Insider trade

Officer exercised or converted 7,771 CTSH derivative securities

Traded Mar 15, 2026 · Filed Mar 17, 2026

CognizantCTSH

7,771
Shares

Why it stands out

Derivative exercise or conversion — not an open-market buy.

Written from the filing's own figures. OQRO describes what was reported and never tells you what to buy or sell

View the official recordSEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

All the details

Dates, kept separate

Transaction date: Mar 15, 2026
Reporting period: Not applicable
Filed with the SEC: Mar 17, 2026

OfficerOption exercise

Context

Classification

option exercise

Code M — exercise or conversion of a derivative security

Planned / mechanical clue

Footnote references vesting of compensation awards

Only flagged when a footnote says so; never inferred

Source receipt

Record ID: 0001796414-26-000008

Filed / recorded

Mar 17, 2026, 8:31 PM UTC

Added to OQRO

Oct 2, 2026, 12:27 PM UTC

Parser

form4-xml-v1

Data quality

Verified: identifiers matched exactly

Issuer

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS CORP

Issuer CIK

1058290

Ticker

CTSH

Reporting person

Balu Ganesh Ayyar

Relationship

Officer

Officer title

President - APJ and ISG

Security

Class A Common Stock

Table

Non-derivative (Table I)

Transaction date

Mar 15, 2026

Transaction code

M

Shares / units

7,771

Acquired / disposed

Acquired (A)

Shares owned after

109,268

Ownership form

Direct

Amendment

No

Footnotes from the filing

Reflects the settlement, in shares of Class A Common Stock of the Company, of performance-based stock units ("PSUs"). The PSUs were originally granted on March 6, 2023, under the Company's 2017 Incentive Award Plan. A portion of the performance conditions were determined to be satisfied on February 25, 2026, and that portion of the PSUs as shown in Table II above were vested and settled in Class A Common Stock of the Company on March 15, 2026.
Each PSU represents a contingent right to receive one share of Class A Common Stock of the Company.