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SP100NYSEAccenture plc
Technology · Information Technology Services · Ireland
Accenture plc provides strategy and consulting, industry X, song, and technology and operation services in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It offers systems integration and application management; security; intelligent platform; infrastructure; software engineering; data, AI, cloud; and automation and global delivery services. The company also operates business processes for specific enterprise functions, including finance and accounting, sourcing and procurement, supply chain, marketing and sales, and human resources, as well as industry-specific services, such as platform trust and safety, banking, insurance, network and health services; and designs, manufactures, and assembles automation equipment, robotics, and other commercial hardware products. It serves communications, media, and technology; financial services; banking and capital markets, and insurance; health and public service; consumer goods, retail, travel services; industrial; life science; and chemicals, natural resources, energy, and utilities sectors. Accenture plc has collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver transformative digital services to public sector, defense, and national security organizations. It has a collaboration with OpenAI to help enterprise clients unlock new levels of innovation and growth by bringing agentic AI systems; has a strategic collaboration with Microsoft and Avanade for the development of an agentic factory intelligence system; and INFRONEER Holdings Inc. and SAP Japan Co., Ltd. to develop a new financial data and insights platform. It also has strategic partnership with Netomi, Inc. to help enterprises reinvent customer experience using agentic AI systems. Accenture plc was founded in 1951 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.
www.accenture.com ↗Shares trade at a low 11.0× trailing earnings, easing to 9.4× on forward estimates. Profitability shows a net margin of 10.7% and return on equity of 24.4%. Leverage is modest at -0.1× net debt/EBITDA. Revenue grew 5.6% year-on-year. It yields 4.7% in dividends. The mean analyst target of USD179.29 sits 30.5% above the current price (Buy, 25 analysts).
business model
Accenture is a global professional services firm that generates revenue by billing clients for consulting and managed/outsourcing services, largely on a project or contract basis using its workforce of hundreds of thousands of employees. It sells strategy, technology implementation, digital transformation, cloud, data/AI, and operations services.
revenue segments
Reports across services (Consulting and Managed Services) and by industry groups and geographies (North America, EMEA, and Growth Markets/Asia-Pacific). Demand spans communications/media/technology, financial services, health/public service, products, and resources sectors; bookings and backlog are key indicators.
key dependencies
Depends on skilled talent recruitment and retention, wage inflation management, and partnerships with major technology vendors (Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, AWS, Google, ServiceNow, Salesforce) that drive implementation work. Client IT and discretionary spending, tied to the macro cycle, is the primary demand driver.
competitors
Competes with IT services and consulting firms including Deloitte, McKinsey, IBM (and Kyndryl), Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant, Capgemini, and the Big Four advisory arms.
moat
Moat rests on scale, global delivery capacity, deep vendor certifications and alliances, long-standing enterprise client relationships, brand reputation, and a broad services portfolio; switching costs on large multi-year engagements add stickiness.
risks
Risks include sensitivity to client discretionary spending and recessions, wage inflation and utilization pressure, talent attrition, currency exposure, and disruption or margin pressure from generative AI changing how software and services are delivered.
Financials & metrics
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Full financial statements
Income statement
| Line item | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total revenue | $69.67B | $64.90B | $64.11B | $61.59B | — |
| Cost of revenue | $47.44B | $43.73B | $43.38B | $41.89B | — |
| Gross profit | $22.24B | $21.16B | $20.73B | $19.70B | — |
| Operating expense | $11.39B | $11.13B | $10.86B | $10.33B | — |
| Operating income | $10.84B | $10.03B | $9.87B | $9.37B | — |
| Interest expense | $228.56M | $58.97M | $47.52M | $47.32M | — |
| Pretax income | $10.27B | $9.70B | $9.14B | $9.20B | — |
| Tax provision | $2.44B | $2.28B | $2.14B | $2.21B | — |
| Net income | $7.68B | $7.26B | $6.87B | $6.88B | — |
| EBITDA | $11.87B | $10.84B | $10.25B | $10.27B | — |
| Diluted EPS | $12.15 | $11.44 | $10.77 | $10.71 | — |
Balance sheet
| Line item | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | $65.39B | $55.93B | $51.25B | $47.26B | — |
| Current assets | $28.90B | $20.86B | $23.38B | $21.61B | — |
| Cash & equivalents | $11.48B | $5.00B | $9.05B | $7.89B | — |
| Total liabilities | $33.15B | $26.76B | $24.79B | $24.52B | — |
| Current liabilities | $20.35B | $18.98B | $18.01B | $17.52B | — |
| Total debt | $8.18B | $4.12B | $3.15B | $3.33B | — |
| Long-term debt | $5.03B | $78.63M | $43.09M | $45.89M | — |
| Shareholders' equity | $31.20B | $28.29B | $25.69B | $22.11B | — |
| Retained earnings | $21.02B | $23.08B | $19.32B | $18.20B | — |
| Working capital | $8.55B | $1.88B | $5.37B | $4.09B | — |
Cash flow
| Line item | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating cash flow | $11.47B | $9.13B | $9.52B | $9.54B | — |
| Investing cash flow | -$2.02B | -$7.06B | -$2.62B | -$4.26B | — |
| Financing cash flow | -$2.95B | -$6.06B | -$5.65B | -$5.31B | — |
| Capital expenditure | -$600.04M | -$516.51M | -$528.17M | -$718.00M | — |
| Free cash flow | $10.87B | $8.61B | $9.00B | $8.82B | — |
| Dividends paid | -$3.70B | -$3.24B | -$2.83B | -$2.46B | — |
| Share buybacks | -$4.62B | -$4.52B | -$4.33B | -$4.12B | — |
| End cash position | $11.48B | $5.00B | $9.05B | $7.89B | — |
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