Cognizant (CTSH, Financial) continued to execute well on its value proposition of providing deep domain expertise for outsourced enterprise IT. As IT has rapidly evolved in the face of a “devolving” macroeconomic backdrop, outsourcing customers are demanding more value-added services to not only convert fixed IT costs into variable costs, but to improve business agility and drive revenues. Cognizant has aggressively reinvested to meet and exceed these demands, cultivating a relationship-based approach that relies on a much larger on-site presence compared to transactionally-based peers. In turn, customers have given Cognizant more “wallet share,” to the point where revenues have routinely grown at a 20% clip. We expect emerging trends, such as the proliferation of mobile IT as well as the perpetual trend of IT infrastructure transformation to drive double-digit growth well into the future.
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From David Rolfe (Trades, Portfolio)’s Wedgewood Partners Fourth Quarter 2013 Commentary.
