Moss Adams Wealth Advisors LLC Has $435,000 Holdings in Accenture PLC $ACN

Moss Adams Wealth Advisors LLC grew its stake in shares of Accenture PLC (NYSE:ACN) by 19.0% in the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 1,455 shares of the information technology services provider’s stock after acquiring an additional 232 shares during the period. Moss Adams Wealth Advisors LLC’s holdings in Accenture were worth $435,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in ACN. Brighton Jones LLC increased its holdings in shares of Accenture by 36.2% during the fourth quarter. Brighton Jones LLC now owns 18,438 shares of the information technology services provider’s stock worth $6,486,000 after purchasing an additional 4,905 shares during the period. First Hawaiian Bank increased its holdings in shares of Accenture by 2.9% during the first quarter. First Hawaiian Bank now owns 2,515 shares of the information technology services provider’s stock worth $785,000 after purchasing an additional 71 shares during the period. Rothschild Investment LLC increased its holdings in shares of Accenture by 3.6% during the first quarter. Rothschild Investment LLC now owns 1,710 shares of the information technology services provider’s stock worth $534,000 after purchasing an additional 59 shares during the period. Beese Fulmer Investment Management Inc. increased its holdings in shares of Accenture by 13.9% during the first quarter. Beese Fulmer Investment Management Inc. now owns 703 shares of the information technology services provider’s stock worth $219,000 after purchasing an additional 86 shares during the period. Finally, Peoples Bank KS bought a new position in shares of Accenture during the first quarter worth approximately $53,000. 75.14% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

ACN has been the topic of several recent research reports. Guggenheim lowered their target price on shares of Accenture from $305.00 to $285.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Friday. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft decreased their price objective on shares of Accenture from $260.00 to $235.00 and set a “hold” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday. Evercore ISI set a $280.00 price objective on shares of Accenture in a research note on Thursday. Hsbc Global Res raised shares of Accenture to a “moderate sell” rating in a research note on Monday, July 28th. Finally, UBS Group decreased their price objective on shares of Accenture from $363.00 to $315.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday. One analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fourteen have given a Buy rating, nine have assigned a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $301.91.

Accenture Stock Performance

NYSE ACN opened at $239.43 on Monday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.16, a quick ratio of 1.46 and a current ratio of 1.42. Accenture PLC has a fifty-two week low of $229.40 and a fifty-two week high of $398.35. The stock has a market cap of $149.96 billion, a PE ratio of 19.71, a PEG ratio of 2.04 and a beta of 1.30. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $253.43 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $285.81.

Accenture (NYSE:ACN) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, September 25th. The information technology services provider reported $3.03 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.98 by $0.05. Accenture had a net margin of 11.02% and a return on equity of 26.45%. The company had revenue of $17.60 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $17.34 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $2.66 earnings per share. Accenture’s revenue for the quarter was up 7.3% on a year-over-year basis. Accenture has set its FY 2026 guidance at 13.190-13.570 EPS. Q1 2026 guidance at EPS. On average, equities analysts expect that Accenture PLC will post 12.73 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Accenture Increases Dividend

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, November 14th. Stockholders of record on Friday, October 10th will be paid a $1.63 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, October 10th. This is a positive change from Accenture’s previous quarterly dividend of $1.48. This represents a $6.52 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.7%. Accenture’s payout ratio is currently 48.72%.

Insider Activity

In other news, CEO Mauro Macchi sold 500 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Friday, July 11th. The stock was sold at an average price of $282.34, for a total value of $141,170.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer owned 2,283 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $644,582.22. This represents a 17.97% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website. Also, CEO Julie Spellman Sweet sold 2,251 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Friday, July 11th. The shares were sold at an average price of $282.45, for a total value of $635,794.95. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer directly owned 8,109 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $2,290,387.05. The trade was a 21.73% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last quarter, insiders sold 2,954 shares of company stock valued at $834,280. Company insiders own 0.02% of the company’s stock.

Accenture Company Profile

Accenture plc, a professional services company, provides strategy and consulting, industry X, song, and technology and operation services worldwide. The company offers application services, including agile transformation, DevOps, application modernization, enterprise architecture, software and quality engineering, data management; intelligent automation comprising robotic process automation, natural language processing, and virtual agents; and application management services, as well as software engineering services; strategy and consulting services; data and analytics strategy, data discovery and augmentation, data management and beyond, data democratization, and industrialized solutions comprising turnkey analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions; metaverse; and sustainability services.