Accenture plc (ACN) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $291.41, with 3.27 million shares of worth about $952.85 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -22.50% during that period and on April 24, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 1.13%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 626.44M shares, out of which, 624.37M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 2.16% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -5.66%. Year-to-date (YTD), ACN shares are showing a performance of -17.16% which decreased to -8.19% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $275.01 but also hit the highest price of $398.35 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Accenture plc shares is 3.60 million. The stock is currently trading -0.64% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -10.08% for SMA50 and it goes to -15.17% lower than SMA200.
Accenture plc (NYSE: ACN) currently have 626.44M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 78.78% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $182.43B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.35. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 24.05, while it has posted earnings per share of $12.12 in the same period. Its PEG reads 3.25 and has Quick Ratio of 1.48 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 2.35% while standing at 3.38% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Accenture plc (ACN) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 3.31 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 2.98 and it is 13.66 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 3.21 which is 3.38 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of 3.13 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 6.39% while it is estimated to increase by 7.19% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 7.40% 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 Robert W. Baird on March 17, 2025 offering an Outperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $390 to it. Coverage by Wolfe Research stated Accenture plc (ACN) stock as an Outperform in their note to investors on January 08, 2025, suggesting a price target of $425 for the stock. On December 06, 2024, Goldman Upgrade their recommendations, while on October 30, 2024, Exane BNP Paribas Downgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $375. Stock get a Buy rating from TD Cowen on September 30, 2024.
