CI&T (CINT) AI Stock Analysis

• Market Cap: $719.18M
• Dividend Yield: N/A
• Average Volume (3M): 131.40K
• Price to Earnings (P/E): 13.3
• Beta (1Y): 0.96
• Revenue Growth: 8.33%
• EPS Growth: 59.54%
• Country: US
• Employees: 6,907
• Sector: Technology
• Sector Strength: 88
• Industry: Software - Infrastructure
• EPS (TTM): 0.14
• Shares Outstanding: 19,039,890
• 10 Day Avg. Volume: 109,647
• 30 Day Avg. Volume: 131,397
• PEG Ratio: 0.30
• Price to Book (P/B): 1.74
• Price to Sales (P/S): 1.10
• P/FCF Ratio: 11.76
• Enterprise Value/Market Cap: 5.83
• Enterprise Value/Revenue: 2.56
• Enterprise Value/Gross Profit: 8.25
• Enterprise Value/Ebitda: 15.80
• 1Y Price Target: $7.42
• Price Target Upside: 33.94% Upside
• Rating Consensus: Strong Buy
• Number of Analyst Covering: 5
• EPS Forecast (FY): 2.17
• Revenue Forecast (FY): $2.89B

• Rating: 72 Outperform
• Price Target: $6.00 ▲(8.30% Upside)
• Action: Upgraded Date: 03/13/26
• Date: Action: Upgraded 03/13/26

The score is driven primarily by solid financial performance (healthy margins, improving leverage, and stronger 2025 free cash flow) and a positive earnings outlook with double-digit growth and mid-to-high teens EBITDA margin guidance. Technicals are supportive but somewhat extended and still below the 200-day trend, while valuation is moderately attractive on P/E but lacks dividend support.

Positive Factors

Sustained organic growth and larger pipeline

Consistent quarters of double-digit organic growth and a pipeline ~30% larger YoY point to durable commercial momentum and expanding account penetration. This underpins predictable demand for services, supports multi-quarter revenue visibility and reduces reliance on one-off projects over a 2–6 month horizon.

Improving profitability and margin resilience

Sustained mid-to-high teens EBITDA margins, backed by operating leverage in delivery and guidance of 17%–19% for 2026, indicate structural profitability. This margin profile enables reinvestment in platform and talent while maintaining cash generation, supporting durable earnings quality over multiple quarters.

Strong operating cash flow and free cash flow

Large 2025 operating and free cash flows show the business converts profit into cash at scale, providing financial flexibility to fund Flow platform investments, hiring, and M&A without heavy external financing. Robust cash generation enhances balance sheet durability and investment capacity for midterm growth.

Negative Factors

Revenue jump raises sustainability questions

A pronounced 2025 revenue step-up creates uncertainty about the persistence of that growth rate. If driven by timing, a large client, or one-off factors, comparability and future organic growth could moderate, making near-term revenue visibility and medium-term modeling less reliable for investors and management planning.

FX exposure and Brazil payroll-tax headwinds

Significant revenue coming from Latin America combined with resumed Brazil payroll taxes and currency swings creates structural margin variability. Management's guidance assumes a favorable FX tailwind, so adverse moves or tax volatility could materially compress margins and cash flow predictability across quarters.

Client concentration risk

Substantial revenue tied to a small set of large accounts where each top-10 client generates >$10M raises single-account risk. Slower growth from the largest client or contract churn could disproportionately affect reported growth and utilization, increasing revenue volatility and pressure on margins over the medium term.

CI&T Business Overview & Revenue Model

Company Description

CI&T Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides strategy, design, and software engineering services to enable digital transformation for enterprises worldwide. It develops customizable software through the implementation of software solutions, including machine learning, artificial intelligence, analytics, and cloud and mobility technologies. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Campinas, Brazil.

How the Company Makes Money

CI&T primarily makes money by providing outsourced, project-based and ongoing digital delivery services to enterprise clients. Revenue is generated mainly from: (1) Professional services engagements where CI&T teams deliver work such as digital product design, custom software development, platform modernization, cloud migration, data engineering/analytics, and quality engineering; these are commonly billed on time-and-materials (e.g., hourly/daily rates by role), dedicated team/managed capacity, or fixed-scope/fixed-price arrangements depending on the contract. (2) Longer-term managed services/continuous improvement arrangements in which CI&T supports and evolves client digital platforms and products after initial build, typically billed as recurring fees for a dedicated team, service levels, or ongoing delivery capacity. (3) In some cases, CI&T may participate in outcome-based or value-based commercial models (e.g., tied to delivery milestones or performance measures); if not disclosed for a specific client, this remains null. Key factors supporting earnings include multi-year relationships with large enterprises, expansion within existing accounts (adding products, geographies, or capabilities like cloud/data/AI), and partnerships with major technology platforms and cloud providers used to implement client solutions; specific partner names or revenue contributions are null if not publicly detailed here.

