Accenture
ACN NYSE· IT Consulting & Other Services
Last close · Oct 26, 2026
$247.23
KIRA · Stoqly’s AI analyst, in plain words
- Accenture had $74.2B of revenue in fiscal 2026, up 6.5% on the year before. Over five years, revenue changed +8.0% a year on average.
- Its operating margin was 15.4%, up 0.7 pts: of every 100 in sales, about 15 is left after running the business.
- Accenture made $8.4B of net profit in fiscal 2026. From fiscal 2017 to 2026, diluted EPS grew 10.7% a year.
- Free cash flow was $11.6B in fiscal 2026, 15.7% of revenue.
- Accenture returned $11.5B to shareholders in fiscal 2026, 99% of free cash flow. The diluted share count fell 2.4%.
- Accenture has $2.7B more cash than debt.
Market cap
$152.7B
P/E
—
Revenue
$74.2B
Net income
$8.4B
Free cash flow
$11.6B
Operating margin
15.4%
Accenture in 30 seconds · fiscal 2026
Are sales growing?
+6.5%
Yes. Sales grew 6.5% last year.
Does it make a profit?
11.3%
Yes. It keeps 11.3% of every sale as profit.
Does profit turn into cash?
15.7%
Yes. 15.7% of sales ends up as free cash.
Is debt under control?
Net cash
Yes. It has more cash than debt.
How healthy are the accounts?
6 / 9
Mixed. It passes 6 of 9 health tests.
What Accenture does
Accenture sells consulting, technology and outsourcing services to other organizations. It helps clients plan and carry out changes to their operations, with work in strategy, data, cloud, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI) and running business functions for them. It serves more than 9,000 clients, mostly very large companies and governments, and had revenues of approximately $74 billion in fiscal 2026. Accenture earns its revenue from fees for these services. It reports three segments, which are its geographic markets: Americas, EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and Asia Pacific. It also sells to five industry groups, the largest being Products, which includes consumer goods, retail, industrial and life sciences clients and made up 30% of revenues. Accenture says its 18 key ecosystem partners, mainly technology companies, were tied to about 65% of its revenue.
Biggest risks, in its own words
- Weak or uncertain economic conditions that lead clients to cut back spending on its services.
- Falling client demand if it cannot adapt its services to fast-changing technology, including AI.
- Not being able to match its people and their skills with client demand around the world.
- Fixed-price or outcome-based contracts that could turn out less profitable than planned or lose money.
- Fiscal year ends
- August 31, 2026
- Latest annual report
- 10-K · Oct 16, 2026
- Legal name
- Accenture plc
- CIK
- 0001467373
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Results and finances
The last 5 fiscal years. Amounts in USD.
| Fiscal year | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales and profit | |||||
| Revenue | $61.6B | $64.1B | $64.9B | $69.7B | $74.2B |
| Revenue growth | 21.9% | 4.1% | 1.2% | 7.4% | 6.5% |
| Gross margin | 32.0% | 32.3% | 32.6% | 31.9% | 32.1% |
| Operating margin | 15.2% | 13.7% | 14.8% | 14.7% | 15.4% |
| Net income | $6.9B | $6.9B | $7.3B | $7.7B | $8.4B |
| Net margin | 11.2% | 10.7% | 11.2% | 11.0% | 11.3% |
| Diluted EPS | $10.71 | $10.77 | $11.44 | $12.15 | $13.56 |
| Cash | |||||
| Cash from operations | $9.5B | $9.5B | $9.1B | $11.5B | $12.4B |
| Capital expenditure | $718M | $528M | $517M | $600M | $743M |
| Free cash flow | $8.8B | $9.0B | $8.6B | $10.9B | $11.6B |
| FCF margin | 14.3% | 14.0% | 13.3% | 15.6% | 15.7% |
| Dividends paid | $2.5B | $2.8B | $3.2B | $3.7B | $4.0B |
| Share buybacks | $4.1B | $4.3B | $4.5B | $4.6B | $7.5B |
| Share count change | −0.5% | −0.7% | −0.4% | −0.6% | −2.4% |
| Debt and strength | |||||
| Cash and short-term investments | $7.9B | $9.0B | $5.0B | $11.5B | $12.8B |
| Debt incl. finance leases | $45.9M | $43.1M | $1.0B | $5.1B | $10.1B |
| Shareholders' equity | $22.1B | $25.7B | $28.3B | $31.2B | $31.6B |
| Net debt / EBITDA | −0.7x | −0.9x | −0.4x | −0.6x | −0.2x |
| Current ratio | 1.2x | 1.3x | 1.1x | 1.4x | 1.4x |
| Interest coverage | 198.0x | 185.4x | 162.7x | 44.7x | 37.6x |
| Returns and quality | |||||
| Return on capital | 53.0% | 41.7% | 34.4% | 30.6% | 30.6% |
| Return on equity | 33.0% | 28.8% | 26.9% | 25.8% | 26.7% |
| Piotroski F-score | 6 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 6 |
| Altman Z'' | 4.1 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 3.8 |
Insiders bought, 12 months
$0.0M
0 insiders
Insiders sold, 12 months
$16.1M
10 insiders
Of sales under plans
91%
$14.7M
How to read these numbers
- Revenue:
- Total sales reported in the income statement.
- Operating margin:
- Operating income as a share of revenue.
- Net income:
- Profit after all expenses, interest and tax.
- Free cash flow:
- Cash from operations minus capital spending.
- Net debt / EBITDA:
- Years of EBITDA needed to pay off net debt. Below zero means more cash than debt.
- Return on capital:
- After-tax operating income as a share of the money invested in the business: debt plus equity, minus cash.
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Charts and comparison
Ten years at a glance, and how it stacks up against similar companies.
Revenue
Net income
Margins, % of revenue
Cash vs debt (incl. leases)
Free cash flow
Dividends and buybacks
Similar companies
Each company’s latest fiscal year. Fiscal years end in different months, so periods don’t line up exactly.
| Company | Market cap | Growth | Op. margin | FCF margin | ROIC | P/E | F-score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accenture ACN | $152.7B | 6.5% | 15.4% | 15.7% | 30.6% | — | 6 |
| IBM IBM | $241.7B | 7.6% | — | 17.9% | 15.4% | 21.6x | 6 |
| Cognizant CTSH | $33.1B | 7.0% | 16.1% | 12.3% | 16.2% | 15.1x | 6 |
| Kyndryl KD | $3.2B | 0.2% | — | 2.3% | 7.8% | 39.7x | 6 |
| DXC Technology DXC | $2.7B | −1.8% | 7.7% | 8.2% | 9.2% | 21.4x | 7 |
Price compared with profit (P/E)
How many times its yearly profit per share one share costs. Higher means investors pay more for each unit of profit.
KIRA
At $247.23 a share, the company is worth $152.7B.
Accenture grew sales faster than 2 of its 4 similar companies.
Source: SEC EDGAR XBRL filings (CIK 0001467373). Data updated October 16, 2026. For information only — not investment advice. Check the original filings before relying on any figure.