Accenture (NYSE:ACN) vs. CLPS Incorporation (NASDAQ:CLPS) Financial Contrast

CLPS Incorporation (NASDAQ:CLPS) and Accenture (NYSE:ACN) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, dividends, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Risk & Volatility

CLPS Incorporation has a beta of 0.57, meaning that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Accenture has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

0.2% of CLPS Incorporation shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.1% of Accenture shares are held by institutional investors. 58.7% of CLPS Incorporation shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Accenture shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for CLPS Incorporation and Accenture, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CLPS Incorporation	1	0	0	0	1.00
Accenture	1	11	15	1	2.57

Accenture has a consensus target price of $298.29, suggesting a potential upside of 10.06%. Given Accenture’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Accenture is more favorable than CLPS Incorporation.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares CLPS Incorporation and Accenture”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CLPS Incorporation	$164.48 million	0.16	-$7.05 million	N/A	N/A
Accenture	$69.67 billion	2.39	$7.68 billion	$12.10	22.40

Accenture has higher revenue and earnings than CLPS Incorporation.

Profitability

This table compares CLPS Incorporation and Accenture’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CLPS Incorporation	N/A	N/A	N/A
Accenture	10.76%	26.65%	13.25%

Summary

Accenture beats CLPS Incorporation on 12 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About CLPS Incorporation

CLPS Incorporation provides information technology (IT), consulting, and solutions to institutions operating in banking, insurance, and financial sectors in the People's Republic of China and internationally. It offers IT consulting services in credit card business areas, such as credit card application, account setup, authorization and activation, settlement, collection, promotion, point system, anti-fraud, statement, reporting, and risk management. The company also provides banking services, including business analysis, system design, development, testing, system maintenance, and operation support; and services in loans, deposit, general ledger, wealth management, debit card, anti-money-laundering, statement and reporting, and risk management, as well as architecture consulting services for banking systems, and online and mobile banking. In addition, it offers solutions in the field of wealth management; e-commerce solutions in online platforms, cross-border e-commerce, logistics, and back-end technology, such as big data analysis and intelligent decision-making; and driving, automatic control, and other AI-driven technology solutions for the automotive industry. Further, the company provides IT services to its clients in the banking, wealth management, e-commerce, and automotive industries; and software project development, maintenance, and testing services. Additionally, it offers CLPS Virtual Banking platform, a training platform for IT talents; recruitment and headhunting; and fee-for-service training services, as well as sells product and third-party software. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Kwun Tong, Hong Kong.

About Accenture

Accenture plc, a professional services company, provides strategy and consulting, industry X, song, and technology and operation services worldwide. The company offers application services, including agile transformation, DevOps, application modernization, enterprise architecture, software and quality engineering, data management; intelligent automation comprising robotic process automation, natural language processing, and virtual agents; and application management services, as well as software engineering services; strategy and consulting services; data and analytics strategy, data discovery and augmentation, data management and beyond, data democratization, and industrialized solutions comprising turnkey analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions; metaverse; and sustainability services. It also provides change management, HR transformation and delivery, organization strategy and design, talent strategy and development, and leadership and culture services; digital commerce; infrastructure services, including cloud infrastructure managed, cloud and data center, network, digital workplace, database platforms, service management, and cloud and infrastructure security services; data-enabled operating models; technology consulting and AI services; and technology consulting services. In addition, the company offers engineering and R&D digitization, smart connected products, product as-a-service enablement, capital projects, intelligent asset management, digital industrial workforce, and autonomous robotic systems; business process outsourcing; and services related to technology innovation. Further, it provides cloud, ecosystem, marketing, security, supply chain management, zero-based transformation, customer experience, finance consulting, mergers and acquisitions, and sustainability services. The company has a collaboration with Salesforce, Inc. to develop Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud. The company was founded in 1951 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.