Accenture plc (ACN) recently announced that it plans to acquire OPENSTREAM HOLDINGS and its subsidiaries, Open Stream and Neutral. The financial terms of the deal have been kept under wraps.Open Stream, consisting of a 600-member team, specializes in consulting and systems integration services, offering advanced technologies such as AI, cloud, IoT and cybersecurity to the retail and logistics sectors. The company provides low-code development platforms for production management, accounting systems, inventor ...

Loading...Loading...On CNBC's “Mad Money Lightning Round,” Jim Cramer recommends buying sports betting company DraftKings Inc. DKNG, proclaiming, “I think it's terrific.”On May 2, DraftKings reported first-quarter revenue of $1.18 billion, up 53% year-over-year. The revenue total beat a Street consensus estimate of $1.12 billion, according to data from Benzinga Pro. The global online sports betting market size had a value of roughly $54.6 billion in 2023. It’s projected to exceed $142 billion by 2032, per Z ...

Accenture (ACN) has been one of the most searched-for stocks on Zacks.com lately. So, you might want to look at some of the facts that could shape the stock's performance in the near term.Over the past month, shares of this consulting company have returned -1.9%, compared to the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +2% change. During this period, the Zacks Consulting Services industry, which Accenture falls in, has lost 2%. The key question now is: What could be the stock's future direction?Although media reports or r ...

Accenture (ACN) ended the recent trading session at $306.33, demonstrating a -0.09% swing from the preceding day's closing price. This change lagged the S&P 500's daily gain of 0.17%. On the other hand, the Dow registered a gain of 0.32%, and the technology-centric Nasdaq decreased by 0.03%.Prior to today's trading, shares of the consulting company had lost 5.71% over the past month. This has lagged the Business Services sector's loss of 2.38% and the S&P 500's gain of 0.17% in that time.The investment comm ...

Investors often turn to recommendations made by Wall Street analysts before making a Buy, Sell, or Hold decision about a stock. While media reports about rating changes by these brokerage-firm employed (or sell-side) analysts often affect a stock's price, do they really matter?Before we discuss the reliability of brokerage recommendations and how to use them to your advantage, let's see what these Wall Street heavyweights think about Accenture (ACN) .Accenture currently has an average brokerage recommendati ...

dem10 Overview Accenture (NYSE:ACN) is a leading global professional IT services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth, and enhance citizen services — creating tangible value at speed and scale. They are an innovative company consisting of over 721,000 talented people serving clients in more than 120 countries. (Adapted from Accenture’s 2022 annual report) Accenture serves more ...

Dividend investors can produce outsized total returns by investing in stocks with a mix of yield and growth. Dividend growth stocks have the ability to grow their dividends each year, even during recessions.One way to do that is to start with the Dividend Achievers, a group of stocks with at least 10 years of consecutive dividend increases. Steady dividend growth over many years is an indication of a growing business, with rising earnings that can return higher shareholder distributions.These three Dividend ...

Accenture and Oracle expanded their partnership to help clients accelerate their adoption of generative artificial intelligence in the finance organization.The new solutions offered through this collaboration aim to help chief financial officers reinvent financial planning and analysis, optimize operations and fuel growth, the companies said in a Monday (May 6) press release.“Our clients are laser-focused on moving beyond generative AI experimentation to value realization,” Lan Guan, chief AI officer at Acc ...

doomu/iStock via Getty Images In my 10 Dividend Growth Stocks series, I rank a selection of Dividend Radar stocks and present the ten top-ranked stocks for further research and possible investment. Dividend Radar is a weekly automatically generated spreadsheet of dividend growth [DG] stocks with dividend increase streaks of five or more years. To look for interesting candidates, I apply different screens every month to highlight different aspects of dividend growth investing. This month, I'm presenting ...

Accenture (ACN) is one of the stocks most watched by Zacks.com visitors lately. So, it might be a good idea to review some of the factors that might affect the near-term performance of the stock.Shares of this consulting company have returned -5.8% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's -3% change. The Zacks Consulting Services industry, to which Accenture belongs, has lost 5.7% over this period. Now the key question is: Where could the stock be headed in the near term?Although media repor ...