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Accenture Reports Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year Fiscal 2026 Results

Accenture delivers fourth-quarter revenue above the high end of the company’s guided range, with broad-based growth across all geographic markets, industry groups and types of work, and strong EPS, free cash flow and profitability growth

NEW YORK; October 1, 2026 — Accenture (NYSE: ACN) reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full fiscal year ended August 31, 2026. All comparisons are to the fourth quarter and full fiscal year 2025, unless noted otherwise.

Accenture Chair and CEO Julie Sweet

“We exceeded our fourth-quarter revenue guidance range and capped off another year of broad-based growth across our business, grew adjusted EPS 8%, returned a record $11.5 billion to shareholders and reached a new high of 141 quarterly client bookings of $100 million or more. These results reflect t

Fourth Quarter and Full Year Fiscal 2026 Key Metrics

•New bookings of $22.2 billion, an increase of 4% in U.S. dollars and 5% in local currency for the quarter, and $84.5 billion for the year •Revenues of $18.7 billion for the quarter, an increase of 6% in U.S. dollars and 7% in local currency; and $74.2 billion for the year, an increase of $4.5 billi

Fiscal Year 2027 Business Outlook Highlights

•Company expects full-year revenue growth of 3% to 6% in local currency •Expects full-year GAAP diluted EPS of $14.39 to $14.81, a 6% to 9% increase, and a 3% to 6% increase over adjusted EPS •Company expects to return at least $9.5 billion in cash to shareholders in fiscal year 2027

1Adjusted financial measures presented in this release are non-GAAP financial measures that exclude business optimization costs recorded during the first quarter of fiscal 2026 and the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025, as further described in this release.

Q4 FY26 Financial Review

Q4 New Bookings

New bookings for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026 were $22.17 billion, an increase of 4% in U.S. dollars and 5% in local currency over the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025, with a book-to-bill of 1.2. •Consulting new bookings were $9.40 billion, with a book-to-bill of 1.0. •Managed Services new bookin

Q4 Revenues

Revenues for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026 were $18.68 billion, an increase of 6% in U.S. dollars and 7% in local currency, and were above the company’s guided range of $17.75 billion to $18.40 billion, or 1% to 5% growth in local currency. Revenues reflect a foreign-exchange impact of approxima

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Q4 FY26 Financial Review

Q4 Operating Margin and Operating Income

•GAAP operating margin (operating income as a percentage of revenues) for the quarter was 15.3%, compared with GAAP operating margin of 11.6%, and adjusted operating margin of 15.1% for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025. •GAAP operating income for the quarter increased 40% to $2.86 billion compared

Gross margin (gross profit as a percentage of revenues) for the quarter was 32.0%, compared with 31.9% for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025. Selling, general and administrative (SG&A) expenses for the quarter were $3.12 billion, or 16.7% of revenues, compared with $2.95 billion, or 16.7% of revenues, for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025.

The company’s GAAP effective tax rate for the quarter was 27.3%, compared with 30.1% for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025. The adjusted effective tax rate was 27.9% for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025.

GAAP net income for the quarter was $2.03 billion, compared with $1.45 billion for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025. Adjusted net income was $1.94 billion for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025.

Q4 Earnings Per Share

•GAAP diluted EPS for the quarter were $3.29, a 46% increase over $2.25 for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025. •GAAP diluted EPS increased 9% over adjusted EPS of $3.03 for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025, which excludes a $0.78 decrease for business optimization costs.

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Days services outstanding, or DSOs, were 50 days at August 31, 2026, compared with 47 days at August 31, 2025.

Accenture’s total cash balance at August 31, 2026 was $12.8 billion, compared with $11.5 billion at August 31, 2025.

Full Year Fiscal 2026 Financial Review

Fiscal 2026 New Bookings

New bookings for fiscal 2026 were $84.54 billion, an increase of 5% in U.S. dollars and 3% in local currency compared with fiscal 2025, with a book-to-bill of 1.1. •Consulting new bookings were $40.86 billion, with a book-to-bill of 1.1. •Managed Services new bookings were $43.67 billion, with a boo

Fiscal 2026 Revenues

Revenues for fiscal 2026 were $74.18 billion, an increase of 6% in U.S. dollars and 5% in local currency, and were above the company’s guided range of 3% to 4% growth in local currency. Revenues reflect a foreign-exchange impact of approximately positive 2%, consistent with the assumption provided i

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Fiscal 2026 Operating Margin and Operating Income

•GAAP operating margin (operating income as a percentage of revenues) for fiscal 2026 was 15.4%, compared to GAAP operating margin of 14.7%, and adjusted operating margin was 15.8%, compared with adjusted operating margin of 15.6% for fiscal 2025. •GAAP operating income for fiscal 2026 increased 12%

Gross margin (gross profit as a percentage of revenues) for fiscal 2026 was 32.0% compared with 31.9% for fiscal 2025. Selling, general and administrative (SG&A) expenses for fiscal 2026 were $12.06 billion or 16.3% of revenues, compared with $11.39 billion, or 16.4% of revenues, for fiscal 2025.

The company’s GAAP annual effective tax rate for fiscal 2026 was 25.1%, compared with 23.7% in fiscal 2025. The adjusted effective tax rate for fiscal 2026 was 24.9%, compared with 23.6% in fiscal 2025.

GAAP net income for fiscal 2026 was $8.52 billion, compared with $7.83 billion in fiscal 2025. Adjusted net income for fiscal 2026 was $8.77 billion, compared with $8.32 billion in fiscal 2025.

Full Year Fiscal 2026 Financial Review

Fiscal 2026 Earnings Per Share

•GAAP diluted EPS for fiscal 2026 were $13.56, a 12% increase over $12.15 for fiscal 2025. •Adjusted EPS for fiscal 2026 were $13.97, an increase of 8% over adjusted EPS of $12.93 for fiscal 2025, which excludes $0.41 and $0.78 for business optimization costs in fiscal 2026 and fiscal 2025, respecti

Cash Return to Shareholders

Accenture continues to return significant cash to shareholders through cash dividends and share repurchases. In fiscal 2026, the company returned $11.5 billion to shareholders, including $7.5 billion in share repurchases and $4.0 billion in cash dividends.

Dividend

•On August 14, 2026, a quarterly cash dividend of $1.63 per share was paid to shareholders of record at the close of business on July 9, 2026. ◦These cash dividend payments totaled $974 million, bringing dividend payments for the full year to $3.99 billion, compared with $3.70 billion in fiscal 2025

Share Repurchase Activity

•During the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026, Accenture repurchased or redeemed 17.6 million shares for a total of $2.3 billion, which were primarily repurchased in the open market. Total share repurchases and redemptions for the full fiscal year were 39.9 million shares for a total of $7.5 billion, in

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(1)Costs recorded in connection with business optimization actions initiated during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025 and completed during the first quarter of fiscal 2026, primarily for employee severance.

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Reconciliation of Net Income and Diluted Earnings Per Share, as Reported (GAAP), to Net Income and Diluted Earnings Per Share, as Adjusted (Non-GAAP)

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(1)Costs recorded in connection with business optimization actions initiated during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025 and completed during the first quarter of fiscal 2026, primarily for employee severance.

(2)The impact of business optimization costs on diluted earnings per share is presented net of related taxes. The income tax effect was negative $0.09 for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2026, and negative $0.20 for the three months and fiscal year ended August 31, 2025. This includes both the current and deferred income tax impact and was calculated by using the relevant tax rate of the country where the costs were recorded.

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