Share buybacks · 2011–2025

Cognizant Technology Solutions share buybacks

$1.4B+127.8% · FY2025

Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH) reported $1.4B in share buybacks for fiscal 2025, +127.8% year on year.

$374M2011$521M2012$179M2013$248M2014$460M2015$512M2016$1.9B2017$1.3B2018$2.2B2019$1.6B2020$771M2021$1.4B2022$1.1B2023$605M2024$1.4B2025
Cognizant Technology Solutions — Share buybacks, 2011–2025
Fiscal yearShare buybacksChangeFiling
FY20252025-12-31$1.4B+127.8%Open →
FY20242024-12-31$605M−43.1%Open →
FY20232023-12-31$1.1B−25.2%Open →
FY20222022-12-31$1.4B+84.4%Open →
FY20212021-12-31$771M−52.4%Open →
FY20202020-12-31$1.6B−27.9%Open →
FY20192019-12-31$2.2B+78.2%Open →
FY20182018-12-31$1.3B−33.2%Open →
FY20172017-12-31$1.9B+268.9%Open →
FY20162016-12-31$512M+11.3%Open →
FY20152015-12-31$460M+85.5%Open →
FY20142014-12-31$248M+38.5%Open →
FY20132013-12-31$179M−65.6%Open →
FY20122012-12-31$521M+39.2%Open →
FY20112011-12-31$374M—Open →

Share buybacks — Share buybacks are the cash a company spent during the year repurchasing its own stock, taken from the financing section of the cash-flow statement. Most companies buy back nothing at all — the line is absent rather than zero — so this ranking covers the minority that do.

Every row links to its own SEC filing · Fiscal year 2025 · Data as of September 25, 2026 · 2011–2025 compound annual growth +9.8%

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Wikipedia

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APA 7

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BibTeX

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  note         = {Compiled from SEC EDGAR XBRL filings; data as of 2026-09-25},
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The filing itself

The numbers above are read from this document: 10-K · 0001058290-26-000008 · February 12, 2026

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