Accenture (ACN)
Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, it offers Strategy and Consulting, Interactive, Technology and Operations services - all powered by the world's largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Its 514,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. It embraces the power of change to create value and shared success for its clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities.

Company profile
Ticker
ACN
Exchange
Website
CEO
Julie Spellman Sweet
Employees
Incorporated
Location
Fiscal year end
Industry (SIC)
Alibaba Group Holding • Visa • EBay • DiDi Global • Uber • PayPal • Nielsen • Fidelity National Information Services • Mastercard • Western Union ...
SEC CIK
Corporate docs
Subsidiaries
Sistemes Consulting S.L. • Accenture SRL • Accenture Service Center SRL • Insitum Consultoría Argentina SRL • Wolox S.A. • Accenture Australia Pty Ltd • Accenture Australia Holdings Pty Ltd • Accenture Cloud Solutions Australia Pty Ltd • Accenture Cloud Solutions Pty Ltd • Accenture Consulting Pty Ltd ...
IRS number
980627530
ACN stock data
News
Accenture Filed U.S. Trademark Application for 'ACCENTURE SONG' to Include: 'Business marketing consulting services; business and marketing consulting services provided in the fields of design, development, and commercialization of digital platforms, social media, chatbots, and the metaverse'
11 May 22
8 Stocks Moved By Traders On 'Fast Money: Halftime Report'
10 May 22
Why Cramer Recommends Buying Marvell Technology
5 May 22
Accenture, SAP Highlight Launch Of Joint Offering To Help Large Enterprises Move To Cloud
3 May 22
Accenture Acquires Ergo To 'To Expand Data & AI Capabilities And Accelerate Data-Led Transformation On The Cloud;' Terms Not Disclosed
21 Apr 22
Press releases
Accenture Named a Leader in European Professional Services for Data-Driven Personal Transportation
17 May 22
Accenture Positioned as a Leader in IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Cloud Professional Services 2022
17 May 22
Accenture Federal Services Wins $175 Million NASA Contract to Scale Innovative Crowdsourcing Capabilities
11 May 22
Red Hat and Accenture Expand Alliance to Accelerate Hybrid Cloud Innovation
9 May 22
DiCello Levitt Gutzler: Federal Judge Rules Massive Marriott Data Breach Class Action May Proceed
5 May 22
Analyst ratings and price targets
Current price
Average target
$409.40
Low target
$368.00
High target
$480.00
Morgan Stanley
Maintains
$480.00
Baird
Maintains
$378.00
RBC Capital
Maintains
$435.00
Piper Sandler
Maintains
$368.00
Goldman Sachs
Maintains
$386.00
Investment data
1 long holdings End of quarter 31 Mar 22 |
Value |
#Shares |
Prev Q |
Change %, QoQ |
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$466.1M | 21.07M | 21.07M | 0 | |
103.68K | EXIT |
Holdings list only includes long positions.
Only includes long positions.
Calendar
17 Mar 22
17 May 22
31 Aug 22
Financial summary
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Cash burn rate (est.) | Burn method: Change in cash | Burn method: Operating income | Burn method: FCF (opex + capex) | Last Q | Avg 4Q | Last Q | Avg 4Q | Last Q | Avg 4Q |
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Cash on hand (at last report) | 5.47B | 5.47B | 5.47B | 5.47B | 5.47B | 5.47B |
Cash burn (monthly) | 57M | 308.37M | (no burn) | (no burn) | (no burn) | (no burn) |
Cash used (since last report) | 151.41M | 819.11M | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Cash remaining | 5.31B | 4.65B | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Runway (months of cash) | 93.2 | 15.1 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Recent insider trades
Date | Owner | Security | Transaction | Code | Indirect | 10b5-1 | $Price | #Shares | $Value | #Remaining |
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13 May 22 | James O Etheredge | Class A ordinary shares | Grant | Acquire A | No | No | 0 | 11 | 0 | 3,195 |
13 May 22 | Richard P Clark | Class A ordinary shares | Grant | Acquire A | No | No | 0 | 27 | 0 | 7,725 |
13 May 22 | Ardila Jaime | Class A ordinary shares | Grant | Acquire A | No | No | 0 | 3 | 0 | 13,641 |
13 May 22 | Beth E Mooney | Class A ordinary shares | Grant | Acquire A | No | No | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1,257 |
13 May 22 | McKinstry Nancy | Class A ordinary shares | Grant | Acquire A | No | No | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5,780 |
Institutional ownership, Q4 2021
71.0% owned by funds/institutions
13F holders | Current |
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Total holders | 1991 |
Opened positions | 282 |
Closed positions | 124 |
Increased positions | 725 |
Reduced positions | 717 |
13F shares | Current |
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Total value | 194.15B |
Total shares | 470.55M |
Total puts | 3.72M |
Total calls | 2.72M |
Total put/call ratio | 1.4 |
Largest owners | Shares | Value |
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Vanguard | 56.2M | $23.3B |
BLK Blackrock | 46.22M | $19.16B |
STT State Street | 26.12M | $10.83B |
Massachusetts Financial Services | 17.61M | $7.3B |
FMR | 14.09M | $5.84B |
Wellington Management | 11.14M | $4.62B |
Geode Capital Management | 10.72M | $4.43B |
MS Morgan Stanley | 10.21M | $4.23B |
Capital Research Global Investors | 9.84M | $4.08B |
NTRS Northern Trust | 9.14M | $3.79B |
Financial report summary
?Competition
International Business Machines • Leidos • Ebix • Enveric Biosciences • CMTSU Liquidation • Sykes Enterprises • CynergisTek • TTEC • Maximus • Formula SystemsRisks
- Our results of operations have been, and may in the future be, adversely affected by volatile, negative or uncertain economic and political conditions and the effects of these conditions on our clients’ businesses and levels of business activity.
- Our business depends on generating and maintaining ongoing, profitable client demand for our services and solutions, including through the adaptation and expansion of our services and solutions in response to ongoing changes in technology and offerings, and a significant reduction in such demand or an inability to respond to the evolving technological environment could materially affect our results of operations.
- If we are unable to keep our supply of skills and resources in balance with client demand around the world and attract and retain professionals with strong leadership skills, our business, the utilization rate of our professionals and our results of operations may be materially adversely affected.
- We face legal, reputational and financial risks from any failure to protect client and/or Accenture data from security incidents or cyberattacks.
- The markets in which we operate are highly competitive, and we might not be able to compete effectively.
- Our ability to attract and retain business and employees may depend on our reputation in the marketplace.
- If we do not successfully manage and develop our relationships with key alliance partners or if we fail to anticipate and establish new alliances in new technologies, our results of operations could be adversely affected.
- Our profitability could materially suffer if we are unable to obtain favorable pricing for our services and solutions, if we are unable to remain competitive, if our cost-management strategies are unsuccessful or if we experience delivery inefficiencies or fail to satisfy certain agreed-upon targets or specific service levels.
- Changes in our level of taxes, as well as audits, investigations and tax proceedings, or changes in tax laws or in their interpretation or enforcement, could have a material adverse effect on our effective tax rate, results of operations, cash flows and financial condition.
- Our results of operations could be materially adversely affected by fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates.
- Changes to accounting standards or in the estimates and assumptions we make in connection with the preparation of our consolidated financial statements could adversely affect our financial results.
- We might be unable to access additional capital on favorable terms or at all. If we raise equity capital, it may dilute our shareholders’ ownership interest in us.
- As a result of our geographically diverse operations and our growth strategy to continue to expand in our key markets around the world, we are more susceptible to certain risks.
- If we are unable to manage the organizational challenges associated with our size, we might be unable to achieve our business objectives.
- We might not be successful at acquiring, investing in or integrating businesses, entering into joint ventures or divesting businesses.
- Our business could be materially adversely affected if we incur legal liability.
- Our global operations expose us to numerous and sometimes conflicting legal and regulatory requirements, and violation of these regulations could harm our business.
- Our work with government clients exposes us to additional risks inherent in the government contracting environment.
- If we are unable to protect or enforce our intellectual property rights, or if our services or solutions infringe upon the intellectual property rights of others or we lose our ability to utilize the intellectual property of others, our business could be adversely affected.
- Our results of operations and share price could be adversely affected if we are unable to maintain effective internal controls.
- We are incorporated in Ireland and Irish law differs from the laws in effect in the United States and might afford less protection to our shareholders. We may also be subject to criticism and negative publicity related to our incorporation in Ireland.
