In this paper, we extend the concept of absolutely Cesàro boundedness to the fractional case. We construct a weighted shift operator belonging to this class of operators, and we prove that if T is an absolutely Cesàro bounded operator of order α with 0 < α ≤ 1, then T n = o(n α ), generalizing the result obtained for α = 1. Moreover, if α > 1, then T n = O(n). We apply such results to get stability properties for the Cesàro means of bounded operators.2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. 47A35, 47A10, 47B99.