ACN
Analyst target raises behind the outperformance
- ACN +5.12% on the last session vs SPY +0.08%: +5.0 pts of stock-specific move.
- Aftermath, rsi overbought (RSI 72 today so far, above 70): After its 14 overbought readings in the past 5 years, ACN was higher a day later 5 times out of 14; half the outcomes fell between -1.1% and +0.2%. History, not a forecast.
- 1 analyst action in the past 10 days (1 positive, 0 negative); latest: Mizuho maintained Outperform, raised target $226 → $241.
- Market backdrop (Today): Core PPI m/m 1.3% vs 0.3% expected (hotter); Core Retail Sales m/m 0.9% vs 0.6% expected (stronger); S&P futures -0.08%, 10-year yield -3bp in the 30 minutes after.
Bargain & stretch prices
Prices ACN only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.
| Today | Next 5 sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Stretch sell side |
223.21 +3.8% reached 3 in 10 days reached today |
233.84 +8.8% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
| Now | 225.96 · prior close 214.96 | |
| Bargain buy side |
207.02 -3.7% reached 3 in 10 days |
197.60 -8.1% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
More patient or more eager
| Bargain | Reached | Stretch | Reached | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today | ||||
| Patient | 204.50 | 2 in 10 days | 225.95 | 2 in 10 days |
| Balanced | 207.02 | 3 in 10 days | 223.21 | 3 in 10 days |
| Eager | 209.39 | 4 in 10 days | 220.68 | 5 in 10 days |
| Next 5 sessions | ||||
| Patient | 192.27 | 2 in 10 weeks | 240.32 | 2 in 10 weeks |
| Balanced | 197.60 | 3 in 10 weeks | 233.84 | 3 in 10 weeks |
| Eager | 202.70 | 4 in 10 weeks | 227.96 | 5 in 10 weeks |
"3 in 10 days" means the price was reached on about 3 of every 10 days like this one. Patient prices are further away and come less often; eager ones are closer and come more often. From ACN's daily swings (about 3.9% a day lately), anchored on the Oct 14 close. The odds were measured on 10 years of S&P 500 prices (they move about 3 points from year to year with the market: bargain prices come more often in falling years, stretch prices in rising ones), and where a situation below changed them consistently (in at least 8 of 10 years), they are adjusted and marked. In those tests, waiting for the bargain price did no better on average than buying at the close: what you save when it comes, you pay when it doesn't.
Situations on the Oct 14 close
Big drop and big gain: among ACN's own worst or best 10% of daily moves, as on the Aftermath tab. The past times are history: in our tests, how a stock did after its earlier times did not predict the next one, and across the S&P 500 none of these situations leaned up or down except, weakly, an all-time high followed by a big drop. Not advice.
Price ladder
| All-time closing high Feb 5, 2025 |
383.28 +69.6% |
| 52-week closing high Jan 14, 2026 |
280.46 +24.1% |
| Highest analyst target | 275.00 +21.7% |
| Stretch, next 5 sessions | 233.84 +3.5% |
| Now | 225.96 |
| Mean analyst target | 223.65 -1.0% |
| Previous close Oct 14, 2026 |
214.96 -4.9% |
| Bargain, next 5 sessions | 197.60 -12.5% |
| 200-day average | 189.36 -16.2% |
| 50-day average | 186.64 -17.4% |
| Lowest analyst target | 163.00 -27.9% |
| 52-week closing low Jun 30, 2026 |
121.98 -46.0% |
Closing prices (all-time = the 25 years Yahoo has). Percentages are the distance from now. These are levels people watch, not levels the price has to respect. Not advice.