On July 15, Accenture rose 3.05% in regular trading, trading at approximately $139.00/share, with turnover of $233 million. The stock rebounded as the market digested the prior session's sector-wide selloff triggered by IBM's earnings miss.
On July 14, IBM reported preliminary Q2 results that fell sharply below expectations, sending its shares down over 23% and dragging IT consulting peers lower. Accenture dropped as much as 4.83% that day to $133.88, alongside declines of roughly 4.5% in ServiceNow and SAP. With the initial shock absorbed, Accenture's stock underwent a technical recovery on July 15.
Fundamental support remains in place. Accenture's subsidiary completed a five-tranche notes offering totaling approximately $5 billion with estimated net proceeds of $4.98 billion, fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the parent company. Additionally, the company recently signed a contract worth approximately 200 million euros with the NATO Communications and Information Agency to deliver its Protected Business Network program over the next seven years, reinforcing a constructive order pipeline.
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