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CoforgeCOFORGE.NSCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

India · INR·IT›Information Technology Services

Mid-sized Indian IT-services firm focused on BFSI, insurance, travel and public-sector digital projects.

≈ A niche, BFSI/insurance-focused Indian GenpactMomentum leader 96
Mkt cap
$9.71B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
79%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$58.2M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
35.2×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
-5.5 pp
WACC 14.3%
Hurdle
+6 pp
Req g minus delivered
Next earnings
83 days
28 Jan 2027
Close · INR₹2,076
1D-0.1%
1W+1.5%
1M+13.9%
3M+17.1%
6M+61.5%
YTD+24.8%
1Y+14.8%
ATR %3.4%
Beta0.99
52w lowhigh2.4% off high

What Coforge does

Mid-sized Indian IT-services firm focused on BFSI, insurance, travel and public-sector digital projects.

Charges for engineering time and on fixed-price projects, mostly for clients outside India in insurance, banking and travel, where long contracts to run and extend core systems make revenue steady. Renamed from NIIT Technologies in 2020.

In one line: A niche, BFSI/insurance-focused Indian Genpact.

Products and services

  • Insurance & BFSI IT services
  • Travel & transportation technology
  • Digital transformation & cloud services
  • BPO services

Customers

  • Insurance carriers
  • Banks & financial institutions
  • Airlines & travel companies
  • Government/public-sector clients

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • IT services & consulting
  • Vertical-focused digital transformation
  • BFSI, insurance, travel…

What could go right

  • Vertical (insurance, travel) digital-transformation demand
  • Cross-sell of platform-based BPaaS services

What could go wrong

  • Client concentration in a few large accounts
  • Discretionary tech-spend slowdowns

Moat: narrow (switching costs, process know-how, customer qualification). Deep vertical (insurance/travel) platform expertise creates sticky, hard-to-replace client relationships.

Headquarters: Noida, India · Founded: 1992 · Employees: 35,777

Named competitors

Coforge at a glance

Size Coforge (COFORGE.NS) is an India Information Technology company (Information Technology Services) with a market value of $9.71B, the 125th largest of 1,058 India companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at ₹2,076 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 61.5%, against +15.9% for the median peer and 0.0% for the India market (cap-weighted) — highest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 41.2% over the last twelve months (peer median +17.4%); the operating margin is 15.5% (peer median 8.8%).

Valuation It trades at 35.2× forward earnings against a peer median of 21.8× (7th most expensive of 20).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 35% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +29%, so the hurdle is +6 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.

Capital Return on invested capital runs 5.5 points below its cost of capital (14.3% WACC).

Next results Next results expected around 28 Jan 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

10012014011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026COFORGE.NS 152Peer median 117
Six months, rebased to 100: Coforge against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Coforge financials

Reported figures in INR; fiscal year ends 2026-03-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue₹203B₹164B₹121B₹90.4B₹80.4B
Revenue growth—+36%+34%+12%—
Gross profit₹49.5B₹34.0B₹23.8B₹25.6B₹23.7B
EBITDA₹40.3B₹30.3B₹17.4B₹14.9B₹13.2B
Net income₹19.7B₹15.6B₹8.12B₹8.08B₹6.94B
Free cash flown/a₹9.58B₹5.50B₹5.44B₹7.25B
Capital expendituren/a₹7.42B₹6.14B₹2.65B₹1.58B
Total debt₹60.3B₹7.28B₹10.7B₹7.26B₹5.62B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Coforge competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-50%-25%0%+25%+50%-20%0%+20%PERSISTENT4768IDREPAMAPPF301165018260002230GWREVIAVBSYCACIXMTR688702TEMNCCCRIOTSAICNICEINGMCOFORGE.NS6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Coforge is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

0%+20%+40%0×2,000×4,000×6,000×PERSISTENT4768IDREPAMAPPF018260GWREVIAVXMTR688702CCCSAICCOFORGE.NSRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Coforge is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

0%+20%+40%0%20%40%PERSISTENT4768IDREPAMAPPF018260GWREVIAVBSYCACITEMNSAICNICEINGMCOFORGE.NSGrowth delivered (Del g) →Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) →
Above the diagonal = the price needs more growth than the company has been delivering; below = the price already allows for a slowdown. Coforge is the large dot.

