Top 10 Long Term Companies To Own For 2015

Top 10 Long Term Companies To Own For 2015: Accenture plc. (ACN)

Accenture plc provides management consulting, technology, and business process outsourcing services worldwide. It offers various management consulting services in the areas of finance and enterprise performance, operations, risk management, sales and customer service, strategy, sustainability, and talent and organization management, as well as provides industry-specific management consulting services. The company also offers system integration consulting services and solutions, including enterprise solutions and enterprise resource planning, industry and functional solutions, information management services, custom solutions, and Microsoft solutions; and technology consulting services and solutions comprising information technology (IT) strategy, infrastructure consulting, IT security consulting, and application modernization and optimization. In addition, it provides technology outsourcing services, which include application outsourcing services; infrastructure outsourcin g services in service desk, workplace, data-center, network, security, and IT spend management service areas; cloud computing services; and mobility and embedded software services. Further, the company provides business process outsourcing (BPO) services for business functions and/or processes, including finance and accounting, human resources, learning and procurement, and others, as well as industry-specific BPO services, such as credit services. It serves communications, electronics and high technology, media and entertainment, banking, capital markets, insurance, health, public service, airlines, freight and logistics, automotive, consumer goods and service, industrial equipment, infrastructure and transportation service, life sciences, retail, chemical, energy, natural resources, and utility industries. Accenture plc has a strategic collaboration with Marriott Int! ernational, Inc. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By tyokunbo]

  Hewlett Packard's market rivals include Accenture (ACN), International Business Machines (IBM), and the privately held Dell. To gain advantage over the competition, Hewlett Packard is building a lean organization with a focus on its strong performance management.

• [By Damian Illia]

  Results for third-quarter 2013 were above estimations regarding earnings, but below average in revenue. The challenges presented by the European market, plus the inactive IT spending have affected the firm's revenues. A restructuring plan is on track, with the recent divestment of Changepoint, Professional Services and Uniface business units for $112.0 million in cash to M4 Global Solutions Holding B.V. during Jan 2014. These efforts are directed towards enhancing the core business over the long run, developing an innovative product pipeline at reduced costs to boost profitability. Nevertheless, the company faces intense competition from peers such as International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), BMC Software, Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ), Accenture plc (ACN), and Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC).

• [By John Kell and Lauren Pollock var popups = dojo.query(".socialByline .popC"); ]

  Accenture(ACN) PLC said its fiscal second-quarter revenue grew as the consulting firm benefited from improvement in its outsourcing business. The company raised its full-year earnings forecast. But shares slipped 2% to $81.35 premarket as earnings slightly missed expectations.

• [By Wallace Witkowski]

  A handful of companies report earnings this week including Walgreen Co. (WAG) , Carnival Corp. (CCL) , Accenture PLC (ACN) , Red Hat Inc. ! (R! HT) , Paychex Inc. (PAYX) , and GameStop Corp. (GME) First-quarter earnings season won't be in full swing until mid-April when J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM)  reports.

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