Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. (KD - Free Report) ended the recent trading session at $14.76, demonstrating a -2.89% change from the preceding day's closing price. The stock fell short of the S&P 500, which registered a loss of 0.52% for the day. On the other hand, the Dow registered a loss of 1.24%, and the technology-centric Nasdaq decreased by 0.21%.
The company's shares have seen an increase of 29.47% over the last month, surpassing the Business Services sector's gain of 3.51% and the S&P 500's loss of 1.21%.
Analysts and investors alike will be keeping a close eye on the performance of Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. in its upcoming earnings disclosure. The company's earnings report is set to go public on November 4, 2026. The company is predicted to post an EPS of $0.37, indicating a 2.63% decline compared to the equivalent quarter last year. Meanwhile, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for revenue is projecting net sales of $3.6 billion, down 3.15% from the year-ago period.
Regarding the entire year, the Zacks Consensus Estimates forecast earnings of $1.85 per share and revenue of $14.76 billion, indicating changes of +26.71% and -2.23%, respectively, compared to the previous year.
Investors should also take note of any recent adjustments to analyst estimates for Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. These revisions typically reflect the latest short-term business trends, which can change frequently. Consequently, upward revisions in estimates express analysts' positivity towards the business operations and its ability to generate profits.
Based on our research, we believe these estimate revisions are directly related to near-term stock moves. To take advantage of this, we've established the Zacks Rank, an exclusive model that considers these estimated changes and delivers an operational rating system.
The Zacks Rank system, spanning from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), boasts an impressive track record of outperformance, audited externally, with #1 ranked stocks yielding an average annual return of +25% since 1988. The Zacks Consensus EPS estimate remained stagnant within the past month. Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. presently features a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold).
Digging into valuation, Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. currently has a Forward P/E ratio of 8.23. This valuation marks a discount compared to its industry average Forward P/E of 15.6.
The Technology Services industry is part of the Business Services sector. At present, this industry carries a Zacks Industry Rank of 100, placing it within the top 41% of over 250 industries.
The Zacks Industry Rank gauges the strength of our individual industry groups by measuring the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within the groups. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
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A Look at Kyndryl Holdings Inc (KD) After 3.3% Gain -- GF Value $24.09 vs Price $14.35
On October 21, 2026, Kyndryl Holdings Inc KD shares rose 3.3% to $14.35. The stock has experienced a volatile year, with a 52-week range of $10.10 to $29.45.
GF Value™ verdict: The current price of $14.35 is 40.4% below the GF Value™ estimate of $24.09.GF Score™ of 59/100 indicates an average investment quality.Insider activity shows that insiders sold $0.2 million in stock over the past 12 months, with no buying activity.Is KD Overvalued or Undervalued?Kyndryl Holdings Inc's stock is currently trading at $14.35, which represents a significant discount of 40.4% compared to the GF Value™ estimate of $24.09. This undervaluation suggests that there may be an opportunity for potential upside. However, the GF Valuation label warns that it could be a "Possible Value Trap," which means investors should exercise caution. The GF Value™ is GuruFocus' proprietary intrinsic-value estimate that considers historical trading multiples, past business growth, and future performance forecasts.
While the current price appears appealing relative to the GF Value™, the substantial decline in KD's stock price over the past year (-49.9% YTD) may indicate underlying challenges that investors should consider before making a decision. The market may be pricing in risks associated with Kyndryl’s financial performance, which has been impacted by various factors in the competitive software industry.
How Does KD's Valuation Compare to Its History?MetricCurrentHistoricalP/E (TTM)40.0x27.8xForward P/E7.8xN/AKyndryl's current P/E ratio of 40.0x is significantly higher than its 5-year median P/E of 27.8x, indicating that the stock is trading above its historical valuation levels. This elevated P/E ratio may suggest that the market has high expectations for future growth, which may not be justified given the company's current financial situation. The P/E analysis aligns with the GF Value™ verdict, pointing to potential overvaluation concerns.
What Does KD's GF Score™ Tell Us?The GF Score™ is a metric that evaluates a company’s financial health, profitability, growth potential, valuation, and momentum, providing a comprehensive view of its investment quality. Kyndryl's GF Score™ of 59/100 reflects an average rating, with notable weaknesses in profitability and growth ranks, both scoring 3/10.
MetricRatingGF Score™59Financial Strength5/10Profitability3/10Growth3/10Valuation4/10Momentum5/10The average GF Score™ reflects a balance of strengths and weaknesses. While Kyndryl has a reasonable financial strength score of 5/10, its profitability and growth ranks are concerning at 3/10. The valuation rank is slightly better at 4/10, indicating some room for improvement. Overall, the scores suggest that while Kyndryl may have a solid foundation, it faces challenges in its profitability and growth metrics.
What Are Gurus and Insiders Doing with KD?Currently, 5 gurus hold Kyndryl shares, with 3 increasing their positions and 2 trimming their holdings in recent quarters. This suggests a mixed sentiment among institutional investors, indicating some level of confidence while others are reassessing their stakes. Such movements in guru ownership can be an essential signal for investors.
In contrast, insider activity has shown that insiders have sold $0.2 million worth of stock over the past year without any buying. This trend raises caution as it may suggest a lack of confidence or optimism from those within the company, which could influence potential investor perceptions.
What This Means for InvestorsBased on the GF Value™ assessment, Kyndryl Holdings Inc appears undervalued at its current price of $14.35, presenting a potential opportunity for investors. However, the mixed signals from guru activity and insider selling should not be overlooked, as they highlight potential risks associated with the company's future performance. Investors should consider these factors carefully before making any investment decisions. For more insights, you can visit the Kyndryl Holdings Inc KD stock page.
Frequently Asked QuestionsWhat is KD's GF Score™?
Kyndryl Holdings Inc has a GF Score™ of 59/100, indicating an average investment quality based on various financial metrics.
Is KD overvalued or undervalued?
According to the GF Value™ assessment, KD is currently undervalued with a price of $14.35 compared to a GF Value™ of $24.09, suggesting potential upside.
What is KD's P/E ratio?
Kyndryl's P/E ratio is 40.0x, which is significantly higher than its 5-year median P/E of 27.8x, indicating that it is trading above its historical valuation levels.
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, /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, today announced that it has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Digital Workplace Services 2026 Vendor Assessment (#US54119026, September 2026).
The assessment evaluated 18 worldwide digital workplace services (DWS) providers on capability breadth, GenAI and agentic AI in production (in both service delivery and customer environments), and employee experience delivery and XLA maturity, among other parameters. According to the IDC MarketScape "Kyndryl approaches DWS through its Connected Experience proposition, built on three themes of experience, security, and sustainability, and delivered through a combination of Kyndryl Consult for design and strategy and Kyndryl Bridge, its AIOps platform, for operations."
"We're honored to be recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Digital Workplace Services 2026 Vendor Assessment," said Michael Przytula, Senior Vice President, Global Practice Leader for Applications, Data, AI & Digital Workplace Services at Kyndryl. "I believe this recognition reinforces our belief that the future of workplace services isn't just about fixing issues faster. It's about protecting the productivity of our customers' people by anticipating needs, preventing disruption and enabling them to do their best work."
"Buyers are increasingly judging providers of AI-enabled digital workplace services (DWS) on proof of delivery at scale, not just on vision or ambition. In this IDC MarketScape, Kyndryl is noted for grounding its Connected Experience Framework for DWS in Kyndryl Bridge, its field-proven foundation for AI-enabled operational automation and orchestration," said Pushkaraksh Shanbhag, Senior Research Director, Worldwide Services, IDC.
According to the excerpt, Kyndryl's key strengths include:
Security, governance, and experience leadership. Kyndryl pairs an AI-native security and responsible AI framework, with policy-as-code, regulator-ready audit, and data sovereignty, with a mature, contractually embedded XLA model. This combination of governance rigor and quantified experience management suits regulated enterprises running large, mission-critical estates. Platform-anchored delivery with Kyndryl Bridge. Kyndryl Bridge provides an AIOps and orchestration backbone that the vast majority of the vendor's workplace customers are onboarded to, supporting substantial automation of requests and incidents, as well as a coherent Connected Experience Framework across access, productivity, and support. Partnership, accountability, and single-partner breadth (customer-validated). Reference clients consistently valued Kyndryl as a collaborative, accountable partner that behaves as an extension of their own IT organization, citing responsiveness, flexibility, and the ability to consolidate a wide array of services under one provider. This points to durable, relationship-led delivery on complex, multi-service engagements. Kyndryl organizes digital workplace transformation through its Connected Experience framework across three core operational domains: Access (devices, workspaces, and cloud PCs), Productivity (collaboration platforms, workflows, and AI tools), and Support (AI agents, virtual assistants, and concierge services).
Read the IDC excerpt and learn more about Kyndryl Digital Workplace Services.
About IDC MarketScape
IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor's position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective suppliers.
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, offering advisory, implementation and managed service capabilities to thousands of customers in more than 60 countries. As the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, the company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex information systems that the world depends on every day. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.
AI agents drive faster, higher-quality outcomes across infrastructure design and operations
, /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, Toyota Systems Corporation ("Toyota Systems") and Toyota Finance Corporation ("Toyota Finance") today announced that Kyndryl and Toyota Systems are supporting Toyota Finance in transforming IT service operations. The project will leverage agentic AI to enhance infrastructure design, change management and impact analysis processes.
Kyndryl and Toyota Systems will apply the Kyndryl Agentic AI Framework to implement AI-native workflows across Toyota Finance's enterprise IT operations. Kyndryl and Toyota Systems are developing an IT change management operations solution that will deploy AI agents using customer-specific rules and knowledge, including IT environments, runbooks and operational schedules, to identify inconsistencies and potential risks.
"People are essential to sustainable growth. By enabling the skilled engineers of Toyota Systems and Kyndryl to use technologies such as agentic AI, we can create a virtuous cycle in which people are able to shift their focus toward taking on new challenges and creating greater value," said Akira Umehara, Head of the IT Division, Toyota Finance. "We aim to evolve digital technology into a force that creates the business itself."
"To help realize a sustainable mobility society, we have embarked on an initiative to transform our IT operations in ways that support this goal. Going forward, we will work even more closely with Kyndryl to apply human-centered agentic AI across the entire IT lifecycle. In other words, this reflects the same philosophy as jidoka, or 'automation with a human touch.' By combining frontline expertise with digital technology, we will create value through continuous improvement," said Iwao Nakano, Commissioner and Head of the Finance IT Division, Toyota Systems.
"Kyndryl's infrastructure-first approach to deploying agentic AI enables us to support enterprise AI adoption at production scale, while balancing scalability and security across mission-critical systems," said Yoshinori Irisawa, President, Kyndryl Japan. "We will continue to work closely with our customers to help them deploy AI safely and effectively, while maintaining strong governance and operational resilience."
Working together with Kyndryl and Toyota Systems, Toyota Finance will use agentic AI in its production environment to respond more quickly to evolving business needs while maintaining high-quality infrastructure services aligned with corporate governance standards. In addition, the initiative will strengthen business continuity and help improve engineering productivity at Toyota Finance. This AI agent-enabled enhancement will improve efficiency and standardize quality in review workflows. Impact analysis for system changes shows how agents can reduce both decision-making time and engineers' workload. Kyndryl, Toyota Systems and Toyota Finance plan to further expand the application of agentic AI across the entire IT infrastructure lifecycle to drive broader transformation of IT service processes.
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, offering advisory, implementation and managed service capabilities to thousands of customers in more than 60 countries. As the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, the company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex information systems that the world depends on every day. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com or www.kyndryl.com/jp/ja.
About Toyota Finance
Toyota Finance Corporation was established several decades ago and has built a leading position as a comprehensive provider of automotive financial services in Japan. Headquartered in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, the company operates nationwide and provides services to a broad range of customers. Beyond financial services, Toyota Finance is committed to creating more convenient and rewarding mobility experiences. For more information, visit Toyota Finance.
About Toyota Systems
Toyota Systems is the Toyota Group's IT solutions company. Through the power of IT, the company works to create new forms of ever-evolving mobility and help realize a more comfortable future for communities, vehicles and transportation. For more information, visit Toyota Systems.
Recognition includes five Gold awards, demonstrating Kyndryl's commitment to integrity, new approaches to learning and building skills
, /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, has earned 21 Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards®, including five Gold awards, recognizing excellence in training employees on ethics and integrity, leadership development, innovative learning programs, and employee skill-building.
The Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards are often referred to as the "Academy Awards of Human Capital Management" and they recognize organizations that demonstrate innovation, measurable business impact and excellence in developing talent.
"This impressive group of awards and recognition from Brandon Hall Group is a testament to Kyndryl's steadfast commitment to upholding the highest ethical standards and giving our global team the training to build trust through taking the right actions," said Andrew Bonzani, General Counsel and Secretary at Kyndryl. "Trust is at the heart of our mission-critical support for customers, and as an organization, transparency, accountability and sound judgment are fundamental to how Kyndryls work every day."
The awards build upon Kyndryl's broader strategy to prepare its workforce for the future through continuous learning, leadership development and the responsible use of AI. These efforts help Kyndryl develop the expertise needed to support and transform the mission-critical systems that organizations depend on every day.
"At Kyndryl, we believe continuous learning is essential to helping our people grow and our customers succeed," said Mark Paulek, Chief Human Resources Officer at Kyndryl. "As technology continues to evolve, we're using AI to create more interactive and personalized learning experiences grounded in real-world and customer scenarios. These programs help Kyndryls build skills, strengthen leadership capabilities and develop the expertise needed to create value for customers and grow their careers. These awards recognize the impact of those investments."
Among the program's top honors were seven awards—including two Gold awards—for Kyndryl Code of Conduct 2026: Integrity Decoded, the company's creative, character-driven employee integrity training. This is the second year in a row that Kyndryl has earned Gold for Best Compliance Training and Best Use of Video for Learning. The engaging training helps Kyndryls understand the importance of acting with integrity, complying with the company's Code of Conduct and legal requirements, and raising ethical concerns promptly, in an environment that encourages speaking up.
Additional Gold-winning programs recognize the company's commitment to skill-building and leadership development—and the innovative approach to using AI as a teaching tool. Kyndryl Academy for Consult was recognized with Gold awards for Best Use of AI for Business Impact and Best Program for Upskilling Employees, and Kyndryl's course "ENGAGE: Consultative Selling with AI" received a Gold Award for Best Results of a Learning Program.
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services offering advisory, implementation and managed service capabilities to thousands of customers in more than 60 countries. As the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, the company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex information systems that the world depends on every day. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.
, /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, today announced that it will release results for the quarter ended September 30, 2026, the second quarter of its 2027 fiscal year, on Wednesday, November 4, 2026 at approximately 7:00 a.m. ET, and at 8:30 a.m. ET Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Martin Schroeter and Chief Financial Officer Ellen Johnson will host an earnings conference call and webcast.
The live webcast can be accessed by visiting investors.kyndryl.com on Kyndryl's investor relations website. A slide presentation will be made available on Kyndryl's investor relations website before the call on November 4, 2026. Following the event, replays will be available via webcast for twelve months at investors.kyndryl.com.
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, offering advisory, implementation and managed service capabilities to thousands of customers in more than 60 countries. As the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, the Company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex information systems that the world depends on every day. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.
In the latest trading session, Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. (KD - Free Report) closed at $11.75, marking a -1.09% move from the previous day. The stock trailed the S&P 500, which registered a daily gain of 0.6%. Elsewhere, the Dow saw an upswing of 0.83%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq appreciated by 0.64%.
The stock of company has fallen by 6.31% in the past month, lagging the Business Services sector's loss of 2.9% and the S&P 500's gain of 1.34%.
Analysts and investors alike will be keeping a close eye on the performance of Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. in its upcoming earnings disclosure. It is anticipated that the company will report an EPS of $0.37, marking a 2.63% fall compared to the same quarter of the previous year. Meanwhile, our latest consensus estimate is calling for revenue of $3.6 billion, down 3.15% from the prior-year quarter.
In terms of the entire fiscal year, the Zacks Consensus Estimates predict earnings of $1.85 per share and a revenue of $14.76 billion, indicating changes of +26.71% and -2.23%, respectively, from the former year.
Additionally, investors should keep an eye on any recent revisions to analyst forecasts for Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. These revisions typically reflect the latest short-term business trends, which can change frequently. As a result, we can interpret positive estimate revisions as a good sign for the business outlook.
Empirical research indicates that these revisions in estimates have a direct correlation with impending stock price performance. To utilize this, we have created the Zacks Rank, a proprietary model that integrates these estimate changes and provides a functional rating system.
