{"id":1006258,"date":"2026-05-01T09:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T03:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006258"},"modified":"2026-05-01T09:34:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:04:46","slug":"cognizant-q2-outlook-misses-estimates-despite-steady-q1-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/01\/cognizant-q2-outlook-misses-estimates-despite-steady-q1-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognizant Q2 outlook misses estimates despite steady Q1 show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US-based IT services Cognizant on Wednesday missed revenue guidance for the April\u2013June quarter, set at $5.45\u2013$5.52 billion, below analyst estimates of $5.55 billion due to a volatile macroeconomic environment. The company follows a calendar financial year ending December 31. The revision comes even as the firm reported a steady performance for the January\u2013March quarter. <\/p>\n<p>Cognizant posted first-quarter revenue of $5.4 billion, up 5.8% year-on-year, or 3.9% in constant currency terms, at the upper end of its guidance and broadly in line with estimates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US-based IT services Cognizant on Wednesday missed revenue guidance for the April\u2013June quarter, set at $5.45\u2013$5.52 billion, below analyst estimates of $5.55 billion due to a volatile macroeconomic environment. The company follows a calendar financial year ending December 31. The revision comes even as the firm reported a steady performance for the January\u2013March quarter. Cognizant posted first-quarter revenue of $5.4 billion, up 5.8% year-on-year, or 3.9% in constant currency terms, at the upper end of its guidance and broadly in line with estimates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006259,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006258\/revisions\/1006259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}