On Monday, Accenture plc (NYSE: ACN) was 0.17% up from the session before settling in for the closing price of $316.88. A 52-week range for ACN has been $261.68 – $387.51.
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A company in the Technology sector has jumped its sales by 9.59% annually for the last half of the decade. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 3.93%. With a float of $627.19 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $628.27 million.
In an organization with 733000 employees, it is important to assess its efficiency.
Accenture plc (ACN) Insider Updates
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Accenture plc stocks. The insider ownership of Accenture plc is 0.24%, while institutional ownership is 78.02%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Apr 19 ’24, was worth 1,369,733. In this transaction General Counsel/Corp Secretary of this company sold 4,333 shares at a rate of $316.12, taking the stock ownership to the 30,702 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Apr 12 ’24, when Company’s CEO EMEA sold 6,250 for $315.91, making the entire transaction worth $1,974,432. This insider now owns 161,581 shares in total.
Accenture plc (ACN) Performance Highlights and Predictions
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 3.93% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 7.58% during the next five years compared to 11.18% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Accenture plc (NYSE: ACN) Trading Performance Indicators
You can see what Accenture plc (ACN) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 1.26. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 3.09. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 22.68.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 11.03, a number that is poised to hit 3.17 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 13.08 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Accenture plc (ACN)
Let’s dig in a bit further. During the last 5-days, its volume was 2.9 million. That was better than the volume of 2.39 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 23.80%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 6.70.
During the past 100 days, Accenture plc’s (ACN) raw stochastic average was set at 7.37%, which indicates a significant decrease from 21.34% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 18.96% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 24.34% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $354.67, while its 200-day Moving Average is $333.30. However, in the short run, Accenture plc’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $319.15. Second resistance stands at $320.89. The third major resistance level sits at $322.71. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $315.59, it is likely to go to the next support level at $313.77. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $312.03.
Accenture plc (NYSE: ACN) Key Stats
There are 670,737K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 199.57 billion. As of now, sales total 64,112 M while income totals 6,872 M. Its latest quarter income was 15,800 M while its last quarter net income were 1,675 M.
