Global professional services company Accenture (NYSE: ACN) will be announcing earnings results this Thursday before the bell. Here’s what investors should know.

Accenture beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 1.3% last quarter, reporting revenues of $17.6 billion, up 7.3% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with a narrow beat of analysts’ revenue estimates but a slight miss of analysts’ full-year EPS guidance estimates.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting Accenture’s revenue to grow 4.7% year on year to $18.53 billion, slowing from the 9% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $3.72 per share.

Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Accenture has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates twice over the last two years.

With Accenture being the first among its peers to report earnings this season, we don’t have anywhere else to look to get a hint at how this quarter will unravel for it services & other tech stocks. However, there has been positive investor sentiment in the segment, with share prices up 8.6% on average over the last month. Accenture is up 12.7% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $286.60 (compared to the current share price of $271.93).

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