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EPAM·EPAM Systems, Inc.

$157.28
-8.42 (-5.08%)
High
$165.70
Open
$160.09
Market Cap
7.09B
52W High
$222.53
Low
$155.10
P. Close
$157.28
P/E
17.64
52W Low
$73.05
Fwd P/E
11.82
DailyIQ Est.
$137.20
Inst. Own.
-
Short Interest
14.28%
Days to Cover
7.5
NewEarnings release, scored · filed Nov 4, 2026tone -4.7 vs prior release · 70 lines scoredSee the breakdown
Technical Score (1D)
11
BEARISH
News Sentiment
69
BULLISH
On Nov 6, Wedbush Research raised its price target for EPAM Systems to $160 from $99 while keeping a neutral rating, citing a strong client pipeline and strategic investments in emerging technologies as reasons for the upgrade. On the same day, ChartMill described EPAM as a decent value play, noting its low valuation multiples, robust balance sheet and positive growth outlook, but warned that margin pressures and future forecasts could temper upside potential. On Nov 5, EPAM reported third‑quarter 2026 revenue of $1.43 billion, up 2.3 % year‑over‑year and slightly above the $1.42 billion consensus estimate, while earnings per share rose to $3.51, exceeding the $3.41 consensus by 2.93 %. That day, the company also announced a $1.8 billion share repurchase program, signaling confidence in its long‑term valuation and a commitment to returning capital to shareholders. In its earnings call transcript, EPAM reiterated its fiscal guidance, highlighted continued investment in cloud and AI services, and noted that no material changes to its financial outlook were announced. The company also raised its full‑year AI‑native revenue guidance to at least $650 million from $600 million, reflecting accelerating momentum in AI platform engagements.
LOW TARGET
$99 -37.0%
2 analysts
MEAN TARGET
$131 -16.6%
13 analysts
HIGH TARGET
$200 +27.2%
13 analysts
PRICE RANGE
$99.00 - $200.00
SB / B / H / S / SS
5/10/11/1/1
DAILYIQ EST.
$137.20 (-12.8%)
Sector
Technology
Industry
Information Technology Services
Exchange
NYQ
Country
United States
Website
Symbol
EPAM
Description
EPAM Systems, Inc. is a global provider of digital platform engineering and software development services, assisting clients across various industries in their technological transformations. The company's core value lies in its comprehensive suite of offerings, encompassing cloud services, data analytics, customer experience design, and cybersecurity solutions. EPAM's engineering expertise supports clients from initial requirements gathering through implementation, integration, and ongoing support. Its services are designed to address the evolving needs of sectors such as financial services, consumer goods, and healthcare, enabling them to modernize legacy systems and develop innovative software products. Founded in 1993, EPAM is headquartered in Newtown, Pennsylvania, and focuses on helping businesses navigate the complexities of digital innovation.
Bought (1Y)
0 shares
$0
Sold (1Y)
1,085 shares
$118K
Solomon Lawrence FSVP/Chief People Officer
J78.55 shares2026-10-31
Rockwell EdwardSVP/Chief Legal Officer
J78.55 shares2026-10-31
Peterson Jason D.Chief Financial Officer
J78.55 shares2026-10-31
Fejes BalazsCEO, President, Director
J44.836 shares2026-10-31
Dvorkin ViktarChief Deliv Off, EVP, Americas
J78.55 shares2026-10-31
70/ 100
Bullish
Overall: Bullish
✓Revenue growing year over year
✓Positive net margin
✓Positive operating cash flow
Net Margin
6.9%
Revenue CAGR
23.8%
Current Ratio
2.59x
Debt / Equity
0.01x
Return on Equity
10.3%
Earnings Summary
In the most recent two quarters, Q3 2026 and Q4 2026, EPAM reported EPS of $3.51 and $3.26 respectively, both beating analyst estimates of $3.47 and $3.58, while revenue in Q3 2026 reached $1.42643 billion, slightly above the $1.44743 billion estimate, and Q4 2026 revenue of $1.40756 billion exceeded the $1.43546 billion forecast; this marks a consistent pattern of earnings beats and modest revenue growth, with EPS growth accelerating from $2.41 in Q1 2025 to $3.51 in Q3 2026. Historically, EPAM has maintained a YoY revenue growth trajectory of roughly 3–4% over the past three years, with EPS consistently beating estimates in 3 of the last 4 quarters, while revenue has occasionally trailed estimates, indicating a focus on profitability over aggressive top‑line expansion. Recent news highlights EPAM’s updated 2026 guidance, raising non‑GAAP earnings to $13.23–$13.31 and tightening revenue growth to 3.5–3.7% from 3.2–4.2%, reflecting stronger operating performance and a more confident outlook; the guidance revision underscores the company’s continued growth momentum.

