Accenture (ACN) Stock News

Accenture ($ACN) Chair and CEO Julie Spellman Sweet purchased 12,200 Class A ordinary shares on October 26 at an average price of $245.99, totaling $3,001,041. The open-market buys were not part of a 10b5-1 plan. Sweet now holds 48,910 shares directly.

Accenture plc director Paula A Price purchased 800 Class A ordinary shares at $249.81 each, totaling $199,848. The open-market buy was not under a 10b5-1 plan. Price's direct holdings rose to 9,361 shares.

Baird downgraded Accenture to Neutral from Outperform, raised price target to $252. The stock has nearly doubled since June, but analysts see limited upside given slower growth expectations and pricing pressure.

Accenture, Dragos and the SANS Institute are jointly contributing about $10 million to provide free cybersecurity services and training for up to 500 under-resourced U.S. utilities. The initiative includes the launch of the Community Cyber Resilience Foundation, a non-profit focused on utilities with less than $100 million in annual revenue. The announcement follows a surge of cyberattacks on U.S. water systems. Separately, Accenture said it acquired Avicado, a construction technology consultancy; terms were not disclosed.

Accenture, Dragos and the SANS Institute have launched a foundation to improve cybersecurity for under-resourced U.S. utilities.

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has acquired Avicado, a Miami-based construction technology consultancy. The firm's 190-plus professionals will join Accenture Construct, expanding digital and systems consulting for complex infrastructure and capital programs. Avicado specializes in implementing software from Procore, Autodesk, Trimble, Oracle, and Kahua. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Accenture and Alphabet's Google are rolling out Gemini Launchpads to help federal agencies deploy AI agents. The offering embeds forward deployed engineers with agencies to build agents on Google's Gemini models. Agencies can centrally manage agents from data connection to deployment and performance tracking.

Accenture Federal Services and Google Public Sector announced Gemini launchpads, a capability to help federal agencies build and scale purpose-built agents. Includes Forward Deployed Engineers and pre-built agents for HR, finance, supply chain.

Accenture is looking to divest its operations in China.

Accenture (ACN) has acquired UK data and customer intelligence firm Sagacity Solutions, adding over 140 specialists to its Accenture Song unit. Financial terms were not disclosed.

JPMorgan raised its price target on Accenture to $242 from $200, implying upside from the prior target. No details on rating or rationale were provided.

Accenture shares jumped 23% at the market open Thursday. The move puts the stock on track for its largest one-day percentage gain on record. No catalyst has been reported.

Accenture shares jump 23% after Q4 earnings beat estimates.

Accenture Q4 revenue $18.7B vs est $18.03B, EPS $3.29 vs est $3.18. New bookings $22.2B. FY27 revenue growth guide 3%-6% LC, EPS $14.39-$14.81 vs est $14.62. Record $11.5B returned to shareholders in FY26.

Accenture reports fiscal Q4 earnings Thursday. AI is both headwind and tailwind. Analysts expect EPS $3.03, revenue $17.6B. Fiscal 2027 guidance is key. Analyst day Oct. 14. Partnerships with Anthropic, Google, Palantir, Databricks.

Accenture (ACN) completed a multi-year project to consolidate Combe's legacy country-specific ERP systems onto Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications. The project covers finance, procurement, manufacturing, order management and supply chain. Combe is a family-owned consumer products company. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Accenture made an undisclosed investment in a company called Within through its Accenture Ventures arm. No terms or strategic details were provided.

Accenture, through its Accenture Ventures arm, invested in Within, an AI platform that helps organizations map, enhance, and automate business processes and operations.

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) invested in Within, an AI platform that maps real business processes and workarounds, to help clients deploy AI agents at scale. Terms not disclosed.

accenture launched accenture construct, a new global business unit that consolidates its capital projects capabilities. The unit targets an owner-centric market worth $260 billion, projected to grow to $348 billion by 2030. It combines AI and data workflows with over 5,000 practitioners to act as a single accountable partner for large infrastructure and capital projects, from data centers to energy grids.

Anthropic and Accenture will each invest at least $1 billion over five years in independent evaluation of frontier AI models. The non-exclusive deal includes Accenture's Faculty unit embedding evaluators inside Anthropic with employee-level access for red-teaming and safety tests. Anthropic will pay Accenture directly and plans to name additional evaluators.

Accenture settles DOJ claims that it considered race and sex in hiring and promotions to meet DEI goals. The $25 million settlement highlights legal risk for corporate DEI programs under federal anti-discrimination law.

Google Cloud and Accenture form unit to embed AI engineers with clients.