In recent trading session, Accenture plc (NYSE:ACN) saw 0.65 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 1.30. Company’s recent per share price level of $282.31 trading at -$0.39 or -0.14% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $175.84B. That most recent trading price of ACN’s stock is at a discount of -41.1% from its 52-week high price of $398.35 and is indicating a premium of 3.23% from its 52-week low price of $273.19. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 3.44 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 3.24 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Accenture plc (ACN), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.86. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 20 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 8 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 12 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.
Accenture plc (NYSE:ACN) trade information
Accenture plc’s shares saw a change of -13.13% in year-to-date performance and have moved 0.45% in past 5-day. Accenture plc (NYSE:ACN) showed a performance of -9.52% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 8.65 million shares which calculate 3.03 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 362.5 to the stock, which implies a rise of 22.12% to its recent value today. Analysts have been projecting 348 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 390. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -23.27% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -23.27% for stock’s current value.
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 9.21% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 7.72% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 7.70%.
ACN Dividends
Accenture plc is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Jun-20 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 2.10%, the share has a forward dividend of 5.92 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 1.39%.
Accenture plc (NYSE:ACN)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 0.08% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 80.04 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 80.10%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 80.04% institutions for Accenture plc that are currently holding shares of the company. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the top institutional holder at ACN for having 59.68 million shares of worth $18.11 billion. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 9.4971 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., which was holding about 48.98 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 7.7945 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $14.86 billion.
On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 19.76 shares of worth $5.59 billion or 2.90% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 17.38 shares on Mar 31, 2025 , making its stake of worth around $4.92 billion in the company or a holder of 2.55% of company’s stock.
