Screener / SEC EDGAR /CIK 0001467373 /10-K filed Oct 16, 2026, compared with Oct 10, 2025 /Numbers from the XBRL of the 10-Ks
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Accenture ACN

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Cash returned and share count, year to Aug 31, 2026

Bought back $7.5B of its own shares, 3.6× what it paid in stock

XBRL, latest 10-K
Buybacks $7.5B cash paid for its own shares
Paid in stock to employees $2.1B stock-based compensation
Share count, 1 year -2.4% fewer shares: each share owns more
Share count, 3 years -3.3% diluted average shares

New shares against shares bought back

Dilution: new shares, stock pay and buybacks · S-3 and 424B, 3 years; 10-K

Shares offered

Since Nov 15, 2023: 1 shelf registration; also 2 notes offerings.

“from time to time offer and sell any of the securities identified above, or any combination thereof, in each case, in one or more series and in one or more offerings.”

S-3ASR, Sep 30, 2024
Every offering filing

Paid in stock

$2.1B

stock-based pay, year to Aug 31, 2026

Bought back

$7.5B

cash paid for its own shares, year to Aug 31, 2026: 3.6× the stock pay

Diluted shares: 617.50M in the year to Aug 31, 2026 2026 -2.4%2025 -0.6%2024 -0.4%2023 -0.7%

Change in the diluted weighted average share count from the fiscal year before, stock splits taken out. Bars use one scale for stock pay and buybacks. Prospectuses are read from their cover page; preliminary ones are left out. How

Net share count, 4 years

Shares, buybacks and stock pay, fiscal years 2022 to 2026 · 10-K XBRL

-3.9% shares
Share count -3.9% diluted average shares, 4 years to Aug 31, 2026, splits taken out
Bought back $21.0B cash paid for its own shares, summed over the 4 years
Paid in stock $8.0B stock-based compensation, summed over the same years
Fiscal yearShares, changeBought backPaid in stockCash from shares sold
Aug 31, 2026 -2.4% $7.5B $2.1B -
Aug 31, 2025 -0.6% $4.6B $2.1B -
Aug 31, 2024 -0.4% $4.5B $1.9B -
Aug 31, 2023 -0.7% $4.3B $1.9B -

Each year's change is the diluted weighted average share count against the year before, with stock splits taken out; the headline change compares the two ends of the span on one basis. Buybacks and stock pay are added up over the same years. Buybacks that only offset stock pay leave the count flat: both are shown, no verdict. How

Where the cash came from and where it went

FY2026, from the cash flow statement in the 10-K, added up

Operating cash flowDebt raisedCapital spendingBuybacksAdded to cashOther, net Operating cash flow: $12.4B Operating cash flow $12.4B Debt raised: $5.0B Debt raised $5.0B Capital spending: $742.7M Capital spending $742.7M Buybacks: $7.5B Buybacks $7.5B Added to cash: $1.4B Added to cash $1.4B Other, net: $7.7B Other, net $7.7B

Each number is a line of the cash flow statement as the company tagged it. "Other, net" is what those lines do not cover (investments bought and sold, other financing and investing lines, and exchange rates); Tickdelta does not estimate it.

Where the operating cash went, year by year

FY2017 to FY2026 · cash flow statements, 10-K XBRL

10 years
Operating cash, added up $86.9B 10 fiscal years, FY2017 to FY2026
Reinvested 13% capital spending and acquisitions, as a share of that cash
Returned to owners 59% buybacks and dividends, as a share of that cash
Debt repaid $1.7B gross repayments added up; debt that was refinanced counts each time
Fiscal yearOperating cashCapital spendingAcquisitionsBuybacksDividendsDebt repaid
Aug 31, 2026 $12.4B $742.7M-$7.5B--
Aug 31, 2025 $11.5B $600.0M-$4.6B-$931.9M
Aug 31, 2024 $9.1B $516.5M-$4.5B-$771.2M
Aug 31, 2023 $9.5B $528.2M-$4.3B--
Aug 31, 2022 $9.5B $718.0M-$4.1B$2.5B-
Aug 31, 2021 $9.0B $580.1M-$3.7B$2.2B-
Aug 31, 2020 $8.2B $599.1M$1.5B$2.9B$2.0B-
Aug 31, 2019 $6.6B $599.0M$1.2B$2.7B$1.9B-
Aug 31, 2018 $6.0B $619.2M$657.5M$2.6B$1.7B-
Aug 31, 2017 $5.0B $515.9M$1.7B$2.6B$1.6B-
Added up$86.9B $6.0B
7% of operating cash
$5.1B
6% of operating cash
$39.7B
46% of operating cash
$11.9B
14% of operating cash
$1.7B
2% of operating cash

Each bar is one fiscal year; its colours add up to what the cash flow statement says the company spent on each line, and the line across it is that year's operating cash flow. Spending above the line was paid from new debt, shares sold or cash on hand. A bar part links to the 10-K it comes from. A line the company did not report is left out, not estimated, so the shares are of operating cash only and can add up to more or less than 100%. Debt repaid is the gross amount, so refinanced debt is counted each time it is repaid. A reading aid, not a grade: Tickdelta does not say whether a split was good. Banks and insurers are left out.

