COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS CORP — Director's Dealing 2025

Mar 18, 2025

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS CORP (CTSH)
CIK: 0001058290
Period of Report: 2025-03-15

Reporting Person: Varrier Rajesh (President Operations MD India)

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2025-03-15	Class A Common Stock	M	749	—	Acquired	1704	Direct
2025-03-15	Class A Common Stock	M	814	—	Acquired	2518	Direct
2025-03-15	Class A Common Stock	M	1268	—	Acquired	3786	Direct
2025-03-15	Class A Common Stock	F	1093	$79.035	Disposed	2693	Direct

Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Exercise Price	Code	Shares	A/D	Expiration	Underlying	Ownership
2025-03-15	Restricted Stock Units	$	M	749	Disposed		Class A Common Stock (749)	Direct
2025-03-15	Restricted Stock Units	$	M	814	Disposed		Class A Common Stock (814)	Direct
2025-03-15	Performance Stock Units	$	M	1268	Disposed		Class A Common Stock (1268)	Direct

Footnotes

F1: Shares of Class A Common Stock of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation (the "Company") received from the vesting of 1/8th of the restricted stock unit ("RSU") award granted on September 3, 2024.

F2: Each RSU represents a contingent right to receive one share of the Company's Class A Common Stock.

F3: Shares of Class A Common Stock of the Company received from the vesting of 1/6th of the RSU award granted on September 3, 2024.

F4: 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 September 3, 2024, under the Company's 2023 Incentive Award Plan. The performance conditions were determined to be satisfied on March 3, 2025, and the PSUs as shown in Table II above were vested and settled in Class A Common Stock of the Company on March 15, 2025.

F5: Each PSU represents a contingent right to receive one share of Class A Common Stock of the Company.

F6: Shares of the Company's Class A Common Stock withheld to pay applicable taxes.

F7: A total of 5,991 RSUs were originally granted on September 3, 2024, under the Company's 2023 Incentive Award Plan and will vest in eight successive quarterly installments, with 1/8th of such RSUs first vesting on December 15, 2024, and each quarterly anniversary of such date so that such RSUs will be fully vested on the eighth quarterly vesting date (September 15, 2026).

F8: A total of 4,884 RSUs were originally granted on September 3, 2024 under the Company's 2023 Incentive Award Plan and will vest in ten successive quarterly installments, with (i) 1/6th of such RSUs vesting on each of December 15, 2024 and the quarterly anniversary of such date; (ii) 2/3rds of 1/6th of such RSUs vesting on each of the following four quarterly anniversaries of such date; (iii) 1/3rd of 1/6th of such RSUs vesting on each of the following three quarterly anniversaries of such date; and (iv) the remainder of such RSUs vesting on March 15, 2027.