Accenture Stock Forecast, Price & News

Accenture's stock was trading at $165.11 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, ACN stock has increased by 43.0% and is now trading at $236.18.
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25 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Accenture in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 7 hold ratings and 17 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy."
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Accenture is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, September 24th 2020.
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Accenture will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, September 24th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Accenture Plc (NYSE:ACN) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, June, 25th. The information technology services provider reported $1.90 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.84 by $0.06. The information technology services provider had revenue of $10.99 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $10.89 billion. Accenture had a return on equity of 31.51% and a net margin of 11.11%. The company's quarterly revenue was down 1.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $1.93 earnings per share.
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Accenture declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, June 25th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, July 16th will be paid a dividend of $0.80 per share on Friday, August 14th. This represents a $3.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.35%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, July 15th.
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Accenture issued an update on its FY20 earnings guidance on Thursday, June, 25th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $7.57-7.70 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $7.58.

25 analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for Accenture's shares. Their forecasts range from $196.00 to $270.00. On average, they expect Accenture's stock price to reach $226.35 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 4.2%.
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Accenture saw a drop in short interest during the month of August. As of August 14th, there was short interest totaling 5,250,000 shares, a drop of 12.9% from the July 30th total of 6,030,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,940,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.7 days. Approximately 0.8% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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Accenture trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "ACN."

Accenture's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (8.89%), BlackRock Inc. (7.22%), FMR LLC (1.51%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.35%), WCM Investment Management LLC (1.17%) and Nuveen Asset Management LLC (0.73%). Company insiders that own Accenture stock include Arun Sarin, Chad T Jerdee, Daniel T London, David Rowland, Ellyn Shook, Gianfranco Casati, James O Etheredge, Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Joel Unruch, Johan Deblaere, John F Walsh, Julie Spellman Sweet, Kathleen R Mcclure, Paula A Price, Pierre Nanterme, Richard Lumb, Richard P Clark and 'T Noordende Alexander M Van.
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ACN stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Vanguard Group Inc., Glenmede Trust Co. NA, Bank of Nova Scotia, Sontag Advisory LLC, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., APG Asset Management N.V., Johnson Investment Counsel Inc., and Pendal Group Ltd. Company insiders that have sold Accenture company stock in the last year include Daniel T London, David Rowland, Ellyn Shook, Gianfranco Casati, James O Etheredge, Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Joel Unruch, Johan Deblaere, John F Walsh, Julie Spellman Sweet, Kathleen R Mcclure, and Richard P Clark.
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ACN stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Nordea Investment Management AB, FMR LLC, WELLCOME TRUST LTD THE as trustee of the WELLCOME TRUST, BlackRock Inc., Neuberger Berman Group LLC, GUARDCAP ASSET MANAGEMENT Ltd, WCM Investment Management LLC, and Bank of New York Mellon Corp.
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Shares of ACN can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of ACN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $236.18.

Accenture has a market capitalization of $150.40 billion and generates $43.22 billion in revenue each year. The information technology services provider earns $4.78 billion in net income (profit) each year or $7.36 on an earnings per share basis. Accenture employs 492,000 workers across the globe.

The official website for Accenture is www.accenture.com.

Accenture's mailing address is 1 GRAND CANAL SQUARE GRAND CANAL HARBOUR, DUBLIN L2, D2. The information technology services provider can be reached via phone at 353-1646-2000 or via email at [email protected]