Accenture plc
Accenture plc (ACN) has a dated report snapshot, but its current priced-in claim is temporarily suppressed because the live engine record is unavailable or has changed.
• Accenture is the scale leader in technology consulting and managed services, spread across five industry groups, and the live question is whether generative AI is a tailwind that fills its pipeline or a headwind that compresses the billable-hours model it runs on. • The defining near-term risk is demand: new bookings have softened, down a couple of percent year over year, even as the largest reinvention deals keep growing, so the bookings line is the single number that decides the direction. •
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2,105 institutional managers reported holding ACN in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 78% of the company; the top 10 hold 38%. 138 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 28.2M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 5% of shares outstanding (5.9 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
ACN has cut its share count 3.6% over the past five years, spending $23.70B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (18 and counting), raised 6 years straight; the current rate is $5.92 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $10.66B in dividends and $15.34B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at ACN over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 28 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
ACN's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-23 | -4.7% | +6.8% |
| 2023-10-13 | -2.3% | +14.0% |
| 2023-12-20 | -0.7% | +6.3% |
| 2024-03-22 | -11.3% | -10.8% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
ACN's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-10 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-06-23 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-06-18 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-04-24 (items 1.01, 1.02, 2.03, 9.01); 2026-03-19 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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