Fiduciary Family Office LLC Boosts Position in Accenture PLC $ACN

Fiduciary Family Office LLC boosted its holdings in shares of Accenture PLC (NYSE:ACN) by 12.4% in the second quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 5,229 shares of the information technology services provider’s stock after buying an additional 578 shares during the quarter. Fiduciary Family Office LLC’s holdings in Accenture were worth $1,563,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

A number of other institutional investors also recently bought and sold shares of the business. Viawealth LLC raised its position in Accenture by 2.6% during the 1st quarter. Viawealth LLC now owns 1,307 shares of the information technology services provider’s stock worth $408,000 after buying an additional 33 shares during the last quarter. Aprio Wealth Management LLC raised its position in Accenture by 2.1% during the 1st quarter. Aprio Wealth Management LLC now owns 1,640 shares of the information technology services provider’s stock worth $512,000 after buying an additional 33 shares during the last quarter. First National Advisers LLC raised its position in Accenture by 0.4% during the 1st quarter. First National Advisers LLC now owns 9,420 shares of the information technology services provider’s stock worth $2,939,000 after buying an additional 34 shares during the last quarter. TCTC Holdings LLC raised its position in Accenture by 14.5% during the 1st quarter. TCTC Holdings LLC now owns 269 shares of the information technology services provider’s stock worth $84,000 after buying an additional 34 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Texas Bank & Trust Co raised its position in Accenture by 0.4% during the 1st quarter. Texas Bank & Trust Co now owns 8,181 shares of the information technology services provider’s stock worth $2,553,000 after buying an additional 35 shares during the last quarter. 75.14% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Accenture Price Performance

Accenture stock opened at $242.31 on Tuesday. The company’s fifty day moving average price is $246.85 and its 200 day moving average price is $278.44. Accenture PLC has a 1 year low of $229.40 and a 1 year high of $398.35. The stock has a market capitalization of $159.55 billion, a P/E ratio of 19.94, a P/E/G ratio of 2.08 and a beta of 1.28. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.16, a quick ratio of 1.42 and a current ratio of 1.42.

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

Accenture Increases Dividend

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

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of brokerages have recently commented on ACN. BNP Paribas Exane dropped their price objective on shares of Accenture from $300.00 to $255.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, September 24th. Hsbc Global Res raised shares of Accenture to a “moderate sell” rating in a research note on Monday, July 28th. Wolfe Research dropped their price objective on shares of Accenture from $290.00 to $285.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research note on Tuesday, September 23rd. Susquehanna dropped their price objective on shares of Accenture from $330.00 to $270.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, September 18th. Finally, HSBC dropped their price objective on shares of Accenture from $240.00 to $215.00 in a research note on Friday, September 26th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fourteen have assigned a Buy rating, ten have given a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, Accenture has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $300.22.

Accenture Company Profile

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.