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Accenture plc

Technology · Information Technology Services · Ireland

$187.03
+0.94% today
Mkt Cap
$114.45B
P/E
14.94×
Fwd P/E
12.75×
Div Yield
3.49%
Beta
1.07×
52W Range
39.8%
Company profileSource: provider

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
By the numbersComputed from live metrics

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).

AI analysisAI-generated · 04 Jul 2026 · claude-opus (research)

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.

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Financials & metrics

as of 28 Aug 2026
52-week rangeMid-range · 40%
Low $118.15Now $187.03High $291.09

Price is around the middle of its range. Green = nearer the yearly low, red = nearer the high — a position indicator, not a buy/sell signal.

Valuation
Profitability
Growth
Financial Health
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Cash Flow
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Profit & loss · annual (USD)latest net margin 11.0%
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Valuation history is being recorded

We snapshot P/E and price targets daily. This chart fills in over the coming days.

Full financial statements

Income statement

Line item20252024202320222021
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 item20252024202320222021
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 item20252024202320222021
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

Reported figures from public filings via Yahoo Finance. Line coverage varies by company. Not investment advice.

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Dividends

Dividend Yield
3.49%
Annual Rate
$6.52
Payout Ratio
50.9%
Frequency
Semi-annual
Latest ex-date
09 Jul 2026
Pay date
14 Aug 2026
Most recent
$1.63
Dividend history · per payment (USD)
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Analyst assessment

as of 28 Aug 2026
Buy25 analysts
Implied to mean target
-4.2%
Low $130.00High $275.00
Now
$187.03
Low
$130.00
Mean
$179.11
High
$275.00
Rating distribution
Strong Buy 3
Buy 11
Hold 13
Sell 0
Strong Sell 0

Aggregate consensus only. Named per-analyst targets require a premium source and are not shown; the data model is ready to hold them if one is added.

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Technicals

as of 28 Aug 2026
CloseSMA 50SMA 200Death cross
SMA 50
$155.41
SMA 200
$204.27
RSI (14)
65.1
MACD
8.27
RSI (14) · overbought > 70 · oversold < 30
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