Has the U.S. IT Consulting Industry valuation changed over the past few years?

Investors are pessimistic on the American IT Consulting and Other Services industry, indicating that they anticipate long term growth rates will be lower than they have historically. The industry is trading at a PE ratio of 19.7x which is lower than its 3-year average PE of 28.2x. The 3-year average PS ratio of 2.4x is higher than the industry's current PS ratio of 2.0x.

How does U.S. IT Consulting compare with similar industries?

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U.S. IT Consulting Industry Analysis

Date	Market Cap	Revenue	Earnings	PE	Absolute PE	PS
Mon, 13 Jul 2026	US$413.6b	US$211.7b	US$21.0b	11.8x	19.7x	2x
Wed, 10 Jun 2026	US$420.2b	US$210.6b	US$21.1b	13.8x	19.9x	2x
Fri, 08 May 2026	US$376.2b	US$210.3b	US$22.0b	14.9x	17.1x	1.8x
Sun, 05 Apr 2026	US$430.2b	US$215.1b	US$22.7b	15.9x	19x	2x
Tue, 03 Mar 2026	US$429.1b	US$213.7b	US$22.5b	17.2x	19.1x	2x
Thu, 29 Jan 2026	US$543.3b	US$211.1b	US$20.0b	19.5x	27.2x	2.6x
Sat, 27 Dec 2025	US$584.3b	US$241.5b	US$21.2b	21.2x	27.6x	2.4x
Mon, 24 Nov 2025	US$559.6b	US$240.4b	US$21.3b	23.5x	26.3x	2.3x
Wed, 22 Oct 2025	US$532.3b	US$238.7b	US$19.6b	20.9x	27.2x	2.2x
Fri, 19 Sep 2025	US$485.0b	US$207.0b	US$18.9b	21.6x	25.6x	2.3x
Sun, 17 Aug 2025	US$470.8b	US$207.1b	US$18.9b	21.5x	24.9x	2.3x
Tue, 15 Jul 2025	US$544.7b	US$205.2b	US$18.7b	23.1x	29.1x	2.7x
Thu, 12 Jun 2025	US$571.9b	US$204.0b	US$18.4b	26x	31x	2.8x
Sat, 10 May 2025	US$544.6b	US$204.0b	US$18.0b	28.5x	30.3x	2.7x
Mon, 07 Apr 2025	US$492.8b	US$203.4b	US$18.5b	26.1x	26.7x	2.4x
Wed, 05 Mar 2025	US$577.0b	US$202.7b	US$18.1b	38.9x	31.8x	2.8x
Fri, 31 Jan 2025	US$586.0b	US$202.6b	US$17.9b	39.7x	32.8x	2.9x
Sun, 29 Dec 2024	US$562.3b	US$202.6b	US$18.1b	35.3x	31x	2.8x
Tue, 26 Nov 2024	US$566.5b	US$201.1b	US$17.8b	40.3x	31.8x	2.8x
Thu, 24 Oct 2024	US$576.9b	US$202.2b	US$19.4b	38.9x	29.7x	2.9x
Sat, 21 Sep 2024	US$537.5b	US$202.7b	US$19.2b	37.8x	28x	2.7x
Mon, 19 Aug 2024	US$512.0b	US$202.6b	US$19.2b	35.3x	26.6x	2.5x
Wed, 17 Jul 2024	US$491.4b	US$203.0b	US$18.8b	29.3x	26.1x	2.4x
Fri, 14 Jun 2024	US$446.7b	US$203.3b	US$18.9b	27.8x	23.7x	2.2x
Sun, 12 May 2024	US$464.5b	US$203.4b	US$18.3b	24.7x	25.4x	2.3x
Tue, 09 Apr 2024	US$505.6b	US$199.2b	US$17.1b	23.1x	29.5x	2.5x
Thu, 07 Mar 2024	US$541.7b	US$199.2b	US$17.0b	21.6x	31.9x	2.7x
Sat, 03 Feb 2024	US$538.7b	US$200.3b	US$16.9b	21.1x	31.8x	2.7x
Mon, 01 Jan 2024	US$501.7b	US$199.9b	US$16.3b	19.7x	30.7x	2.5x
Wed, 29 Nov 2023	US$473.8b	US$199.4b	US$16.3b	20x	29x	2.4x
Fri, 27 Oct 2023	US$418.5b	US$199.5b	US$16.3b	17.7x	25.7x	2.1x
Sun, 24 Sep 2023	US$448.8b	US$198.3b	US$11.7b	21.8x	38.5x	2.3x
Tue, 22 Aug 2023	US$430.3b	US$198.3b	US$11.7b	18.5x	36.8x	2.2x
Thu, 20 Jul 2023	US$444.9b	US$200.6b	US$11.3b	26.3x	39.3x	2.2x


