Reviewing TaskUs (NASDAQ:TASK) and Accenture (NYSE:ACN)

Accenture (NYSE:ACN) and TaskUs (NASDAQ:TASK) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, institutional ownership and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Accenture and TaskUs, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Accenture	1	9	14	1	2.60
TaskUs	0	5	1	1	2.43

Accenture currently has a consensus price target of $300.22, suggesting a potential upside of 21.51%. TaskUs has a consensus price target of $16.88, suggesting a potential downside of 5.14%. Given Accenture’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Accenture is more favorable than TaskUs.

Profitability

This table compares Accenture and TaskUs’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Accenture	11.02%	26.45%	13.21%
TaskUs	5.70%	20.37%	10.72%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Accenture and TaskUs”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Accenture	$69.67 billion	2.22	$7.68 billion	$12.15	20.33
TaskUs	$1.10 billion	1.45	$45.87 million	$0.69	25.78

Accenture has higher revenue and earnings than TaskUs. Accenture is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TaskUs, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility & Risk

Accenture has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TaskUs has a beta of 2.16, indicating that its stock price is 116% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

75.1% of Accenture shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.6% of TaskUs shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Accenture shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 30.6% of TaskUs shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Accenture beats TaskUs on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Accenture

Accenture plc, a professional services company, provides strategy and consulting, industry X, song, and technology and operation services worldwide. The company offers application services, including agile transformation, DevOps, application modernization, enterprise architecture, software and quality engineering, data management; intelligent automation comprising robotic process automation, natural language processing, and virtual agents; and application management services, as well as software engineering services; strategy and consulting services; data and analytics strategy, data discovery and augmentation, data management and beyond, data democratization, and industrialized solutions comprising turnkey analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions; metaverse; and sustainability services. It also provides change management, HR transformation and delivery, organization strategy and design, talent strategy and development, and leadership and culture services; digital commerce; infrastructure services, including cloud infrastructure managed, cloud and data center, network, digital workplace, database platforms, service management, and cloud and infrastructure security services; data-enabled operating models; technology consulting and AI services; and technology consulting services. In addition, the company offers engineering and R&D digitization, smart connected products, product as-a-service enablement, capital projects, intelligent asset management, digital industrial workforce, and autonomous robotic systems; business process outsourcing; and services related to technology innovation. Further, it provides cloud, ecosystem, marketing, security, supply chain management, zero-based transformation, customer experience, finance consulting, mergers and acquisitions, and sustainability services. The company has a collaboration with Salesforce, Inc. to develop Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud. The company was founded in 1951 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.

About TaskUs

TaskUs, Inc. provides digital outsourcing services for companies in Philippines, the United States, India, and internationally. It offers digital customer experience that consists of omni-channel customer care services primarily delivered through non-voice digital channels; and other solutions, including experience and customer care services for new product or market launches, and customer acquisition solutions. The company also provides trust and safety solutions, such as review and disposition of user and advertiser generated visual, text, and audio content, which include removal or labeling of policy violating, and offensive or misleading content, as well as risk management, compliance, identity management, and fraud services; and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that consist of data labeling, annotation, context relevance, and transcription services for training and tuning machine learning algorithms that enables to develop AI systems. It serves clients in various industry segments comprising e-commerce, FinTech, food delivery and ride sharing, gaming, technology, HealthTech, social media, and streaming media. The company was formerly known as TU TopCo, Inc. and changed its name to TaskUs, Inc. in December 2020. TaskUs, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in New Braunfels, Texas.