{"id":1008579,"date":"2026-05-19T09:14:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T03:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008579"},"modified":"2026-05-19T09:18:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T03:48:40","slug":"cognizant-capgemini-slide-into-sub-revenue-valuation-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/19\/cognizant-capgemini-slide-into-sub-revenue-valuation-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognizant, Capgemini slide into sub-revenue valuation territory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: A tale of two companies: both Cognizant and Capgemini are now trading at market capitalisations below their annual revenue. It is a striking signal of investor caution toward businesses operating on mid-teen margins, a characteristic of the IT services sector that offers little cushion when growth slows. <\/p>\n<p>Cognizant&#8217;s market capitalisation stood at $22.3 billion as of Friday, down 22% over the past month and 44% over the past year. That places it near the lower end of the company\u2019s FY26 revenue guidance of $22.1 billion to $22.6 billion. Its full-year outlook factors in recently completed acquisitions, with 3Cloud and Astreya expected to contribute roughly 150 basis points to revenue growth. Capgemini tells a similar story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: A tale of two companies: both Cognizant and Capgemini are now trading at market capitalisations below their annual revenue. It is a striking signal of investor caution toward businesses operating on mid-teen margins, a characteristic of the IT services sector that offers little cushion when growth slows. Cognizant&#8217;s market capitalisation stood at $22.3 billion as of Friday, down 22% over the past month and 44% over the past year. That places it near the lower end of the company\u2019s FY26 revenue guidance of $22.1 billion to $22.6 billion. Its full-year outlook factors in recently completed acquisitions, with 3Cloud and [&hellip;]<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008579","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=1008579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}