{"id":974557,"date":"2025-11-18T07:50:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T02:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=974557"},"modified":"2025-11-18T08:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T02:30:20","slug":"under-activist-spotlight-us-it-co-cognizant-enters-a-high-stakes-reset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/18\/under-activist-spotlight-us-it-co-cognizant-enters-a-high-stakes-reset\/","title":{"rendered":"Under activist spotlight, US IT co Cognizant enters a high-stakes reset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: It is rare for a global IT firm to attract two activist investors in less than a decade, but Cognizant has drawn scrutiny from both Elliott Management and Mantle Ridge \u2014 each pushing for stronger growth, sharper margins and greater shareholder value. <\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Elliott pressed the company to re-evaluate its cost structure, board refresh, defined capital allocation policy, and strategic priorities to lift profitability. Elliott exited its position in Cognizant just over a year later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: It is rare for a global IT firm to attract two activist investors in less than a decade, but Cognizant has drawn scrutiny from both Elliott Management and Mantle Ridge \u2014 each pushing for stronger growth, sharper margins and greater shareholder value. In 2016, Elliott pressed the company to re-evaluate its cost structure, board refresh, defined capital allocation policy, and strategic priorities to lift profitability. Elliott exited its position in Cognizant just over a year later.<\/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-974557","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\/974557","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=974557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}