Comparison

Accenture plc (ACN) vs COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS CORP (CTSH)

The same filed metrics for both companies, side by side.

What each names as a risk in its own annual report, how each is priced against its own history, and the tracked managers whose latest 13F reports a position in both.

Financials

ACN

Accenture plc

Information Technology Services

Revenue, FY25: $69.67B
Net income: $7.68B
Operating cash flow: $11.47B
Free cash flow: $10.87B
Net margin: 11.02%
Operating margin: 14.68%
Gross margin: 31.91%

CTSH

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS CORP

Information Technology Services

Revenue, FY25: $21.11B
Net income: $2.23B
Operating cash flow: $2.88B
Free cash flow: $2.6B
Net margin: 10.56%
Operating margin: 16.06%
Gross margin: -

Head-to-head

Filed growth, quality and valuation, read against each company’s own history rather than against the other side.

Metric	ACN	CTSH
Revenue growth, latest filed year	+7.36%	+6.95%
Piotroski F-score	5 of 9	7 of 8
P/E against its own history	49.59% below	25.06% below

What each says it is exposed to

From Item 1A of each company’s most recent 10-K.

ACN

Litigation
Cybersecurity
Tax
Export controls
Data privacy
Labour

And 12 more.

CTSH

Currency moves
Cybersecurity
Tax
Litigation
Pandemic
Climate

And 10 more.

Tracked managers holding both

Joel Greenblatt Gotham Asset Management 0.03% · 0.02%

Updated Jul 29, 2026 · the newer of the two companies' filings