Shares of Accentuate (NYSE: ACN) are quietly risen to their 52-week high at the beginning of 2025. The Consulting Juggernaut delivers solid operational and annual momentum, emerging as a surprising leader in artificial intelligence (AI) by enabling customers to implement advanced technological solutions.
With these encouraging developments, investors may wonder whether the rally of the stock price still has room to run, or whether the chance of profit has already expired.
Let’s see what we should do with Accenture shares from here.
With a talent pool of 799,000 employees in more than 120 countries, Accenture stands out as a world leader in professional services. In addition to its roots in management advice and outsourcing of operations, the company has evolved by helping large organizations to navigate increasingly complex digital transformation needs. Strategies and solutions in areas such as Cloud ComputingData analytics, cyber security, automation and AI are a lot of demand for and represent important growth grips.
The impact has been impressive. In his tax first quarter of 2025 (which ended on November 30), the turnover year after year with 9%, climbed with strength in regions and industrial groups. The profit per share (EPS) increased by 16%, which reflects the continuous shift to more high -tech and offers with added value that contribute to higher margins.
AI has become a central part of the company, with customers who want to integrate capacities such as such as Generative AI In their existing systems, as well as a tool to improve their own productivity and advisory efficiency.
The pace of new bookings was strong enough for management to increase the supervision of the entire year. Accenture is now projecting revenue growth of 2025 between 4% and 7%, which accelerates the increase of 1% last year. The center of the EPS guideline range of the management of $ 12.43 to $ 12.79 would be an increase of 11% compared to the result of 2024 of $ 11.44.
Similarly, the free cash flow is expected to jump higher this year, which probably played a role in the company’s decision to increase its dividend by 15% to a new quarterly rate of $ 1.48 per share. The dividend yield against the current share price is a modest 1.5%, but those payouts contribute to the attraction of the shares.
Ultimately, investors who have faith in Accenture’s ability to continue to benefit from his growth potential plenty of reasons to buy and keep the shares today.
|
Metric |
2024 |
2025 Estimation |
|---|---|---|
|
Turnover growth (yoj) |
1% |
4% to 7% |
|
EPS |
$ 11.44 |
$ 12.43 to $ 12.79 |
|
EPS growth (yoj) |
6% |
9% to 12% |
|
Free cash flow |
$ 8.6 billion |
$ 8.8 billion to $ 9.5 billion |
Data source: Accenture. Yoy = year after year.