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**BETA FINCH: ACCENTURE (ACN) — Q4 FISCAL 2026 EARNINGS BREAKDOWN**

ALEX: Welcome to Beta Finch, your AI-powered earnings breakdown. I'm Alex.

JORDAN: And I'm Jordan. Today we're digging into Accenture's fourth quarter and full fiscal 2026 results, reported October 1st.

ALEX: Before we get into it — quick disclaimer. This podcast is AI-generated content for educational and entertainment purposes only. Nothing we discuss should be considered investment advice. Always do your own research and consult a qualified financial advisor before making any investment decisions.

JORDAN: Good to have that out of the way. So, Alex, Accenture — this is one of the biggest IT consulting and professional services firms on the planet, over 800,000 employees. What'd they post?

ALEX: Strong quarter. Q4 revenue came in at $18.7 billion, up 7% in local currency, and that actually beat the top end of their own guided range. And here's the headline stat I loved: growth was 7% across every single geographic market, every industry, and both types of work — consulting and managed services. That's about as broad-based as it gets.

JORDAN: Broad-based growth is the thing to watch for with a company this size, because it tells you it's not one lucky mega-deal propping up the number — it's systemic demand. What about bookings, because that's really the forward indicator here?

ALEX: Bookings were $22.2 billion for the quarter, and get this — 37 clients had bookings north of $100 million. For the full year, they closed $84.5 billion in bookings with 141 clients over that $100 million threshold.

JORDAN: That's a huge number of whale clients. And it fits the narrative management kept hammering — that their biggest relationships just keep expanding over time. They used FedEx as the case study: Accenture started by moving some applications to the cloud, and now they're embedded in FedEx's entire "One FedEx" digital transformation, plus AI fluency training across the whole workforce.

ALEX: Right, and CEO Julie Sweet's line was basically "each success creates the opportunity for the next." That's the whole land-and-expand playbook.

JORDAN: Let's talk profitability, because revenue growth is only half the story.

ALEX: Operating margin for the quarter hit 15.3%, up 20 basis points year-over-year on an adjusted basis. Diluted EPS grew 9% to $3.29. And free cash flow for the quarter was $2.8 billion. For the full year, revenue was $74.2 billion, up 5% in local currency, adjusted EPS was $13.97 — up 8% — and free cash flow for the year was $11.6 billion.

JORDAN: And shareholders did well too — they returned a record $11.5 billion in fiscal 2026, that's 38% more than the prior year, between buybacks and a dividend that was bumped up 10%.

ALEX: Now let's get into the strategic stuff, because this is where it gets interesting. Accenture deployed $4.9 billion across 17 acquisitions this year, and they're not slowing down — they're planning roughly $5 billion more in fiscal 2027.

JORDAN: And the acquisitions tell a story about where they think the puck is going. They closed Ookla for network intelligence analytics, Whalar — a creative and social agency — and a couple of SAP-focused deals to push deeper into mid-market Japan and the Netherlands. Plus the Cyber OT acquisitions, including Dragos, which actually got delayed into September due to regulatory timing — about $3 billion of that capital shifted from Q4 into fiscal Q1 2027.

ALEX: The AI story is really the throughline for the whole call. They now have nearly 110,000 AI and data professionals — which actually blew past their own three-year goal of doubling that workforce from 40,000 to 80,000. And nearly 400 clients started their first "advanced AI" engagement with Accenture this fiscal year alone.

JORDAN: What struck me in the Q&A was the Palantir question — an

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**BETA FINCH: ACCENTURE (ACN) — Q4 FISCAL 2026 EARNINGS BREAKDOWN**

ALEX: Welcome to Beta Finch, your AI-powered earnings breakdown. I'm Alex.

JORDAN: And I'm Jordan. Today we're digging into Accenture's fourth quarter and full fiscal 2026 results, reported October 1st.

ALEX: Before we get into it — quick disclaimer. This podcast is AI-generated content for educational and entertainment purposes only. Nothing we discuss should be considered investment advice. Always do your own research and consult a qualified financial advisor before making any investment decisions.

JORDAN: Good to have that out of the way. So, Alex, Accenture — this is one of the biggest IT consulting and professional services firms on the planet, over 800,000 employees. What'd they post?

ALEX: Strong quarter. Q4 revenue came in at $18.7 billion, up 7% in local currency, and that actually beat the top end of their own guided range. And here's the headline stat I loved: growth was 7% across every single geographic market, every industry, and both types of work — consulting and managed services. That's about as broad-based as it gets.

JORDAN: Broad-based growth is the thing to watch for with a company this size, because it tells you it's not one lucky mega-deal propping up the number — it's systemic demand. What about bookings, because that's really the forward indicator here?

ALEX: Bookings were $22.2 billion for the quarter, and get this — 37 clients had bookings north of $100 million. For the full year, they closed $84.5 billion in bookings with 141 clients over that $100 million threshold.

JORDAN: That's a huge number of whale clients. And it fits the narrative management kept hammering — that their biggest relationships just keep expanding over time. They used FedEx as the case study: Accenture started by moving some applications to the cloud, and now they're embedded in FedEx's entire "One FedEx" digital transformation, plus AI fluency training across the whole workforce.

ALEX: Right, and CEO Julie Sweet's line was basically "each success creates the opportunity for the next." That's the whole land-and-expand playbook.

JORDAN: Let's talk profitability, because revenue growth is only half the story.

ALEX: Operating margin for the quarter hit 15.3%, up 20 basis points year-over-year on an adjusted basis. Diluted EPS grew 9% to $3.29. And free cash flow for the quarter was $2.8 billion. For the full year, revenue was $74.2 billion, up 5% in local currency, adjusted EPS was $13.97 — up 8% — and free cash flow for the year was $11.6 billion.

JORDAN: And shareholders did well too — they returned a record $11.5 billion in fiscal 2026, that's 38% more than the prior year, between buybacks and a dividend that was bumped up 10%.

ALEX: Now let's get into the strategic stuff, because this is where it gets interesting. Accenture deployed $4.9 billion across 17 acquisitions this year, and they're not slowing down — they're planning roughly $5 billion more in fiscal 2027.

JORDAN: And the acquisitions tell a story about where they think the puck is going. They closed Ookla for network intelligence analytics, Whalar — a creative and social agency — and a couple of SAP-focused deals to push deeper into mid-market Japan and the Netherlands. Plus the Cyber OT acquisitions, including Dragos, which actually got delayed into September due to regulatory timing — about $3 billion of that capital shifted from Q4 into fiscal Q1 2027.

ALEX: The AI story is really the throughline for the whole call. They now have nearly 110,000 AI and data professionals — which actually blew past their own...]]>435falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/coming-soon-accenture-acn-earnings-analysis--75739695
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