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Accenture plc, a professional services company, provides strategy and consulting, interactive, industry X, song, and technology and operation services worldwide. The company offers application services, including agile transformation, DevOps, application modernization, enterprise architecture, software and quality engineering, data management, intelligent automation comprises robotic process automation, natural language processing, and virtual agents, and application management services, as well as software engineering services; strategy and consulting services; data and analytics strategy, data discovery and augmentation, data management and beyond, data democratization, and industrialized solutions comprises turnkey analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions; metaverse; and sustainability services. It also provides change management, HR transformation and delivery, organization strategy and design, talent strategy and development, and leadership and culture services; digital commerce; infrastructure services, including cloud infrastructure managed, cloud and data center, network, digital workplace, database platforms, service management, and cloud and infrastructure security services; data-enabled operating models; technology consulting and AI services; and technology consulting services. In addition, the company offers engineering and R&D digitization, smart connected products, product as-a-service enablement, capital projects, intelligent asset management, digital industrial workforce, and autonomous robotic systems; business process outsourcing; and services related to technology innovation. Further, it provides cloud, ecosystem, marketing, security, supply chain management, zero-based transformation, customer experience, finance consulting, mergers and acquisitions, and sustainability services. The company was founded in 1951 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.
Sector
Discounted Cash Flow Valuation of Accenture Plc
Growth
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g\r | +10% | +11% | +12% | +13% | +14% |
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0% | 10 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 7 |
+1% | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 8 |
+2% | 13 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 |
+3% | 14 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 9 |
+4% | 17 | 14 | 12 | 11 | 10 |
Years | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | TV |
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FCF | $8.996B | $10.19B | $11.44B | $12.75B | $14.09B | $15.43B | $16.77B | $18.07B | $19.3B | $20.45B | $21.47B | $214.7B |
DCF | $8.858B | $8.652B | $8.382B | $8.053B | $7.674B | $7.251B | $6.793B | $6.311B | $5.812B | $5.307B | $53.07B | |
Value | $126.2B |
In the chart Earnings are multiplied by this value.
High margins render the company resilient under dire circumstances, hence able to drive competitors out or acquire them. ROE and ROA measure the average flow generated by each invested dollar. Their marginal value is a forecast of future growth, and it is considered by Buffett and Munger the most important single indicator.
Years | 08-2015 | 08-2016 | 08-2017 | 08-2018 | 08-2019 | 08-2020 | 08-2021 | 08-2022 | 08-2023 | TTM |
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Net Margin | 9.3% | 12% | 9.4% | 9.8% | 11% | 12% | 12% | 11% | 11% | 11% |
ROA | 24% | 27% | 20% | 24% | 21% | 18% | 18% | 20% | 18% | 18% |
ROE | 46% | 50% | 35% | 38% | 32% | 29% | 29% | 30% | 26% | 26% |
The average Net Margin over the past 5 years is +10.99%.
The trend of Net Margin over the past 5 years is +0.15%.
The average ROA over the past 5 years is +19.84%.
The trend of ROA over the past 5 years is -0.99%.
The average ROE over the past 5 years is +30.81%.
The trend of ROE over the past 5 years is -1.86%.
Being debt the number one cause of investment losses and company death, the ratio Debt/FCF is of utmost importance to guarantee safety. On the other hand the Graham’s stability measures the drawdown of earnings, hence indicating the reliability of the flow generated by the company.
Years | 08-2015 | 08-2016 | 08-2017 | 08-2018 | 08-2019 | 08-2020 | 08-2021 | 08-2022 | 08-2023 | TTM |
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Debt FCF | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.02 |
Debt Equity | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
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Graham Stability | - | - | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
The Debt/FCF trailing twelve month is 0.02.
The trend of Debt/FCF over the past 5 years is 0.00.
Graham’s Stability measure stands at 1.00.
Growth can be dangerous when forecasting, simply projecting the current growth is in general wrong. A company passes through multiple phases, from being young and unprofitable, to the first periods of profitability and high growth, until it arrives at a period of regime with limited growth. Identifying in which phase the company is in may help forecasting.
Years | 08-2016 | 08-2018 | 08-2020 | 08-2022 | Trend |
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Revenue | 9.1% | 9% | 13% | 4.1% | 0.97% |
Net Income | 7.6% | 11% | 10% | -0.082% | -0.29% |
Stockholders Equity | 18% | 20% | 15% | 16% | 0.21% |
FCF | 12% | 11% | 5.7% | 2% | -1.1% |
The Revenue CAGR over the past 5 years is +9.03%.
The trend of Revenue growth rate over the past 5 years is +0.97%.
The Earnings CAGR over the past 5 years is +11.1%.
The trend of Earnings growth rate over the past 5 years is -0.29%.
The Equity CAGR over the past 5 years is +19.79%.
The trend of Equity growth rate over the past 5 years is +0.21%.
The FCF CAGR over the past 5 years is +10.72%.
The trend of FCF growth rate over the past 5 years is -1.14%.