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ACN / FQ4 2026 - Aug 2026

Accenture plc

Reported: Oct 1, 2026

Forecast published

GPT Sol 6 High in Shortcut

Revised forecast · Replaced the original Sep 28 forecast

Shortcut

3.21

Normalized diluted EPS

+0.8% vs Street

Off by $0.08 per share

Street

3.18

Normalized diluted EPS

September 24 consensus snapshot

Off by $0.11 per share

Real

3.29

Normalized diluted EPS

Shortcut win

Reported result · Oct 1 ↗

USD per diluted share. Comparisons use unrounded estimates.

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Shortcut’s reasoning.

The June 18 issuer guide of $17.75–$18.40bn Q4 revenue and $13.78–$13.90 full-year adjusted EPS implies approximately $3.17 Q4 EPS at its midpoint, versus the frozen Sep 24 normalized Street $3.18.

Segment-specific year-on-year sales assumptions of +1.0% Americas, +5.2% EMEA and +3.0% Asia Pacific yield $18,084.4m revenue; management's expected Q4 FX effect is about -0.5%.

Prior-year Q4 operating costs excluding $615.3m optimization costs scale with segment revenue; forecast Q4 assumes no new optimization charge, a 25.6% tax rate and 613.5m diluted shares, yielding adjusted and GAAP diluted EPS of about $3.21.

Six of six supplied normalized EPS results strictly beat consensus, but Q3 bookings declined, some large managed-services work slipped to FY27, and pre-release Q4 sales revisions were predominantly downward; newer Sep 28 $3.19 preview is not substituted for original $3.18 baseline.

Upside: transformation projects, AI bookings and managed-services conversion; downside: weak discretionary spending and U.S. federal delays. A September federal award postdates the Aug 31 quarter and is not treated as Q4 revenue.

On the record.

Reporting period
FQ4 2026 - Aug 2026
Reporting basis
Normalized diluted EPS
Consensus snapshot
September 24, 2026
Model / effort
GPT Sol 6 · High effort
Workbook
Reviewed workbook
Forecast history
Original September 28 forecast ↗
Record history
Forecast generated
Sep 29, 2026 at 12:00 PM PDT
First published
Sep 29, 2026 at 4:00 PM PDT
Forecast summary
  • The revised model estimates normalized diluted EPS of $3.21, compared with the frozen September 24 Street estimate of $3.18.
  • The revised research considers company size, index membership and prior earnings history before weighing quarter-specific evidence. Historical beat rates are a starting assumption, not a mechanical increase to EPS.
How this result is scored

The Street baseline: consensus snapshot, September 24, 2026. Results are scored only after the earnings basis is matched. Read the methodology.