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Shares of Accenture PLC Cl A slipped 5.3% to $364.26 on what proved to be an all-around grim trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index falling 1.7% to 6,013.13 and Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 1.7% to 43,428.02.
This was the stock's second consecutive day of losses.
Accenture PLC Cl A closed 8.6% short of its 52-week high of $398.35, which the company reached on February 5th.
The stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors, as International Business Machines Corp. fell 1.2% to $261.48, Automatic Data Processing Inc. fell 0.4% to $310.76, and Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. fell 3.05% to $84.87.
Trading volume totaled 3.7 million, compared to the 50-day average of 2.6 million.
Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet
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February 21, 2025 16:35 ET (21:35 GMT)
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