Company Update: Accenture plc (NYSE:ACN) – Jill Kramer Joins Accenture as Managing Director of Advertising

[Business Wire] – Accenture has hired Jill Kramer as managing director of advertising where she works across Accenture marketing teams to drive the company’s digital first agenda through strategic and creative advertising campaigns. Read more on this. Accenture plc (ACN) , valued at $70.73B, opened this morning at $113.65. During the trading session, ACN traded between $113.47 to $114.00 with a trailing 52-week range being $88.43 to $116.52. ACN shares are currently priced at 21.34x this year’s forecasted earnings, which makes them relatively expensive compared to the industry’s 13.35x forward p/e ratio. And for dividend hunters, the company pays shareholders $2.20 per share annually in dividends, yielding 1.94%. Consensus earnings for the current quarter by the 23 sell-side analysts covering the stock is an estimate of $1.41 per share, which would be $0.11 better than the year-ago quarter and a $0.01 sequential decrease. What we find to be interesting is that the full-year EPS estimate of $5.32 is a $0.50 better when compared to the previous year’s annual results. The quarterly earnings estimate is based on a consensus revenue forecast of the current quarter of $8.30 Billion. If realized, that would be a 6.82% increase over the year-ago quarter. Recently, Cantor Fitzgerald Initiated ACN at Buy (Oct 16, 2015). Previously, Argus upgraded ACN from Hold to Buy. When considering if perhaps the stock is under or overvalued, the average price target is $118.38, which is 4.16% above where the stock opened this morning. See more in (NYSE:ACN) Similar Articles: Stock Update (NYSE:ACN): Accenture Interactive Named World’s Biggest and Fastest-Growing Digital Agency Network by Advertising Age in Annual Agency Report Market Update: Accenture plc (NYSE:ACN) – Accenture Appoints Greg Kaplan as Lead Creative Director Company Update: Accenture plc (NYSE:ACN) – Accenture Survives Software Sag Of ’16; Stock Flirts With Record