CTSH Congressional Stock Trades & Insider Buying (2026)

CTSH insider buying and selling over the past year

Insiders at COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS CORP only sold stock in the open market over the past year: 22 Form 4 sales totaling $5.29M, against no open-market purchases.

Most of the selling was pre-scheduled: 22 of the 22 sales (100.0%) were flagged as Rule 10b5-1 plan trades, which are set up in advance and say less about an insider's current view than discretionary sales. Activity clustered in 2025-12 (12 trades) and 2026-01 (3 trades); the latest filing in this window is dated 2026-03-16. The average open-market sale price was $81.48; the last close of $66.03 is 19.0% below that level, so sellers exited above the current price. The single largest trade was a sale of 7,000 shares worth $596.6K on 2025-12-24. Since the most recent filing the stock has moved +8.2%, from $61.05.

Where CTSH trades relative to its one-year range

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS CORP closed at $66.03 on 2026-10-16, inside a one-year range of $38.73 to $86.70. That puts the stock in the middle of its range, at 56.9% of the distance from low to high. Over one year the share price moved +0.9%, and over roughly three months +47.5%. Average daily volume over the last month was about 6,947,845 shares.

Across 209 companies in the same SEC industry group (SIC 73) with a full year of prices in Gemral Edge, the median one-year return was -10.2%. CTSH is ahead of that median and beat 61% of that peer group on this measure.

Members of Congress who traded CTSH

STOCK Act disclosures show 37 trades in CTSH by 8 members of Congress over five years (22 purchases, 15 sales), most recently on 2026-09-25. The most active traders were Ro Khanna (D-CA), 26 trades; Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), 3 trades; Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr. (D-CA), 2 trades; Lisa C. McClain (R-MI), 2 trades; Alan Armstrong (R-OK), 1 trade.

By party the trades split 32 by Democrats, 5 by Republicans; by chamber, 36 from the House, 1 from the Senate.

CTSH lobbying disclosures

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS CORP appears in 5 Lobbying Disclosure Act filings between 2018 and 2018, with $690.0K in reported lobbying spend.

Compare CTSH with indexed peers from the same industry group

These peers have full Gemral Edge dossiers and the closest one-year price move to CTSH:

• GPN one-year return 0.0%
• META one-year return -0.4%
• URI one-year return +2.4%
• ADP one-year return +3.1%
• CDNS one-year return -1.5%

Sources and method

Every figure above is computed from public filings stored in Gemral Edge, not estimated. Insider figures count only open-market purchases and sales reported on SEC Form 4; option exercises, grants and gifts are excluded because they do not reflect a decision to buy or sell at market prices.

• SEC EDGAR Form 4 (edge_insider_trades, codes P/S open-market only) — as of 2026-03-16
• edge_prices_eod (end-of-day close) — as of 2026-10-16
• House PTR / Senate eFD disclosures (edge_congress_trades) — as of 2026-09-25
• Senate LDA filings (edge_lobbying_filings)

CTSH data questions

Are CTSH insiders buying or selling stock?

Insiders at COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS CORP only sold stock in the open market over the past year: 22 Form 4 sales totaling $5.29M, against no open-market purchases.

What is the one-year price range for CTSH?

Based on end-of-day closes through 2026-10-16, CTSH traded between $38.73 and $86.70, last closing at $66.03.

Has any member of Congress traded CTSH stock?

Yes. 8 members disclosed 37 trades in CTSH over five years; the most recent disclosed trade date is 2026-09-25.