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Narrative Update on Coforge

Analysts have raised their fair value estimate for Coforge from ₹1,950.56 to ₹1,996.38. This reflects slightly higher assumed revenue growth, profit margins, and future valuation multiples, despite a modest uptick in the discount rate.

What's in the News

Coforge has scheduled a board meeting on January 22, 2026 to review Q3 FY2025-26 financial results and consider a third interim dividend and record date for shareholders (Board Meeting).
The company expanded its Coforge Quasar AI platform with new accelerators, including AgentSphere, Trust AI, LLM Router, Model Garden, and RAG as a Service, after achieving more than 300 paid AI deployments and more than 200 industry solutions across sectors (Product Related Announcements).
Coforge launched Forge-X, an AI native engineering and delivery platform built on autonomous AI agents to transform software delivery across the full SDLC and PDLC, integrating tools such as CodeInsightAI, BlueSwan, NORTHSTAR, and EvolveOps.AI (Product Related Announcements).
As part of its CSR and AI ecosystem building efforts, Coforge inaugurated a Data and AI Lab at IIT BHU Varanasi to support socially impactful research in cybersecurity, assistive technologies, agriculture, and education (Business Expansions).
Coforge opened a large public library in Hyderabad under its CSR initiative, offering over 15,000 books and free access to the community, following earlier libraries in Noida and Gurugram (Business Expansions).

Valuation Changes

The fair value estimate has risen slightly from ₹1,950.56 to ₹1,996.38, reflecting a modestly more optimistic outlook.
The discount rate has increased marginally from 16.00 percent to about 16.06 percent, indicating a slightly higher required return.
Revenue growth has inched up from roughly 15.34 percent to about 15.41 percent, implying a small upward revision to top line expectations.
The net profit margin has improved slightly from about 10.73 percent to roughly 10.75 percent, pointing to a minor enhancement in profitability assumptions.
The future P/E multiple has risen modestly from about 43.60x to approximately 44.53x, suggesting a small increase in anticipated market valuation levels.

Aggressive adoption of AI, cloud technologies, and vertical specialization enhances margin stability, repeat business, and positions Coforge for sustainable long-term growth.
Strategic acquisitions and a growing order book increase revenue visibility and accelerate entry into higher-growth, outcome-focused services.
Heavy reliance on a few clients, rising capital needs, disruptive AI trends, unsustainable cost cuts, and external uncertainties threaten revenue stability and future profitability.

Catalysts

About Coforge

Provides information technology (IT) and IT enabled services in India, the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, India, and the Asia Pacific.What are the underlying business or industry changes driving this perspective?

The rapid ramp-up in AI-infused solutions, demonstrated by multiple large-scale deployments (over 100 industry-specific Quasar AI use cases and AgentSphere with 100+ foundational agents), positions Coforge to capture surging enterprise AI budgets and move up the value chain, driving sustainable revenue growth and higher future net margins.
Coforge's expanding order book (up 47% YoY to a record $1.55B executable over 12 months) and continued multi-year large deal wins (14 large deals signed last year, targeting 20 this year) provide high revenue visibility and improved earnings predictability, suggesting the market may be underestimating future revenue streams.
The company's deep vertical specialization, especially in BFSI, travel, and healthcare, continues to translate into higher win rates, client stickiness, and robust multi-year growth (e.g., BFSI still delivers 32% YoY growth), supporting the potential for long-term margin stability and repeat business.
Ongoing investment in cloud-native technology and proprietary delivery platforms (like Forge-X) enables Coforge to address the persistent shift of enterprises toward cloud computing and legacy modernization-securing more complex, recurring, and higher-margin engagements that could enhance both revenue and net margins.
Strategic acquisitions and integration synergies (such as the Cigniti merger and cross-sell large deals) diversify revenue streams and accelerate entry into higher-growth, outcome-based managed services, providing a catalyst for both top-line growth and margin expansion in line with long-term industry trends.

Coforge Future Earnings and Revenue Growth

Assumptions

How have these above catalysts been quantified?

Analysts are assuming Coforge's revenue will grow by 17.3% annually over the next 3 years.
Analysts assume that profit margins will increase from 7.0% today to 10.3% in 3 years time.
Analysts expect earnings to reach ₹22.3 billion (and earnings per share of ₹63.88) by about September 2028, up from ₹9.4 billion today. However, there is some disagreement amongst the analysts with the more bearish ones expecting earnings as low as ₹17.7 billion.
In order for the above numbers to justify the analysts price target, the company would need to trade at a PE ratio of 44.3x on those 2028 earnings, down from 61.9x today. This future PE is greater than the current PE for the IN IT industry at 26.7x.
Analysts expect the number of shares outstanding to grow by 0.51% per year for the next 3 years.
To value all of this in today's terms, we will use a discount rate of 15.92%, as per the Simply Wall St company report.

Coforge Future Earnings Per Share Growth

Risks

What could happen that would invalidate this narrative?

Overdependence on large deals and a concentrated set of top clients poses a risk; any loss or slowdown among these clients could materially impact revenue growth and stability.
Rising capital expenditure intensity-especially from recent asset-heavy deals like the AI data center-could dampen free cash flow generation and increase financial leverage, pressuring long-term net margins.
Rapid advancements in AI and automation may commoditize traditional IT services, increasing pricing pressure and risking Coforge's ability to maintain current margins and earnings if it cannot continually innovate.
Sustained margin improvement appears dependent on one-off cost reductions (e.g., ESOP cost declines, limited wage hikes), which may not be sustainable; persistent wage inflation, heightened competition, or cost shocks could erode net profitability.
Macroeconomic and regulatory uncertainties, such as shifting client budgets in volatile global environments or changing data protection laws, may reduce discretionary IT spending or restrict offshore engagements, impacting future revenue growth.

Valuation

How have all the factors above been brought together to estimate a fair value?

The analysts have a consensus price target of ₹1875.935 for Coforge based on their expectations of its future earnings growth, profit margins and other risk factors. However, there is a degree of disagreement amongst analysts, with the most bullish reporting a price target of ₹2400.0, and the most bearish reporting a price target of just ₹1140.0.
In order for you to agree with the analyst's consensus, you'd need to believe that by 2028, revenues will be ₹216.3 billion, earnings will come to ₹22.3 billion, and it would be trading on a PE ratio of 44.3x, assuming you use a discount rate of 15.9%.
Given the current share price of ₹1731.8, the analyst price target of ₹1875.94 is 7.7% higher. The relatively low difference between the current share price and the analyst consensus price target indicates that they believe on average, the company is fairly priced.
We always encourage you to reach your own conclusions though. So sense check these analyst numbers against your own assumptions and expectations based on your understanding of the business and what you believe is probable.

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