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Accenture plc ACN
Accenture plc (ACN) earns a Piotroski F-score of 5/9 (mixed financial health), with an Altman Z″ in the safe zone. It pays a dividend yielding 3.11% (safety: no dividend). FY2025 revenue was $69.7B at a 11.0% net margin.
Quality score trend · recomputed for each fiscal year
Each year's score is computed from that year's filing — a rising Piotroski F or Altman Z″ means improving financial health, a fall is worth a look.
Beneish M-score: -2.61 — low (below −2.22 — no manipulation red flag) . A statistical screen for earnings manipulation, not proof — and it doesn't apply to most banks/insurers.
Analyst price target
Recent analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-20 | Wells Fargo | Overweight (main) |
| 2026-06-26 | TD Cowen | Hold (main) |
| 2026-06-23 | Mizuho | Outperform (main) |
| 2026-06-22 | Truist Securities | Hold (main) |
| 2026-06-22 | TD Cowen | Hold (down) |
| 2026-06-22 | Susquehanna | Neutral (main) |
Wall Street analyst consensus — a sentiment gauge, not our scoring.
Forward estimates · earnings calendar →
Consensus analyst estimates and scheduled dates — forward-looking, may change.
How it ranks in Services · percentile among 982 companies
Percentile vs other Services companies we cover — e.g. “stronger than 90%” means only 10% score higher on that measure.
Piotroski F breakdown · 5/9 tests passed
- Positive return on assets
- Positive operating cash flow
- Rising ROA
- Cash flow exceeds net income
- Lower long-term debt
- Rising current ratio
- No share dilution
- Rising gross margin
- Rising asset turnover
Altman Z″ components · safe zone
| Component | Value |
|---|---|
| Working capital / assets | 0.131 |
| Retained earnings / assets | 0.321 |
| EBIT / assets | 0.156 |
| Equity / liabilities | 0.972 |
Sector peers · similar-size Services companies compare side by side →
| Ticker | Company | Piotroski F | Altman Z″ | P / E | Revenue growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACN | Accenture plc | 5/9 | 3.98 | 10.3 | +7.4% |
| PDD | PDD Holdings Inc. | 4/9 | 7.64 | — | +14.5% |
| UBER | Uber Technologies, Inc | 6/9 | 1.09 | 15.4 | +18.3% |
| V | VISA INC. | 5/9 | 2.94 | 31.3 | +11.3% |
| PYPL | PayPal Holdings, Inc. | 8/9 | 3.27 | 7.5 | +4.3% |
| MA | Mastercard Inc | 5/9 | 7.74 | — | +16.4% |
| MELI | MERCADOLIBRE INC | 5/9 | 1.9 | 42.5 | +39.1% |
About Accenture plc
Accenture plc provides strategy and consulting, industry X, song, and technology and operation services in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It offers systems integration and application management; security; intelligent platform; infrastructure; software engineering; data, AI, cloud; and automation and global delivery services. The company also operates business processes for specific enterprise functions, including finance and accounting, sourcing and procurement, supply chain, marketing and sales, and human resources, as well as industry-specific services, such as platform trust and safety, banking, insurance, network and health services; and designs, manufactures, and assembles automation equipment, robotics, and other commercial hardware products. It serves communications, media, and technology; financial services; banking and capital markets, and insurance; health and public service; consumer goods, retail, travel services; industrial; life science; and chemicals, natural resources, energy, and utilities sectors. Accenture plc has collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver transformative digital services to public sector, defense, and national security organizations. It has a collaboration with OpenAI to help enterprise clients unlock new levels of innovation and growth by bringing agentic AI systems; has a strategic collaboration with Microsoft and Avanade for the development of an agentic factory intelligence system; and INFRONEER Holdings Inc. and SAP Japan Co., Ltd. to develop a new financial data and insights platform. It also has strategic partnership with Netomi, Inc. to help enterprises reinvent customer experience using agentic AI systems. The company has a strategic alliance with ServiceNow for integrated risk management and third-party risk management solutions. Accenture plc was founded in 1951 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.
FAQ
Is ACN financially healthy?
Accenture plc's Piotroski F-score is 5/9 (8–9 is excellent, 0–3 weak), and its Altman Z″ distress score is in the safe zone.
Does ACN pay a dividend, and is it safe?
Yes. Accenture plc pays a dividend yielding about 3.11% with a None payout ratio, rated “no dividend” for safety.
How profitable is ACN?
In FY2025, Accenture plc had a net margin of 11.0% and a return on equity of 23.8%.
Is ACN overvalued or undervalued?
Accenture plc trades at about 14.8× trailing earnings — below its 10-year norm (10-year range 18.9×–34.9×, median 26.8×). Stocktoria reports the data, not buy/sell advice.
What is the analyst price target for ACN?
The average Wall-Street price target for Accenture plc is $178.89, about 0.7% below the recent price, from 25 analysts (consensus: buy).
Is ACN a good stock to buy?
Stocktoria doesn't give buy or sell advice, but here is the data on Accenture plc: a Piotroski F-score of 5/9, an Altman Z″ in the safe zone, a P/E of about 10.3×, a dividend yield of 3.11%. Weigh these quality and valuation signals against your own goals.
Computed from company filings · US · as of 2025-08-31. Facts plus Stocktoria's own computed scores — not investment advice.