Accenture PLC $ACN Stock Holdings Lifted by Boston Trust Walden Corp

Boston Trust Walden Corp raised its stake in Accenture PLC (NYSE:ACN) by 1.8% during the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The fund owned 541,631 shares of the information technology services provider’s stock after acquiring an additional 9,709 shares during the period. Accenture makes up 1.2% of Boston Trust Walden Corp’s portfolio, making the stock its 10th largest holding. Boston Trust Walden Corp’s holdings in Accenture were worth $161,888,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.

Other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Kelly Lawrence W & Associates Inc. CA bought a new stake in Accenture in the 1st quarter valued at $31,000. Inlight Wealth Management LLC bought a new stake in Accenture in the 1st quarter valued at $32,000. RMG Wealth Management LLC bought a new stake in Accenture in the 2nd quarter valued at $33,000. WPG Advisers LLC bought a new stake in Accenture in the 1st quarter valued at $42,000. Finally, Cheviot Value Management LLC bought a new stake in Accenture in the 1st quarter valued at $43,000. 75.14% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

ACN has been the topic of a number of research reports. BMO Capital Markets reduced their target price on shares of Accenture from $325.00 to $270.00 and set a “market perform” rating on the stock in a report on Friday, September 26th. Argus set a $370.00 target price on shares of Accenture in a report on Tuesday, June 24th. Rothschild & Co Redburn boosted their target price on shares of Accenture from $250.00 to $255.00 in a report on Friday, September 19th. Royal Bank Of Canada reduced their target price on shares of Accenture from $372.00 to $285.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a report on Friday, September 26th. Finally, Barclays reduced their target price on shares of Accenture from $390.00 to $360.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a report on Monday, June 23rd. One analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fourteen have issued a Buy rating, ten have given a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $300.22.

Accenture Trading Up 1.1%

ACN opened at $243.50 on Tuesday. The stock has a market cap of $152.51 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 20.04, a P/E/G ratio of 2.10 and a beta of 1.28. The stock’s 50 day moving average price is $247.15 and its 200-day moving average price is $280.75. Accenture PLC has a one year low of $229.40 and a one year high of $398.35. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.16, a quick ratio of 1.46 and a current ratio of 1.42.

Accenture (NYSE:ACN) last released its earnings results on Thursday, September 25th. The information technology services provider reported $3.03 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.98 by $0.05. The firm had revenue of $17.60 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $17.34 billion. Accenture had a return on equity of 26.45% and a net margin of 11.02%.The company’s quarterly revenue was up 7.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $2.66 earnings per share. Accenture has set its FY 2026 guidance at 13.190-13.570 EPS. Q1 2026 guidance at EPS. On average, equities analysts forecast that Accenture PLC will post 12.73 EPS for the current year.

Accenture Increases Dividend

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, November 14th. Stockholders of record on Friday, October 10th will be paid a dividend of $1.63 per share. This is a positive change from Accenture’s previous quarterly dividend of $1.48. This represents a $6.52 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.7%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, October 10th. Accenture’s payout ratio is currently 53.66%.

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.