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Shares of Accenture PLC Cl A advanced 6.0% to $195.00 on what proved to be an all-around grim trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index falling 0.5% to 7,619.98 and Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 0.3% to 52,421.20.
This was the stock's third consecutive day of gains.
Accenture PLC Cl A closed 33.0% short of its 52-week high of $291.09, which the company reached on January 14th.
The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its peers, as International Business Machines Corp. rose 2.4% to $249.09, Automatic Data Processing Inc. rose 3.1% to $276.63, and Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. rose 6.83% to $64.10.
Trading volume totaled 5.3 million, compared to the 50-day average of 6.4 million.
Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet