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What the Smart Investors Know About Accenture

Large-cap Technology company Accenture has logged a -2.1% change Friday on a trading volume of 2,564,336. The average volume for the stock is 2,468,238.

Accenture plc, a professional services company, provides strategy and consulting, interactive, industry X, song, and technology and operation services worldwide. Based in Dublin, Ireland the company has 738,000 full time employees and a market cap of $176,497,164,288. Accenture currently offers its equity investors a dividend that yields 1.5% per year.

The company is now trading -10.44% away from its average analyst target price of $311.8 per share. The 22 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $250.0 to $360.0, and on average give Accenture a rating of buy.

Over the last year, ACN shares have gone down by -11.0%, which represents a difference of -5.0% when compared to the S&P 500. The stock's 52 week high is $330.32 per share and its 52 week low is $242.8. Based on Accenture's average gross margin growth of 0.9% over the last four years, its core business remains strong and the stock price may recover in the long term.

Date Reported Revenue ($ k) Cost of Revenue ($ k) Gross Margins (%) YoY Growth (%)
2022-08-31 61,594,305 41,892,766 31.99 -1.2
2021-08-31 50,533,389 34,169,261 32.38 2.7
2020-08-31 44,327,039 30,350,881 31.53 2.34
2019-08-31 43,215,013 29,900,325 30.81 n/a
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