Accenture plc, ACN has an impressive Growth Score of A. This style score condenses all the essential metrics from the company’s financial statements to get a true sense of quality and sustainability of its growth.The company has an expected long-term earnings per share (three to five years) growth rate of 10%. Further, earnings are anticipated to register 3.7% growth in fiscal 2020 and 6.5% in fiscal 2021.The company’s shares have gained 23.2% in the past year compared with 18.4% rally of the industry it belongs to.Aiding FactorsAccenture is steadily gaining traction in its outsourcing businesses, backed by strong demand to assist clients with the operation and maintenance of digital-related services as well as cloud enablement. In the third quarter of fiscal 2020, Accenture’s outsourcing revenues increased 3% year over year.The recent acquisition of CreativeDrive is expected to boost Accenture’s content, digital-marketing, media and commercial-service offerings. Another recent buyout, Organize Cloud Lab, has helped expand the company’s user-experience consultancy services and ServiceNow solutions.Moreover, Accenture extended its technology-services agreement with the global mining company Anglo American. The move confirms that Accenture will continue as a strategic IT-services provider to Anglo American till 2023.Risks AssociatedHigher talent costs due to a competitive talent market and Trump’s stringent policies on immigration are hurting consulting-service providers like Accenture. The industry is labor-intensive and heavily dependent on foreign talent.Zacks Rank and Key PicksAccenture currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).Some better-ranked stocks in the broader Zacks Business Services sector are Republic Services RSG, IQVIA Holdings IQV and NV5 Global NVEE, each carrying a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy). You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.The long-term expected earnings per share (three to five years) growth rate for Republic Services, IQVIA Holdings and NV5 Global 7.9%, 9.9% and 13.7%, respectively.More Stock News: This Is Bigger than the iPhone!It could become the mother of all technological revolutions. Apple sold a mere 1 billion iPhones in 10 years but a new breakthrough is expected to generate more than 27 billion devices in just 3 years, creating a $1.7 trillion market.Zacks has just released a Special Report that spotlights this fast-emerging phenomenon and 6 tickers for taking advantage of it. If you don't buy now, you may kick yourself in 2021.Click here for the 6 trades >>Want the latest recommendations from Zacks Investment Research? Today, you can download 7 Best Stocks for the Next 30 Days. Click to get this free report Republic Services, Inc. (RSG): Free Stock Analysis Report Accenture PLC (ACN): Free Stock Analysis Report NV5 Global, Inc. (NVEE): Free Stock Analysis Report IQVIA Holdings Inc. (IQV): Free Stock Analysis Report To read this article on Zacks.com click here. Zacks Investment Research