CI&T Financial Statement Overview

Summary

Solid profitability with improving net margin and better leverage trends, plus much stronger 2025 operating and free cash flow. Offsetting this are cross-period volatility (notably the sharp 2025 revenue jump) and uneven cash conversion over time, which reduce confidence in stability and repeatability.

Income Statement

Profitability is solid and fairly consistent: 2025 annual gross margin ~29%, EBIT margin ~13%, and EBITDA margin ~17%. Net margin improved versus 2023–2024 (about 8% in 2025 vs ~6–7%), supporting healthier bottom-line performance. The main concern is volatility in the revenue path—2025 shows an unusually large revenue jump versus prior years, which raises questions about sustainability and comparability, even though operating profitability held up.

Balance Sheet

Leverage looks manageable and improving: debt-to-equity moved down to ~0.42 in 2025 from ~0.53 in 2024 and ~0.55 in 2023, and equity remains sizeable versus total assets. Returns on equity have also improved to ~13% in 2025 from ~9–11% in 2023–2024, signaling better earnings power on the capital base. The key weakness is that leverage was materially higher in earlier periods (around ~0.80 in 2021–2022), indicating the capital structure has been less conservative historically.

Cash Flow

Cash generation is positive, with 2025 annual operating cash flow (~332M) and free cash flow (~251M) both meaningfully higher than prior years, and free cash flow running at ~76% of net income (reasonable conversion). However, cash flow conversion has been inconsistent over time—operating cash flow relative to net income was weak in 2023 and remains only moderate in 2025 (coverage ratio ~0.41), suggesting working-capital or timing effects that can make cash earnings less predictable.

Breakdown	Dec 2025	Dec 2024	Dec 2023	Dec 2022	Dec 2021
Income Statement
Total Revenue	2.68B	438.96M	2.23B	424.11M	259.17M
Gross Profit	786.88M	150.25M	745.72M	147.81M	91.27M
EBITDA	449.89M	75.33M	386.05M	73.28M	51.76M
Net Income	222.48M	29.49M	132.57M	18.71M	22.60M
Balance Sheet
Total Assets	3.06B	526.42M	2.72B	575.53M	423.88M
Cash, Cash Equivalents and Short-Term Investments	262.15M	56.62M	214.80M	54.05M	167.68M
Total Debt	717.11M	148.23M	772.36M	201.73M	156.21M
Total Liabilities	1.37B	246.29M	1.31B	324.85M	228.42M
Stockholders Equity	1.69B	280.12M	1.41B	250.68M	195.45M
Cash Flow
Free Cash Flow	250.82M	58.41M	54.45M	13.13M	19.76M
Operating Cash Flow	331.69M	68.98M	59.29M	36.09M	24.53M
Investing Cash Flow	-80.87M	-9.94M	13.28M	-82.56M	-279.37M
Financing Cash Flow	-334.70M	-35.97M	-67.27M	100.66M	255.14M

CI&T Technical Analysis

• Technical Analysis Sentiment: Positive
• Last Price: 5.54
• 50DMA: Positive
• 100DMA: Positive
• 200DMA: Positive
• MACD: Negative
• RSI: Neutral
• STOCH: Neutral

Evaluating momentum and price trends is crucial in stock analysis to make informed investment decisions. For CINT, the sentiment is Positive. The current price of 5.54 is above the 20-day moving average (MA) of 5.09, above the 50-day MA of 4.93, and above the 200-day MA of 5.06, indicating a bullish trend. The MACD of 0.17 indicates Negative momentum. The RSI at 67.68 is Neutral, neither overbought nor oversold. The STOCH value of 67.64 is Neutral, not indicating any strong overbought or oversold conditions. Overall, these indicators collectively point to a Positive sentiment for CINT.

CI&T Peers Comparison

Name	Overall Rating	Market Cap	P/E Ratio	ROE	Dividend Yield	Revenue Growth	EPS Growth
CINT	72 Outperform	$719.18M	13.26	14.75%	―	8.33%	59.54%
OSPN	71 Outperform	$392.28M	6.67	29.64%	3.75%	-1.43%	101.80%
CGNT	63 Neutral	$610.60M	-29.82	-2.81%	―	―	―
Sector *	61 Neutral	$37.18B	12.37	-10.20%	1.83%	8.50%	-7.62%
PRTH	58 Neutral	$419.66M	7.81	-43.23%	―	9.51%	―
BLZE	56 Neutral	$221.77M	-10.23	-31.67%	―	15.73%	40.14%
DAVA	50 Neutral	$266.99M	-9.10	-0.48%	―	4.02%	34.45%