Critical Review: Accenture (NYSE:ACN) & Intelligent Protection Management (NASDAQ:IPM)

Accenture (NYSE:ACN) and Intelligent Protection Management (NASDAQ:IPM) are both technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, profitability and valuation.

Profitability

This table compares Accenture and Intelligent Protection Management’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Accenture	11.28%	26.53%	12.58%
Intelligent Protection Management	-14.80%	-21.13%	-13.41%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Accenture and Intelligent Protection Management”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Accenture	$73.10 billion	1.77	$8.37 billion	$13.56	14.31
Intelligent Protection Management	$25.19 million	0.63	-$1.96 million	($0.28)	-6.32

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

Volatility & Risk

Accenture has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intelligent Protection Management has a beta of 1.44, meaning that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

75.1% of Accenture shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.9% of Intelligent Protection Management shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Accenture shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 20.8% of Intelligent Protection Management shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Accenture and Intelligent Protection Management, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Accenture	2	14	11	0	2.33
Intelligent Protection Management	1	1	0	0	1.50

Accenture presently has a consensus price target of $219.15, indicating a potential upside of 12.91%. Given Accenture’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Accenture is more favorable than Intelligent Protection Management.

Summary

Accenture beats Intelligent Protection Management on 12 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 Intelligent Protection Management

Intelligent Protection Management Corp. engages in the development of communications software to enhance security and privacy solutions for multimedia communication and data transmission. Its solutions include blockchain strategy consulting, blockchain implementation, white label video solutions, and technology licensing. The firm’s product portfolio includes Paltalk and Camfrog. The company was founded by Clifford Lerner and Darrell Lerner on July 19, 2005 and is headquartered in Jericho, NY.