{"id":1024758,"date":"2026-07-30T08:25:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024758"},"modified":"2026-07-30T09:00:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:30:55","slug":"cognizant-forecasts-weak-quarterly-revenue-amid-cautious-client-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/30\/cognizant-forecasts-weak-quarterly-revenue-amid-cautious-client-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognizant forecasts weak quarterly revenue amid cautious client spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cognizant Technology forecast quarterly revenue below Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, as clients remained cautious on discretionary IT spending. <\/p>\n<p>Shares of the company were down 3% \u200cin \u2060premarket \u2060trading. <\/p>\n<p>* Cognizant expects third-quarter revenue between $5.60 billion \u200band $5.68 billion, below analysts&#8217; average estimate of $5.70 \u200bbillion, according to data compiled by LSEG. <\/p>\n<p>* The company is \u200bnavigating a complex \u2060macro environment, with \u200cclients cautious on large \u200binvestments \u200band continued softness in smaller \u2060discretionary projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cognizant Technology forecast quarterly revenue below Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, as clients remained cautious on discretionary IT spending. Shares of the company were down 3% \u200cin \u2060premarket \u2060trading. * Cognizant expects third-quarter revenue between $5.60 billion \u200band $5.68 billion, below analysts&#8217; average estimate of $5.70 \u200bbillion, according to data compiled by LSEG. * The company is \u200bnavigating a complex \u2060macro environment, with \u200cclients cautious on large \u200binvestments \u200band continued softness in smaller \u2060discretionary projects.<\/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-1024758","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\/1024758","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=1024758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024785,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024758\/revisions\/1024785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}