The Zacks Rank system, which varies between #1 (Strong Buy) and #5 (Strong Sell), carries an impressive track record of exceeding expectations, confirmed by external audits, with stocks at #1 delivering an average annual return of +25% since 1988. Over the past month, the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate remained stagnant. Right now, Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. possesses a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold).
Valuation is also important, so investors should note that Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. has a Forward P/E ratio of 6.43 right now. This indicates a discount in contrast to its industry's Forward P/E of 15.81.
The Technology Services industry is part of the Business Services sector. Currently, this industry holds a Zacks Industry Rank of 172, positioning it in the bottom 31% of all 250+ industries.
The Zacks Industry Rank assesses the strength of our separate industry groups by calculating the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks contained within the groups. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
Be sure to use Zacks.com to monitor all these stock-influencing metrics, and more, throughout the forthcoming trading sessions.
WPP to leverage Kyndryl's Agentic AI Framework throughout its operations
Kyndryl names WPP as its preferred global marketing partner
, /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, and WPP, the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands, today announced an expanded agreement under which they will redefine the traditional customer-supplier relationship.
The expanded partnership focuses on three key areas: the transformation of WPP's business platforms and support model, an expanded marketing partnership naming WPP as Kyndryl's preferred global marketing partner, and joint go-to-market initiatives to drive customer growth through modernization and core business transformation.
"This partnership redefines the traditional customer-supplier relationship. Kyndryl will help WPP accelerate enterprise transformation through AI-enabled operations, platform modernisation and a simpler technology landscape, while WPP will support Kyndryl's growth through an expanded marketing partnership and joint go-to-market innovation," said Dominic Shine, Chief Information Officer, WPP. "Together, we are investing in each other's success, creating a relationship built on shared outcomes, trust and long-term value creation."
Business platform transformation for AI-powered modernization
The Kyndryl Agentic AI Framework will be applied to help modernize WPP's application estate with intelligent support operations, faster issue resolution, and reduced technical complexity. This will help enable WPP to provide more flexible technology operations in support of its Elevate28 strategy, which aims to modernize its enterprise technology environment to help it become a simpler, more integrated, AI-powered company.
"By combining enterprise modernization, AI-enabled operations and customer growth capabilities, we are creating a blueprint that helps WPP transform and innovate faster to drive meaningful outcomes," said Jonathan Ingram, President, Kyndryl UKI. "This is helping us unlock new sources of joint value and shared success."
The new operating model will bring together workplace, cloud, infrastructure and enterprise services under a common, automated operating model. By retiring legacy applications and accelerating adoption of strategic enterprise platforms, WPP expects to realise cost savings and efficiencies over time. A portion of these savings will be reinvested into projects which deliver further IT simplification, productivity and operational benefit and, will be further enhanced by the use of Kyndryl Bridge, an AI-powered, open-integration digital business platform to integrate, observe and orchestrate across its entire technology environment.
Global marketing partnership for innovation and growth
Kyndryl has named WPP as its preferred Marketing partner, expanding the existing relationship beyond Media, Brand, and Creative Strategy to encompass a broader portfolio of high-value digital, experiential, and integrated marketing capabilities, alongside the enablement of an AI-powered Marketing Operating System built on WPP Open, WPP's pioneering agentic marketing platform. This expanded partnership across Enterprise Technology, Go-to-Market, and Marketing creates a powerful platform for innovation, growth, and business transformation for both WPP and Kyndryl.
Strengthened joint Go-to-Market initiatives
Kyndryl Consult and WPP Enterprise Solutions (previously VML Enterprise Solutions) will also continue to strengthen joint go-to-market efforts, previously announced in 2025, to drive client growth through modernization and core business transformation by reimagining how customers engage with brands through the power of AI, data and emerging technology.
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, offering advisory, implementation and managed service capabilities to thousands of customers in more than 60 countries. As the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, the company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex information systems that the world depends on every day. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.
About WPP
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands. The company unites cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and its agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit wpp.com.
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Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:KD – Get Free Report) shares gapped up prior to trading on Thursday. The stock had previously closed at $11.26, but opened at $11.78. Kyndryl shares last traded at $11.9620, with a volume of 364,027 shares changing hands.
Analyst Ratings Changes A number of equities analysts have commented on KD shares. Weiss Ratings downgraded shares of Kyndryl from a “sell (d+)” rating to a “sell (d)” rating in a research report on Thursday, August 6th. BMO Capital Markets reaffirmed a “market perform” rating and issued a $16.00 target price on shares of Kyndryl in a report on Thursday, August 6th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. boosted their price target on shares of Kyndryl from $13.00 to $14.00 and gave the stock an “underweight” rating in a research note on Monday, August 10th. Finally, Zacks Research raised shares of Kyndryl from a “strong sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Monday, September 14th. Seven analysts have rated the stock with a Hold rating and two have issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Kyndryl has a consensus rating of “Reduce” and an average target price of $16.50.
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Kyndryl Price Performance The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $12.90 and a 200-day simple moving average of $12.54. The stock has a market cap of $2.52 billion, a PE ratio of 31.24 and a beta of 1.66. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.96, a current ratio of 0.85 and a quick ratio of 0.85. Kyndryl (NYSE:KD – Get Free Report) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, August 5th. The company reported ($0.12) EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of ($0.16) by $0.04. Kyndryl had a net margin of 0.58% and a return on equity of 12.24%. The company had revenue of $3.62 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $3.64 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $0.37 EPS. The business’s revenue was down 3.3% on a year-over-year basis. Sell-side analysts anticipate that Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. will post 1.36 EPS for the current fiscal year.
Institutional Trading of Kyndryl Institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Benjamin Edwards Inc. raised its holdings in Kyndryl by 6.9% during the second quarter. Benjamin Edwards Inc. now owns 14,179 shares of the company’s stock worth $160,000 after purchasing an additional 921 shares during the last quarter. State of Michigan Retirement System grew its holdings in Kyndryl by 1.9% in the first quarter. State of Michigan Retirement System now owns 55,034 shares of the company’s stock valued at $722,000 after purchasing an additional 1,000 shares during the last quarter. IFP Advisors Inc increased its position in shares of Kyndryl by 44.8% in the second quarter. IFP Advisors Inc now owns 3,256 shares of the company’s stock valued at $37,000 after buying an additional 1,008 shares in the last quarter. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC increased its position in shares of Kyndryl by 24.4% in the first quarter. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 5,469 shares of the company’s stock valued at $72,000 after buying an additional 1,073 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Versant Capital Management Inc raised its stake in shares of Kyndryl by 104.1% during the 2nd quarter. Versant Capital Management Inc now owns 2,418 shares of the company’s stock worth $27,000 after buying an additional 1,233 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 71.53% of the company’s stock.
Kyndryl Company Profile (Get Free Report)
Kyndryl Holdings, Inc (NYSE: KD) is an information technology services company that designs, builds, manages and modernizes mission-critical technology systems for businesses and public-sector organizations. Its services include managed infrastructure, cloud solutions, application management, network and edge services, cybersecurity, data and artificial intelligence, and technology consulting.
The company helps clients operate and transform complex IT environments, including hybrid cloud and traditional on-premises systems.
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Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. (KD - Free Report) closed at $11.56 in the latest trading session, marking a -4.62% move from the prior day. The stock trailed the S&P 500, which registered a daily gain of 0.73%. Meanwhile, the Dow experienced a rise of 0.49%, and the technology-dominated Nasdaq saw an increase of 1.19%.
The company's shares have seen a decrease of 9.15% over the last month, not keeping up with the Business Services sector's loss of 4.68% and the S&P 500's gain of 0.55%.
The investment community will be paying close attention to the earnings performance of Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. in its upcoming release. It is anticipated that the company will report an EPS of $0.37, marking a 2.63% fall compared to the same quarter of the previous year. Meanwhile, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for revenue is projecting net sales of $3.6 billion, down 3.15% from the year-ago period.
Looking at the full year, the Zacks Consensus Estimates suggest analysts are expecting earnings of $1.85 per share and revenue of $14.76 billion. These totals would mark changes of +26.71% and -2.23%, respectively, from last year.
Additionally, investors should keep an eye on any recent revisions to analyst forecasts for Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. These recent revisions tend to reflect the evolving nature of short-term business trends. With this in mind, we can consider positive estimate revisions a sign of optimism about the business outlook.
Our research shows that these estimate changes are directly correlated with near-term stock prices. To capitalize on this, we've crafted the Zacks Rank, a unique model that incorporates these estimate changes and offers a practical rating system.
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Looking at its valuation, Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. is holding a Forward P/E ratio of 6.56. For comparison, its industry has an average Forward P/E of 15.91, which means Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. is trading at a discount to the group.
The Technology Services industry is part of the Business Services sector. This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 183, putting it in the bottom 26% of all 250+ industries.
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Investment reinforces Kyndryl's commitment to advancing customer innovation and AI adoption across the United States
, /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, today announced the opening of its first U.S. AI Innovation Lab in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The investment is expected to create up to 300 highly skilled jobs in AI, technology consulting and design engineering over the next four years. The Lab also reinforces Kyndryl's long-term commitment to America's digital future and to advancing innovation, workforce development and customer engagement in the U.S.
"The future of AI will be built through collaboration, and our AI Innovation Lab in Dallas brings customers together with Kyndryl experts to unlock the full value of AI while strengthening America's innovation ecosystem," said Jamie Rutledge, President, Kyndryl U.S. "Powered by the Kyndryl Agentic AI Framework and our deep consulting, engineering and infrastructure expertise, the Lab gives customers a hands-on environment to experiment, innovate and turn ideas into outcomes with greater speed and confidence."
The Kyndryl AI Innovation Lab in Dallas will focus on helping customers modernize their technology environments for AI. Kyndryl's latest modernization research found that 34% of organizations are modernizing to enable AI capabilities, making it a larger driver of modernization than cost reduction (29%). The research also found that AI is increasing demand across cloud, mainframe, network and edge environments, reinforcing that modernization is more than a legacy-retirement exercise – it is the foundation for enabling AI at scale.
The Lab will use a repeatable method that combines the company's Agentic AI Framework with Kyndryl Consult and AI services, infrastructure and engineering expertise, and Kyndryl Vital's design-led transformation practice. Through an immersive, four-phase approach — customer immersion, co-design, build and roadmap — customers will work alongside Kyndryl experts through workshops, rapid prototyping and engineering co-creation to solve business challenges where AI can deliver measurable impact. Together, they will validate ideas, design future workflows and rapidly advance from exploratory use cases to working prototypes in days, creating a clear path from prototype to production and helping customers deploy AI-enabled workflows across a customer's business at scale.
"Kyndryl is a pioneering company that could have chosen any market in the United States, and its decision to establish a major innovation hub in Frisco underscores the strength of our community and the reputation we've earned as one of the best places in the country for growth, innovation, and exceptional talent," said Mayor Mark Hill, City of Frisco.
Beyond accelerating customers' AI adoption journeys, the Kyndryl AI Innovation Lab in Dallas will serve as a catalyst for workforce development, community engagement and public sector innovation across Texas, including:
Building an AI talent pipeline: Kyndryl is partnering with NPower, Dallas AI, Tech Titans and other local organizations to expand access to AI and emerging technology skills, creating new career pathways while strengthening the region's innovation ecosystem. As an inaugural supporter of NPower's AI training program, Kyndryl is helping equip learners with practical skills in areas such as prompt engineering and automation. Advancing motor vehicle services: The AI Innovation Lab in Dallas will be home to a specialized team focused on Kyndryl's DMV solutions, supporting motor vehicle agencies across the United States. Kyndryl experts will develop reusable code and deployment best practices, apply AI to enhance solution development and testing, and give customers an environment to experience demonstrations of Kyndryl's DMV capabilities. The Lab will also showcase Kyndryl's Cyber Defense Operations Center capability, a next-generation command hub that unifies network and security operations to provide real-time visibility, monitoring and collaborative analysis across complex IT environments. By combining AI-enabled insights, automation and Kyndryl's deep cybersecurity and network expertise, the integrated operating model helps customers accelerate incident response, strengthen resilience and improve overall IT performance.
Kyndryl experts at the AI Innovation Lab in Dallas will also help customers modernize and secure their IT operations and infrastructure to take advantage of the transformative opportunities enabled by Frontier AI models.
The Kyndryl AI Innovation Lab in Dallas joins the company's expanding global lab network – including locations in the United Kingdom and Luxembourg – where Kyndryl experts guide customers through immersive experiences designed to help turn their AI ambitions into reality.
Learn about the Kyndryl AI Innovation Labs.
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services offering advisory, implementation and managed service capabilities to thousands of customers in more than 60 countries. As the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, the company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex information systems that the world depends on every day. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.
Kyndryl Press Contact
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Global survey reveals how 2,000 business and technology leaders are addressing AI-driven demand across IT elements
Nearly half of organizations are behind schedule despite modernization being a top priority98% of organizations delayed modernization and experienced negative business impactsAs AI reshapes expectations for how technology can deliver results, more organizations are expanding their use of technology than consolidating themOrganizations deploying agentic AI are making faster modernization progress and seeing early benefits as AI takes on traditionally challenging tasks, /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, today released its first global Modernization Report, which found that as organizations expand investments across legacy and modern platforms, modernization increasingly requires business orchestration, not technology consolidation.
"AI is creating new possibilities and raising expectations for the business outcomes technology should deliver," said Martin Schroeter, Chairman and CEO, Kyndryl. "Modernization is about preparing for what comes next, and the leaders making the most progress are investing across their technology environments—strengthening resilience and putting those investments to work where they deliver the greatest value."
Based on insights from 2,000 business and technology leaders across five continents and 12 industries, the research shows how AI is reshaping investment priorities across infrastructure and applications, while also challenging organizations' operating models.
According to the report's findings, the need to adopt AI now outranks priorities to reduce spending, replace legacy systems, or address a shrinking pool of legacy systems expertise. AI is the top driver of increased mainframe and edge computing use, the second-biggest driver for SaaS and private cloud expansion, and the leading reason organizations are upgrading their networks and application portfolios. Every organization with a mainframe now reports plans to deploy AI to the platform.
Together, these trends are creating more complex technology environments and new operational challenges for technology leaders.
Nearly half of respondents said they are behind schedule on their modernization goals. Agentic AI, which can autonomously plan and execute tasks, is emerging as a way to modernize faster. Ten percent of organizations have deployed agentic AI in production for modernization, applying it to typically time- and skills-intensive tasks of dependency mapping, code conversion, and generating documentation. Early adopters reported stronger outcomes, with 67% saying they are ahead of or on track with modernization goals, compared with 51% of other organizations.
The research also highlights what is slowing organizations down. Just 9% said they fully understand their applications' dependencies, and one-quarter say they have large numbers of undocumented applications.
Among other findings, Kyndryl's study shows that:
Modernization has become a business-wide priority, not just a technical one
The findings underscore the growing demands on CIOs, who must advance several priorities at once: AI adoption, cyber resilience, regulatory compliance, operational efficiency, and business growth. Respondents named nine distinct stakeholder groups with control over modernization, from CIOs and CTOs to boards of directors and finance and compliance teams. Modernization has outgrown the IT department and become a board-level business decision. Its growing importance also requires organizations to coordinate decision-making across more stakeholders without sacrificing speed.
Global events shape technology decisions alongside cost and performance
Sovereignty considerations are a growing factor in modernization strategies. While 65% of organizations address sovereignty selectively or primarily through a compliance lens, 63% expect sovereign cloud usage to increase and 55% expect sovereignty and regulatory requirements to place greater demands on their network architectures. The findings suggest that the geographic location of where technology runs is increasingly being shaped by governance and geopolitical considerations alongside performance, cost and innovation.
Complexity keeps compounding
The findings challenge the long-held assumption that digital transformation would lead organizations to gradually migrate toward a single preferred technology environment. Instead, their technology environments are becoming more distributed and complex as they prepare for AI. Mission-critical applications are distributed almost evenly across public cloud, private cloud, mainframe and on-premises environments, creating an increasingly hybrid enterprise. As digital transformation extends across the business, it must be underpinned by strategic, governance, and operational coordination—including a more integrated approach to cyber resilience as AI-driven threats accelerate and broaden.
Read more about Kyndryl's 2026 Modernization Report.
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, offering advisory, implementation and managed services across thousands of customer environments in more than 60 countries. The company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex information systems that the world depends on every day. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.
Kyndryl press contact
[email protected]
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Global survey reveals how 2,000 business and technology leaders are addressing AI-driven demand across IT elements
Nearly half of organizations are behind schedule despite modernization being a top priority 98% of organizations delayed modernization and experienced negative business impacts As AI reshapes expectations for how technology can deliver results, more organizations are expanding their use of technology than consolidating them Organizations deploying agentic AI are making faster modernization progress and seeing early benefits as AI takes on traditionally challenging tasks , /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, today released its first global Modernization Report, which found that as organizations expand investments across legacy and modern platforms, modernization increasingly requires business orchestration, not technology consolidation.
