As on Thursday, Accenture plc (NYSE: ACN) got off with the flyer as it spiked 0.24% to $325.19, before settling in for the price of $324.40 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, ACN posted a 52-week range of $261.68-$387.51.
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The Technology sector firm’s twelve-monthly sales growth has been 9.59% for the last half of the decade. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 11.18%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 3.84%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $628.27 million, simultaneously with a float of $627.18 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $204.46 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $362.08, while the 200-day Moving Average is $333.00.
Accenture plc (ACN) Ownership Facts and Figures
Another important factor to analyze is how key investors are playing towards the stock of the Information Technology Services industry. Accenture plc’s current insider ownership accounts for 0.25%, in contrast to 78.08% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Mar 25 ’24, this organization’s Chief Operating Officer sold 8,000 shares at the rate of 332.13, making the entire transaction reach 2,657,034 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 17,877. Preceding that transaction, on Feb 05 ’24, Company’s Chair and CEO sold 7,361 for 370.35, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 2,726,126. This particular insider is now the holder of 18,713 in total.
Accenture plc (ACN) Earnings and Revenue Records
If we go through the results of last quarter, which was made public on 2/28/2024, the company posted $2.77 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, besting the agreed prediction (set at $2.66) by $0.11. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 2.91 per share during the current fiscal year.
Accenture plc’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 3.84% and is forecasted to reach 13.07 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 7.58% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 11.18% 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 1.26. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 7.33. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $29.48, and its Beta score is 1.19. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 3.17. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 23.24.
In the same vein, ACN’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 11.03, a figure that is expected to reach 3.17 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 13.07 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Accenture plc (ACN)
Through scrutinizing the latest numbers posted by the [Accenture plc, ACN], it can be observed that its last 5-days Average volume of 2.58 million was better the volume of 2.32 million, it posted the year before. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 13.04% While, its Average True Range was 7.03.
Raw Stochastic average of Accenture plc (ACN) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 3.00%, which indicates a major fall in contrast to 7.09% 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 21.72% that was lower than 23.94% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
