Strengthening Families & Communities LLC Decreases Stock Holdings in Accenture PLC $ACN

Strengthening Families & Communities LLC decreased its position in Accenture PLC (NYSE:ACN) by 2.4% during the second quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 8,010 shares of the information technology services provider’s stock after selling 199 shares during the quarter. Accenture makes up 1.3% of Strengthening Families & Communities LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 23rd largest position. Strengthening Families & Communities LLC’s holdings in Accenture were worth $2,398,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other large investors have also recently modified their holdings of ACN. Brighton Jones LLC boosted its stake in shares of Accenture by 36.2% during the 4th quarter. Brighton Jones LLC now owns 18,438 shares of the information technology services provider’s stock valued at $6,486,000 after purchasing an additional 4,905 shares in the last quarter. Ferguson Wellman Capital Management Inc. boosted its stake in Accenture by 0.8% during the first quarter. Ferguson Wellman Capital Management Inc. now owns 5,598 shares of the information technology services provider’s stock worth $1,747,000 after acquiring an additional 47 shares in the last quarter. Rockland Trust Co. lifted its stake in shares of Accenture by 1.7% in the first quarter. Rockland Trust Co. now owns 69,647 shares of the information technology services provider’s stock worth $21,733,000 after buying an additional 1,177 shares in the last quarter. Birch Capital Management LLC lifted its stake in shares of Accenture by 2.7% in the first quarter. Birch Capital Management LLC now owns 19,132 shares of the information technology services provider’s stock worth $5,970,000 after buying an additional 502 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Liberty Capital Management Inc. lifted its stake in shares of Accenture by 5.8% in the first quarter. Liberty Capital Management Inc. now owns 4,023 shares of the information technology services provider’s stock worth $1,255,000 after buying an additional 222 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 75.14% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several research analysts have recently weighed in on the stock. Susquehanna decreased their price objective on shares of Accenture from $330.00 to $270.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a report on Thursday, September 18th. Jefferies Financial Group reissued a “hold” rating on shares of Accenture in a report on Tuesday, September 30th. Mizuho decreased their price objective on shares of Accenture from $348.00 to $309.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a report on Monday, September 29th. Wall Street Zen cut shares of Accenture from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Saturday. Finally, Stifel Nicolaus decreased their price objective on shares of Accenture from $355.00 to $315.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Tuesday, September 16th. One analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fourteen have issued a Buy rating, ten have issued a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $300.22.

Accenture Trading Down 4.3%

Shares of ACN stock opened at $241.11 on Friday. The company has a market cap of $151.01 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 19.84, a PEG ratio of 2.19 and a beta of 1.28. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.16, a current ratio of 1.42 and a quick ratio of 1.46. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $247.45 and a 200-day moving average price of $281.57. Accenture PLC has a 1 year low of $229.40 and a 1 year high of $398.35.

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

Accenture Increases Dividend

The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, November 14th. Investors of record on Friday, October 10th will be issued a $1.63 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, October 10th. This represents a $6.52 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.7%. This is an increase from Accenture’s previous quarterly dividend of $1.48. Accenture’s payout ratio is currently 48.72%.

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.