Accenture
Accenture plc provides consulting and managed services in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It offers artificial intelligence and data; cloud consulting; cybersecurity consulting; digital engineering and manufacturing; ecosystem partners; emerging technology; fina…
Accenture plc provides consulting and managed services in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It offers artificial intelligence and data; cloud consulting; cybersecurity consulting; digital engineering and manufacturing; ecosystem partners; emerging technology; finance and risk management consulting; infrastructure and capital projects; digital learning; supply chain consulting; technology consulting; sustainability consulting; and metaverse solutions, as well as customer services. The company also provides proprietary assets and platforms, such as GenWizard, SynOps and reinvention.AI to clients. It serves aerospace and defense, automotive, banking, capital markets, chemicals, communications and media, consumer goods and services, energy, health, high tech, industrial, insurance, life sciences, natural resources, private equity, public service, retail, software and platforms, travel, and utilities industries. Accenture plc was founded in 1951 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.Priced within the modelled range
5-year outlook: Not shown because confidence is low: Earnings-based DCF disagrees strongly.
Other models: USD 169.58–256.12 (median 212.85). The recommended value is 33% above that median, so treat the upside with extra caution.
Why: Free cash flow is positive and in line with earnings, and the dividend is small, so a cash-flow DCF fits best.
Details and the full model are below.
Market price within modeled range
Free-cash-flow DCF using Fiscal year 2026 reported free cash flow, with cash, debt, and shares from the latest report. Base assumptions are 5.85% growth, 3.25% terminal growth, and 11.5% discount. Low/high cases vary growth by 2 and terminal growth/discount by 1 percentage point; this illustrative range is not a statistical confidence interval or investment advice.
Assumptions: growth 5.85%, discount rate 11.50%, terminal growth 3.25% (sector defaults). See a worked example.
Blended growth assumption: 5.8% (sector default 8.5%, own revenue history 4.8%, analyst revenue consensus 5.1%).
Analyst consensus expects revenue growth of 5.1% a year; the growth assumption used is 5.9%.
Adjust assumptions
Why this model: Free cash flow is positive and in line with earnings, and the dividend is small, so a cash-flow DCF fits best.
Compare models- Recommended: Free-cash-flow DCF — USD 282.91 (+6.7%)
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EPS-based Gordon proxy
— USD 169.58 (-36.0%)
Not used: Treats all earnings as if paid out and ignores the cash kept for reinvestment, so it overstates value for companies that retain most profit.
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DCF (trailing free cash flow)
— USD 282.91 (+6.7%)
Not used: Not chosen: Free-cash-flow DCF ranks ahead of it for this company.
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FCFF (steady state)
— USD 256.12 (-3.4%)
Not used: Assumes only the long-run terminal growth rate from today, so it ignores the near-term growth expected.
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EV/EBITDA (12x)
— not applicable
Not used: Cannot be computed: EBITDA is missing, zero or negative.
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Fade DCF (10-year growth fade)
— USD 281.82 (+6.3%)
Not used: An alternative growth path (fading over 10 years) shown for comparison; the automatic choice does not use it.
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EV/Sales (Rule of 40)
— USD 161.16 (-39.2%)
Not used: Used only when cash-flow models land far below the price; here they do not.
| Bear USD 220.92 | -20.0% |
| Base USD 282.91 | 6.3% |
| Bull USD 386.15 | 31.3% |
Margin = (value − price) / value, so it is measured against the value and reads lower than the upside to value, which is measured against the price. Positive means the price is below that case.
At USD 265.16 the market implies about this annual free-cash-flow growth for 5 years (terminal 3.3%, discount 11.5%).
Compare: the market implies 4.2% a year, this model assumes 5.9%. The model is more optimistic than the price, which is why it reads as undervalued.
How the Free-cash-flow DCF value changes with growth (rows) and discount rate (columns). Green cells are above the current price.
| Growth \ Discount | 9.5% | 10.5% | 11.5% | 12.5% | 13.5% |
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| 1.8% | 313.15 | 273.06 | 242.68 | 218.87 | 199.69 |
| 3.8% | 339.63 | 295.51 | 262.08 | 235.89 | 214.81 |
| 5.9% | 368.10 | 319.62 | 282.91 | 254.16 | 231.02 |
| 7.9% | 398.68 | 345.51 | 305.26 | 273.74 | 248.39 |
| 9.9% | 431.48 | 373.26 | 329.20 | 294.70 | 266.98 |
Track record: see the methodology page for how this model has performed historically, including its limits. Treat it as a screen, not a forecast.
Price history and fair value
No chartable saved daily price history is available for this range. The chart uses stored EODHD prices only and will appear after history is saved.
More detail: quality, peers, price history, dividends and financials
Quality score: 87 / 100
Five equal checks on reported history: profitability, cash generation, revenue growth, balance sheet and margins. It describes business quality, not whether the price is attractive.
| Profitability | 5 of 5 years profitable | 20 / 20 |
| Cash generation | free cash flow positive in 5 of 5 years | 20 / 20 |
| Growth | revenue +4.8% a year | 12 / 20 |
Peers in Information Technology
Same-sector companies with a valuation, most undervalued first. Compare the margin of safety, yield and quality score side by side.
| Company | Price | Margin of safety | P/E | P/B | Yield | Quality |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACN (this company) | USD 265.16 | 6.3% | 19.6 | 5.2 | – | 87 |
| SMCI Supermicro | USD 27.08 | 50.8% | 8.5 | 1.3 | – | 68 |
| SNDK Sandisk | USD 806.43 | 44.1% | 6.4 | 6.8 | – | 76 |
| ADBE Adobe Inc. | USD 246.44 | 42.5% | 13.4 | 8.3 | – | 100 |
| IT Gartner | USD 198.07 | 35.7% | 13.3 | – | – | 92 |
| INTU Intuit | USD 354.84 | 31.9% | 21.1 | 5.1 | 1.4% | 100 |
| HPQ HP Inc. | USD 29.44 | 31.6% | 11.1 | – | 4.0% | 64 |
| GIB-A.TO CGI Inc. | CAD 115.51 | 26.9% | 13.9 | 2.4 | 0.6% | 90 |
| FSLR First Solar | USD 195.76 | 25.9% | 11.3 | 1.9 | – | 84 |
| Peer median | 12.3 | 3.7 | ||||
Dividends
Paid in the last 12 months: USD 6.60 per share · yield 2.49% at the current price.
| Year | Dividends per share |
|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 6.600 |
| 2025 | 6.070 |
| 2024 | 5.350 |
| 2023 | 4.650 |
| 2022 | 4.030 |
| 2021 | 3.610 |
Annual financial statement
Saved annual report · Fiscal year 2026 · SEC EDGAR annual filings · period ended 31 Aug 2026
| Revenue | USD 74,183,445,000 |
|---|---|
| EBITDA | USD |
| EBIT | USD 11,405,960,000 |
| Net income | USD 8,367,056,000 |
| Free cash flow | USD 11,620,598,000 |
| Capital expenditures | USD -742,748,000 |
| Debt | USD 113,069,000 |
| Cash | USD 12,831,471,000 |
| Working capital | USD 9,526,766,000 |
| Shares outstanding | 617,498,483 |