Accenture quarterly revenue, profit beat estimates
Shares of the Dublin, Ireland-based company were up 1.7 percent at $158 in light volumes in premarket trading. Accenture has spent more than $3 billion over the last three years on some 70 acquisitions to boost its digital and cloud services in order to compete better with Cognizant and IBM. The company forecast current-quarter revenue between $9.8 billion and $10.05 billion, the midpoint of which was slightly below average analyst estimate of $10.01 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.