Moat
76.0/10
Large enterprise relationships, global delivery scale, cloud and software ecosystem partnerships, managed-services depth, and high switching costs support a strong services moat.
ACNQueued from the May 25, 2026 S&P 500 market-cap snapshot ranks 76-100; market data was refreshed with public May 2026 references.
Accenture
Accenture provides consulting, technology services, managed services, outsourcing, cloud, data, AI, security, marketing, and customer-experience services to large organizations.
Metadata
Where this company sits
- Ticker
- ACN
- Rank snapshot
- ≈ 88
- Sector
- Information Technology
- Industry
- IT Consulting & Services
- Region
- United States
- Index
- S&P 500 · Top 100 by market cap
Metrics
Scoring view
Every metric is paired with a short rationale. The numbers are deliberate, not divine.
Decentralizability
55.0/10
Some delivery components can be replaced by open tooling and federated specialist networks, but enterprise governance, procurement, accountability, and global staffing remain difficult to decentralize.
Profitability
73.0/10
Fiscal 2025 operating income of about $10.2 billion on $69.7 billion of revenue indicates durable profitability for a large services firm.
Price / Earnings
14.6x
YCharts listed Accenture's P/E ratio at 14.58 with market-cap data for May 26, 2026; public market multiples move daily.
Market cap
$109.3B
YCharts reported Accenture market capitalization of $109.28 billion for May 26, 2026, close to other public May 2026 market-data snapshots.
Freed-up capital potential
$0.0
Derived from market cap, moat resistance, decentralizability, and profitability. It is a directional estimate of value capture that could come under pressure if open alternatives compound.
Narrative
Why the company matters
A short editorial overview plus the current thesis on moat strength and decentralization pressure.
Business mix
Accenture is a global professional services company organized around consulting, managed services, technology, operations, and customer-experience work. Its fiscal 2025 annual report showed $69.7 billion of revenue and $10.2 billion of operating income, indicating a large, profitable services franchise rather than a single-product software platform.
The company's moat comes from enterprise account access, implementation scale, delivery talent, relationships with major cloud and enterprise software vendors, and the switching costs embedded in large transformation programs.
Registry relevance
Accenture is a useful registry target because its products are not consumer software but bundled transformation practices that influence which infrastructure, cloud, analytics, marketing, and AI stacks large institutions adopt.
Free and open alternatives can pressure pieces of the Accenture model when clients standardize on open infrastructure, self-hosted analytics, federated delivery teams, and transparent implementation playbooks instead of relying entirely on proprietary integrator-led programs.
Moat reading
Accenture's moat is high because it sells trust, coordination, scale, and risk absorption to enterprises that cannot easily replace a large integrator with one tool. The company can bundle strategy, implementation, managed services, talent, offshore delivery, procurement relationships, and executive relationships into long-running accounts.
The moat is not absolute. Open-source infrastructure, reusable implementation patterns, AI-assisted delivery, and smaller specialist networks can unbundle specific workstreams, especially when clients have enough internal capability to own architecture and vendor selection.
Decentralization reading
Accenture is moderately decentralizable because many deliverables are knowledge work, integration work, and operational playbooks that can be produced by smaller firms or open communities. The strongest decentralizing pressure comes from open cloud-native infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code, self-hosted analytics, and transparent delivery standards.
The hard-to-decentralize portion is enterprise accountability. Large clients often pay Accenture to coordinate many vendors, manage political risk, staff globally, and absorb delivery blame. Decentralized alternatives must therefore solve governance, verification, procurement, and support, not just provide open software.
Products
Where the moat actually touches users
These pages zoom into the products and services that matter most to each company, the alternatives already nibbling at them, and 2 structured disruption concepts across the current product set.
2 disruption concepts tracked0 documented exceptions
Accenture Cloud First
Cloud transformation and managed services
1 conceptAccenture Cloud First is Accenture's cloud transformation practice for migration, infrastructure, application modernization, data, AI, security, edge, and cloud operating models.
Accenture Song
Customer experience, marketing, commerce, and digital product services
1 conceptAccenture Song is Accenture's customer relevance, experience, marketing, sales, commerce, and digital product services business.
Technology waves
Strategic lenses
These are the repo's explicit bias terms: the technologies expected to keep making incumbents less inevitable over time.
Paper trail
Visible evidence trail
These sources shaped the scoring and writing. The site is opinionated, but it should not behave like it is improvising facts in a dark room.
Accenture 2025 Annual Report
Accenture · annual report
Primary financial and business-description source for fiscal 2025 revenue, operating income, business model, and service mix.
Reviewed 2026-05-27
Financial Performance
Accenture · investor relations
Investor-facing summary of fiscal 2025 revenue, growth, cash flow, and business performance.
Reviewed 2026-05-27
Accenture plc (ACN) Stock Price & Overview
Stock Analysis · market data
Public market-data snapshot for Accenture market capitalization, P/E ratio, revenue, earnings, and company profile in May 2026.
Reviewed 2026-05-27
Accenture Market Cap
YCharts · market data
Market-data reference reporting Accenture market capitalization of $109.28 billion for May 26, 2026 and a P/E ratio snapshot.
Reviewed 2026-05-27