{"id":1045861,"date":"2026-10-30T09:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T03:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1045861"},"modified":"2026-10-30T09:35:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T04:05:26","slug":"cognizant-cuts-revenue-outlook-despite-q3-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/30\/cognizant-cuts-revenue-outlook-despite-q3-beat\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognizant cuts revenue outlook despite Q3 beat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cognizant has lowered its full-year 2026 revenue growth guidance despite reporting better-than-expected revenue in the July-September quarter, as persistent macroeconomic uncertainty and delayed client spending weigh on its growth outlook. <\/p>\n<p>The US-based IT services firm now expects revenue to grow 4-4.4% in constant currency terms, against its earlier forecast of 4-5.5%, with the upper end falling below Bloomberg estimates of 4.5%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cognizant has lowered its full-year 2026 revenue growth guidance despite reporting better-than-expected revenue in the July-September quarter, as persistent macroeconomic uncertainty and delayed client spending weigh on its growth outlook. The US-based IT services firm now expects revenue to grow 4-4.4% in constant currency terms, against its earlier forecast of 4-5.5%, with the upper end falling below Bloomberg estimates of 4.5%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1045861","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\/1045861","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045887,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045861\/revisions\/1045887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}