OREANDA-NEWS. Cognizant rose to the 529th place on the 2016 FORBES Global 2000, Forbes’s comprehensive annual ranking of the world’s largest publicly traded companies, up from #637 in 2015.

The FORBES Global 2000 ranking is based on a composite score from equally-weighted measures of revenue, profits, assets and market value. Cognizant ranked among the top 500 in Profit (#398) and Market value (#273).  

The 2016 list features public companies from 63 countries. The list has been published since 2003.