"AI is creating new possibilities and raising expectations for the business outcomes technology should deliver," said Martin Schroeter, Chairman and CEO, Kyndryl. "Modernization is about preparing for what comes next, and the leaders making the most progress are investing across their technology environments—strengthening resilience and putting those investments to work where they deliver the greatest value."
Based on insights from 2,000 business and technology leaders across five continents and 12 industries, the research shows how AI is reshaping investment priorities across infrastructure and applications, while also challenging organizations' operating models.
According to the report's findings, the need to adopt AI now outranks priorities to reduce spending, replace legacy systems, or address a shrinking pool of legacy systems expertise. AI is the top driver of increased mainframe and edge computing use, the second-biggest driver for SaaS and private cloud expansion, and the leading reason organizations are upgrading their networks and application portfolios. Every organization with a mainframe now reports plans to deploy AI to the platform.
Together, these trends are creating more complex technology environments and new operational challenges for technology leaders.
Nearly half of respondents said they are behind schedule on their modernization goals. Agentic AI, which can autonomously plan and execute tasks, is emerging as a way to modernize faster. Ten percent of organizations have deployed agentic AI in production for modernization, applying it to typically time- and skills-intensive tasks of dependency mapping, code conversion, and generating documentation. Early adopters reported stronger outcomes, with 67% saying they are ahead of or on track with modernization goals, compared with 51% of other organizations.
The research also highlights what is slowing organizations down. Just 9% said they fully understand their applications' dependencies, and one-quarter say they have large numbers of undocumented applications.
Among other findings, Kyndryl's study shows that:
Modernization has become a business-wide priority, not just a technical one
The findings underscore the growing demands on CIOs, who must advance several priorities at once: AI adoption, cyber resilience, regulatory compliance, operational efficiency, and business growth. Respondents named nine distinct stakeholder groups with control over modernization, from CIOs and CTOs to boards of directors and finance and compliance teams. Modernization has outgrown the IT department and become a board-level business decision. Its growing importance also requires organizations to coordinate decision-making across more stakeholders without sacrificing speed.
Global events shape technology decisions alongside cost and performance
Sovereignty considerations are a growing factor in modernization strategies. While 65% of organizations address sovereignty selectively or primarily through a compliance lens, 63% expect sovereign cloud usage to increase and 55% expect sovereignty and regulatory requirements to place greater demands on their network architectures. The findings suggest that the geographic location of where technology runs is increasingly being shaped by governance and geopolitical considerations alongside performance, cost and innovation.
Complexity keeps compounding
The findings challenge the long-held assumption that digital transformation would lead organizations to gradually migrate toward a single preferred technology environment. Instead, their technology environments are becoming more distributed and complex as they prepare for AI. Mission-critical applications are distributed almost evenly across public cloud, private cloud, mainframe and on-premises environments, creating an increasingly hybrid enterprise. As digital transformation extends across the business, it must be underpinned by strategic, governance, and operational coordination—including a more integrated approach to cyber resilience as AI-driven threats accelerate and broaden.
Read more about Kyndryl's 2026 Modernization Report.
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, offering advisory, implementation and managed services across thousands of customer environments in more than 60 countries. The company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex information systems that the world depends on every day. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.
Curriculum equips grades 9–12 students with foundational AI skills, hands-on learning and digital credential opportunities for future careers
, /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, and Skillsoft® (NYSE: SKIL), a leading AI-native skills management platform, today announced a collaboration to deliver AI education at no-cost to eligible U.S. high school students and educators. The program supports Kyndryl's commitment to the White House AI education initiative and aims to help prepare the next generation for an AI-driven future.
Eligible students and educators will receive access to AI-focused learning content through the Skillsoft Percipio Platform. The program is available to eligible U.S. school districts up to 25,000 student and educator users through May 29, 2027.
The curriculum is designed to help students and educators build practical AI skills, from foundational concepts to prompt engineering techniques and the use of AI tools in everyday tasks. These skills are becoming increasingly important as AI continues to change how people learn and work.
"Preparing the next generation starts with giving students and educators opportunities to build confidence with the technologies shaping the future," said Raianne Reiss, Chief Marketing Officer, Skillsoft. "Through our work with Kyndryl, we're helping expand access to AI education and making it easier for more people to develop practical skills they can apply in school, at work, and throughout their careers. This is a step toward broadening access to the knowledge and skills people need to succeed as AI adoption continues to grow."
"AI is quickly becoming a fundamental skill — not just for future technologists, but for every student preparing to participate in a changing workforce," said Faith Taylor, SVP of Global Citizenship and Sustainability, Kyndryl. "By working with Skillsoft to expand access to practical AI learning pathways, Kyndryl is helping students build confidence, curiosity and responsible digital skills that can open new pathways to opportunity."
The program is part of Kyndryl's broader commitment to expanding access to technology education and workforce readiness opportunities, while aligning with Skillsoft's mission to help people develop the skills needed to grow and succeed in a changing world.
Learn more about the program and how eligible school districts can participate.
Program available to eligible U.S. school districts only. Access is provided through Skillsoft Percipio Platform and is limited to up to 25,000 aggregated student and educator users under the current agreement, with the program term ending May 29, 2027. Access and content availability is subject to change.
About Skillsoft
Skillsoft (NYSE: SKIL) is a global leader in skills management for the human + AI era. The AI-native Skillsoft platform gives organizations a clearer view of workforce capability, helps close critical skill gaps, and supports the connection between skills development and business outcomes. With Skillsoft, organizations can build AI-ready teams, lower the cost and time of workforce development, and reduce execution risk as work continues to change. Thousands of organizations worldwide trust Skillsoft to power workforce readiness. Learn more at skillsoft.com.
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, offering advisory, implementation and managed service capabilities to thousands of customers in more than 60 countries. As the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, the Company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex information systems that the world depends on every day. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.
In the latest close session, Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. (KD - Free Report) was down 3.06% at $11.74. This change lagged the S&P 500's daily loss of 0.03%. Meanwhile, the Dow experienced a drop of 0.31%, and the technology-dominated Nasdaq saw an increase of 0.01%.
The stock of company has fallen by 4.5% in the past month, leading the Business Services sector's loss of 5.5% and undershooting the S&P 500's gain of 0.53%.
Analysts and investors alike will be keeping a close eye on the performance of Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. in its upcoming earnings disclosure. On that day, Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. is projected to report earnings of $0.37 per share, which would represent a year-over-year decline of 2.63%. In the meantime, our current consensus estimate forecasts the revenue to be $3.6 billion, indicating a 3.15% decline compared to the corresponding quarter of the prior year.
For the annual period, the Zacks Consensus Estimates anticipate earnings of $1.85 per share and a revenue of $14.76 billion, signifying shifts of +26.71% and -2.23%, respectively, from the last year.
Additionally, investors should keep an eye on any recent revisions to analyst forecasts for Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. Recent revisions tend to reflect the latest near-term business trends. As a result, upbeat changes in estimates indicate analysts' favorable outlook on the business health and profitability.
Based on our research, we believe these estimate revisions are directly related to near-term stock moves. To benefit from this, we have developed the Zacks Rank, a proprietary model which takes these estimate changes into account and provides an actionable rating system.
Ranging from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), the Zacks Rank system has a proven, outside-audited track record of outperformance, with #1 stocks returning an average of +25% annually since 1988. Over the past month, there's been no change in the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate. Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. currently has a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold).
Valuation is also important, so investors should note that Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. has a Forward P/E ratio of 6.56 right now. This signifies a discount in comparison to the average Forward P/E of 17.34 for its industry.
The Technology Services industry is part of the Business Services sector. Currently, this industry holds a Zacks Industry Rank of 157, positioning it in the bottom 37% of all 250+ industries.
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Artificial intelligence may be redefining what machines are capable of, yet the next chapter of that transformation depends more and more on a far more basic resource: power. With AI data centers expanding in size and energy demand, policymakers and tech firms are wrestling with a question that could remake both the energy and digital-infrastructure sectors: Rather than endlessly shipping power to data centers, why not construct the next generation of facilities right where plentiful primary energy is already available?
That idea holds special relevance for MAX Power Mining Corp., a prominent North American public company dedicated to the developing natural hydrogen space. MAX Power is pushing forward Canada’s first verified subsurface natural hydrogen system at the Lawson Discovery in south-central Saskatchewan, where it is progressing quickly through a multi-well commercial validation effort. In a recent Lawson report, MAX Power announced its strongest results to date ahead of an imminent, wide-ranging completions program, while the forthcoming fifth Lawson well will step out 30 kilometers to test whether an even bigger system exists. The company is also developing the technology side of its natural hydrogen approach, retaining global IT infrastructure services firm Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) to shape a commercialization strategy and go-to-market plan for its proprietary, AI-assisted MAXX LEMI exploration platform.
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MAX Power is an innovative mineral and energy exploration company focused on the shift to decarbonization. The company’s Lawson Discovery near Central Butte, Saskatchewan, represents Canada’s first-ever subsurface natural hydrogen system confirmed through deep drilling with data validated by three independent labs. MAX Power has built dominant district-scale land positions across Saskatchewan with approximately 1.3 million acres (521,000 hectares) of permits covering prime exploration ground prospective for large-volume accumulations of natural hydrogen. MAX Power also holds a portfolio of properties in the United States and Canada focused on critical minerals. These properties are highlighted by a 2024 diamond drilling discovery at the Willcox Playa Lithium Project in southeast Arizona, 100%-owned by MAX Power’s U.S. subsidiary. MAX Power is committed to responsible exploration and development practices that prioritize environmental stewardship, meaningful community engagement and strong corporate governance.
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On September 18, 2026, Kyndryl Holdings Inc KD shares fell 6.8%, closing at $12.07. This decline continues a troubling trend, as the stock has experienced a significant drop of 54.6% year-to-date and 61.7% over the past year, with a 52-week trading range between $10.10 and $32.08.
GF Value™ verdict: KD is currently priced at $12.07, which is 49.7% below its GF Value™ estimate of $24.01.GF Score™ is 56/100, indicating an average overall performance.Notable signal: Insider activity shows that insiders sold $0.2 million worth of shares over the past year, with no buying activity reported.Is KD Overvalued or Undervalued?Kyndryl Holdings Inc KD is currently assessed as undervalued according to the GF Value™ estimate, which suggests a fair value of $24.01. Given the current trading price of $12.07, this indicates a substantial margin of safety of 49.7%. While this may present an attractive opportunity for value-focused investors, caution is warranted due to the GF Valuation label indicating a "Possible Value Trap." This label suggests that while the stock appears undervalued, there may be underlying issues that could hinder future performance.
The GF Value™ calculation is derived from a combination of historical trading multiples, past business growth, and future performance estimates. Thus, while the low price may seem appealing, the intrinsic value assessment highlights the need for a deeper examination of KD's fundamentals and market position before making any conclusions.
How Does KD's Valuation Compare to Its History?MetricCurrentHistoricalP/E (TTM)33.6x26.3x (5-Year Median)Forward P/E6.5xN/AKyndryl's current P/E ratio of 33.6x is significantly above its 5-year median P/E of 26.3x, indicating that the stock is trading at a premium relative to its historical valuation. This analysis aligns with the GF Value™ verdict, suggesting that despite the intrinsic value assessment indicating the stock is undervalued, the elevated P/E ratio may reflect market skepticism about KD's growth prospects and profitability.
What Does KD's GF Score™ Tell Us?The GF Score™ evaluates a company's overall performance based on several key factors, including financial strength, profitability, growth potential, valuation, and market momentum. For KD, the score is 56/100, which is considered average. The strongest sub-rank is in financial strength, rated at 5/10, while the weakest areas are growth and profitability, both rated at 2/10.
MetricRatingGF Score™56Financial Strength5/10Profitability3/10Growth2/10Valuation4/10Momentum5/10The average GF Score™ of 56/100 indicates that while Kyndryl has some decent financial strength, it struggles with profitability and growth, which could limit its potential for recovery. This mixed performance underscores the importance of evaluating both the valuation and operational aspects when considering KD's investment potential.
What Are Gurus and Insiders Doing with KD?Currently, five gurus hold positions in Kyndryl Holdings Inc, with three increasing their stakes and two reducing their holdings in recent quarters. This indicates a level of mixed sentiment among institutional investors. Furthermore, insider activity reveals that insiders have sold $0.2 million worth of shares over the past twelve months, without any reported buying. This pattern of insider selling, coupled with the lack of buying, may signal a lack of confidence in the company's near-term prospects, which investors should take into account.
What This Means for InvestorsIn conclusion, Kyndryl Holdings Inc KD appears undervalued based on the GF Value™ estimate, indicating a potential opportunity for investors. However, the elevated P/E ratio and concerning insider selling patterns suggest that caution is warranted. Investors should carefully weigh these factors before making any decisions regarding KD's stock. For further details on Kyndryl Holdings Inc (KD), visit the Kyndryl Holdings Inc (KD) stock page, and explore additional insights on the GF Value™ page or the GuruFocus Stock Screener.
Frequently Asked QuestionsWhat is KD's GF Score™?
KD has a GF Score™ of 56/100, indicating an average overall performance across the metrics evaluated.
Is KD overvalued or undervalued?
KD is currently undervalued according to the GF Value™ estimate, which suggests a substantial margin of safety at its current price of $12.07 compared to the fair value of $24.01.
What is KD's P/E ratio?
KD's P/E ratio is 33.6x, which is significantly above its 5-year median of 26.3x, indicating that the stock is trading at a premium compared to its historical valuations.
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Investors in Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. (KD - Free Report) need to pay close attention to the stock based on moves in the options market lately. That is because the Sept. 18, 2026 $1.00 Put had some of the highest implied volatility of all equity options today.
What is Implied Volatility?Implied volatility shows how much movement the market is expecting in the future. Options with high levels of implied volatility suggest that investors in the underlying stocks are expecting a big move in one direction or the other. It could also mean there is an event coming up soon that may cause a big rally or a huge sell-off. However, implied volatility is only one piece of the puzzle when putting together an options trading strategy.
What do the Analysts Think?Clearly, options traders are pricing in a big move for Kyndryl shares, but what is the fundamental picture for the company? Currently, Kyndryl is a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) in the Technology Services industry that ranks in the Bottom 38% of our Zacks Industry Rank. Over the last 60 days, no analysts have increased their earnings estimates for the current quarter, while one analyst has revised the estimate downward. The net effect has taken our Zacks Consensus Estimate for the current quarter from 45 cents per share to 37 cents in that period.
Given the way analysts feel about Kyndryl right now, this huge implied volatility could mean there’s a trade developing. Oftentimes, options traders look for options with high levels of implied volatility to sell premium. This is a strategy many seasoned traders use because it captures decay. At expiration, the hope for these traders is that the underlying stock does not move as much as originally expected.
September 18, 2026 1. The Fed Hiked a Quarter Point; the Dow Shed 630
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A pipeline shutdown in Saudi Arabia is where this week's rate decision started. Brent crude jumped 2.9% to settle at $108.75 a barrel after the closure. The 10-year Treasury yield spiked as high as 5.04%, its highest since 2007, before easing back toward 5%. Expensive oil makes investors expect inflation, as we wrote last week, and that expectation moves bonds.
The odds flipped in days: Data from CME Group (CME -0.48%) showed investors pricing a 93% chance of a quarter-point hike, up from 59% a week earlier. The Federal Reserve delivered, 12 to 0: It raised the benchmark rate a quarter point on Wednesday to a range of 3.75% to 4%, its first increase since 2023. Chairman Kevin Warsh pointed to stubborn inflation, worsened by rebounding oil prices. Markets read it as a beginning: The Dow closed down 631 points, or 1.2%, at 51,461.90, after falling more than 800 points during Warsh's press conference. Morgan Stanley (MS +0.54%) economists now expect two more hikes, reversing an earlier call for none. A quarter point doesn't break a long-term thesis. It does reset the discount rate that every long-duration asset is valued against. The businesses that hold up best will be the ones paying for growth out of cash flow rather than borrowing for it.
2. The AI Trade Split on a Slowdown Warning Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay on Saturday arguing that the AI industry should slow down. By Monday's close, his 3,800 words had taken about 7% off Marvell Technology (MRVL +4.81%) and CoreWeave (CRWV -4.16%).
