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ACN vs IBM

Side-by-side comparison of Accenture plc (ACN) and International Business Machines Corporation (IBM): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • ACN operates in Consumer Discretionary, while IBM operates in Technology - the two are in different parts of the market.
  • IBM is the larger of the two at $234.60B, about 1.4x ACN ($169.63B).
  • Over the past year, ACN is up 2.9% and IBM is down 21.2% - ACN leads by 24.1 points.
  • ACN has been more active in the news (33 items in the past 4 weeks vs 18 for IBM).
  • Both have 25 recent analyst ratings on file.
PerformanceACN+2.90%IBM-21.23%
2025-11-12+0.00%2026-11-11
MetricACNIBM
Company
Accenture plc
International Business Machines Corporation
Price
-
-
Market cap
$169.63B
$234.60B
1M return
+18.81%
+7.52%
1Y return
+2.90%
-21.23%
Industry
Business Services
Computer Manufacturing
Exchange
NYSE
NYSE
IPO
2001
News (4w)
33
18
Recent ratings
25
25
ACN

Accenture plc

Accenture plc, a professional services company, provides strategy and consulting, interactive, and technology and operations services worldwide. The company also provides outsourcing services. It serves communications, media, high tech, software, and platform companies; banking, capital market, and insurance industries; and consumer goods, retail, travel services, industrial, and life science industries, as well as clients in health, public service, chemicals and natural resources, energy, and utility sectors. Accenture plc has alliance relationships with Adobe, Alibaba, Amazon Web Services, Blue Yonder, Cisco, Dell, Google, HPE, IBM RedHat, Microsoft, Oracle, Pegasystems, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, VMWare, Workday, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, CNH Industrial, and Reactive Technologies. It has an agreement with Duke Energy Corporation for the development of a technology platform designed to measure actual baseline methane emissions from natural gas distribution systems. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation

International Business Machines Corporation provides integrated solutions and services worldwide. Its Cloud & Cognitive Software segment offers software for vertical and domain-specific solutions in various application areas; and customer information control system and storage, and analytics and integration software solutions to support client mission on-premise workloads in banking, airline, and retail industries. It also offers middleware and data platform software, including Red Hat that enables the operation of clients' hybrid multi-cloud environments; and Cloud Paks, WebSphere distributed, and analytics platform software, such as DB2 distributed, information integration, and enterprise content management, as well as IoT, Blockchain and AI/Watson platforms. The company's Global Business Services segment offers business consulting services; system integration, application management, maintenance, and support services for packaged software; and finance, procurement, talent and engagement, and industry-specific business process outsourcing services. Its Global Technology Services segment provides IT infrastructure and platform services; and project, managed, outsourcing, and cloud-delivered services for enterprise IT infrastructure environments; and IT infrastructure support services. The company's Systems segment offers servers for businesses, cloud service providers, and scientific computing organizations; data storage products and solutions; and z/OS, an enterprise operating system, as well as Linux. Its Global Financing segment provides lease, installment payment, loan financing, short-term working capital financing, and remanufacturing and remarketing services. The company has a collaboration alliance with GK Software SE to enhance retail innovation and customer omnichannel experience with hybrid cloud technology. The company was formerly known as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. The company was incorporated in 1911 and is headquartered in Armonk, New York.

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