About Accenture plc
Accenture plc provides consulting and managed services in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It offers artificial intelligence and data; cloud consulting; cybersecurity consulting; digital engineering and manufacturing; ecosystem partners; emerging technology; finance and risk management consulting; infrastructure and capital projects; digital learning; supply chain consulting; technology consulting; sustainability consulting; and metaverse solutions, as well as customer services. The company also provides proprietary assets and platforms, such as GenWizard, SynOps and reinvention.AI to clients. It serves aerospace and defense, automotive, banking, capital markets, chemicals, communications and media, consumer goods and services, energy, health, high tech, industrial, insurance, life sciences, natural resources, private equity, public service, retail, software and platforms, travel, and utilities industries. Accenture plc was founded in 1951 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.
Accenture plc (ACN) is a Technology company in the Information Technology Services industry with a market capitalisation of $152.6B. The stock trades at 18.39x trailing earnings and yields 2.74%.
- Sector
- Technology
- Industry
- Information Technology Services
- Market cap
- $152.6B
- P/E ratio
- 18.39
- Forward P/E
- 15.70
- EPS (TTM)
- $13.56
- Revenue (TTM)
- $74.2B
- Free cash flow
- $10.7B
- Profit margin
- 11.3%
- Dividend yield
- 2.74%
- Beta
- 1.10
- Shares outstanding
- 611.9M
Financial health: Strong7.7/10
7 strengths, 1 concern. Weakest points: peg ratio.
- Debt to equity: 0.00 (Strong, benchmark < 0.5) — Debt of 0.00x equity is conservative against the 0.5x benchmark. It has improved over the last 4 years.
- Net debt vs cash flow: 0.0y (Strong, benchmark < 4 years) — Holds more cash than debt ($12.7B net cash).
- Current ratio: 1.43 (Watch, benchmark > 1.5) — Short-term assets cover 1.43x short-term liabilities, against Graham's 1.5x floor. It has been broadly flat over the last 4 years.
- Return on equity: 26.0% (Strong, benchmark > 15%) — Earns 26.0% on shareholder equity, comfortably past the > 15% mark.
- Gross margin: 32.0% (Watch, benchmark > 40%) — Keeps 32.0% of revenue after the direct cost of sales, short of the > 40% mark.
- Net margin: 11.3% (Strong, benchmark > 10%) — Turns 11.3% of revenue into profit, comfortably past the > 10% mark.
- Free cash flow: $11.6B (Strong, benchmark positive) — Generated $11.6B of free cash flow after capital spending. It has improved over the last 4 years.
- Revenue growth: 6.2% (Watch, benchmark > 10%) — Revenue changed 6.2% year on year, short of the > 10% mark.
- Earnings growth: 46.4% (Strong, benchmark > 10%) — Earnings changed 46.4% year on year, comfortably past the > 10% mark.
- PEG ratio: 2.46 (Concern, benchmark < 1) — At 2.46, the price looks expensive relative to expected growth — Lynch treated 1.0 as fair value.
- Payout ratio: 48.1% (Strong, benchmark < 60%) — Pays out 48.1% of earnings as dividends, leaving room to keep paying.