US Market	0.11%
Tech	1.84%
IT	0.16%
IT Consulting	-3.18%
Internet Services and Infrastructure	2.86%
Data Processing Services	1.39%

Company	Last Price	7D	1Y	Valuation
CTSH Cognizant Technology Solutions	US$42.57	2.9% +US$568.6m	-43.5%	PE9.1x
DOX Amdocs	US$51.91	1.3% +US$69.0m	-41.5%	PE10.1x
UIS Unisys	US$4.06	12.8% +US$33.5m	-1.2%	PS0.2x
EFOR Everforth	US$17.54	1.2% +US$8.2m	-63.8%	PE7.3x
YAAS Youxin Technology	US$0.99	40.4% +US$6.5m	-96.9%	PS42x

Announcement • Jul 11

IBM and Red Hat Expand Lightwell with New Offerings to Build the Trust Infrastructure for AI-Era Open Source

IBM and Red Hat announced the commercial launch of Lightwell, delivering automated vulnerability remediation at scale through two offerings: Lightwell Network and Lightwell Clearinghouse Premier. Lightwell’s rollout scales a model built on decades of trust, in which Red Hat Inc. has secured critical systems for thousands of customers, with millions of core product downloads and an immeasurable number of patches, bug fixes, and community contributions. Lightwell now extends that proven enterprise protection to an organization's open source software portfolio. Lightwell leverages the high-throughput capability of a generative AI-powered remediation engine that is already live and operating at scale. This advanced, AI-driven automation pipeline combines frontier and open AI models with human engineering expertise to identify, validate, and remediate vulnerabilities across critical dependencies embedded deep within modern software architectures. Lightwell removes the friction between rapid innovation and enterprise compliance by securing the specific software packages organizations run in active production, while establishing a stable platform for future applications. To break the dependency remediation deadlock, Lightwell uses automation to backport critical fixes directly to specific, long-lived production software versions, helping address lengthy regression testing and breaking changes that often paralyze teams forced to adopt major upstream upgrades. Backed by its AI-powered remediation engine, Red Hat Inc. and International Business Machines Corporation expect Lightwell’s catalog of remediated packages to scale rapidly from thousands to millions. Red Hat Inc. and International Business Machines Corporation are delivering these capabilities through two offerings: Lightwell Network: Generally available now, providing immediate access to an active and growing library of content spanning latest to legacy libraries with high-value remediations. Members receive a continuous stream of digitally signed binaries, source code, and comprehensive compliance artifacts, including complete Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs), delivered directly into existing pipelines without code drift. Lightwell Clearinghouse Premier: Entering a limited-availability commercial onboarding phase, this tier is designed to serve as a trusted intermediary for deep industry collaboration, advanced vertical threat coordination, and secured patch embargoes. Participating organizations can submit vulnerabilities and request targeted version remediation under an embargo window. While the platform’s initial launch is limited to the financial services industry, Red Hat Inc. and International Business Machines Corporation plan to expand Lightwell Clearinghouse Premier to additional critical infrastructure verticals, including government, healthcare, and telecommunications, in future phases. Due to the highly specialized legal, geographic, and disclosure frameworks required to operate sector-specific clearinghouse networks, commercial entry remains gated to qualified participating organizations. Lightwell operates under Red Hat Inc.’s proven upstream-always model, in which security fixes are actively submitted back to the originating open source community for review and acceptance. This ensures commercial protections and community health continually reinforce one another, preventing project fragmentation without risking in-production zero days. Lightwell is extended by a robust and growing network of technology and deployment partners. By collaborating with these industry leaders, Lightwell delivers a true orchestrated defense, enabling network rules, cloud environments, and deployment pipelines to be updated simultaneously across the entire enterprise fabric when a fix is ready. Technology providers: Industry leaders like Amazon Web Services Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., F5 Inc., GitLab Inc., Intel Corporation, JFrog Ltd., Microsoft Corporation, NVIDIA Corporation, Palo Alto Networks Inc., and ServiceNow Inc. are collaborating with International Business Machines Corporation and Red Hat Inc. on Lightwell. This growing ecosystem ensures that Lightwell’s security fixes extend across diverse environments, protecting a wide array of existing tools, applications, and services without disruption. Deployment & strategy services: To accelerate adoption, customers can leverage systems integration and strategic deployment services through engagements with International Business Machines Corporation Consulting, Red Hat Inc. Consulting, Accenture plc, Atos SE, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation, Deloitte, EY cyber and risk consulting teams, HCLTech, Infosys Limited, Kyndryl Holdings Inc., Larsen & Toubro Limited, NTT DATA, Tata Consultancy Services Limited, and Tech Mahindra Limited. These organizations help enterprise customers map SBOMs, manage version mapping, ingest Lightwell registries, and evaluate pipelines to enable preparedness for AI-velocity vulnerabilities.

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