Content analysis
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Financial reports
Current reports
8-K
Accenture Reports Very Strong Second-Quarter Results and Raises Revenue and EPS Outlook for Fiscal 2022
17 Mar 22
8-K
Other Events
3 Mar 22
8-K
Other Events
1 Mar 22
8-K
Accenture Names Manish Sharma as Chief Operating Officer; Yusuf Tayob to Become Group Chief Executive—Operations
31 Jan 22
8-K
Departure of Directors or Certain Officers
26 Jan 22
8-K
Accenture Reports Very Strong First-Quarter Results and Raises Business Outlook for Fiscal 2022
16 Dec 21
8-K
Accenture Reports Very Strong Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year Fiscal 2021 Results
23 Sep 21
8-K
Accenture Reports Very Strong Third-Quarter Results and Raises Business Outlook for Fiscal 2021
24 Jun 21
8-K
Departure of Directors or Certain Officers
2 Jun 21
8-K
Accenture Reports Very Strong Second-Quarter Results and Raises Business Outlook
18 Mar 21
Registration and prospectus
S-8
Registration of securities for employees
27 Jan 22
S-8
Registration of securities for employees
31 Jan 20
15-12G
Securities registration termination
12 Mar 18
POSASR
Automatic shelf registration (post-effective amendment)
12 Mar 18
S-8
Registration of securities for employees
7 Feb 18
S-8
Registration of securities for employees
27 Apr 16
S-3ASR
Automatic shelf registration
21 Apr 16
POSASR
Automatic shelf registration (post-effective amendment)
25 Aug 15
S-3ASR
Automatic shelf registration
24 Apr 13
S-8
Registration of securities for employees
24 Apr 13
Proxies
DEFA14A
Additional proxy soliciting materials
9 Dec 21
DEFA14A
Additional proxy soliciting materials
10 Dec 20
DEFA14A
Additional proxy soliciting materials
10 Dec 19
DEFA14A
Additional proxy soliciting materials
15 Jan 19
DEFA14A
Additional proxy soliciting materials
7 Dec 18
DEF 14A
Definitive proxy
7 Dec 18
DEFA14A
Additional proxy soliciting materials
14 Dec 17
Other
UPLOAD
Letter from SEC
28 Feb 17
CORRESP
Correspondence with SEC
5 Feb 17
UPLOAD
Letter from SEC
30 Jan 17
UPLOAD
Letter from SEC
6 Apr 16
CORRESP
Correspondence with SEC
4 Apr 16
CORRESP
Correspondence with SEC
14 Mar 16
UPLOAD
Letter from SEC
7 Mar 16
UPLOAD
Letter from SEC
10 Dec 15
CORRESP
Correspondence with SEC
9 Dec 15
UPLOAD
Letter from SEC
7 Dec 15
Ownership
4
Accenture / Joel Unruch ownership change
17 May 22
4
Accenture / TRACEY THOMAS TRAVIS ownership change
17 May 22
4
Accenture / Frank Kui Tang ownership change
17 May 22
4
Accenture / Julie Spellman Sweet ownership change
17 May 22
4
Accenture / Ellyn Shook ownership change
17 May 22
4
Accenture / Manish Sharma ownership change
17 May 22
4
Accenture / ARUN SARIN ownership change
17 May 22
4
Accenture / VENKATA S M RENDUCHINTALA ownership change
17 May 22
4
Accenture / Paula A Price ownership change
17 May 22
4
Accenture / Gilles PELISSON ownership change
17 May 22
Patents
Utility
Utilizing machine learning to identify and correct differences in application programming interface (API) specifications
17 May 22
A device may receive API specifications associated with APIs, and may store the API specifications in a data structure.
Utility
Cloud-based database-less serverless framework using data foundation
17 May 22
A system may support multiple tier serverless data foundation creation to support large data set processing.
Utility
Consumption unit estimation analytics for prescribing cloud computing resources utilization
17 May 22
A multi-layer consumption unit estimation (CUE) stack may generate a consumption preview for prescribing cloud computing resource utilization.
Utility
Automated apparel design using machine learning
17 May 22
Aspects of the present disclosure provide systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media facilitating automated apparel design using deep learning techniques.
Utility
Information assurance (IA) using an integrity and identity resilient blockchain
17 May 22
A system for providing secure access to digital resources is provided that utilizes a blockchain platform.
Transcripts
2022 Q2
Earnings call transcript
17 Mar 22
2022 Q1
Earnings call transcript
16 Dec 21
2021 Q4
Earnings call transcript
23 Sep 21
2021 Q3
Earnings call transcript
24 Jun 21
2021 Q2
Earnings call transcript
18 Mar 21
2021 Q1
Earnings call transcript
17 Dec 20
2021 Q1
Earnings call transcript
17 Dec 20
2020 Q4
Earnings call transcript
24 Sep 20
2020 Q3
Earnings call transcript
25 Jun 20
2020 Q2
Earnings call transcript
19 Mar 20
Reddit threads
Anybody else having to calm themselves down a bit? I'm giddy right now.
10 May 22
Pre-market summary - April 20
20 Apr 22
Opinions Needed: Employee Share Buy In Plan. 15% discounted shares. How much should I invest?
15 Apr 22
Daily Discussion Thread - April 13th, 2022
13 Apr 22
Daily Discussion Thread - April 12th, 2022
12 Apr 22
Daily Discussion Thread - April 11th, 2022
11 Apr 22
Earnings Calendar for Week of March 21st: Do I Know Any of You?
19 Mar 22
(3/17) Thursday's Pre-Market Stock Movers & News
17 Mar 22
(3/17) Thursday's Pre-Market Stock Movers & News
17 Mar 22
Daily Discussion Thread - March 17th, 2022
17 Mar 22