New Lifetime High Reached: Accenture (ACN)
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Trade-Ideas LLC identified
(
) as a new lifetime high candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Accenture as such a stock due to the following factors:
- ACN has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $255.8 million.
- ACN has traded 316,076 shares today.
- ACN is trading at a new lifetime high.
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More details on ACN:
Accenture plc provides management consulting, technology, and business process outsourcing services worldwide. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 2.2%. ACN has a PE ratio of 19.6. Currently there are 9 analysts that rate Accenture a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 8 rate it a hold.
The average volume for Accenture has been 2.5 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Accenture has a market cap of $57.5 billion and is part of the technology sector and computer software & services industry. The stock has a beta of 1.37 and a short float of 2.7% with 6.64 days to cover. Shares are up 0.1% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Tuesday.
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Analysis:
rates Accenture as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, good cash flow from operations, increase in stock price during the past year and increase in net income. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows low profit margins.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- The revenue growth came in higher than the industry average of 19.9%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 7.0%. Growth in the company's revenue appears to have helped boost the earnings per share.
- ACN's debt-to-equity ratio is very low at 0.00 and is currently below that of the industry average, implying that there has been very successful management of debt levels. Along with the favorable debt-to-equity ratio, the company maintains an adequate quick ratio of 1.24, which illustrates the ability to avoid short-term cash problems.
- The stock has risen over the past year as investors have generally rewarded the company for its earnings growth and other positive factors like the ones we have cited in this report. Turning our attention to the future direction of the stock, it goes without saying that even the best stocks can fall in an overall down market. However, in any other environment, this stock still has good upside potential despite the fact that it has already risen in the past year.
- The net income growth from the same quarter one year ago has significantly exceeded that of the IT Services industry average, but is less than that of the S&P 500. The net income increased by 10.6% when compared to the same quarter one year prior, going from $751.85 million to $831.53 million.
- Net operating cash flow has significantly increased by 381.64% to $872.90 million when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, ACCENTURE PLC has also vastly surpassed the industry average cash flow growth rate of -16.33%.
- You can view the full Accenture Ratings Report.
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