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Cognizant Technology Solutions Shares Outstanding History (CTSH)

Cognizant Technology Solutions reported 479.0M shares outstanding at the end of fiscal 2025.

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Cognizant Technology Solutions annual shares outstanding history

Cognizant Technology Solutions annual shares outstanding

Fiscal yearPeriod endedShares outstandingChangeGrowth
20252025-12-31479.0M−16.0M−3.23%
20242024-12-31495.0M−3.0M−0.60%
20232023-12-31498.0M−11.0M−2.16%
20222022-12-31509.0M−16.0M−3.05%
20212021-12-31525.0M−5.0M−0.94%
20202020-12-31530.0M−18.0M−3.28%
20192019-12-31548.0M−29.0M−5.03%
20182018-12-31577.0M−11.0M−1.87%
20172017-12-31588.0M−20.0M−3.29%
20162016-12-31608.0M−1.0M−0.16%
20152015-12-31609.0M−400,000−0.07%
20142014-12-31609.4M1.7M+0.27%
20132013-12-31607.7M4.4M+0.72%
20122012-12-31603.4M−2.9M−0.47%
20112011-12-31606.2M−1.7M−0.27%
20102010-12-31607.9M13.4M+2.26%
20092009-12-31594.5M11.1M+1.91%
20082008-12-31583.3M——

Cognizant Technology Solutions Share Buyback History

A share buyback, also called a stock repurchase, is when a company uses cash to buy its own shares. Cognizant Technology Solutions share buyback history shows the reported cash used for repurchases. Buybacks can reduce shares outstanding, but issuance, stock-based compensation, acquisitions, and stock splits can change the share count separately.

Cognizant Technology Solutions used $1.38B to repurchase common stock in fy 2025. Across the latest 5 reported fiscal years, total share repurchases were $5.24B. The latest reported quarter showed $1.16B of share repurchases.

Cognizant Technology Solutions annual share buyback history
Fiscal yearPeriod endedShare repurchases
20252025-12-31$1.38B
20242024-12-31$605.0M
20232023-12-31$1.06B
20222022-12-31$1.42B
20212021-12-31$771.0M
20202020-12-31$1.62B
20192019-12-31$2.25B
20182018-12-31$1.26B
20172017-12-31$1.89B
20162016-12-31$512.0M

TickerStat uses SEC-reported cash payments for common-stock repurchases. The amounts describe capital returned through buybacks; they are not a forecast or a measure of the number of shares retired.

Cognizant Technology Solutions shares outstanding trends

Over the last five fiscal years, Cognizant Technology Solutions's shares outstanding moved from 530.0M to 479.0M, a change of −51.0M. The latest reported quarter, Q2 2026, shows 452.0M.

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What shares outstanding means

Shares outstanding is the number of common shares held by investors at a reporting-period end. The count can change because of stock issuance, repurchases, conversions, acquisitions, or stock splits.

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SEC-reported period-end shares

TickerStat displays period-end common shares from SEC filings and adjusts older values to the current share basis when a stock-split conversion ratio is reported directly or evidenced by a later filing’s restated historical share balance. After repeated reverse splits, an old period can represent less than one current-basis share; this is a split-adjusted equivalent, not a literal historical certificate count. Values remain as reported when no reliable split ratio is available. Fiscal periods can differ from calendar years, so exact period-end dates are included.

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