We recently compiled a list of the 10 AI Stocks on Analysts’ Radars. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Accenture Plc (NYSE:ACN) stands against the other AI stocks.
Despite DeepSeek and Qwen 2.5 disrupting the global tech sector, investors welcomed the impressive Q4 AI revenues from leading US tech firms like International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM). The company’s stock price reached an all-time high of $261 on January 30th as it reported GenAI’s book of business surpassing $5 billion since the segment’s inception.
“Three years ago, we laid out a vision for a faster-growing, more-profitable IBM. I’m proud of the work the IBM team has done to meet or exceed our commitments. With our focused strategy, enhanced portfolio, and culture of innovation, we’re well-positioned for 2025 and beyond and expect revenue growth of at least five percent and free cash flow of about $13.5 billion this year,” said IBM CEO Arvind Krishna.
While the S&P 500 sharply fell from its record high of 6,118 on January 23rd to 6,012 on January 27th, the benchmark index appears to have momentum in the past few days, climbing to 6,071 on January 30th.
However, several concerns remain about the adoption of AI, in terms of security and job losses. Code.org Founder and CEO Hadi Partovi said at the World Economic Forum that the risk isn’t people losing their jobs to AI, but losing work “to somebody else who knows how to use AI. That is going to be a much greater displacement.”
“It’s not that the worker gets replaced by just a robot or a machine in most cases, especially for desk jobs, it’s that some better educated or more modernly educated worker can do that job because they can be twice as productive or three times as productive,” he explained. “The imperative is to teach how AI tools work to every citizen, and especially to our young people.”
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Accenture Plc (NYSE:ACN)
Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 60
Accenture Plc (NYSE:ACN) is a tech company that offers services related to agile transformation, data analytics, intelligent automation, AI, and software engineering. The firm is committed to speeding up the R&D and deployment of AI agents using Nvidia’s (NASDAQ:NVDA) AI offerings for faster placement of multi-agent networks for easy integration into enterprise systems. Meanwhile, the company is also revamping its core banking modernization capabilities through platform acquisitions that help unify data from legacy and modern banking architectures to facilitate product development.
On January 31st, Morgan Stanley raised Accenture Plc’s (NYSE:ACN) target price to $380 from $335 while maintaining an “Equal Weight” stock rating. The brokerage upgraded the company’s US IT Services industry outlook to “In-Line” from “Cautious.” Analysts said that investor expectations and risk/reward look “reasonably balanced for the next 12-18 months,” but key early indicators “do not point to meaningful upside to current estimates,” despite industry growth showing signs of improvement.
Overall ACN ranks 3rd on our list of the AI stocks on analysts’ radars. While we acknowledge the potential of ACN as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and doing so within a shorter timeframe. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than ACN but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.
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