Accenture invests in an African fintech startup company

  • Accenture (NYSE:ACN) has invested, through Accenture Ventures, in Nigeria-based fintech company Okra. Terms weren't disclosed.
  • Okra is an open finance platform that enables developers and businesses to build personalized digital services and fintech products.
  • 'Okra is a rising fintech star in the high-growth global digital financial services arena, and in the African market, which is home to the world's largest unbanked population, including a sizable number of underbanked consumers and small-to-medium sized enterprises," said Tom Lounibos, managing director, Accenture Ventures.

    For this year Accenture 's revenue will be around 49.16 billion USD. This is according to the average of the analysts' estimates. This is rather significant more than 2020's revenue of 44.33 billion USD.

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    The analysts expect for 2021 a net profit of 5.47 billion USD. For this year the consensus of the result per share is a profit of 8.47 USD. The price/earnings-ratio is then 34.27.

    Per share the analysts are expecting a dividend of 3.52 USD per share. Thus the dividend yield equals 1.21 percent. The average dividend yield of the IT-companies is an attractive 1.6 percent.

    Accenture 's market capitalization is based on the number of outstanding shares around 184.55 billion USD. The Accenture stock was the past 12 months quite unstable. Since last April the stock is even 57 percent higher. This year the stock price moved between 175 and 293 dollar.

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    On Wednesday, the stock closed at 290.27 USD.

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