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Accenture plc
Rule-based classification of fundamentals against the sector. Not a price forecast and not investment advice.
Signals scattered
2 of 5 met · composite in line with peers
Business quality, valuation against the sector, and position in the 52-week range — whether they line up or not.
Mixed signals
1 signal unavailable
Profitability
3/4
Debt & liquidity
1/3
Efficiency
0/2
Valuation is the clearest signal here: the P/E of 11.0× sits -73% below the sector median 40.1×, placing Accenture plc in the top quartile of the sector on price. FCF grew 46.1% year over year, outpacing the sector median 28.2% by +63%, and Debt/EBITDA of 0.5× runs -23% below the median 0.6× — the balance sheet carries little strain. Against those positives, operating margin of 14.7% lags the sector median 29.2% by -50%, and EPS growth of 6.2% trails the median 22.7% by -73%, which is where the F-Score of 4/9 reflects the mixed picture. The forward read adds another layer of caution: the beat rate over eight quarters is weak, and with the divergence field reading mixed, the market's consensus EPS growth models a pace that the recent track record has not consistently delivered.
| Ticker | Name | F-Score | ROE | Revenue YoY | Op. margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AAPL | Apple | 8/9 | 171% | +6% |
Quarter-by-quarter classification · a retrospective read by the current logic · not a price forecast
Rule-based classification of fundamentals against the sector. Not a price forecast and not investment advice. The method did not see these quarters in real time; this is the current logic applied to past reports.
The market prices in earnings growth; analyst sentiment is weakening; has mostly beaten consensus.
Price against next year's expected earnings. The forward P/E already carries analyst optimism — read it alongside the “Versus consensus” line.
A forward P/E below the current one means the market expects earnings to grow; above it, to fall. The historical growth is realized figures from SEC filings, not a forecast.
The three-month change in the share of positive analyst ratings. This is sentiment, not an earnings-estimate revision, and not a call to act.
When Accenture reports on 2026-09-24, track revenue year over year and EPS growth, which currently sits 73% below the sector median at 22.7%. A narrowing of that gap, alongside any commentary on operating margin improvement from its current 29.2%, would be a meaningful signal to reassess the F-Score's mixed efficiency and leverage readings.
On SEC EDGAR, open Accenture's most recent 10-K and focus on management's discussion of margin pressure — operating margin is 50% below the sector median. Cross-check their explanation of FCF growth (28.2% YoY, 63% above median) against capital allocation disclosures to understand whether that cash generation is structural or timing-driven.
From the same-sector table in section 06, pick two or three companies yourself and line up one metric — operating margin or Debt/EBITDA (ACN sits at 0.60×) works well. No company in that alphabetical list is ranked; the exercise is to place ACN's figures in context, not to identify a preferred alternative.
Steps you can check yourself, based on the figures in this brief.
Piotroski F-Score: nine binary tests of financial strength from the annual report. A ✓ marks a test passed, a dot (·) a test failed.
Over 4 years: +26%
Over 4 years: 0.010.46
Over 4 years: +7%
The context on the right shows how each figure compares with the sector median. The trend below tracks the change over recent fiscal years.
Beat consensus in 8 of 8 recent quarters — the company clears estimates regularly (consensus is often set conservatively).
Last quarter's EPS against consensus, plus the estimated date of the next report.
| 32% |
| ACN | Accenture plc | 4/9 | 26% | +7% | 15% |
| ADBE | Adobe | 7/9 | 55% | +11% | 37% |
| AMAT | Applied Materials | 6/9 | 36% | +4% | 29% |
| AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | 7/9 | 7% | +34% | 11% |
| AVGO | Broadcom | 8/9 | 43% | +24% | 40% |
| CRM | Salesforce | 7/9 | 12% | +10% | 20% |
| CSCO | Cisco | 8/9 | 22% | +5% | 21% |
| IBM | IBM | 6/9 | 35% | +8% | — |
| INTC | Intel | 6/9 | -0% | -0% | -4% |
| INTU | Intuit | 8/9 | 20% | +16% | 26% |
| MSFT | Microsoft | 6/9 | 33% | +15% | 46% |
| NOW | ServiceNow | 3/9 | 15% | +21% | 14% |
| NVDA | NVIDIA | 3/9 | 101% | +65% | 60% |
| ORCL | Oracle | 4/9 | 54% | +17% | 31% |
| TXN | Texas Instruments | 7/9 | 30% | +13% | 34% |
A sample of 16 companies in the sector including the target, alphabetical, unranked. Data from the latest SEC annual reports.
Rule-based classification of fundamentals against the sector. Not a price forecast and not investment advice.
A simplified retrospective read: no analyst forecast (not available historically); the source is the annual report as of the date, so neighbouring quarters can rest on the same data. Quarters with the same classification in a row are merged into one row — each row is one change in the read, not a separate quarter. One ticker is an illustration of the classification logic, not statistics. How we calculate →
The last few quarters are recent context, not a fixed rate. Consensus for near quarters is set low, so companies clear it routinely; over long horizons the forecasts run the other way, too high.
A description of what the market and analysts expect. Not a price forecast and not investment advice. Analyst forecasts run systematically optimistic over long horizons — read them with that discount.