Accenture plc (ACN) Stock

About Accenture plc

Accenture plc is a global professional services firm that delivers a wide array of strategy, consulting, interactive, technology, and operations services worldwide. Its comprehensive offerings include application services such as agile transformation, DevOps implementation, application modernization, enterprise architecture, software and quality engineering, and data management. It also specializes in intelligent automation, incorporating robotic process automation, natural language processing, and virtual agents, alongside liquid application management and various program, project, and service management solutions. The company provides strategic consulting, focusing on critical data elements, data governance, platform architecture, and enabling product-centric organizations to ensure business adoption and value realization. Accenture supports the digitization of engineering and research & development, designs and develops smart connected products, modernizes product platforms, and facilitates product-as-a-service models. It also offers solutions for production and operations, autonomous robotics systems, digital transformation of capital projects, and digital industrial workforce solutions. Further services encompass data-enabled operating models, technology consulting, and artificial intelligence expertise. Accenture assists with talent and organizational development (human potential), digital commerce, and robust infrastructure services covering hybrid cloud, networking, digital workplace and collaboration, service and experience management, infrastructure as code, and managed edge and IoT devices. Its cybersecurity portfolio includes cyber defense, applied and managed security, operational technology (OT) security, security strategy and risk management, and industry-specific security products. The company also drives technology innovation and intelligent automation initiatives. Additionally, Accenture provides cloud solutions, ecosystem development, marketing strategies, supply chain management, zero-based budgeting, customer experience enhancement, finance consulting, mergers and acquisitions support, and sustainability services. Established in 1951, Accenture plc is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Accenture plc is led by CEO Julie T. Spellman Sweet, employs 801,000 people, headquartered in Dublin, US, publicly traded since 2001.

Accenture plc (ACN) stock trades at $173.17 with a market capitalization of $105.97B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 14.79, price-to-book of 3.55, price-to-sales of 1.51. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $118.55 and $307.77, and currently trades 43.7% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 3.61%.

On profitability, Accenture plc generates a return on equity (ROE) of 24.76% — well above the market average, a sign of a high-quality business, return on capital employed of 31.72%, an operating margin of 14.68%, a net profit margin of 10.65%.

In its most recent fiscal year, Accenture plc reported annual revenue of $69.7B, net profit of $7.7B, revenue has compounded at 9.5% a year over the last five years, profit at 8.5% a year.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.27 — a conservative balance sheet with little leverage risk, a current ratio of 1.42, total assets of $65.4B, $11.5B in cash and equivalents.

ACN has an average daily trading volume of 8,486,514 shares, a beta of 1.07.

Official website: www.accenture.com