Accenture plc (ACN) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $341.84, with 3.46 million shares of worth about $1.18 billion changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -0.01% during that period and on March 06, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -1.84%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 625.03M shares, out of which, 623.78M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -4.21% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -12.71%. Year-to-date (YTD), ACN shares are showing a performance of -2.83% which decreased to -10.91% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $278.69 but also hit the highest price of $398.35 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Accenture plc shares is 2.71 million. The stock is currently trading -7.80% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -6.60% for SMA50 and it goes to -0.12% lower than SMA200.
Accenture plc (NYSE: ACN) currently have 625.03M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 77.98% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $213.81B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.30. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 28.66, while it has posted earnings per share of $11.93 in the same period. Its PEG reads 3.15 and has Quick Ratio of 1.47 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.28. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for ACN, volatility over the week remained 2.66% while standing at 2.12% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 7.15% while it is estimated to increase by 9.10% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 9.09% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 9.21% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Wolfe Research on January 08, 2025 offering an Outperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $425 to it. Coverage by Goldman stated Accenture plc (ACN) stock as a Buy in their note to investors on December 06, 2024, suggesting a price target of $420 for the stock. On October 30, 2024, Exane BNP Paribas Downgrade their recommendations, while on September 30, 2024, TD Cowen Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $400. Stock get an Overweight rating from Piper Sandler on September 26, 2024.
