Culture Medium (OTCMKTS:UPIN) versus Accenture (NYSE:ACN) Financial Contrast

Accenture (NYSE:ACN) and Culture Medium (OTCMKTS:UPIN) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership and profitability.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Accenture and Culture Medium, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Accenture	1	11	16	1	2.59
Culture Medium	0	0	0	0	0.00

Accenture presently has a consensus price target of $296.83, suggesting a potential upside of 9.93%. Given Accenture’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Accenture is more favorable than Culture Medium.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

75.1% of Accenture shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Accenture shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Accenture and Culture Medium’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Accenture	10.76%	26.65%	13.25%
Culture Medium	N/A	N/A	N/A

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Accenture and Culture Medium”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Accenture	$69.67 billion	2.39	$7.68 billion	$12.10	22.32
Culture Medium	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Accenture has higher revenue and earnings than Culture Medium.

Volatility and Risk

Accenture has a beta of 1.26, indicating that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Culture Medium has a beta of -2.59, indicating that its share price is 359% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Accenture beats Culture Medium on 11 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Accenture

Accenture plc, a professional services company, provides strategy and consulting, industry X, song, and technology and operation services worldwide. The company offers application services, including agile transformation, DevOps, application modernization, enterprise architecture, software and quality engineering, data management; intelligent automation comprising robotic process automation, natural language processing, and virtual agents; and application management services, as well as software engineering services; strategy and consulting services; data and analytics strategy, data discovery and augmentation, data management and beyond, data democratization, and industrialized solutions comprising turnkey analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions; metaverse; and sustainability services. It also provides change management, HR transformation and delivery, organization strategy and design, talent strategy and development, and leadership and culture services; digital commerce; infrastructure services, including cloud infrastructure managed, cloud and data center, network, digital workplace, database platforms, service management, and cloud and infrastructure security services; data-enabled operating models; technology consulting and AI services; and technology consulting services. In addition, the company offers engineering and R&D digitization, smart connected products, product as-a-service enablement, capital projects, intelligent asset management, digital industrial workforce, and autonomous robotic systems; business process outsourcing; and services related to technology innovation. Further, it provides cloud, ecosystem, marketing, security, supply chain management, zero-based transformation, customer experience, finance consulting, mergers and acquisitions, and sustainability services. The company has a collaboration with Salesforce, Inc. to develop Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud. The company was founded in 1951 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.

About Culture Medium

Universal Power Industry Corporation designs, imports, and wholesales apparel under the Indigo People brand. It also identifies and acquires residential land for the development, as well as light income-producing commercial properties; and distributes fire suppression products. The company was formerly known as Code Navy and changed its name to Universal Power Industry Corporation in April 2016. Universal Power Industry Corporation was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Great Neck, New York.