Monday, the builders sold off: Nvidia (NVDA +2.54%) and Broadcom (AVGO +2.29%) each closed down about 3%, and Micron Technology (MU +5.50%) closed down 5.2%. In the same session, the defenders bid up: CrowdStrike (CRWD +1.80%) closed at a record high above $235, up nearly 14%. Wednesday night, OpenAI showed its work: Sam Altman had backed Amodei's call on Monday. On Wednesday, his company, OpenAI, disclosed six new instances of "unexpected or concerning" AI behavior. In one, an agent uploaded a file to the open internet without asking so that it could cite a source for an answer it already had. OpenAI also said the industry has not solved alignment well enough to keep scaling "at maximum speed" for much longer. A real slowdown would hit companies whose revenue tracks how many new models get built. Broadcom sells chips for models already in production; CEO Hock Tan told CNBC that day-to-day demand should hold, even if training slows. CrowdStrike sells protection against AI agents that go rogue, which its CEO George Kurtz describes as "swarming to attack." Such businesses only suffer if companies start switching off models they already run.
3. Corning, Axon, and Kyndryl Paid Up for Growth Growth costs money. This week, three of our recommendations found different ways to get that money. Corning (GLW +2.52%) makes optical fiber for networks and AI data centers. Last week, a Verizon (VZ -2.87%) fiber order lifted shares 9%. Corning said Friday that it would sell up to $2 billion of new stock. It didn't say whether any will go toward that order. Shares closed down 13.7% Monday, the worst drop in the S&P 500 that day.
Corning asked its owners: The Stock Advisor recommendation from Team Rule Breakers hired Goldman Sachs (GS +1.44%) to sell the shares gradually. Each new share leaves owners with a smaller slice. Proceeds go to "general corporate purposes." Axon asked its lenders: Axon (AXON -3.19%) priced $1 billion of 0% convertible senior notes. Holders can convert to stock before the 2031 maturity, and Axon decides whether to pay in cash or shares. The Rule Breakers recommendation is down 40% over the past year. Kyndryl gave up its buyback: Kyndryl (KD +0.86%), recommended by Team Hidden Gems, closed its purchase of Healthcare IT Leaders for up to $350 million. It paused share repurchases for flexibility. Corning's owners paid this week for something the company hasn't entirely explained. Axon's owners may pay later instead. Kyndryl's shareholders gave up buybacks, and they know what was bought.
4. Amazon's $2.4 Billion Generator Order Came With Warrants Generac (GNRC +18.34%) makes backup generators. On Wednesday, it gave Amazon (AMZN +2.13%) warrants to buy up to $340 million of its stock. Generac closed Wednesday at $175.11, barely changed on the day, but was up more than 18% at Thursday's close. (A warrant is the right to buy shares later at a price fixed now.)
The order behind it: Initial deliveries run $2.4 billion across 2027 and 2028. Amazon earned the right to buy about 308,000 shares right away and earns more as its payments climb. Why Amazon asks: An order that size can transform a supplier's business and stock. The warrants let Amazon share in that. Amazon, a Stock Advisor and Hidden Gems recommendation, has struck similar deals with chipmaker Astera Labs (ALAB +9.06%) and grocery distributor SpartanNash. Power is the new constraint: Nvidia, Alphabet's (GOOG +1.27%) Google, and start-up Emerald AI announced the AI Energy Management Alliance on Wednesday. The coalition wants AI data centers to flex electricity use instead of drawing a fixed load. Amazon is still paying for the generators -- $2.4 billion worth to start, and the warrants fully vest only if that reaches $8 billion. If Generac's stock keeps rising, Amazon can buy shares at the fixed price and pocket the difference. That works only while the data center build-out continues.
5. Four House Calls on Stocks That Look Expensive What does a rich stock price actually tell you? That question runs through all four house statements this week.
Chipotle, from $1.21 to $36: We first recommended Chipotle (CMG -0.51%) in Rule Breakers in January 2007 at a split-adjusted $1.21. Team Rule Breakers is still bullish, but with clearer eyes as growth slows. Its five-year target is $48. Members with a full position needn't add here. Cloudflare, priced at 45 times sales: Team Hidden Gems and Team Rule Breakers have both pounded the table on Cloudflare (NET +2.86%) in 43 buy recommendations since 2020. We have sold three of those positions but held the other 40. Both teams' five-year predictions sit above $500, up significantly from today's $334. Moderna, and Tom's price: At Hidden Gems, we recommended and invested in Moderna (MRNA +8.55%) at $44.85 in November 2025. Shares trade near $144. Motley Fool co-founder and CEO Tom Gardner argues that Merck (MRK +1.55%) should acquire it for $210 to $215 per share. Expect to pay up for CrowdStrike: The Motley Fool first recommended CrowdStrike in 2020. Shares now trade near $240. Team Rule Breakers says the stock isn't cheap by any measure and wouldn't expect it to be. Its five-year prediction is $365. 6. Today's Question How do you decide whether a company is raising money from strength or from need?
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In the latest close session, Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. (KD - Free Report) was down 3.02% at $12.84. The stock trailed the S&P 500, which registered a daily loss of 0.45%. Meanwhile, the Dow lost 1.21%, and the Nasdaq, a tech-heavy index, lost 0.01%.
Heading into today, shares of the company had gained 7.38% over the past month, outpacing the Business Services sector's loss of 3.49% and the S&P 500's loss of 2.43%.
The investment community will be closely monitoring the performance of Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. in its forthcoming earnings report. The company is expected to report EPS of $0.37, down 2.63% from the prior-year quarter. Meanwhile, our latest consensus estimate is calling for revenue of $3.6 billion, down 3.15% from the prior-year quarter.
For the annual period, the Zacks Consensus Estimates anticipate earnings of $1.85 per share and a revenue of $14.76 billion, signifying shifts of +26.71% and -2.23%, respectively, from the last year.
Investors might also notice recent changes to analyst estimates for Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. Such recent modifications usually signify the changing landscape of near-term business trends. As such, positive estimate revisions reflect analyst optimism about the business and profitability.
Research indicates that these estimate revisions are directly correlated with near-term share price momentum. To capitalize on this, we've crafted the Zacks Rank, a unique model that incorporates these estimate changes and offers a practical rating system.
The Zacks Rank system, ranging from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), possesses a remarkable history of outdoing, externally audited, with #1 stocks returning an average annual gain of +25% since 1988. Over the last 30 days, the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate has witnessed an unchanged state. Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. is currently sporting a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold).
In the context of valuation, Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. is at present trading with a Forward P/E ratio of 7.17. This represents a discount compared to its industry average Forward P/E of 17.66.
The Technology Services industry is part of the Business Services sector. With its current Zacks Industry Rank of 156, this industry ranks in the bottom 37% of all industries, numbering over 250.
The Zacks Industry Rank assesses the strength of our separate industry groups by calculating the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks contained within the groups. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
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10-year NASPO ValuePoint® contract helps public agencies nationwide upgrade essential technology and deliver better digital services to residents
, /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, today announced it has been awarded a 10-year NASPO ValuePoint Cloud and Software Solutions contract (ID: LS5006), providing state agencies, higher education, counties, municipalities and other public entities across the United States with easier access to cloud, software and modernization services that support their long-term transformation goals.
State and local government agencies are under increasing pressure to modernize legacy technology, improve digital services, strengthen resiliency, and meet evolving constituent expectations while navigating complex procurement requirements. Participating states can leverage the NASPO ValuePoint contract for easier access to Kyndryl services and a streamlined purchasing framework with consistent terms and conditions and the flexibility to address state-specific requirements through participating addendums.
"State and local agencies need technology partners that understand both mission-critical systems and the realities of public-sector procurement," said Anita Mikus, VP and Managing Director of U.S. State and Local Government, Kyndryl U.S. "The NASPO ValuePoint contract helps agencies move more efficiently from planning to implementation, reducing procurement complexity so they can focus on modernizing critical systems, strengthening resiliency and delivering better services to residents."
The contract expands the scope of Kyndryl services available to participating agencies across software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and on-premises environments. Agencies can leverage this contract for services such as:
Modernizing mission-critical legacy systems: Support mainframe environments or mainframe-as-a-service models for core systems that process benefits, taxes, licensing or public safety workloads, helping improve resiliency while reducing the burden of managing end-of-service infrastructure. Improving high-volume constituent services: Agency-based solutions including modernization of systems behind driver's licenses, vehicle registration or appointment scheduling to improve reliability, reduce delays and make digital services easier for residents to use. Supporting re-entry and social services programs: Improve the databases and case management systems used to connect individuals with services, helping case workers access more accurate information and efficiently coordinate support. Optimizing contact centers and self-service: Contact center-as-a-service capabilities to analyze why residents are calling, identify repeat questions and automate common requests so issues are resolved faster and fewer calls need to reach a live agent. Kyndryl Consult can help agencies assess modernization priorities, develop transformation roadmaps, determine migration readiness and implementation planning using a combination of AI workflows and deep domain expertise underpinned by the Kyndryl Agentic AI Framework. In addition, Kyndryl Bridge, Kyndryl's AI-powered, open integration platform, supports the integration, observation and orchestration of IT environments to provide actionable insights that help organizations run and transform their IT estates.
Agencies interested in learning more can visit the NASPO ValuePoint supplier page or book a consultation with Kyndryl.
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, offering advisory, implementation and managed service capabilities to thousands of customers in more than 60 countries. As the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, the Company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex information systems that the world depends on every day. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.
Kyndryl Press Contact
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About NASPO
NASPO® is a non–profit association dedicated to advancing public procurement through leadership, excellence, and integrity. It is made up of the directors of the central purchasing offices in each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories of the United States. NASPO is an organization that helps its members achieve success as public procurement leaders through the promotion of best practices, education, professional development, research, and innovative procurement strategies. Learn more at www.naspo.org.
About NASPO ValuePoint
NASPO ValuePoint® is the cooperative purchasing division of the National Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO), facilitating cooperative public procurement solicitations using a Lead State Model®. NASPO aggregates the demand of all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the US territories, their political subdivisions, and other eligible entities, spurring best value, innovation, and competition in the marketplace. NASPO ValuePoint delivers high-value, reliable, and competitively sourced cooperative contracts - offering public entities outstanding prices, favorable terms and conditions, and value-added services. Learn more at www.naspovaluepoint.org.
NASPO®, NASPO ValuePoint®, their logos, and Lead State Model® are trademarks of the National Association of State Procurement Officials.
The company advances environmental goals, invests in AI-ready skills and strengthens resilience through responsible technology governance
, /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services today released its fiscal year 2026 Corporate Citizenship Report.
The report illustrates Kyndryl's progress across its corporate citizenship strategy pillars – Environment, People and Trust – and details how the company is embedding responsible practices into its operations, developing future-ready skills, supporting communities and strengthening emerging technology governance.
"Kyndryl is committed to operating responsibly while advancing human progress," said Faith Taylor, Senior Vice President, Global Citizenship and Sustainability at Kyndryl. "By accelerating our sustainability and social impact programs, investing in our people and maintaining a strong foundation of trust, we are creating more positive outcomes for our customers, communities and stakeholders around the world."
Highlights of Kyndryl's progress detailed in the report include:
Reduced scope 1, 2 (market-based) and applicable* scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions by 34% against the fiscal 2023 baseline, advancing toward Kyndryl's Science Based Targets initiative-validated 2030 goals and ambition to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040. Decreased total electricity purchased by 30% compared with fiscal 2023, with 63% of purchased electricity coming from renewable sources in fiscal 2026. Invested 3.5 million hours in employee learning, including AI, cloud, security, resiliency and other advanced technology skills with 1.3 million trainings completed and 108,346 digital credentials held. Launched the AI Learning Hub, bringing together role- and skill-aligned learning paths, certifications and hands-on resources to help employees build practical and responsible AI capabilities. Helped train more than 46,000 individuals through Kyndryl Foundation and announced third-year grants to 14 nonprofit organizations across 13 countries, in continuing support of access to AI and cybersecurity education. Achieved 100% completion rate by eligible employees for the Kyndryl Code of Conduct training course for the fifth consecutive year. The Code of Conduct program won multiple recognitions from the Brandon Hall Group, including a Gold Award for Best Compliance Training. Kyndryl's leadership in sustainability and corporate citizenship continued to be recognized in fiscal 2026, including listing in TIME's World's Most Sustainable Companies 2026, 3BL's 100 Best Corporate Citizens 2026, retention of the EcoVadis Gold and a Leader ranking in the ISG Provider Lens™ Digital Sustainability Report. The company earned multiple workplace recognitions, including Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplace by The Economist and America's Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces by The Wall Street Journal, underscoring its efforts to foster a strong culture.
Read the full fiscal year 2026 Corporate Citizenship Report here.
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, offering advisory, implementation and managed service capabilities to thousands of customers in more than 60 countries. As the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, the company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex information systems that the world depends on every day. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.
Kyndryl press contact
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*Includes categories 1 (purchased goods and services), 2 (capital goods) and 3 (fuel- and energy-related activities), which form the boundary of Kyndryl's SBTi-validated 2030 near-term targets.
In the latest trading session, Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. (KD - Free Report) closed at $13.20, marking a -2.73% move from the previous day. The stock's performance was behind the S&P 500's daily loss of 0.45%. Elsewhere, the Dow lost 0.63%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq lost 0.78%.
Heading into today, shares of the company had gained 6.68% over the past month, outpacing the Business Services sector's loss of 2.97% and the S&P 500's loss of 1.99%.
Market participants will be closely following the financial results of Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. in its upcoming release. It is anticipated that the company will report an EPS of $0.37, marking a 2.63% fall compared to the same quarter of the previous year. Our most recent consensus estimate is calling for quarterly revenue of $3.6 billion, down 3.15% from the year-ago period.
In terms of the entire fiscal year, the Zacks Consensus Estimates predict earnings of $1.85 per share and a revenue of $14.76 billion, indicating changes of +26.71% and -2.23%, respectively, from the former year.
Additionally, investors should keep an eye on any recent revisions to analyst forecasts for Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. Such recent modifications usually signify the changing landscape of near-term business trends. Hence, positive alterations in estimates signify analyst optimism regarding the business and profitability.
Based on our research, we believe these estimate revisions are directly related to near-term stock moves. To benefit from this, we have developed the Zacks Rank, a proprietary model which takes these estimate changes into account and provides an actionable rating system.
The Zacks Rank system, which varies between #1 (Strong Buy) and #5 (Strong Sell), carries an impressive track record of exceeding expectations, confirmed by external audits, with stocks at #1 delivering an average annual return of +25% since 1988. Over the past month, the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate has remained steady. Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. is currently a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).
From a valuation perspective, Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. is currently exchanging hands at a Forward P/E ratio of 7.35. For comparison, its industry has an average Forward P/E of 17.66, which means Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. is trading at a discount to the group.
The Technology Services industry is part of the Business Services sector. This industry, currently bearing a Zacks Industry Rank of 159, finds itself in the bottom 36% echelons of all 250+ industries.
The strength of our individual industry groups is measured by the Zacks Industry Rank, which is calculated based on the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within these groups. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
Don't forget to use Zacks.com to keep track of all these stock-moving metrics, and others, in the upcoming trading sessions.
VIRGINIA RETIREMENT SYSTEMS ET Al acquired a new position in Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:KD – Free Report) in the second quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund acquired 62,518 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $707,000.
Other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Handelsbanken Fonder AB raised its position in shares of Kyndryl by 1.2% in the 4th quarter. Handelsbanken Fonder AB now owns 58,600 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,556,000 after acquiring an additional 700 shares in the last quarter. Benjamin Edwards Inc. grew its stake in Kyndryl by 6.9% in the second quarter. Benjamin Edwards Inc. now owns 14,179 shares of the company’s stock worth $160,000 after purchasing an additional 921 shares during the period. State of Michigan Retirement System raised its holdings in Kyndryl by 1.9% in the first quarter. State of Michigan Retirement System now owns 55,034 shares of the company’s stock worth $722,000 after purchasing an additional 1,000 shares in the last quarter. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC lifted its position in Kyndryl by 24.4% during the first quarter. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 5,469 shares of the company’s stock valued at $72,000 after buying an additional 1,073 shares during the period. Finally, Truist Financial Corp boosted its holdings in shares of Kyndryl by 4.5% during the 4th quarter. Truist Financial Corp now owns 26,146 shares of the company’s stock valued at $694,000 after buying an additional 1,117 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 71.53% of the company’s stock.
Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades KD has been the subject of several research reports. Weiss Ratings lowered shares of Kyndryl from a “sell (d+)” rating to a “sell (d)” rating in a research note on Thursday, August 6th. Susquehanna downgraded shares of Kyndryl from a “positive” rating to a “neutral” rating and decreased their target price for the company from $16.00 to $13.00 in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. JPMorgan Chase & Co. boosted their price target on Kyndryl from $13.00 to $14.00 and gave the stock an “underweight” rating in a research report on Monday, August 10th. Zacks Research lowered Kyndryl from a “hold” rating to a “strong sell” rating in a research report on Friday, August 14th. Finally, BMO Capital Markets reissued a “market perform” rating and issued a $16.00 target price on shares of Kyndryl in a report on Thursday, August 6th. Six investment analysts have rated the stock with a Hold rating and three have issued a Sell rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Reduce” and an average price target of $16.50.
View Our Latest Analysis on Kyndryl Kyndryl Trading Up 3.4% NYSE:KD opened at $13.59 on Tuesday. The company has a market cap of $2.96 billion, a PE ratio of 36.74 and a beta of 1.64. The company has a current ratio of 0.85, a quick ratio of 0.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.96. The company has a 50 day simple moving average of $12.89 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $12.61. Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. has a 12 month low of $10.10 and a 12 month high of $32.53.
Kyndryl (NYSE:KD – Get Free Report) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, August 5th. The company reported ($0.12) earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of ($0.16) by $0.04. Kyndryl had a return on equity of 12.24% and a net margin of 0.58%.The company had revenue of $3.62 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.64 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.37 earnings per share. Kyndryl’s quarterly revenue was down 3.3% compared to the same quarter last year. Research analysts forecast that Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. will post 1.36 earnings per share for the current year.
Kyndryl Profile (Free Report)
Kyndryl Holdings, Inc (NYSE: KD) is an information technology services company that designs, builds, manages and modernizes mission-critical technology systems for businesses and public-sector organizations. Its services support hybrid cloud environments, enterprise data centers, networks, applications and digital workplaces.
The company provides consulting and implementation services, cloud infrastructure management, cybersecurity, network and edge services, mainframe and data-center operations, and data and artificial intelligence solutions.
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Acquisition to accelerate AI-led modernization for healthcare providers and payors
, /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, today announced it has completed its acquisition of Healthcare IT Leaders, LLC, an enterprise IT services provider serving hospitals and health systems across the United States, for up to $350 million, including a contingent performance-based earnout. The transaction follows Kyndryl's announcement on August 10, 2026, of its intent to acquire the company.
The acquisition strengthens Kyndryl's ability to help healthcare providers and payors modernize mission-critical technology environments by combining Healthcare IT Leaders' healthcare consulting and application managed services expertise with Kyndryl's infrastructure and AI capabilities.
Together, Kyndryl and Healthcare IT Leaders offer capabilities across applications, infrastructure and consulting services, enabling healthcare organizations to work with a single provider across their technology environments. Building on Kyndryl's experience supporting large-scale, highly regulated healthcare IT environments, the addition of Healthcare IT Leaders deepens Kyndryl's healthcare expertise and strengthens its capabilities across clinical, operational and workforce systems modernization.
Revenues generated by Healthcare IT Leaders over the twelve-month period ending March 31, 2026, were approximately 1% of Kyndryl's revenue for fiscal year 2026. This transaction does not change Kyndryl's fiscal year 2027 outlook provided on August 5, 2026. The acquisition is consistent with Kyndryl's capital allocation priorities — maintaining financial flexibility, including to invest in strategic growth initiatives with strong liquidity and investment-grade ratings. To preserve this flexibility, Kyndryl has temporarily paused its share repurchase program and will update investors when it resumes.
About Healthcare IT Leaders, LLC
Healthcare IT Leaders is a national leader in enterprise IT consulting, managed services and workforce solutions, providing strategy and talent for healthcare transformation across clinical, business, and operational systems. Areas of focus and expertise include EHR, ERP, WFM, RCM, Digital Health, Cloud, and Data.
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, offering advisory, implementation and managed service capabilities to thousands of customers in more than 60 countries. As the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, the Company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex information systems that the world depends on every day. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.
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In the latest close session, Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. (KD - Free Report) was up +1.72% at $13.01. This change outpaced the S&P 500's 0.48% loss on the day. Meanwhile, the Dow experienced a drop of 0.77%, and the technology-dominated Nasdaq saw a decrease of 0.64%.
The company's shares have seen a decrease of 4.27% over the last month, not keeping up with the Business Services sector's loss of 2.49% and the S&P 500's loss of 0.97%.
The upcoming earnings release of Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. will be of great interest to investors. The company is expected to report EPS of $0.37, down 2.63% from the prior-year quarter. Alongside, our most recent consensus estimate is anticipating revenue of $3.6 billion, indicating a 3.15% downward movement from the same quarter last year.
In terms of the entire fiscal year, the Zacks Consensus Estimates predict earnings of $1.85 per share and a revenue of $14.76 billion, indicating changes of +26.71% and -2.23%, respectively, from the former year.
Additionally, investors should keep an eye on any recent revisions to analyst forecasts for Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. These revisions typically reflect the latest short-term business trends, which can change frequently. Consequently, upward revisions in estimates express analysts' positivity towards the business operations and its ability to generate profits.
Our research demonstrates that these adjustments in estimates directly associate with imminent stock price performance. To capitalize on this, we've crafted the Zacks Rank, a unique model that incorporates these estimate changes and offers a practical rating system.
The Zacks Rank system, spanning from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), boasts an impressive track record of outperformance, audited externally, with #1 ranked stocks yielding an average annual return of +25% since 1988. Over the past month, there's been a 1.12% rise in the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate. Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. is currently sporting a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold).
Looking at its valuation, Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. is holding a Forward P/E ratio of 6.93. This valuation marks a discount compared to its industry average Forward P/E of 18.46.
The Technology Services industry is part of the Business Services sector. This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 156, putting it in the bottom 37% of all 250+ industries.
The Zacks Industry Rank gauges the strength of our industry groups by measuring the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within the groups. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
Keep in mind to rely on Zacks.com to watch all these stock-impacting metrics, and more, in the succeeding trading sessions.
AXQ Capital LP increased its holdings in Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: KD) by 171.1% during the second quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 163,122 shares of the company's stock after buying an additional 102,960 shares during the period. AXQ Capital LP owned 0.07% of Kyndryl
, /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, today announced that it has granted inducement equity awards to six new non-executive officer employees, including in the aggregate 33,577 restricted stock units in reliance on the employment inducement exemption under the NYSE's Listed Company Manual Rule 303A.08. Kyndryl is issuing this press release pursuant to the requirements of that rule.
7,778 restricted stock units are eligible to vest in four equal annual installments beginning on the first anniversary of the grant date and 25,799 sign-on restricted stock units are eligible to vest in two equal annual installments beginning on the first anniversary of the grant date.
Each inducement equity award was communicated to the employee in their offer letter, as a material inducement to their acceptance of employment with the Company. The inducement equity awards were granted, as authorized by the Compensation and Human Capital Committee of the Board of Directors, on September 1, 2026 pursuant to the Kyndryl 2026 Employment Inducement Equity Incentive Plan adopted by the Board. Award terms under this inducement equity incentive plan are generally consistent with award terms under the Amended and Restated Kyndryl 2021 Long-Term Performance Plan.
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, offering advisory, implementation and managed service capabilities to thousands of customers in more than 60 countries. As the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, the Company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex information systems that the world depends on every day. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.
NEW YORK, Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, today announced that Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Martin Schroeter and Chief Financial Officer Ellen Johnson will speak at the Citi Global TMT Conference on Tuesday, September 8, 2026 at 8:50 a.m.
Kyndryl Agentic AI Framework, paired with Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation reinforces private cloud environments and addresses vulnerabilities at AI speed
Skills investment and the Kyndryl Agentic AI Framework will drive customer engagements
, /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, today announced an expanded strategic alliance with Broadcom to deliver end-to-end consulting services for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), bringing cloud-like speed, automation and developer experience to private and hybrid cloud environments.
Under the expanded collaboration, Kyndryl and Broadcom are helping enterprises modernize, secure and scale mission-critical systems by building sovereign, AI-ready private clouds that reduce operational complexity, are secure by design and strengthen long-term performance. To support this joint effort, Kyndryl and Broadcom are investing in the skills development of several thousand certified Kyndryl consultants, architects, and delivery specialists to enable agentic workflows.
"Against the backdrop of rising sovereignty demands, enterprises are rationalizing their hybrid and private cloud environments, and they require a pragmatic, outcome-driven approach," said Giovanni Carraro, Global Strategic Alliances Leader at Kyndryl. "By expanding our partnership with Broadcom and investing in VCF skills, we will help customers build modern, resilient, private clouds that enable AI adoption, support data modernization, address the risk of AI-identified vulnerabilities and deliver real business value."
The announcement comes as enterprises confront a rapidly shifting landscape. AI is accelerating innovation, but it is also amplifying risk as Frontier AI models are collapsing zero-day exploits to just hours and posing challenges to regulatory compliance and operations for organizations running critical systems. Sovereignty rules are reshaping where autonomous agents discover and exploit vulnerabilities across application source code, containers, VMs and pipelines at machine speed, without conventional signatures. Modernizing IT infrastructures to defend against fast-moving adversaries requires a private cloud hardened with policy guardrails and secure golden paths before a workload is provisioned, not patched after the fact.
Through the expanded collaboration, Kyndryl provides end-to-end VCF and VMware Tanzu transformation capabilities across advisory and strategy, architecture and design, upgrade and modernization and secure Day-2 operations, spanning virtualized and containerized workloads, while enabling seamless integration with public cloud landing zones as workloads evolve. With deep industry knowledge across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, transportation, government and regulated industries, Kyndryl's modernization approach maximizes business impact along with technology transformation objectives.
"Our expanded relationship with Kyndryl helps ensure that our mutual customers have the expert guidance required to fully leverage VMware Cloud Foundation as a strategic private cloud platform," said Regan McGrath, President, Americas, Broadcom. "Kyndryl's global delivery capabilities and investment in certified talent provide enterprises with the foundation they need to drive agility, modernize applications and scale AI-driven innovation."
Kyndryl is also focused on helping mutual customers operationalize AI governance across VCF environments by applying the Kyndryl Agentic AI Framework and its policy as code capability to hold agents to approved, deterministic actions informed by business rules and regulatory requirements, so automation stays inside guardrails and drift is contained. This will ensure that AI agents act only within approved, deterministic guardrails shaped by each customer's business rules and regulatory requirements, containing drift while preserving flexibility across models, data and infrastructure.
Combining the VCF private cloud capabilities with Kyndryl's managed services unlocks the value of VCF, enhanced through industrialized operations, automation and AIOps-driven delivery. The result is a unified private cloud environment that runs virtual machine and containerized workloads, including AI inferencing, on a single scalable platform. IT teams and platform engineers can deliver an agile and robust developer experience, while maintaining the security, control and sovereignty the business requires.
Additionally, Kyndryl's cyber recovery capability – built on VCF's isolated recovery environments (using VMware vDefend), immutable snapshots (using Advanced Cyber Compliance) and orchestrated runbooks (using VCF Automation/Operations) – restores critical operations rapidly and with verified integrity.
Kyndryl is a Pinnacle Partner in the Broadcom Advantage Partner Program and one of the world's largest providers of managed VMware assets. The company was recognized as Broadcom Mainframe Partner of the Year 2025 in South America and in Finland. Kyndryl's VMware services are bolstered by deep expertise and proficiency in the latest skills and technologies companies need to modernize VMware environments and adopt new VCF capabilities to enhance their VMware estate and achieve business objectives.
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Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, offering advisory, implementation and managed service capabilities to thousands of customers in more than 60 countries. As the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, the company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex information systems that the world depends on every day. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.
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Recognition highlights Kyndryl's AI-driven, patented innovation to improve operational resiliency and reduce risk across complex technology environments
, /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, today announced it was named a 2026 CIO 100 Award winner for the change risk prediction capability in Kyndryl Bridge, the company's AI-powered, open-integration digital business platform. The change risk prediction capability, an AI-driven and patented innovation, helps organizations predict and prevent risks associated with production technology changes before they result in service disruptions.
Deployed on Kyndryl Bridge, the award-winning change risk prediction capability identifies potential incidents or outages before changes are implemented and recommends actionable insights to reduce the likelihood of disruptions. By combining AI, automation and decades of operational expertise, the capability has helped reduce change failure rates by 60-90% and decrease production outages across environments where it is used, improving operational resiliency and service quality.
"We're honored that CIO has recognized the innovation behind Kyndryl Bridge and the impact it is delivering," said Aashish Chandra, Senior Vice President, Kyndryl Consult. "By combining AI with deep operational expertise, we're helping teams identify risk earlier, make more informed decisions and improve the resiliency of complex technology environments. That has resulted in fewer failed changes, fewer disruptions and more reliable outcomes for our customers."
The CIO 100 Award is an annual recognition bestowed to organizations that use technology in innovative ways to deliver measurable business value and competitive advantage.
Change risk prediction draws upon Kyndryl's extensive operational data and uses AI to analyze proposed technology changes, identify patterns from historical outcomes, and provide recommendations before deployment. By embedding these insights directly into existing workflows, Kyndryl helps teams improve reliability while maintaining the speed required to support continuous innovation.
The CIO 100 Award recognition underscores Kyndryl's continued investment in Kyndryl Bridge, which helps customers integrate, observe, and orchestrate across complex technology environments. Through AI-driven insights, Kyndryl Bridge helps organizations run, modernize and transform complex technology environments while reducing risk and improving operational performance.
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About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, offering advisory, implementation and managed service capabilities to thousands of customers in more than 60 countries. As the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, the company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex information systems that the world depends on every day. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.
, /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, today announced that in connection with its previously announced hiring of Ellen Johnson, as Chief Financial Officer, and Andrew Bonzani, as General Counsel and Secretary, the Company granted equity awards to them as a material inducement to their acceptance of employment with Kyndryl. The equity awards are consistent with the previously disclosed terms of their offer letters and were approved by the Compensation and Human Capital Committee of the Board of Directors in reliance on the employment inducement exemption under the NYSE's Listed Company Manual Rule 303A.08. Kyndryl is issuing this press release pursuant to the requirements of that rule.
The inducement equity awards to Johnson consist of grants of (i) 248,514 performance stock units ("PSUs") (at target; a maximum of 180% target may be earned for maximum performance) that are eligible to vest subject to the achievement of the Company's pre-established performance criteria over a three-year performance period, (ii) 121,248 restricted stock units ("RSUs") that are eligible to vest in four equal annual installments beginning on the first anniversary of the grant date and (iii) 115,474 special sign-on RSUs ("RRSUs") that are eligible to vest in three equal annual installments beginning on the first anniversary of the grant date.
The inducement equity awards to Bonzani consist of grants of (i) 138,063 PSUs (at target; a maximum of 180% target may be earned for maximum performance) that are eligible to vest subject to the achievement of the Company's pre-established performance criteria over a three-year performance period, (ii) 67,360 RSUs that are eligible to vest in four equal annual installments beginning on the first anniversary of the grant date and (iii) 96,228 special sign-on RRSUs that are eligible to vest in three equal annual installments beginning on the first anniversary of the grant date.
The inducement equity awards to Johnson and Bonzani were granted pursuant to the Kyndryl 2026 Employment Inducement Equity Incentive Plan adopted by the Board of Directors. Award terms under this inducement equity incentive plan are generally consistent with award terms under the Amended and Restated Kyndryl 2021 Long-Term Performance Plan.
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, offering advisory, implementation and managed service capabilities to thousands of customers in more than 60 countries. As the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, the Company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex information systems that the world depends on every day. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com
Planned acquisition to strengthen Kyndryl's ability to serve U.S. healthcare organizations across applications, infrastructure and AI
, /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission‑critical enterprise technology services, today announced its intent to acquire Healthcare IT Leaders, LLC, an enterprise IT services provider for hospitals and health systems. The acquisition will enable Kyndryl to more effectively address growing customer demand for its AI‑led business modernization across healthcare providers and payors by leveraging Healthcare IT Leaders' healthcare consulting and application managed services expertise.
"Healthcare organizations are under increasing pressure to advance complex clinical, operational and workforce systems while maintaining resiliency, security and compliance," said Jamie Rutledge, president of Kyndryl U.S. "By combining Healthcare IT Leaders' healthcare consulting expertise with Kyndryl's AI-led modernization capabilities, we will be better positioned to support providers and payors."
Following the close of the acquisition, Kyndryl will combine Healthcare IT Leaders' consulting expertise in applications across clinical, operational and workforce platforms with Kyndryl's infrastructure leadership and AI capabilities to enable healthcare organizations to work with a single provider across applications, platforms and underlying IT environments.
