JPMORGAN CHASE & CO 4% 19,090,295 $1,268,550,044
2025-06-30 Pzena Investment Management LLC 4% 17,450,691 $1,159,598,363
2025-06-30 Dodge & Cox Inc 3% 16,267,302 $1,080,962,168
2025-06-30 Geode Capital Management, LLC 3% 14,019,891 $931,621,714
2025-06-30 Invesco Ltd. 2% 11,546,803 $767,285,024
2025-06-30 Bank Of New York Mellon Corporation 2% 9,831,733 $653,318,627
2025-06-30 FMR, LLC 2% 9,230,865 $613,390,951
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