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ACN: Bull or Bear?
Accenture shares rise on earnings beat
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Filed under: Earnings reports, Stocks to Buy <>Accenture Ltd. (NYSE: ACN), a global consulting firm that also offers outsourcing and technology services, reported earnings after the close today. Earnings per share for the quarter ending May 31 were $0.68 on $5.15 billion in revenue, compared to the $0.64 average and $0.67 high expected from analysts. The consensus revenue target was $5.2 billion, and results were hurt by currency translation effects, which reduced U.S. dollar results by 12%. Year-over-year, EPS was down 8% from the $0.74 earned in the same quarter last year, with the differenc...
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Zacks Commentary: Consulting stocks stay strong
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Filed under: Industry, H and R Block (HRB), Stocks to Buy By Michael Vodicka,  analyst, Zacks Investment Research.
It has been exceptionally challenging this year for many companies to grow their earnings, as a number of factors continue to wreak havoc on normally profitable business models.Higher energy costs have been squeezing almost every company's margins, none more significantly than the airline and auto industries. Raw materials costs continue to climb as large, developing nations like India and China compete for a limited supply of natural resources. <> To make matters worse, the credit ...
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Accenture (ACN): 'Consulting' with a buyback expert
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 David Fried is a leading authority on corporate buybacks, focused exclusively on companies that are involved in repurchasing their own shares.
One of the latest 'buys' in his aptly-named The Buyback Letter, is consulting and outsourcing firm Accenture (NYSE: ACN). Here's the advisor's review. "Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, collaborating with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. <>"They use industry knowledge, expertise and technological capabilities to help worldwide clients enter new markets, increa...
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Accenture Ltd.
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Accenture, Ltd. operates as a management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company. Its management consulting services include customer relationship management; finance and performance management, which develops financial transaction processing, risk management, and business performance reporting solutions; human performance that works with clients on talent management, workforce, and organizational issues; strategy service line, which helps clients turn insights into results at the enterprise and business-unit level; and supply chain management. The company also provides var...
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Accenture (ACN): Buyback bet on consulting firm
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Filed under: Newsletters, Stocks to Buy David Fried is a leading authority on corporate buybacks, focused exclusively on companies that are involved in repurchasing their own shares. One of the latest 'buys' in his aptly-named The Buyback Letter, is consulting and outsourcing firm Accenture (NYSE: ACN). Here's the advisor's review. "Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, collaborating with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. <>"They use industry knowledge, expertise and technological capabilities to help worl...
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Well Placed Company
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Accenture has moved away from the consultancy model to becoming a professional services firm. It is one of the global players, that has the critical mass to continue to compete strongly in a growing sector, outsourcing.
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Adding a lot of employees in India
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Accenture is in high-end consulting market, where the volume is moderate - but margin is very high. It's also expanding massively in India indicating expansion in high volume- low margin technical consulting area. Great play for long-term. It's better poised than Infosys (INFY) to take on high-end consulting and low-end contracting at the same time. I'm not selling this baby for anything less than $60!
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Bullish on ACN ...
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Accenture's consulting and outsourcing business are set for outstanding growth over the next few years. The stock is off it's high a bit after news of their woes with a project for Britain's National Health Service (NHS): Accenture is going to eat $450 Million dollars on the project. (http://yahoo.reuters.com/stocks/QuoteCompanyNewsArticle.aspx? storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com: 20060329:MTFH19297_2006-03-29_20-10-33_L29127379 &symbol=ACN.N&rpc=44)
However, don't see this as a sign of things to come. The company is dealing with the NHS problem, and investors should see this as an opportunity...
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