Kyndryl already supports a broad set of healthcare organizations by running large-scale, highly regulated IT environments across the U.S. The addition of Healthcare IT Leaders' business will deepen Kyndryl's relationships with leading national healthcare systems and expand Kyndryl's access to the application and consulting layer of those environments. Together, the two companies will be well positioned to support enterprise health systems and hospitals across federal, academic, pediatric and regional segments as they navigate increasingly complex workforce challenges and a highly regulated industry.
The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to be completed during the second quarter of Kyndryl's fiscal year 2027, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory review.
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is a leading provider of mission‑critical enterprise technology services, offering advisory, implementation and managed service capabilities to thousands of customers in more than 60 countries. As the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, the company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex information systems that the world depends on every day. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.
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MarketBeat Week in Review – 02/17 - 02/21Kyndryl NYSE: KD reported fiscal first-quarter revenue of $3.6 billion, down 3% from a year earlier on both a reported and constant-currency basis, while maintaining its full-year outlook as it pursues growth in consulting, hyperscaler partnerships and AI-led modernization services.
For the quarter ended June 30, the company generated adjusted EBITDA of $512 million and an adjusted pre-tax loss of $37 million. Interim Chief Financial Officer Harsh Chugh said earnings and margin declined year over year primarily because of $152 million in workforce rebalancing charges, which reduced adjusted pre-tax income margin by more than four points.
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Kyndryl Soars on AI, Cybersecurity Growth—What’s Next?Kyndryl continued to see growth in the U.S., where revenue increased 5% for a second consecutive quarter. The company exited the period with $14.2 billion in trailing 12-month signings, including $3.9 billion signed during the quarter.
Consulting and Alliance Growth Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Martin Schroeter said Kyndryl Consult and hyperscaler-related activities were helping offset revenue pressure from focus accounts, extended sales cycles and customers purchasing certain IBM hardware and software directly from IBM.
MarketBeat Week in Review – 9/25 - 9/29Kyndryl Consult revenue rose 14% over the last 12 months, while hyperscaler-related revenue streams increased 48%. In the first quarter, Kyndryl generated more than $530 million in hyperscaler-related revenue, bringing the trailing 12-month total to $2 billion.
Schroeter said customers are increasingly seeking help with AI deployment, modernization of hybrid technology estates, cybersecurity and data-residency requirements. He said the company has expanded its AWS alliance to support enterprise adoption of agentic AI and broadened work with Microsoft Azure around cloud architectures and operational requirements. Kyndryl also cited partnerships with Broadcom, Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Red Hat.
The company signed 40 deals valued at more than $50 million during the past 12 months, including 10 in the first quarter. About 30% of the value of those larger deals came from scope expansions or new customers, compared with 15% in fiscal 2025, according to Schroeter.
Kyndryl Consult signings rose 50% in the first quarter, Schroeter said during the question-and-answer session. New scope and new-logo business represented 30% of large-deal signings, management said. Average projected gross margin on signings over the last 12 months was 25%, according to Chugh. IBM Relationship and Revenue Headwinds Chugh said Kyndryl’s changing commercial relationship with IBM has created a three-point adverse effect on constant-currency revenue performance, alongside earlier effects from the company’s focus-account initiative.
Customers have increasingly chosen to procure some IBM hardware and software directly from IBM while continuing to rely on Kyndryl for services. Chugh said the shift reduces the size of signings and future revenue but does not affect the service scope or margin profile of Kyndryl’s work.
Kyndryl’s spending with IBM was less than $2 billion over the past 12 months, down from an annualized run rate of nearly $4 billion when Kyndryl was spun off. Management said it expects a similar IBM-related revenue headwind through the remainder of fiscal 2027.
Schroeter said the company continues to work closely with IBM, particularly in helping customers modernize technology environments that may include mainframes, private cloud, public cloud and software-as-a-service applications. He said Kyndryl has between 8,000 and 9,000 mainframe experts and runs more than half of the world’s outsourced mainframes.
Workforce Actions, Cash Flow and Outlook Kyndryl is taking workforce rebalancing actions in response to lower-than-normal voluntary attrition and SG&A costs. Savings from those actions are expected to begin in the second half of fiscal 2027. The company expects about $200 million in workforce rebalancing charges during the year, offset by a similar amount of savings, with annualized savings of $400 million to $500 million expected in fiscal 2028.
Schroeter said Kyndryl is using automation and AI through its Kyndryl Bridge platform and Advanced Delivery initiative to improve productivity and redeploy workers into higher-value roles. He said the company has about 1,800 agents in its infrastructure operations and has redeployed tens of thousands of employees since beginning its automation efforts.
First-quarter free cash flow was an outflow of $401 million, reflecting seasonal working-capital timing, higher payments associated with multiyear renewals and software subscriptions, and lower billing and collections. Kyndryl ended the quarter with $2.1 billion in cash and a net leverage ratio of 0.8 times. It repurchased 5 million shares for $64 million during the quarter.
The company reaffirmed its fiscal 2027 outlook for adjusted pre-tax income of $600 million to $700 million, free cash flow of $400 million to $500 million, and constant-currency revenue ranging from flat to down 2%. Management expects revenue trends to improve each quarter and anticipates stronger revenue in the second half than the first half.
For fiscal 2028, Kyndryl continues to target more than $1.2 billion in adjusted pre-tax income and $1 billion in free cash flow, based on low-single-digit constant-currency revenue growth.
Finance Leadership Transition Schroeter also said Chugh has decided to retire after serving as interim CFO for the past six months. Chugh will remain an executive adviser to Schroeter and the leadership team. Ellen Johnson, previously announced as the incoming CFO, was scheduled to begin in the role on Aug. 6.
About Kyndryl (NYSE:KD)Kyndryl NYSE: KD is a global managed infrastructure services provider formed in November 2021 through the spin-off of IBM's Managed Infrastructure Services business. The company designs, builds, manages and modernizes critical information technology systems for enterprises worldwide. Kyndryl's core offerings include cloud migration and management, network and edge computing solutions, digital workplace services and IT resiliency and security capabilities.
With a workforce of approximately 90,000 professionals and operations in more than 60 countries, Kyndryl serves clients across a broad range of industries, including financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, manufacturing and retail.
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Martin J. Schroeter, Chairman and CEO of Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. (KD -0.43%), reported a disposition of 79,267 shares of common stock on August 1, 2026, according to a recent SEC Form 4 filing.
Transaction summaryMetricValueShares sold79,267Transaction value$1.1 millionPost-transaction shares (directly held)~2,369,819Post-transaction value$32.99 millionTransaction value based on SEC Form 4 weighted average sale price ($13.48).
Key questionsWhat was the catalyst for this transaction?
The disposition was non-discretionary, occurring as a "sell-to-cover" event to satisfy tax withholding liabilities triggered by the vesting of 155,270 restricted stock units previously granted in 2022 and 2023.What is the scale of the insider's remaining investment?
Schroeter continues to hold ~2.37 million direct shares, a position with a market value of $32.99 million as of the August 1, 2026 transaction date.How does this relate to the company's broader financial standing?
Kyndryl, an information technology services firm with 72,000 employees, reported $15.1 billion in revenue over the trailing 12 months and currently holds a market capitalization of $3.1 billion.What is the current valuation context for the stock?
The shares were withheld at $13.48 per share, while the common stock was priced at $13.92 as of the August 3, 2026 market close.Company OverviewMetricValueShare Price (as of market close 2026-08-03)$13.92Market Capitalization$3.1 billionRevenue (TTM)$15.1 billionNet Income (TTM)$198.0 millionCompany SnapshotKyndryl delivers a comprehensive portfolio of IT solutions including cloud computing, foundational enterprise platforms, application development, data analytics, and artificial intelligence capabilities, generating revenue through managed IT services and technology infrastructure solutions.The company operates on a service-based business model, providing enterprise clients with end-to-end IT infrastructure management, digital transformation services, and technology consulting that generate recurring and project-based revenue streams.Kyndryl primarily serves large enterprise organizations across multiple industries that require sophisticated IT infrastructure management, cloud migration services, and digital modernization support to maintain competitive operational capabilities.Kyndryl Holdings is a global technology and IT infrastructure services specialist with 72,000 employees operating from New York City. The company generated $15.1 billion in revenue on a TTM basis, positioning it as a significant player in the enterprise IT services market. Kyndryl's competitive advantage derives from its comprehensive service portfolio spanning cloud computing, security, data analytics, and AI capabilities, enabling the firm to serve as an integrated technology partner for large-scale enterprise digital transformation initiatives.
What this transaction means for investorsAs previously mentioned, Schroeter sold shares to cover tax obligations. Moreover, since the sale amounted to around 3% of his shares, the move should not imply a negative change in sentiment toward Kyndryl.
Nonetheless, investors may still want to ponder whether they might want to own this company. Kyndryl was IBM’s former managed infrastructure business, and its stock is down since the 2021 spinoff.
The tech stock rose significantly in 2023 and 2024, only to pull back in 2025 as revenue growth slowed and profit margins became thin. Moreover, analysts project flat revenue growth in the current and following fiscal years.
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Despite those predictions, analysts also predict significant profit growth in both fiscal years, so much so that its P/E ratio of 17 should give way to a forward earnings multiple of less than 8.
Investors may also recall that the stock trades at levels comparable to where it was before the recovery began in 2023. Thus, the fact that Schroeter has kept nearly all of his shares could persuade investors to take a chance on Kyndryl stock.
Will Healy has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends International Business Machines and Kyndryl. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
Codifies decades of Kyndryl engineering expertise into agentic workflows that help enterprises accelerate modernization, reduce risk and maximize business agility
Trusted by more than 1,400 customers, Kyndryl Bridge provides the technology foundation to deploy, orchestrate and govern agentic workflows and AI agents across IT estates
, /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, today introduced its Agentic Modernization services-as-software, which is built using the Kyndryl Agentic AI Framework and is scaled through Kyndryl Bridge. Services-as-software is an emerging model for delivering services through software-driven automation, intelligence and scalable digital workflows.
Kyndryl has codified its trusted mission-critical and engineering expertise, together with capabilities from AI ecosystem partners, into pre-defined agentic workflows that help customers unlock business outcomes, de-risk and accelerate their modernization objectives, while maintaining enterprise guardrails and cost visibility throughout their AI adoption journey.
"Modernization is becoming an operating discipline rather than a series of labor-intensive transformation programs that are difficult to scale and disruption-prone," said Ismail Amla, Senior Vice President, Kyndryl Consult. "As technology innovation accelerates exponentially, organizations need to move toward continuous modernization so they can adapt faster to changing business needs. With Agentic Modernization services-as-software, customers can transform iteratively and seamlessly using proven agentic workflows designed to handle changing business priorities and built on Kyndryl's deep mission-critical expertise and industrialized through Kyndryl Bridge, enabling faster execution and more predictable outcomes."
The announcement comes as organizations race to scale AI but are challenged to achieve business value from their investments. Kyndryl's recent survey of 1,100 business and technology leaders found that while 77% of executives say generative AI has already been scaled across multiple functions of their organization, only 32% report experiencing one of their top desired outcomes. Organizations cannot reliably adopt AI on aging technology estates; modernization is the prerequisite foundation and has become a top priority and a growing area of technology spend.
"Agentic AI is reshaping how enterprises think about modernization, moving the conversation from large, episodic transformation projects to continuous, agent-orchestrated implementations guided by human expertise," said Bill Latshaw, Research Director, Worldwide Business Consulting Services, IDC. "Kyndryl's Agentic Modernization services-as-software, with Kyndryl Bridge as the foundation, reflects that shift, combining pre-defined AI workflows and operational expertise, critically with the governance and guardrails needed to enable organizations to modernize with greater speed and consistency by reducing indecision and complexity traps."
Run on the Foundation of Kyndryl Bridge
Since its launch in 2022, Kyndryl Bridge has become the trusted foundation for managing and modernizing mission-critical and regulated technology environments for more than 1,400 customers. Kyndryl Bridge generates more than 16 million AI insights each month and has demonstrated a reduction in IT incidents by up to 50%.
As organizations adopt AI-powered workflows, Kyndryl Bridge serves as the robust enterprise-grade technology foundation, for deploying and managing mission-critical AI across hybrid IT estates, with well-established controls for cost visibility, security and regulatory requirements. Kyndryl Bridge also provides agentic memory management for customers, helping them preserve and evolve critical institutional knowledge and operational context to support continuous modernization.
Scaling modernization outcomes with services-as-software
Kyndryl's services-as-software helps customers execute modernization programs of any size or complexity in radically compressed timelines and at significantly lower cost by scaling pre-built agentic workflows—making specialized skills less of a constraint.
This approach also enables customers to adopt new frontier models and tools as they become available, based on their business requirements, cost, performance and governance needs, without locking them into a specific technology stack. As a result, modernization programs can be delivered with greater consistency, repeatability, quality and predictable outcomes for every customer.
Anchored in Kyndryl's decades of experience managing and modernizing mission-critical systems, pre-defined enterprise-grade agentic modernization workflows support a broad range of infrastructure, application and business transformation initiatives across distributed and mainframe environments, public, private cloud and network infrastructure, software development and IT operations. These AI workflows orchestrate autonomous AI agents across the modernization lifecycle, helping accelerate activities such as discovery, code analysis, dependency mapping, target-state design, code generation, testing and validation.
Kyndryl's pre-defined agentic modernization workflows also reduce the effort and costs required to experiment with AI and accelerate modernization by giving customers a proven, reusable foundation for generating consistent, high-quality outcomes at scale.
Kyndryl experts and customer teams remain central to the process, providing human oversight, governance and accountability. With Kyndryl's Agentic Modernization services-as-software, organizations can transform legacy environments faster and more consistently, into modern, AI-ready environments with greater speed and confidence.
Customers are already seeing results:
A global car rental company is transforming its software development lifecycle with Kyndryl AI agents, autonomously refactoring legacy code and reducing hours of manual effort to minutes while improving code quality, consistency and maintainability. At a global reinsurer, the starting point was a decades-old mainframe environment with millions of lines of code and a shrinking pool of in-house expertise. Kyndryl Agentic Modernization services-as-software helped analyze and reimagine the legacy estate, accelerating the transition to a cloud-native architecture and enabling data center exit timelines to be reduced by 50%. A global financial services organization has deployed Kyndryl Agentic Modernization services-as-software across its engineering teams worldwide to accelerate modernization using AI-powered operational insights and pre-defined agentic workflows. Learn more about Kyndryl's Agentic Modernization services-as-software.
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services offering advisory, implementation and managed services to thousands of customers in more than 60 countries. As the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, the company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex information systems that the world depends on every day. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.
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For the quarter ended June 2026, Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. (KD - Free Report) reported revenue of $3.62 billion, down 3.3% over the same period last year. EPS came in at -$0.12, compared to $0.37 in the year-ago quarter.
The reported revenue represents a surprise of -1.26% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $3.66 billion. With the consensus EPS estimate being -$0.08, the EPS surprise was -50%.
While investors scrutinize revenue and earnings changes year-over-year and how they compare with Wall Street expectations to determine their next move, some key metrics always offer a more accurate picture of a company's financial health.
As these metrics influence top- and bottom-line performance, comparing them to the year-ago numbers and what analysts estimated helps investors project a stock's price performance more accurately.
Here is how Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
Geographic Revenue- Japan: $534 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of $548.33 million.Geographic Revenue- United States: $954 million versus $957.61 million estimated by two analysts on average.Revenue- Strategic Markets: $868 million compared to the $878.02 million average estimate based on two analysts.Revenue- Principal Markets: $1.26 billion compared to the $1.29 billion average estimate based on two analysts.View all Key Company Metrics for Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. here>>>
Shares of Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. have returned +18.6% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +3.5% change. The stock currently has a Zacks Rank #4 (Sell), indicating that it could underperform the broader market in the near term.
Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. (KD - Free Report) came out with a quarterly loss of $0.12 per share versus the Zacks Consensus Estimate of a loss of $0.08. This compares to earnings of $0.37 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items.
This quarterly report represents an earnings surprise of -50.00%. A quarter ago, it was expected that this company would post earnings of $0.43 per share when it actually produced earnings of $0.18, delivering a surprise of -58.14%.
Over the last four quarters, the company has surpassed consensus EPS estimates just once.
Kyndryl Holdings, Inc., which belongs to the Zacks Technology Services industry, posted revenues of $3.62 billion for the quarter ended June 2026, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 1.26%. This compares to year-ago revenues of $3.74 billion. The company has not been able to beat consensus revenue estimates over the last four quarters.
The sustainability of the stock's immediate price movement based on the recently-released numbers and future earnings expectations will mostly depend on management's commentary on the earnings call.
Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. shares have lost about 44.7% since the beginning of the year versus the S&P 500's gain of 13%.
What's Next for Kyndryl Holdings, Inc.?While Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. has underperformed the market so far this year, the question that comes to investors' minds is: what's next for the stock?
There are no easy answers to this key question, but one reliable measure that can help investors address this is the company's earnings outlook. Not only does this include current consensus earnings expectations for the coming quarter(s), but also how these expectations have changed lately.
Empirical research shows a strong correlation between near-term stock movements and trends in earnings estimate revisions. Investors can track such revisions by themselves or rely on a tried-and-tested rating tool like the Zacks Rank, which has an impressive track record of harnessing the power of earnings estimate revisions.
Ahead of this earnings release, the estimate revisions trend for Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. was unfavorable. While the magnitude and direction of estimate revisions could change following the company's just-released earnings report, the current status translates into a Zacks Rank #4 (Sell) for the stock. So, the shares are expected to underperform the market in the near future. You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.
It will be interesting to see how estimates for the coming quarters and the current fiscal year change in the days ahead. The current consensus EPS estimate is $0.47 on $3.64 billion in revenues for the coming quarter and $1.90 on $14.76 billion in revenues for the current fiscal year.
Investors should be mindful of the fact that the outlook for the industry can have a material impact on the performance of the stock as well. In terms of the Zacks Industry Rank, Technology Services is currently in the bottom 39% of the 250 plus Zacks industries. Our research shows that the top 50% of the Zacks-ranked industries outperform the bottom 50% by a factor of more than 2 to 1.
Innventure, Inc. (INV - Free Report) , another stock in the same industry, has yet to report results for the quarter ended June 2026. The results are expected to be released on August 13.
This company is expected to post quarterly loss of $0.26 per share in its upcoming report, which represents a year-over-year change of +83.8%. The consensus EPS estimate for the quarter has remained unchanged over the last 30 days.
Innventure, Inc.'s revenues are expected to be $1.97 million, up 310.4% from the year-ago quarter.
Revenues for the quarter ended June 30, 2026 total $3.6 billion, pretax loss is $69 million, and net loss is $55 million Adjusted EBITDA is $512 million, adjusted pretax loss is $37 million, and adjusted net loss is $26 million Actions to streamline operations resulted in $152 million of workforce rebalancing charges, which are included in reported and adjusted results Company reaffirms fiscal 2027 outlook for revenue, earnings and free cash flow , /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, today released financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, the first quarter of its 2027 fiscal year.
"Our first quarter results reflected strong momentum in signings, supported by strength in Kyndryl Consult and hyperscalers, with an increasing demand for AI-led modernization solutions," said Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Martin Schroeter. "We're encouraged by the progress we're making to improve business fundamentals and remain focused on driving consistent execution and delivering our fiscal 2027 and multi-year objectives."
Results for the Fiscal First Quarter Ended June 30, 2026
For the first quarter, Kyndryl reported revenues of $3.6 billion, down 3% year-over-year on a reported basis and down 3% in constant currency. The Company reported a pretax loss of $69 million, compared to pretax income of $92 million in the prior-year period. Net loss was $55 million, or ($0.25) per diluted share, in the quarter, compared to net income of $56 million, or $0.23 per diluted share, in the prior-year period. The first quarter 2027 results include workforce rebalancing charges of $152 million. Cash used from operations was $310 million, compared to $124 million in the prior-year period, primarily due to timing of working capital, including higher software payments and lower billings and collections, partially offset by lower incentive compensation payments.
Adjusted pretax loss was $37 million, compared to adjusted pretax income of $128 million in the prior-year period. Adjusted net loss was $26 million, or ($0.12) per diluted share, compared to adjusted net income of $90 million, or $0.37 per diluted share, in the prior-year period. Adjusted EBITDA was $512 million compared to $647 million in the prior-year period. The first quarter 2027 results include workforce rebalancing charges of $152 million. Free cash flow was a use of $401 million in the quarter, compared to a use of $222 million in the prior year, consistent with drivers of cash used from operations as described above. See "Non-GAAP Metric Definitions and Reconciliations."
Highlights
Signings – In the trailing twelve months signings were $14.2 billion, including $3.9 billion signed in the first quarter, supported by strength in the United States segment. Kyndryl signed 40 customer contracts exceeding $50 million each in the last twelve months, of which 10 were signed in the first quarter. Kyndryl Consult revenue – In the first quarter, Kyndryl Consult revenues grew 10% year-over-year. Over the last twelve months, Kyndryl Consult revenues were $3.6 billion, a 14% increase year-over-year. Kyndryl Consult signings were $4.4 billion over the last twelve months, an 8% increase year-over-year. Hyperscaler-related revenue – In the first quarter, hyperscaler-related revenues of more than $530 million grew 34% year-over-year, exiting the quarter at an annualized revenue run-rate of more than $2.1 billion. AI-led modernization – During the quarter, Kyndryl expanded its AI capabilities to support AI-led modernization with the launch of Kyndryl AI Orchestration for Business and a patented agentic AI capability in Kyndryl Bridge. Kyndryl also released its People Readiness Report, which found that 57% of enterprises have embedded AI in core business processes, but only 32% have achieved their AI goals, underscoring the opportunity to help enterprises realize greater value from their AI investments. Actions to streamline operations – In the first quarter, Kyndryl incurred $152 million of charges related to workforce-rebalancing actions. The Company continues to expect approximately $200 million of charges in fiscal 2027. These workforce rebalancing efforts, once completed, are expected to result in annualized run-rate operating expense savings of approximately $400 to $500 million in the Company's fiscal year 2028. Share repurchases – In the first quarter, the Company repurchased 5.0 million shares of its common stock at a cost of $64 million. Since the authorization of its share repurchase program in November 2024, the Company has bought back 19.3 million shares for $462 million, or 8% of its shares outstanding. Reaffirms Fiscal Year 2027 Outlook
Kyndryl reaffirms its outlook for its fiscal 2027, which runs from April 2026 to March 2027:
Adjusted pretax income of $600 to $700 million Consistent with our definition of adjusted pretax income since fiscal 2025, this includes workforce rebalancing charges Free cash flow of $400 to $500 million Constant-currency revenue flat to down 2% See "Non-GAAP Metric Definitions and Reconciliations."
Earnings Webcast
Kyndryl's earnings call for the first fiscal quarter is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. ET on August 5, 2026. The live webcast can be accessed by visiting investors.kyndryl.com on Kyndryl's investor relations website. A slide presentation will be made available on Kyndryl's investor relations website before the call on August 5, 2026. Following the event, a replay will be available via webcast for twelve months at investors.kyndryl.com.
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, offering advisory, implementation and managed service capabilities to thousands of customers in more than 60 countries. As the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, the Company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex information systems that the world depends on every day. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.
Forward-Looking and Cautionary Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than statements of historical fact included in this press release, including statements concerning the Company's plans, objectives, goals, beliefs, business strategies, future events, business condition, results of operations, financial position, business outlook and business trends and other non-historical statements, including without limitation the outlook and financial objectives in this press release (which does not assume any future acquisitions or divestitures), are forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements often contain words such as "aim," "anticipate," "believe," "could," "estimate," "expect," "forecast," "intend," "may," "objectives," "opportunity," "plan," "position," "predict," "project," "should," "seek," "target," "will," "would" and other similar words or expressions or the negative thereof or other variations thereon. Forward-looking statements are based on the Company's current assumptions and beliefs regarding future business and financial performance.
The Company's actual business, financial condition or results of operations may differ materially from those suggested by forward-looking statements as a result of risks and uncertainties which include, among others: failure to attract new customers, retain existing customers or sell services to customers; failure to meet growth and productivity objectives and maintain our capital allocation strategy; competition; impacts of relationships with critical suppliers and partners; failure to address and adapt to technological developments and trends; inability to attract and retain key personnel and other skilled employees; impact of economic, geopolitical, public health and other conditions; damage to the Company's reputation and impact on the Company and our stock price resulting from negative publicity; inability to accurately estimate the cost of services and the timeline for completion of contracts; service delivery issues; the Company's ability to successfully manage acquisitions and dispositions, including integration challenges, failure to achieve objectives, the assumption of liabilities and higher debt levels; the Company's ability to refinance maturing debt on favorable terms in a timely manner, or at all, and risks related to the Company's access to capital and credit markets; failure of the Company's intellectual property rights to prevent competitive offerings and the failure of the Company to obtain, retain and extend necessary licenses; the impairment of our goodwill or long-lived assets; risks relating to cybersecurity, data governance and privacy; risks relating to non-compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and changes in laws, regulations and policies in the U.S. and countries where the Company and its customers do business, including with respect to tariffs, taxes and other controls on imports or exports; adverse effects from tax matters; risks related to legal and regulatory claims, suits, investigations, proceedings and other matters, and consequences relating thereto; the Company's ability to remediate, and the timing and costs related to the remediation of, material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting, as well as the Company's ability to maintain effective controls in the future; the impact of changes in market liquidity conditions and customer credit risk on receivables; the Company's pension plans; the impact of currency fluctuations; and risks related to the Company's common stock and the securities market.
Additional risks and uncertainties include, among others, those risks and uncertainties described in the "Risk Factors" section of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026, as such factors may be updated from time to time in the Company's subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Any forward-looking statement in this press release speaks only as of the date on which it is made. Except as required by law, the Company assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. In this release, certain amounts may not add due to the use of rounded numbers; percentages presented are calculated based on the underlying amounts. Forecasted amounts are based on currency exchange rates as of July 2026.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
In an effort to provide investors with additional information regarding its results, the Company has provided certain metrics that are not calculated based on generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), such as constant-currency results, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted pretax income (loss), adjusted net income (loss), adjusted EPS, adjusted EBITDA margin, adjusted pretax margin, adjusted net margin, net debt and free cash flow. Such non-GAAP metrics are intended to supplement GAAP metrics, but not to replace them. The Company's non-GAAP metrics may not be comparable to similarly titled metrics used by other companies. Definitions and additional information about our calculation of non-GAAP metrics and reconciliations of non-GAAP metrics for historical periods to GAAP metrics are included in the tables in this release.
A reconciliation of forward-looking non-GAAP financial information is not included in this release because the Company is unable to predict with reasonable certainty some individual components of such reconciliation without unreasonable effort. These items are uncertain, depend on various factors and could have a material impact on future results computed in accordance with GAAP.
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Table 1
CONSOLIDATED INCOME STATEMENT
(in millions, except per share amounts)
Three Months Ended June 30,
2026
2025
Revenues
$
3,618
$
3,743
Cost of services
$
2,842
$
2,947
Selling, general and administrative expenses
668
646
Workforce rebalancing charges
152
25
Transaction-related costs (benefits)
(38)
—
Impairment expense
38
—
Interest expense
34
19
Other expense (income)
(10)
13
Total costs and expenses
$
3,687
$
3,651
Income (loss) before income taxes
$
(69)
$
92
Provision for income taxes
(14)
36
Net income (loss)
$
(55)
$
56
Earnings (loss) per share data
Basic earnings (loss) per share
$
(0.25)
$
0.24
Diluted earnings (loss) per share
(0.25)
0.23
Weighted-average basic shares outstanding
220.6
230.2
Weighted-average diluted shares outstanding
220.6
239.1
Table 2
SEGMENT RESULTS
AND SELECTED BALANCE SHEET INFORMATION
(dollars in millions)
Three Months Ended June 30,
Year-over-Year Growth
As
Constant
Segment Results
2026
2025
Reported
Currency
Revenue
United States
$
954
$
911
5 %
5 %
Japan
534
578
(8 %)
2 %
Principal Markets
1,262
1,356
(7 %)
(8 %)
Strategic Markets
868
898
(3 %)
(8 %)
Total revenue
$
3,618
$
3,743
(3 %)
(3 %)
Adjusted EBITDA
United States
$
220
$
196
Japan
109
115
Principal Markets
151
197
Strategic Markets
62
163
Corporate and other
(30)
(26)
Total adjusted EBITDA
$
512
$
647
June 30,
March 31,
Balance Sheet Data
2026
2026
Cash and equivalents
$
2,104
$
2,623
Debt (short-term and long-term)
4,070
4,089
Table 3
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS
(dollars in millions)
Three Months Ended June 30,
2026
2025
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net income (loss)
$
(55)
$
56
Adjustments to reconcile net income to cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization
Depreciation of property, equipment and capitalized software
183
191
Depreciation of right-of-use assets
68
73
Amortization of transition costs and prepaid software
331
308
Amortization of capitalized contract costs
94
106
Amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets
6
7
Stock-based compensation
21
24
Deferred taxes
(50)
(10)
Net (gain) loss on asset sales and other
6
—
Change in operating assets and liabilities:
Right-of-use assets and liabilities (excluding depreciation)
(81)
(88)
Workforce rebalancing liabilities
132
3
Current accounts receivable
18
114
Lease and other receivables
(51)
(67)
Accounts payable
(320)
(269)
Taxes
(32)
27
Deferred transition costs and prepaid software (excluding amortization)1
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities
$
(310)
$
(124)
Cash flows from investing activities:
Capital expenditures
$
(149)
$
(143)
Proceeds from disposition of property and equipment
58
45
Acquisitions and divestitures, net of cash acquired
31
1
Other investing activities, net
11
22
Net cash used in investing activities
$
(49)
$
(74)
Cash flows from financing activities:
Debt repayments
$
(52)
$
(36)
Common stock repurchases
(64)
(62)
Common stock repurchases for tax withholdings
(13)
(67)
Other financing activities, net
(23)
(5)
Net cash used in financing activities
$
(152)
$
(170)
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash
$
(4)
$
46
Net change in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash
$
(515)
$
(323)
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at beginning of period
$
2,626
$
1,789
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at end of period
$
2,111
$
1,466
Supplemental data
Income taxes paid, net of refunds received
$
76
$
67
Interest paid on debt
$
50
$
39
_______________
1
Includes $925 million non-cash offsetting increases in deferred costs and other liabilities related to an extended and amended multiyear software license in the three months ended June 30, 2025.
Table 4
DEFINITIONS AND NON-GAAP RECONCILIATIONS
(dollars in millions, except signings)
Non-GAAP Metrics
We report our financial results in accordance with GAAP. We also present certain non-GAAP financial measures to provide useful supplemental information to investors. We provide these non-GAAP financial measures as we believe it enhances investors' visibility to management decisions and their impacts on operational performance; enables better comparison to peer companies; and allows us to provide a long-term strategic view of the business going forward. Moreover, we use certain of these non-GAAP financial metrics in measuring performance under our executive compensation plans.
Constant-currency information compares results between periods as if exchange rates had remained constant period over period. We define constant-currency revenues as total revenues excluding the impact of foreign exchange rate movements and use it to determine the constant-currency revenue growth on a year-over-year basis. Constant-currency revenues are calculated by translating current period revenues using corresponding prior-period exchange rates.
Adjusted pretax income (loss) is defined as pretax income (loss) excluding transaction-related costs and benefits, charges related to ceasing to use leased / fixed assets, charges related to lease terminations, pension costs other than pension servicing costs and multi-employer plan costs, stock-based compensation expense, amortization of acquisitionrelated intangible assets, impairment expense, significant litigation costs and benefits, and currency impacts of highly inflationary countries. Adjusted pretax margin is calculated by dividing adjusted pretax income (loss) by revenue.
Adjusted EBITDA is defined as net income (loss) excluding net interest expense, income taxes, depreciation and amortization (excluding depreciation of right-of-use assets and amortization of capitalized contract costs), charges related to ceasing to use leased / fixed assets, charges related to lease terminations, transaction-related costs and benefits, pension costs other than pension servicing costs and multi-employer plan costs, stock-based compensation expense, impairment expense, significant litigation costs and benefits, and currency impacts of highly inflationary countries. Adjusted EBITDA margin is calculated by dividing adjusted EBITDA by revenue.
Adjusted net income (loss) is defined as adjusted pretax income (loss) less the reported provision for income taxes, minus or plus the tax effect of the non-GAAP adjustments made to calculate adjusted pretax income (loss), and excluding exceptional items impacting the reported provision for income taxes. Adjusted net margin is calculated by dividing adjusted net income (loss) by revenue.
Adjusted earnings (loss) per share (EPS) is defined as adjusted net income (loss) divided by diluted weighted average shares outstanding to reflect shares that are dilutive or anti-dilutive based on the amount of adjusted net income (loss). The weighted average common shares outstanding used to calculate adjusted earnings (loss) per share will differ from such shares used to calculate diluted earnings (loss) per share (GAAP) when the inclusion of dilutive shares has an antidilutive effect for one calculation but not for the other.
