Accenture

CEO: Pierre Nanterme

Dec. 30, 2016: $117.13

March 31, 2017: $119.88

Change: +2.35%

In March Accenture, No. 2 on the CRN Solution Provider 500, said it would spend $900 million to retrain 200,000 technology-focused employees in emerging IT including cloud, robotics and artificial intelligence.

Throughout the quarter Accenture kept up its steady stream of acquisitions including European ServiceNow consulting firms Focus Group Europe and solid-serVision; iDefense Security Intelligence Services, a threat intelligence company; the federal services business of threat-detection company Endgame; and IT consulting firm InvestTech Systems Consulting.