{"id":1024793,"date":"2026-07-30T08:50:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024793"},"modified":"2026-07-30T09:25:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:55:31","slug":"cognizant-cuts-top-end-fy26-revenue-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/30\/cognizant-cuts-top-end-fy26-revenue-guidance\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognizant cuts top-end FY26 revenue guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US-based IT services major Cognizant on Wednesday lowered the upper end of its full-year revenue growth guidance, signalling that clients continue to remain cautious on discretionary technology spending despite the company reporting steady second-quarter growth, improving margins and healthy deal momentum. <\/p>\n<p>The Nasdaq-listed firm now expects FY26 revenue to grow 4-5.5%, compared with its earlier forecast of 4-6.5%. The revision comes even as Cognizant maintained that it continues to outpace the broader IT services industry and expects demand for AI-led projects to remain resilient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US-based IT services major Cognizant on Wednesday lowered the upper end of its full-year revenue growth guidance, signalling that clients continue to remain cautious on discretionary technology spending despite the company reporting steady second-quarter growth, improving margins and healthy deal momentum. The Nasdaq-listed firm now expects FY26 revenue to grow 4-5.5%, compared with its earlier forecast of 4-6.5%. The revision comes even as Cognizant maintained that it continues to outpace the broader IT services industry and expects demand for AI-led projects to remain resilient.<\/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-1024793","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\/1024793","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=1024793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024817,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024793\/revisions\/1024817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}