Accenture (ACNN) AI Stock Analysis

Company Guidance

For the first quarter of fiscal '27, Accenture expects revenues to be in the range of $18.95 billion to $19.6 billion, assuming the impact of FX will be about negative 1% compared to the first quarter of fiscal '26 and reflecting an estimated 2% to 6% growth in local currency. For full fiscal '27, it assumes the impact of FX on results in U.S. dollars will be about flat compared to fiscal '26, revenue growth in the range of 3% to 6% in local currency, an inorganic contribution of 2% to 2.5%, operating margin of 15.9% to 16.1%, a 10 to 30 basis point expansion, an annual effective tax rate in the range of 24.5% to 26.5%, diluted earnings per share in the range of $14.39 to $14.81 or 3% to 6% growth, operating cash flow in the range of $11.9 billion to $12.7 billion, property and equipment additions of approximately $900 million, and free cash flow in the range of $11 billion to $11.8 billion with a free cash flow to net income ratio of 1.2 to 1.3. Accenture currently expects to deploy another approximately $5 billion in acquisitions, return at least $9.5 billion to shareholders through dividends growing 5% per share and $5.5 billion in share repurchases, reduce its weighted average share count by approximately 3%, and pay a quarterly cash dividend of $1.71 per share.