Head to Head Review: CI&T (NYSE:CINT) vs. Accenture (NYSE:ACN)

Accenture (NYSE:ACN) and CI&T (NYSE:CINT) are both technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Accenture and CI&T, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Accenture	1	16	10	0	2.33
CI&T	2	2	7	0	2.45

Accenture presently has a consensus price target of $198.04, indicating a potential upside of 9.50%. CI&T has a consensus price target of $6.08, indicating a potential upside of 101.05%. Given CI&T’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe CI&T is more favorable than Accenture.

Profitability

This table compares Accenture and CI&T’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Accenture	10.66%	26.47%	12.89%
CI&T	6.79%	11.69%	6.51%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Accenture and CI&T”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Accenture	$69.67 billion	1.73	$7.68 billion	$12.52	14.45
CI&T	$489.65 million	0.83	$40.62 million	$0.29	10.42

Accenture has higher revenue and earnings than CI&T. CI&T is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Accenture, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

75.1% of Accenture shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of CI&T shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Accenture shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk and Volatility

Accenture has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CI&T has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Accenture beats CI&T on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

About CI&T

CI&T, Inc. provides strategy, design and software engineering services to enable digital transformation. The firm’s solutions and services include Digital Strategy, Customer-Centric Design and Top-of-the-Line Software Engineering. The company was founded by Cesar Nivaldo Gon, Bruno Guiçardi Neto and Fernando Matt Borges Martins on June 7, 2021 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.