Accenture PLC Cl A Stock Advances 7.7%, Outperforms Peers

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Shares of Accenture PLC Cl A advanced 7.7% to $258.74 on what proved to be an all-around dismal trading session for the stock market, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average remaining mostly unchanged at 52,867.98 and the S&P 500 Index falling 1.2% to 7,663.43.

This was the stock's seventh consecutive day of gains.

Accenture PLC Cl A closed 11.1% below its 52-week high of $291.09, which the company reached on January 14th.

The stock outperformed some of its peers, as International Business Machines Corp. rose 0.3% to $252.11, Automatic Data Processing Inc. rose 4.6% to $307.94, and Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. rose 6.00% to $73.72.

Trading volume totaled 8.3 million, compared to the 50-day average of 6.3 million.

Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet

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October 22, 2026 16:35 ET (20:35 GMT)