Cognizant to Report Q2 Earnings: What's in Store for the Stock?

Written by Emily J. Thompson, Senior Investment Analyst

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Source: NASDAQ.COM

Updated: Jul 28 2025

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Earnings Report Overview: Cognizant Technology Solutions is set to announce its second-quarter 2025 results on July 30, with earnings expected at $1.26 per share and revenues projected between $5.14 billion and $5.21 billion, reflecting growth from the previous year.
Growth Factors and Challenges: The company's performance is anticipated to benefit from an expanding clientele and investments in AI technologies, despite facing macroeconomic challenges and cost pressures that may impact top-line growth.

PEGA

$50.38+Infinity%1D

Analyst Views on PEGA

Wall Street analysts forecast PEGA stock price to rise over the next 12 months. According to Wall Street analysts, the average 1-year price target for PEGA is 76.00 USD with a low forecast of 67.00 USD and a high forecast of 85.00 USD. However, analyst price targets are subjective and often lag stock prices, so investors should focus on the objective reasons behind analyst rating changes, which better reflect the company's fundamentals.

8 Analyst Rating

7 Buy

1 Hold

0 Sell

Strong Buy

Current: 50.130

Low

67.00

Averages

76.00

High

85.00

Current: 50.130

Low

67.00

Averages

76.00

High

85.00

JPMorgan

Alexei Gogolev

Overweight

maintain

$65 -> $74

2025-12-05

Reason

JPMorgan

Alexei Gogolev

Price Target

$65 -> $74

AI Analysis

2025-12-05

maintain

Overweight

Reason

JPMorgan analyst Alexei Gogolev raised the firm's price target on Pegasystems to $74 from $65 and keeps an Overweight rating on the shares. The firm sees cloud migration and legacy transformation driving the company's growth. The "accelerating push" to modernize legacy systems is fueling demand for Pegasystems,, as enterprises seek to replace outdated technologies with cloud-native, artificial intelligence-ready architectures, the analyst tells investors in a research note. JPMorgan believes the company's subscription-based model drives predictability.

Rosenblatt

Buy

maintain

$65 -> $70

2025-10-23

Reason

Rosenblatt

Price Target

$65 -> $70

2025-10-23

maintain

Buy

Reason

Rosenblatt raised the firm's price target on Pegasystems to $70 from $65 and keeps a Buy rating on the shares post the Q3 report. The company's shift to the cloud is driving strong results, the analyst tells investors in a research note. The firm upped estimates to reflect the company's "solid" Q3 report.

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Wedbush

Outperform

maintain

$70 -> $75

2025-10-23

Reason

Wedbush

Price Target

$70 -> $75

2025-10-23

maintain

Outperform

Reason

Wedbush raised the firm's price target on Pegasystems to $75 from $70 and keeps an Outperform rating on the shares. The firm notes the company reported its Q3 earnings, which featured strong beats on the top and bottom-lines along with ACV growth coming in ahead of expectations which will be viewed positively by the Street driven by the company continuing to see significant traction of Blueprint that is accelerating Pega Cloud ACV growth. Wedbush cites a higher multiple and increased confidence in the Pegasystems growth story heading into the end of 2025 for the target change.

Barclays

Equal Weight

maintain

$58 -> $67

2025-10-23

Reason

Barclays

Price Target

$58 -> $67

2025-10-23

maintain

Equal Weight

Reason

Barclays raised the firm's price target on Pegasystems to $67 from $58 and keeps an Equal Weight rating on the shares. The company reported solid Q3 results, the analyst tells investors in a research note. The firm sees the stock "continuing to work" as further acceleration in Pega cloud growth "keeps the story alive."

About PEGA

Pegasystems Inc. is an enterprise transformation company that helps organizations Build for Change with enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) decisioning and workflow automation. It develops, markets, licenses, hosts and supports enterprise software that helps organizations make decisions and processes in real-time. Its platform for enterprise AI decisioning and workflow automation enables clients to personalize customer experiences, automate customer service, and streamline operations, business processes, and workflows. Its Pega Infinity is a software portfolio. Its applications and platform intersect with and encompass several software markets, including Customer Relationship Management, Digital Process Automation, Low-code application development platforms, Robotic Process Automation, Business Rules Management Systems, and Decision Management. Pega Platform, software for AI-powered workflow automation, boosts the efficiency of its clients’ processes and operational workflow.

About the author

Emily J. Thompson

Emily J. Thompson, a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with 12 years in investment research, graduated with honors from the Wharton School. Specializing in industrial and technology stocks, she provides in-depth analysis for Intellectia’s earnings and market brief reports.