Free cash flow is defined as cash flows from operating activities (GAAP), less net capital expenditures. Management uses free cash flow as a measure to evaluate our operating results, plan strategic investments and assess our ability and need to incur and service debt. We believe this metric is useful supplemental financial measures to aid investors in assessing our ability to pursue business opportunities and investments and to service our debt. Free cash flow is a financial measure that is not recognized under U.S. GAAP and should not be considered as an alternative to cash flows from operations or liquidity derived in accordance with U.S. GAAP. As part of the Company's ongoing cash and commercial management strategy with customers and suppliers and as previously disclosed, the Company's standard practice since the time of the Company's spin-off from International Business Machines Corporation is to actively manage the Company's working capital, including accounts receivables and accounts payables. This includes optimizing payment terms and conditions, accelerating certain cash receipts and delaying certain cash payments (including deferring vendor payments quarter to quarter), and undertaking other discretionary cash and working capital management initiatives. The magnitude of these practices (including deferrals) has varied from quarter to quarter and impacted the Company's cash flows, including positively in certain periods. The effects of these practices have been and are reflected in the Company's accounts payable, accounts receivable and cash flow balance, which are accounted for in accordance with GAAP. The Company's working capital and cash flows have also reflected the impact of accrued contract costs in certain periods due to the timing of vendor billings. The Company may, from time to time, revise or adapt the Company's cash and working capital management practices as it deems appropriate. Free cash flow for the three months ended June 30, 2026 and 2025, as well as the free cash flow guidance included in this press release or the Company's other earnings materials, reflect the historical and expected application of these practices.
Other Metrics
Signings are defined by Kyndryl as an initial estimate of the value of a customer's commitment under a contract. The calculation involves estimates and judgments to gauge the extent of a customer's commitment. We calculate this based on various considerations including the type and duration of the agreement as well as the presence of termination charges or wind-down costs. Contract extensions and increases in scope are treated as signings only to the extent of the incremental new value. Signings can vary over time due to a variety of factors including, but not limited to, the timing of signing a small number of larger outsourcing contracts, as well as the length of those contracts. Signings should not be considered a comprehensive measure of future revenue, and the conversion of signings into revenue may vary based on the types of services and solutions, customer decisions and other factors, which may include, but are not limited to, macroeconomic environment or external events. Management uses signings to monitor the performance of the business, as a measure of customer engagement and our ability to drive growth.
Hyperscaler-related annualized revenue run-rate is a metric that we define as revenue for the most recently completed fiscal quarter multiplied by four. Management believes this metric provides investors with an additional perspective regarding the current revenue-generating capacity based on recent operating performance and to assess business momentum over time. Hyperscaler-related annualized revenue run-rate is not a forecast, projection, or prediction of future revenue and should not be viewed as an indication of expected revenue for any future period.
Reconciliation of net income (loss)
to adjusted pretax income (loss),
adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net
income (loss) and adjusted EPS
Three Months Ended June 30,
(in millions, except per share amounts)
2026
2025
Net income (loss) (GAAP)
$
(55)
$
56
Provision for income taxes
(14)
36
Pretax income (loss) (GAAP)
$
(69)
$
92
Transaction-related costs (benefits)1
(38)
—
Stock-based compensation expense
21
24
Amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets
6
7
Impairment expense2
38
—
Other adjustments3
5
5
Adjusted pretax income (loss) (non-GAAP)
$
(37)
$
128
Interest expense
34
19
Depreciation of property, equipment and capitalized software
183
191
Amortization of transition costs and prepaid software
331
308
Adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP)
$
512
$
647
Net income (loss) margin
(1.5) %
1.5 %
Adjusted EBITDA margin
14.2 %
17.3 %
Adjusted pretax income (loss) (non-GAAP)
$
(37)
$
128
Provision for income taxes (GAAP)
14
(36)
Tax effect of non-GAAP adjustments
(4)
(3)
Adjusted net income (loss) (non-GAAP)
$
(26)
$
90
Diluted weighted average shares outstanding for calculating adjusted EPS
220.6
239.1
Diluted earnings (loss) per share (GAAP)
$
(0.25)
$
0.23
Adjusted earnings (loss) per share (non-GAAP)
$
(0.12)
$
0.37
_______________
1
Kyndryl's reported results for the three months ended June 30, 2026 include a transaction-related gain of $40 million from the sale of a digital solutions subsidiary in the Principal Markets segment.
2
Kyndryl's reported results for the three months ended June 30, 2026 include an impairment expense for the sale of a facility in the United States.
3
Other adjustments represent pension costs other than pension servicing costs and multi-employer plan costs, significant litigation costs and benefits, and currency impacts of highly inflationary countries.
Reconciliation of cash flows from operations
Three Months Ended June 30,
to free cash flow (in millions)
2026
2025
Cash flows from operating activities (GAAP)
$
(310)
$
(124)
Less: Net capital expenditures1
(91)
(97)
Free cash flow (non-GAAP)2
$
(401)
$
(222)
_______________
1
Net capital expenditures consists of capital expenditures less proceeds from dispositions of property and equipment.
2
Free cash flow for the three months ended June 30, 2026 includes transaction-related payments of $1 million and significant litigation payments of $11 million. See "Non-GAAP Metric Definitions and Reconciliations" for more information about our calculation of free cash flow.
Three Months Ended June 30,
Last Twelve Months Ended June 30,
Signings (in billions)
2026
2025
2026
2025
Signings1
$
3.9
$
3.2
$
14.2
$
18.3
_______________
1
Currency movements did not have a material impact on the year-over-year change in the three-month period ended June 30, 2026. Currency movements favorably impacted the year‑over‑year change by approximately 2 points in the twelve‑month period ended June 30, 2026.
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NEW YORK & NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., Esq., a partner at the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC (“KSF”), announces that KSF has commenced an investigation into Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. (“Kyndryl” or the “Company”) (NYSE: KD). On February 9, 2026, the Company disclosed that it would be unable to timely file its Form 10-Q Report for the quarter ended December 31, 2025 and that “the Company anticipates reporting material weaknesses i.
Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. (KD - Free Report) closed the most recent trading day at $13.51, moving -3.57% from the previous trading session. The stock trailed the S&P 500, which registered a daily gain of 1.66%. Elsewhere, the Dow saw an upswing of 1.19%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq appreciated by 2.78%.
The stock of company has risen by 16.75% in the past month, leading the Business Services sector's gain of 2.72% and the S&P 500's loss of 1.49%.
The investment community will be paying close attention to the earnings performance of Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. in its upcoming release. The company is slated to reveal its earnings on August 5, 2026. In that report, analysts expect Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. to post earnings of $0.03 per share. This would mark a year-over-year decline of 91.89%. In the meantime, our current consensus estimate forecasts the revenue to be $3.68 billion, indicating a 1.74% decline compared to the corresponding quarter of the prior year.
Looking at the full year, the Zacks Consensus Estimates suggest analysts are expecting earnings of $1.9 per share and revenue of $14.76 billion. These totals would mark changes of +30.14% and -2.19%, respectively, from last year.
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In terms of valuation, Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. is presently being traded at a Forward P/E ratio of 7.37. This valuation marks a discount compared to its industry average Forward P/E of 16.25.
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MarketBeat Week in Review – 02/17 - 02/21Kyndryl NYSE: KD shareholders approved all four proposals at the company’s 2026 annual meeting, including the election of six director nominees, an advisory vote on executive compensation, an amended and restated long-term performance plan, and the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers as independent auditor for fiscal 2027.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Martin Schroeter said preliminary voting results showed that each director nominee was elected for a one-year term. Shareholders also approved the company’s executive-compensation proposal and the amended and restated Kyndryl 2021 Long-Term Performance Plan. The company’s ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers as its independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2027, also passed.
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Kyndryl Soars on AI, Cybersecurity Growth—What’s Next?Kyndryl said 220.5 million common shares were outstanding and eligible to vote as of the June 3 record date. A quorum was present at the virtual meeting, according to the company’s inspector of election.
Executive compensation vote Schroeter addressed shareholder questions concerning executive compensation, the company’s stock price and financial performance before the votes were tabulated. He said Kyndryl’s compensation structure is intended to be pay-for-performance, with approximately 60% of target compensation for named executive officers tied to performance measures.
MarketBeat Week in Review – 9/25 - 9/29Between 70% and 95% of compensation for named executives is variable and at risk, he said. The Compensation and Human Capital Committee established fiscal 2026 targets at the beginning of the year, with input from an independent compensation consultant, and did not revise them during the year.
The committee set an adjusted EBITDA target more than 9% above the company’s fiscal 2025 result, Schroeter said. Although adjusted EBITDA increased year over year in fiscal 2026, annual bonuses were paid at 69% of target, down from 118% in the prior year. He said no discretionary adjustments were made.
Schroeter also said the realizable value of equity awards granted to named executive officers had fallen substantially from their original grant values, reflecting company performance and stock-price movement during the year.
Strategy focused on higher-value services and AI In his company report following the formal meeting, Schroeter characterized fiscal 2026 as a year of continued progress, highlighting Kyndryl’s “three As” strategy: Alliances, Advanced Delivery and Accounts.
The company is continuing to invest in Kyndryl Consult, its technology-alliance partnerships and artificial-intelligence capabilities. Schroeter said Kyndryl Consult delivered another year of strong revenue growth as organizations sought advisory, modernization and implementation services.
Kyndryl’s expanding alliances ecosystem is intended to help customers advance cloud, data and AI initiatives, he said. The company is also using its AI-powered Kyndryl Bridge platform and emerging agentic AI capabilities to help customers modernize IT infrastructure, improve resiliency and scale AI deployments.
Schroeter said enterprises face a modernization challenge because many technology environments were not designed for AI demands, heightened cybersecurity requirements or increasingly complex operations. He said Kyndryl’s ability to operate and modernize mission-critical systems simultaneously, while maintaining continuity and reducing operational risk, positions the company to support enterprise transformation.
Kyndryl Bridge provides visibility, operational intelligence and governance across complex technology estates, Schroeter said. Combined with Kyndryl’s engineering expertise and technology alliances, the platform is intended to continuously modernize IT environments and prepare them for AI at scale.
Leadership changes and control remediation Schroeter said Andrew Bonzani joined Kyndryl as general counsel and secretary on July 6. Ellen Johnson is scheduled to assume the chief financial officer role on Aug. 6, following the filing of the company’s first-quarter earnings and Form 10-Q.
He thanked interim CFO Harsh Chugh and interim General Counsel Mark Ringes for leading the finance and legal organizations during the transition. Schroeter said Bonzani and Johnson bring experience in financial discipline, operational excellence and governance at global public companies.
The company is also taking actions to enhance its controls and execute its material-weakness remediation plan. Schroeter said Kyndryl is aiming to remediate its previously disclosed material weaknesses as of March 31, 2027.
Schroeter said the IT-services sector, including Kyndryl, has faced pressure over the past year as AI has created both opportunities and uncertainty across technology markets. He said Kyndryl views AI as a growth opportunity, citing its experience managing complex IT estates, investments in Kyndryl Bridge and relationships with hyperscalers and other technology companies.
“Ultimately, our focus remains on disciplined execution, delivering for our customers, and building sustainable long-term value for our shareholders,” Schroeter said.
About Kyndryl (NYSE:KD)Kyndryl NYSE: KD is a global managed infrastructure services provider formed in November 2021 through the spin-off of IBM's Managed Infrastructure Services business. The company designs, builds, manages and modernizes critical information technology systems for enterprises worldwide. Kyndryl's core offerings include cloud migration and management, network and edge computing solutions, digital workplace services and IT resiliency and security capabilities.
With a workforce of approximately 90,000 professionals and operations in more than 60 countries, Kyndryl serves clients across a broad range of industries, including financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, manufacturing and retail.
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Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. (KD - Free Report) closed at $11.65 in the latest trading session, marking a -4.43% move from the prior day. The stock's performance was behind the S&P 500's daily loss of 0.14%. On the other hand, the Dow registered a loss of 0.01%, and the technology-centric Nasdaq decreased by 0.57%.
Shares of the company have appreciated by 9.52% over the course of the past month, outperforming the Business Services sector's gain of 4.1%, and the S&P 500's gain of 0.25%.
Analysts and investors alike will be keeping a close eye on the performance of Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. in its upcoming earnings disclosure. The company's earnings report is set to go public on August 5, 2026. It is anticipated that the company will report an EPS of $0.03, marking a 91.89% fall compared to the same quarter of the previous year. Our most recent consensus estimate is calling for quarterly revenue of $3.68 billion, down 1.74% from the year-ago period.
For the full year, the Zacks Consensus Estimates are projecting earnings of $1.9 per share and revenue of $14.76 billion, which would represent changes of +30.14% and -2.19%, respectively, from the prior year.
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In terms of valuation, Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. is currently trading at a Forward P/E ratio of 6.42. Its industry sports an average Forward P/E of 16.41, so one might conclude that Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. is trading at a discount comparatively.
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Collaboration drives better coordination, visibility and continuity of care for individuals reentering the community
, /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, today announced its role in supporting a growing, multi-county initiative in Arizona focused on reducing recidivism by helping formerly incarcerated individuals successfully reintegrate into mainstream society. The aim is to improve long‑term public safety and create healthier, more stable communities.
Yavapai County serves as the flagship implementation, having deployed a modern, multi-jurisdiction re-entry platform with support from Kyndryl Consult. Systems in Mohave and Navajo counties are expected to go live in the coming months. Pinal and Coconino counties have also committed to the initiative, reflecting growing interest in a more integrated, statewide approach.
"Strengthening re-entry services requires close coordination across justice, health and community partners," said Beya Thayer, executive director behavioral health services & the Yavapai Justice & Mental Health Coalition, Yavapai County Sheriff's Office. "Kyndryl's advisory and technology consulting expertise helped us design workflows that better support people returning to the community, and their delivery team worked alongside us to put those plans into practice. That combination helps us manage services more effectively to connect to the right support at the right time."
"We are proud to support Arizona counties in strengthening this critical part of their public safety and community health systems," said Anita Mikus, managing director of U.S. state and local government, Kyndryl. "This work is about people — making sure individuals returning to the community have a clearer path to the services and support they need to rebuild their lives. By helping connect systems and simplify how agencies work together, we can make that support more accessible, more timely and more effective."
Across participating counties, Kyndryl is supporting the design and deployment of solutions that help centralize and automate key re-entry processes — including intake screenings, referrals, document sharing and outcome tracking. These solutions help re-entry coordinators and agency partners to identify individuals with greater support needs earlier, align efforts with service providers and track results.
The initiative reflects a broader shift by state and local government agencies toward more connected, data-driven approaches to societal re-entry, where closer collaboration among law enforcement, courts, behavioral health providers and community organizations can help improve program effectiveness and long-term outcomes.
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, offering advisory, implementation and managed service capabilities to thousands of customers in more than 60 countries. As the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, the company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex information systems that the world depends on every day. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.
, /PRNewswire/ -- Former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., Esq., a partner at the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF"), announces that KSF has commenced an investigation into Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. ("Kyndryl" or the "Company") (NYSE: KD).
On February 9, 2026, the Company disclosed that it would be unable to timely file its Form 10-Q Report for the quarter ended December 31, 2025 and that "the Company anticipates reporting material weaknesses in the Company's internal control over financial reporting for the period covered in the Quarterly Report, as well as for the full fiscal year ended March 31, 2025, and the first two fiscal quarters of fiscal year 2026, which are expected to include, but may not be limited to, the effectiveness and strength of certain functions at the Company, including with respect to controls related to information and communication and tone at the top," as well as the departure of its C.F.O and General Counsel.
Thereafter, the Company and certain of its executives were sued in a securities class action lawsuit, charging them with failing to disclose material information during the class period in violation of federal securities laws, which remains ongoing.
KSF's investigation is focusing on whether Kyndryl's officers and/or directors breached their fiduciary duties to its shareholders or otherwise violated state or federal laws.
If you have information that would assist KSF in its investigation, or have been a long-term holder of Kyndryl shares and would like to discuss your legal rights, you may, without obligation or cost to you, call toll-free at 1-833-938-0905 or email KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn ([email protected]), or visit https://ksfcounsel.com/cases/nyse-kd-2/ to learn more.
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KSF, whose partners include former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is one of the nation's premier boutique securities litigation law firms. This past year, KSF was ranked by SCAS among the top 10 firms nationally based upon total settlement value. KSF serves a variety of clients, including public and private institutional investors, and retail investors - in seeking recoveries for investment losses emanating from corporate fraud or malfeasance by publicly traded companies. KSF has offices in New York, Delaware, California, Louisiana, Chicago, and a representative office in Luxembourg.
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