A new trading day began on Friday, with Accenture plc (NYSE: ACN) stock price down -1.04% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $241.72. ACN’s price has ranged from $239.82 to $398.35 over the past 52 weeks.
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A company in the Technology sector has jumped its sales by 9.21% annually for the last half of the decade. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged 7.76%. With a float of $621.17 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $622.75 million.
In an organization with 774000 employees, it is important to assess its efficiency. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 32.07%, operating margin of 15.38%, and the pretax margin is 15.37%.
Accenture plc (ACN) Insider Updates
As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Information Technology Services Industry. The insider ownership of Accenture plc is 0.27%, while institutional ownership is 80.23%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Jul 11 ’25, was worth 141,171. In this transaction Chief Executive Officer-EMEA of this company sold 500 shares at a rate of $282.34, taking the stock ownership to the 2,283 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Jul 11 ’25, when Company’s Chair and CEO sold 2,251 for $282.45, making the entire transaction worth $635,789. This insider now owns 8,109 shares in total.
Accenture plc (ACN) Performance Highlights and Predictions
In its latest quarterly report, released on 8/31/2024, the company reported earnings of 2.66 per share, which was $0.1 higher than the consensus estimate of $0.26. In terms of return on equity, this company recorded -19.55% in contrast with 50.0% return on Investment (trailing twelve months). Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 3.74 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 7.76% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 7.71% during the next five years compared to 9.21% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Accenture plc (NYSE: ACN) Trading Performance Indicators
Here are Accenture plc’s current performance indicators. According to the last quarter’s results, the stock had a quick ratio of 1.46. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 2.18. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 14.54.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 12.56, a number that is poised to hit 2.97 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 13.81 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 6.55 million. That was better than the volume of 3.51 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 5.42%.
During the past 100 days, Accenture plc’s (ACN) raw stochastic average was set at 1.32%, which indicates a significant decrease from 2.21% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 6.08 in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 6.40 volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $291.70, while its 200-day Moving Average is $329.03.
