CTSH
Outperforming without a clear catalyst yet
- CTSH +4.87% on the last session vs SPY +0.01%: +4.9 pts of stock-specific move.
- Aftermath, big gain (+4.9% today so far, past its big-gain line of +2.0%): After its 73 big gains in the past 5 years, CTSH was higher a day later 39 times out of 73; half the outcomes fell between -0.8% and +1.1%. History, not a forecast.
- 1 analyst action in the past 10 days (0 positive, 0 negative); latest: Wedbush reiterated Outperform, target $70.00.
- Market backdrop (Today): Core PPI m/m 1.3% vs 0.3% expected (hotter); Core Retail Sales m/m 0.9% vs 0.6% expected (stronger); S&P futures -0.08%, 10-year yield -3bp in the 30 minutes after.
Bargain & stretch prices
Prices CTSH only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.
| Today | Next 5 sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Stretch sell side |
64.09 +2.6% reached 3 in 10 days reached today |
66.14 +5.9% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
| Now | 65.51 · prior close 62.47 | |
| Bargain buy side |
60.89 -2.5% reached 3 in 10 days |
59.00 -5.6% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
More patient or more eager
| Bargain | Reached | Stretch | Reached | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today | ||||
| Patient | 60.39 | 2 in 10 days | 64.62 | 2 in 10 days |
| Balanced | 60.89 | 3 in 10 days | 64.09 | 3 in 10 days |
| Eager | 61.37 | 4 in 10 days | 63.59 | 5 in 10 days |
| Next 5 sessions | ||||
| Patient | 57.92 | 2 in 10 weeks | 67.38 | 2 in 10 weeks |
| Balanced | 59.00 | 3 in 10 weeks | 66.14 | 3 in 10 weeks |
| Eager | 60.03 | 4 in 10 weeks | 65.01 | 5 in 10 weeks |
"3 in 10 days" means the price was reached on about 3 of every 10 days like this one. Patient prices are further away and come less often; eager ones are closer and come more often. From CTSH's daily swings (about 2.6% a day lately), anchored on the Oct 14 close. The odds were measured on 10 years of S&P 500 prices (they move about 3 points from year to year with the market: bargain prices come more often in falling years, stretch prices in rising ones), and where a situation below changed them consistently (in at least 8 of 10 years), they are adjusted and marked. In those tests, waiting for the bargain price did no better on average than buying at the close: what you save when it comes, you pay when it doesn't.
Situations on the Oct 14 close
Big drop and big gain: among CTSH's own worst or best 10% of daily moves, as on the Aftermath tab. The past times are history: in our tests, how a stock did after its earlier times did not predict the next one, and across the S&P 500 none of these situations leaned up or down except, weakly, an all-time high followed by a big drop. Not advice.
Price ladder
| Highest analyst target | 93.00 +42.0% |
| All-time closing high Feb 14, 2025 |
87.67 +33.8% |
| 52-week closing high Jan 14, 2026 |
85.16 +30.0% |
| Stretch, next 5 sessions | 66.14 +1.0% |
| Mean analyst target | 65.90 +0.6% |
| Now | 65.51 |
| Previous close Oct 14, 2026 |
62.47 -4.6% |
| 50-day average | 60.14 -8.2% |
| 200-day average | 59.30 -9.5% |
| Bargain, next 5 sessions | 59.00 -9.9% |
| Lowest analyst target | 47.00 -28.3% |
| 52-week closing low Jun 30, 2026 |
38.50 -41.2% |
Closing prices (all-time = the 28 years Yahoo has). Percentages are the distance from now. These are levels people watch, not levels the price has to respect. Not advice.