EPS

EstBeatMiss
$2.75$2.99$3.22$3.46$3.69Q3'25Q4'25Q1'26Q2'26Q3'26Q4'26
QtrEstActual+/−
Q4'26$3.58 - -
Q3'26$3.47$3.51+1.1%
Q2'26$3.14$3.38+7.6%
Q1'26$3.10$2.86-7.8%
Q4'25$3.22$3.26+1.3%
Q3'25$3.03$3.08+1.7%

Revenue

EstBeatMiss
$1.4B$1.4B$1.4B$1.4B$1.5BQ3'25Q4'25Q1'26Q2'26Q3'26Q4'26
QtrEstActual+/−
Q4'26$1.5B - -
Q3'26$1.4B$1.4B-1.5%
Q2'26$1.4B$1.4B-1.4%
Q1'26$1.4B$1.4B-1.6%
Q4'25$1.4B$1.4B-0.7%
Q3'25 - $1.4B -

Market Data

EPAM Stock Snapshot

BEARISH11/100
$157.28−$8.42 (5.1%)
Market cap
7.09B
P/E ratio
17.6
Day range
$155.10 – $165.70
News sentiment
69/100 · Bullish
Analyst target
$131.24 (-16.6%)
Consensus
Hold · 28 analysts
52-week range+115.3% off low · -29.3% from high
$73.05$222.53
Price $157.28 DailyIQ Est. $137.20

EPAM is on the weaker side of its setup, with little confirmation for a reversal yet. Thinner liquidity means moves can extend past what the fundamentals alone justify.

Reverse DCF

What growth is priced into EPAM?

CHEAP

At today's price, EPAM Systems, Inc. needs to grow free cash flow about -4.9% a year for 3 years, slowing to a long-run rate by year 10, to justify its valuation at a 8.18% cost of capital. Over the last five years its revenue has trended at 7.5% a year, so the market is asking for 12.5 percentage points below its own delivered rate. On that basis EPAM looks priced below what its own growth record supports.

Implied FCF growth
-4.9%
Growth trend
7.5%
Growth gap
-12.5 pts
Verdict
CHEAP
Discount rate (WACC)
8.18%
Beta
0.78

Behaviour On Record

What EPAM's own history says about today's numbers

Realized volatility (21d)
58.7% 88th pct
Below its peak
-78.6%
vs 200-day average
+27.0%
Up days (1y)
47%

EPAM Systems, Inc. is currently running 58.7% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against EPAM's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 88th percentile — elevated for this stock, against a typical reading of 31.5%.

EPAM is trading -78.6% below its running peak. Across 13 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -32.3%, and the deepest was -73.4% in 2022. The current drawdown is already deeper than this stock's typical annual low point, which puts it in the part of its range where past recoveries began, and where past declines also continued.

Price sits +27.0% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 87th percentile — a wider gap than this stock usually carries. Over the past year EPAM closed higher on 47% of sessions, and it is currently 1 session into a rising streak.

On November specifically: over 13 years of records, EPAM finished the month higher 11 of 13 times, with a median return of +4.1% and an average of +8.1%. Its strongest month historically has been November at +8.1% on average, its weakest February at -4.8%.