Coforge competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (COFORGE.NS vs PERSISTENT.NS vs MPHASIS.NS vs FSL.NS)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Coforge COFORGE.NS$9.71B+62%+41%16%35.2×34.6%
Persistent Systems PERSISTENT.NS$10.6B+21%+27%16%43.9×37.4%
Mphasis MPHASIS.NS$5.15B+15%+14%15%22.4×28.7%
Firstsource Solutions FSL.NS$2.16B+25%+20%12%22.0×20.3%
ExlService EXLS$6.51B+39%+16%14%17.0×9.4%

How Coforge compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Coforge against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureCOFORGE.NSPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+13.9%+0.6%5th highest of 21
6-month return+61.5%+15.9%highest of 21
Distance from 52-week high-2.4%-22.2%highest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+41.2%+17.4%2nd highest of 21
Operating margin15.5%8.8%5th highest of 21
Forward P/E35.2×21.8×7th most expensive of 20
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)34.6%8.3%3rd most demanding of 16
Growth delivered (Del g)+28.6%+11.1%2nd highest of 16
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)+6.0 pp-2.4 pp7th most demanding of 16
ROIC minus cost of capital-5.5 pp+2.3 pp5th lowest of 21
EV / EBITDA23.8×16.5×6th most expensive of 13
Net debt / EBITDA1.0×-0.3×6th most indebted of 16

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Coforge COFORGE.NSIndia$9.71B+62%+41%16%35.2×34.6%+28.6%
Persistent Systems PERSISTENT.NSIndia$10.6B+21%+27%16%43.9×37.4%+28.6%
Otsuka 4768.TJapan$8.63B+24%+9%7%20.1×-5.6%+9.6%
Indra Sistemas IDR.MCSpain$11.2B+12%+28%10%19.7×4.2%+12.4%
EPAM Systems EPAMUnited States$8.22B+61%+11%10%11.3×9.4%+15.5%
AppFolio APPFUnited States$8.18B+39%+20%19%28.9×18.5%+25.1%
Ruijie Networks 301165.SZChina$11.7B+6%+30%5%48.3×n/an/a
Samsung Sds 018260.KSSouth Korea$12.4B+31%+2%5%24.9×13.0%+4.8%
iflytek 002230.SZChina$13.2B-20%+11%-4%106.3×n/an/a
Guidewire Software GWREUnited States$13.3B+17%+23%10%38.5×39.4%+14.7%
Viavi Solutions VIAVUnited States$7.00B-44%+40%11%14.0×32.7%+4.8%
Bentley Systems BSYUnited States$13.5B+36%+13%24%31.4×22.8%+13.4%
CACI International CACIUnited States$13.6B+27%+10%10%17.6×7.3%+9.6%
Xometry XMTRUnited States$6.63B+44%+37%-2%91.0×n/an/a
Suzhou Centec Communications 688702.SSChina$6.58B-45%+32%-18%5,922.0×n/an/a
Temenos TEMN.SWSwitzerland$6.51B+10%+30%27%21.8×8.3%+1.7%
Computacenter CCC.LUnited Kingdom$6.48B+15%+54%3%16.4×7.9%+11.1%
RIOT RIOTUnited States$6.27B-31%+6%-84%n/an/an/a
Science Applications International SAICUnited States$6.13B+56%-1%8%14.3×-4.6%+0.6%
NICE Ltd. Sponsored ADR NICEUnited States$5.87B+4%+8%17%7.8×-0.7%+12.3%
Ingram Micro INGMUnited States$5.85B-6%+15%2%6.8×2.9%+1.4%

Questions

Who are Coforge's main competitors?
Named competitors: Persistent Systems (PERSISTENT.NS), LTIMindtree (private or unlisted), Mphasis (MPHASIS.NS), Firstsource Solutions (FSL.NS), EXL Service Holdings (EXLS). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Persistent Systems (PERSISTENT.NS), Otsuka (4768.T), Indra Sistemas (IDR.MC), EPAM Systems (EPAM), AppFolio (APPF), Ruijie Networks (301165.SZ).
Is Coforge expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 35.2× against a peer median of 21.8×, 7th most expensive of 20 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 35% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +29%, so the hurdle is +6 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.
How has Coforge stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +61.5% against +15.9% for the median peer; over one year +14.8%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.