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Shares of Accenture PLC Cl A rallied 3.5% to $183.37 on what proved to be an all-around poor trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index falling 0.3% to 7,651.54 and Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 0.9% to 50,906.05.
This was the stock's second consecutive day of gains.
Accenture PLC Cl A closed 37.0% short of its 52-week high of $291.09, which the company reached on January 14th.
The stock outperformed some of its peers, as International Business Machines Corp. remained unchanged, Automatic Data Processing Inc. fell 1.4% to $258.06, and Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. rose 1.06% to $57.44.
Trading volume totaled 9.2 million, compared to the 50-day average of 5.7 million.
Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet