Why Accenture Stock Popped a Lucky 7% on Thursday [Yahoo! Finance]
Accenture plc Class A Ordinary Shares (Ireland) (ACN)
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Heading into earnings, analysts forecast Accenture would earn $3.15 per share (adjusted for one-time items) on just over $16.5 billion in sales. The company actually earned only $3.13 per share, and its sales came in short at $16.5 billion. Earnings as calculated according to generally accepted accounting principles ( GAAP ) were lower at $3.03 per share. Accenture's Q3 earnings That's not to say Accenture's news was all bad. While sales missed expectations and declined 1% year over year, and GAAP earnings declined 3%, Accenture's operating profit margin climbed almost 2 full percentage points to 16%. Furthermore, its guidance suggests business is looking up. New bookings in the quarter grew 22% to $21.1 billion, foreshadowing an imminent return to sales growth. Of particular note, "generative AI new bookings" -- artificial intelligence work Accenture has been hired to do -- reached $900 million in the quarter, and $2 billion fiscal year to date. That means AI business in Q3 wa
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- Accenture plc (NYSE: ACN) had its price target raised by analysts at UBS Group AG from $400.00 to $415.00. They now have a "buy" rating on the stock.MarketBeat
- Accenture plc (NYSE: ACN) had its price target raised by analysts at Guggenheim from $380.00 to $395.00. They now have a "buy" rating on the stock.MarketBeat
- Accenture plc (NYSE: ACN) had its price target raised by analysts at Royal Bank of Canada from $377.00 to $389.00. They now have an "outperform" rating on the stock.MarketBeat
- Accenture plc (NYSE: ACN) had its price target raised by analysts at BMO Capital Markets from $380.00 to $390.00. They now have a "market perform" rating on the stock.MarketBeat
- Accenture plc (NYSE: ACN) had its price target raised by analysts at Robert W. Baird from $350.00 to $370.00. They now have a "neutral" rating on the stock.MarketBeat
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- 9/26/24 - Beat
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Sec Filings
- 9/26/24 - Form 8-K
- 9/6/24 - Form 4
- 9/6/24 - Form 4
- ACN's page on the SEC website