Witnessing the stock’s movement on the chart, on March 15, 2023, Accenture plc (NYSE: ACN) had a quiet start as it plunged -2.50% to $246.17. During the day, the stock rose to $247.97 and sunk to $242.80 before settling in for the price of $252.48 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, ACN posted a 52-week range of $242.95-$345.30.
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It was noted that the giant of the Technology sector posted annual sales growth of 11.20% over the last 5 years. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 14.50%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 17.00%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $658.39 million, simultaneously with a float of $657.39 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $166.44 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $273.89, while the 200-day Moving Average is $281.46.
It is quite fundamental to gauge the extent of the productivity of the business which is accounted for 721000 workers. For the Profitability, stocks gross margin was +32.14, operating margin was +15.36 and Pretax Margin of +14.93.
Accenture plc (ACN) Ownership Facts and Figures
Nothing is more important than checking the behaviour of major investors towards the stock of the Information Technology Services industry. Accenture plc’s current insider ownership accounts for 0.10%, in contrast to 75.40% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Feb 03, this organization’s Chair & CEO sold 6,511 shares at the rate of 288.31, making the entire transaction reach 1,877,175 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 26,920. Preceding that transaction, on Feb 03, Company’s Chief Operating Officer sold 1,874 for 287.20, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 538,206. This particular insider is now the holder of 2,980 in total.
Accenture plc (ACN) Earnings and Revenue Records
As on 11/29/2022, Multinational firm has announced its last quarter scores, in which it reported $3.08 earnings per share (EPS) for the period topping the consensus outlook (set at $2.91) by $0.17. This company achieved a net margin of +11.17 while generating a return on equity of 33.04. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 3.08 per share during the current fiscal year.
Accenture plc’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 17.00% and is forecasted to reach 12.62 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 9.02% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 14.50% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.
Accenture plc (NYSE: ACN) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Accenture plc (ACN). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 1.30. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 6.26. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $22.35, and its Beta score is 1.24. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 2.67. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 26.32.
In the same vein, ACN’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 11.01, a figure that is expected to reach 3.08 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 12.62 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Accenture plc (ACN)
Going through the that latest performance of [Accenture plc, ACN]. Its last 5-days volume of 3.11 million indicated improvement to the volume of 2.13 million it revealed a year ago. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 11.61% While, its Average True Range was 6.35.
Raw Stochastic average of Accenture plc (ACN) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 5.41%, which indicates a major fall in contrast to 11.52% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 18.49% that was lower than 31.95% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.