Overnight risk is measurable too: EPAM has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 201 of 3,268 sessions (6.2% of the time), with the largest gaps running +10.0% and -12.6%.

Across the last 3 dated reports on file, EPAM moved an average of 2.0% in the session after earnings, closing higher 1 of those 3 times, with a median move of -1.0% and a largest of -3.8%.

All figures computed from 3,269 daily closes between 2013-11-06 and 2026-11-05, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against EPAM's own 13-year history, not a peer group or index.

Sector Rotation

Is money rotating into or out of EPAM's sector?

EPAM Systems, Inc. sits in the Software sector, currently ranked 11th of 12 GICS sectors by relative-strength rotation score (lagging).

Sector rank
#11 of 12
Sector state
Lagging
Sector rotation score
18

Options Market

What is the options market pricing for EPAM?

CallsPuts

For EPAM Systems, Inc.'s nearest expiry (2026-11-20, 14 days out), open interest is call-heavy, a bullish tilt (put/call ratio of 0.20), with at-the-money implied volatility around 0.8%. The options market is pricing roughly a ±0.2% move by that expiry — a range of about $158.38–$158.86.

Put/call ratio (2026-11-20)
0.20
ATM implied volatility
0.8%
Total open interest
2,281
Expected move by 2026-11-20
±0.2% ($158.38–$158.86)

Analyst Consensus Estimates

What do analysts expect EPAM to earn?

Analysts expect EPAM Systems, Inc. to earn $13.16 per share in the fiscal year ending Dec 2026 and $12.16 in the fiscal year ending Dec 2028, from 4 estimates. These are analyst forecasts, not company guidance, and later years rest on fewer analysts.

Quarter endingEPS estimateEPS rangeEPS analystsRevenue estimateRevenue analysts
Sep 2026$3.41$3.27 to $3.4417$1.42B17
Dec 2026$3.52$3.46 to $3.6317$1.42B17
Mar 2027$2.42$2.13 to $2.666~$1.26B-
Jun 2027$2.76$2.69 to $2.816~$1.44B-
Sep 2027$2.95$2.92 to $3.016~$1.54B-
Fiscal year endingEPS estimateEPS rangeEPS analystsRevenue estimateRevenue analysts
Dec 2026$13.16$13.09 to $13.3019$5.66B19
Dec 2027$14.01$13.27 to $14.6918$5.86B18
Dec 2028$12.16$11.90 to $12.434~$6.34B-

Revenue marked ~ is our calculation from the EPS estimate, not analyst consensus.

Analyst Rating Changes

Are analysts turning bullish or bearish on EPAM?

Morgan Stanley most recently reiterated its rating on EPAM Systems, Inc. to Equal-Weight on Nov 4, 2026 with a price target of $140 (from $97). Over the last 90 days, coverage has run 0 upgrades against 1 downgrade, a net bearish lean.

Latest action
Morgan Stanley: Equal-Weight
90-day upgrades
0
90-day downgrades
1
Net rating momentum
-1
DateFirmActionRatingPrice target
Nov 4, 2026Morgan StanleyMaintainedEqual-Weight$97 → $140
Nov 2, 2026GuggenheimMaintainedBuy$140 → $160
Oct 26, 2026CitigroupMaintainedNeutral$100 → $140
Oct 26, 2026Wells FargoMaintainedOverweight$125 → $156
Aug 26, 2026JP MorganDowngradeOverweight → Neutral$120
Aug 10, 2026GuggenheimMaintainedBuy$165 → $140
Aug 7, 2026TD CowenMaintainedBuy$131 → $120
Aug 7, 2026JP MorganMaintainedOverweight$142 → $120
Aug 7, 2026Truist SecuritiesMaintainedHold$112 → $110
Aug 7, 2026SusquehannaMaintainedPositive$167 → $146
Aug 6, 2026NeedhamMaintainedBuy$135 → $120
Aug 6, 2026William BlairDowngradeOutperform → Market Perform-

Earnings Release, Scored

What did EPAM Systems, Inc.'s latest earnings release say?