Buybacks, dividends and share count

Year by year · XBRL, each 10-K

Fiscal year toBuybacksDividendsDiluted shares
Aug 31, 2026$7.5B $4.0B 617.50M
Aug 31, 2025$4.6B $3.7B 632.44M
Aug 31, 2024$4.5B $3.2B 635.94M
Aug 31, 2023$4.3B $2.8B 638.59M
Aug 31, 2022$4.1B $2.5B 642.84M

From the XBRL of the 10-Ks (cash flow statement and diluted weighted average shares); each year as reported in the latest 10-K that includes it. Concepts: buybacks = PaymentsForRepurchaseOfCommonStock; dividends = PaymentsOfOrdinaryDividends; sbc = ShareBasedCompensation; diluted_shares = WeightedAverageNumberOfDilutedSharesOutstanding.

Dividend per share, year by year

Dividends · declared per share, each 10-K; cash paid, cash flow statement

Per share, FY2026 - declared in the fiscal year to Aug 31, 2026
Against the year before - the year before is not on file, or the jump is over 5x
Years in a row raised - no raise in the latest year
Cash paid out $4.0B cash flow statement, FY2026
Years paid in a row 0 fiscal years, to FY2026, dividend per share above zero
Fiscal year toPer shareAgainst year beforeCash paid out
Aug 31, 2026 - - $4.0B
Aug 31, 2025 $5.92 ▲+14.7% $3.7B
Aug 31, 2024 $5.16 ▲+15.2% $3.2B
Aug 31, 2023 $4.48 ▲+15.5% $2.8B
Aug 31, 2022 $3.88 ▲+10.2% $2.5B
Aug 31, 2021 $3.52 ▲+10.0% -
Aug 31, 2020 $3.20 ▲+9.6% -
Aug 31, 2019 $2.92 ▲+9.8% -

Dividend per share as the company tagged it (XBRL), from the latest 10-K that reports each year, so a stock split is already in it. A change is left blank when the year before is missing or the jump is more than five times.

Buybacks month by month, and what is left to buy

Share buybacks · 10-Q, Part II Item 2, latest 4 quarters

“As of May 31, 2026, our aggregate available authorization for share purchases and redemptions was $3,244 million which management has the discretion to use for either our publicly announced open-market share purchase program or the other share purchase programs.”

10-Q, Part II Item 2
MonthShares boughtAverage price
May 2026 155,586 $180.42
Apr 2026 1,474,439 $192.97
Mar 2026 4,321,766 $201.51
Feb 2026 3,554,884 $224.60
Jan 2026 2,031,338 $270.28
Dec 2025 1,233,654 $268.19
Nov 2025 3,187,915 $245.34
Oct 2025 3,912,930 $246.11
Sep 2025 2,395,815 $244.02
May 2025 627,746 $310.99
Apr 2025 3,457,309 $291.97
Mar 2025 1,866,160 $318.68

Shares and average price are the numbers in the 10-Q table, row by row; "shares × price" is our multiplication of the two. A row with a price of "-" is an accelerated repurchase paid up front, where the 10-Q does not give a price yet. A 10-Q that counts shares in millions gives a rounded number, shown as "about". Shares withheld for employees' taxes are not in this table. A month that no 10-Q table gives, or that this page could not read with confidence, is not shown.

What it paid for each share it bought back

Price paid · 10-K, statement of shareholders' equity

Cheapest year $120.09 fiscal year to Aug 31, 2017
Dearest year $337.52 fiscal year to Aug 31, 2022
Average over these years $220.98 $39.4B spent

What ACN paid on average for each share it bought back, each fiscal year: dollars spent divided by shares bought, both from the 10-K.

Fiscal year toShares boughtSpentAverage price
Aug 31, 2026 39.92M$7.5B $188.37
Aug 31, 2025 14.08M$4.6B $327.71
Aug 31, 2024 13.91M$4.5B $324.10
Aug 31, 2023 15.31M$4.3B $282.27
Aug 31, 2022 12.18M$4.1B $337.52
Aug 31, 2021 13.96M$3.7B $264.66
Aug 31, 2020 14.73M$2.9B $196.49
Aug 31, 2019 16.43M$2.7B $162.46
Aug 31, 2018 16.71M$2.6B $152.88
Aug 31, 2017 21.26M$2.6B $120.09

Shares and dollars from the statement of shareholders' equity (the cash flow line also counts shares withheld for taxes, so it is not used). Share counts filed before a stock split are put on today's count. A year where the 10-K does not tag both numbers is left out.

What the 10-Ks show for each CEO's years

Each CEO's years · the CEO of each fiscal year as named in the proxy's pay versus performance table

Ms. Sweet

FY2021 to FY2025 · 5 years in the table
Operating cash flow
$48.6B
Capital spending
$2.9B
Buybacks
$21.3B
Dividends
$4.7B
Stock-based pay
$9.0B
Diluted shares since FY2020
-2.4%
Revenue since FY2020
+57%
Debt since FY2020
+$5.1B
CEO pay (reported)
$142.9M
The proxy that names the CEO

Sources

The cash flow statement, dividends per share and diluted share count in each 10-K's XBRL; Part II Item 2 of each 10-Q for monthly buybacks; offering prospectuses (S-3, 424B) for new shares; Form D data sets for private raises.

Also

CEO pay: what the CEO was paid over the same years.

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