Filed Nov 4, 2026 · SEC Form 8-K, Exhibit 99

Tone67.3/ 100-4.7 vs prior release
Hedging words1.43per 100 words+0.60 vs prior release
Tone, last 3 releasesScale 50–78

Most important lines

  1. 1

    Increased share repurchase authorization by $1.5 billion, bringing the total remaining authorization to $1.8 billion, and plans to enter a $500 million accelerated share repurchase next week

    New this quarter
  2. 2

    In support of this three-year capital return commitment and the Q4 ASR, the Board of Directors approved up to $1.5 billion 1 in incremental repurchase authorization.

    New this quarter
  3. 3

    As a percentage of revenues, GAAP income from operations increased to 12.3% from 10.4% in the third quarter of 2025;

    New this quarter

Peers & ETF holders

EPAM peers & ETF holders

News & sentiment

What is the news saying about EPAM?

EPAM rose 43.9% over the month to Nov 6. News tone held between 4 and 75 from Oct 9 to Oct 29, then jumped to 100 on Oct 30.

Daily close and news tone, Oct 6 to Nov 6
$125$150Oct 6Oct 7Oct 8Oct 9: tone 57Oct 12: tone 70Oct 13Oct 14Oct 15: tone 71Oct 16Oct 19Oct 20: tone 4Oct 21Oct 22: tone 42Oct 23: tone 67Oct 26: tone 75Oct 27: tone 57Oct 28: tone 50Oct 29: tone 27Oct 30: tone 100Nov 2: tone 75Nov 3: tone 32Nov 4: tone 67Nov 5: tone 68Nov 6: tone 69Oct 6News toneNov 6123
  1. Oct 15 +6.7%
  2. Oct 30 +8.1%
  3. Nov 5 +20.6%same day: EPAM Reports Results for Third Quarter 2026

Technical analysis

How strong is EPAM's momentum right now?

On the daily chart EPAM ranks at the 11th percentile for momentum against 1,060 stocks and ETFs, a bearish reading.

Momentum rank by timeframe0 = weakest, 100 = strongest
See what drives the rankThe inputs behind each timeframe's momentum rank, plus RSI, stochastics, Bollinger Bands and moving averages. Free with an account.

Institutional ownership

Are big funds buying or selling EPAM?

57 of the 157 tracked managers added to EPAM in their latest 13F and 94 trimmed. Together they own 104.7% of the company, worth $3.8B. BlackRock and Ameriprise Financial alone hold 26.8%.

57adding94trimming6unchanged
Largest holders by stake, latest 13FBar = share of EPAM
  1. $526.7M positionAdded 62.3% last quarter
  2. $434.0M positionAdded 44.3% last quarter
  3. $382.9M positionTrimmed 29.5% last quarter
  4. $275.1M positionAdded 17.2% last quarter
  5. $191.3M positionTrimmed 44.9% last quarter
  6. $180.6M positionTrimmed 34.3% last quarter
  7. $155.2M positionTrimmed 12.4% last quarter
  8. $124.5M positionAdded 1.5M shares last quarter
  9. $150.4M positionTrimmed 15.8% last quarter
  10. $99.1M positionAdded 11.7% last quarter
Full holdings history

Congressional trading

Is Congress trading EPAM?

3 members of Congress disclosed 7 EPAM trades between Feb 24, 2025 and Apr 14, 2026: 3 buys and 4 sells, about $129.5K in estimated value.

BuysSellsAprJulOctJan ’26Apr
BuySell$1K–$15K$15K–$50K$50K–$100K$100K–$250K

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How has EPAM done against its peers?

Over the six months to Nov 6, EPAM returned +46.2%. Of the 15 related stocks, 1 did better, led by ACN at +48.8%.

Change since May 6, through Nov 6
−50%−25%0%+25%+50%+75%May 6JunJulAugSepOctNov 6ACN +48.8%EPAM +46.2%FIS −38.0%