Technology / Software - ApplicationUpdated 2026-05-10 22:07 UTC

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Market cap

33.7B

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Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E16.3

P25 12.5P50 22.3P75 38.6

Trailing P/E20.7

P25 16.3P50 33.5P75 65.6

ROE40.3

P25 -30.7P50 1.5P75 14.4

ROIC26

P25 -18.6P50 1.9P75 13.7

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Indicator catalog

All PAYX market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

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Showing 282 of 282 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0000723531
Company name	Paychex, Inc.
Country	United States
Country code	US
Cusip	704326107
Employees	19,000
Employees Change	2,500%
Employees Change Percent	15.15
Enterprise value	$36.9B
Exchange	NASDAQ
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
In Index	SP500, NASDAQ100
Industry	Software - Application
Isin	US7043261079
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$33.7B
Market cap category	Large-Cap
Price	$93.93
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	333,357.89x
Sector	Technology
Sic	8700
Symbol	PAYX
Website	https://www.paychex.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	4.86%
EV Earnings	22.54x
EV Sales Forward	5.35x
EV/EBIT	14.79x
EV/EBITDA	12.68x
EV/FCF	17.65x
EV/Sales	5.82x
FCF yield	6.21%
Forward P/E	16.29x
P/B ratio	8.39x
P/E ratio	20.74x
P/S ratio	5.31x
PE Ratio10 Y	28.07x
PE Ratio3 Y	27.67x
PE Ratio5 Y	29.2x
PS Forward	4.88x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	39.37%
EBITDA Margin	45.92%
FCF margin	33%
Gross margin	73.93%
Gross Profit	$4.7B
Gross Profit Growth	19.52%
Gross Profit Growth Q	22.83%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	10.42%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	11.68%
Net Income	$1.6B
Net Income Growth	-5.94%
Net Income Growth Q	7.9%
Net Income Growth Quarters	1%
Net Income Growth Years	0%
Net Income Growth3 Y	2.87%
Net Income Growth5 Y	9.18%
Pretax Margin	33.88%
Profit Margin	25.84%
Profit Per Employee	$86,142
Profitable Years	32
ROA	10.85
Roa5y	11.77
ROCE	25.89
ROE	40.26
Roe5y	44
ROIC	25.98
Roic5y	46.84

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr10y	9.29%
Cagr15y	10.93%
Cagr1y	-35.33%
Cagr20y	7.81%
Cagr3y	-1.44%
Cagr5y	1.45%
Div CAGR10	10.18%
Div CAGR3	10.76%
Div CAGR5	11.94%
EPS Growth	-5.84
EPS Growth Q	9.09
EPS Growth Quarters	1
EPS Growth Years	0
EPS Growth3 Y	2.96
EPS Growth5 Y	9.17
FCF Growth	30.13%
FCF Growth Q	14.12%
FCF Growth3 Y	11.83%
FCF Growth5 Y	12.95%
OCF Growth	30.4%
OCF Growth Q	13.48%
OCF Growth10 Y	8.85%
OCF Growth3 Y	12.57%
OCF Growth5 Y	13%
Revenue Growth	16.44x
Revenue Growth Q	19.87x
Revenue Growth Quarters	20x
Revenue Growth Years	15x
Revenue Growth3 Y	8.77x
Revenue Growth5 Y	9.94x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$0.44
Assets	$17.5B
Cash	$1.8B
Current Assets	$9.9B
Current Liabilities	$7.9B
Debt	$5B
Debt EBITDA	$1.71
Debt Equity	$1.25
Debt FCF	$2.4
Equity	$4B
Interest Coverage	9.29
Liabilities	$13.5B
Long Term Assets	$7.6B
Long Term Liabilities	$5.6B
Net Cash	$-3.2B
Net Cash By Market Cap	$-9.61
Net Debt EBITDA	$1.11
Net Debt Equity	$0.81
Net Debt FCF	$1.55
Tangible Book Value	$-2.3B
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$-6.31
WACC	8.17

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	1.26
Net Working Capital	$668.3M
Quick ratio	0.49
Working Capital	$2B
Working Capital Turnover	$2.93

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	0.24%
Dividend Growth	10.2%
Dividend Growth Years	12%
Dividend per share	$4.32
Dividend Years	39
Dividend Yield	4.6%
Ex Div Date	2026-05-13
Last Dividend	$1.19
Payout Frequency	Quarterly
Payout Ratio	97.82%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
10Y total return	143.12%
1Y total return	-35.31%
200-day SMA	112.8
3Y total return	-4.26%
50-day SMA	92.54
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50under200
5Y total return	7.44%
All Time High	161.2
All Time High Change	-41.75%
All Time High Date	2025-06-06
All Time Low	0.13
All Time Low Change	69,788.39%
All Time Low Date	1984-11-02
ATR	2.64
Beta	0.82
Beta1y	0.45
Beta2y	0.47
Ch YTD	-16.27
High	94.67
High52	161.2
High52 Date	2025-06-06
High52ch	-41.75%
Low	92
Low52	85.45
Low52 Date	2026-04-10
Low52ch	9.92%
Ma50ch	1.5%
Premarket Change Percent	-0.52
Premarket Price	$93.77
Premarket Volume	2,750
Price vs 200-day SMA	-16.73%
RSI	55
RSI Monthly	31.81
RSI Weekly	39.56
Sharpe ratio	-1.76x
Sortino ratio	-1.97
Total Return	4.83%
Tr YTD	-15.4
Tr15y	373.79%
Tr1m	2.53%
Tr1w	0.98%
Tr3m	-4.67%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	16
Analyst Count Top	2
Analyst Price Target Top	$101
Analyst Ratings	Hold
Analyst Ratings Top	Hold
Earnings EPS Estimate	$1.31
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth	10.08
Earnings Revenue Estimate	1,602,469,896x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	12.27x
Operating Income	$2.5B
Operating Income Growth	9.6
Operating Income Growth Q	13.3
Operating Income Growth3 Y	8.1
Operating Income Growth5 Y	12.13
Operating margin	39.37
Price target	$112
Price Target Change	$18.89
Price Target Change Top	$7

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	321,374,510%
Float Percent	89.7%
Net Borrowing	4,162,100,000
Shares Insiders	10.23%
Shares Institutions	81.74%
Shares Out	358,290,881
Shares Qo Q	-0.25%
Shares Yo Y	-0.24%
Short Float	6.34%
Short Ratio	4.6
Short Shares	5.69

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$2B
Average Volume	3,176,415.95x
Bv Per Share	11.2
CAPEX	$-229.5M
Ch10y	80.95
Ch15y	193.6
Ch1m	2.53
Ch1w	0.98
Ch1y	-37.51
Ch20y	132.3
Ch3m	-4.67
Ch3y	-12.89
Ch5y	-7.01
Ch6m	-16.1
Change	-0.35%
Change From Open	0.26
Close	94.26
Days Gap	-0.6
Depreciation Amortization	415,100,000
Dollar Volume	229,803,220.4
Earnings Date	2026-06-24
Earnings Time	bmo
EBIT	$2.5B
EBITDA	$2.9B
EPS	$4.53
F Score	5
FCF	$2.1B
FCF EV Yield	5.67x
FCF Per Share	$5.83
Financing CF	2,209,800,000
Fiscal Year End	May
Founded	1,979
Goodwill	4,526,600,000
Graham Number	33.78596
Graham Upside	-64.03
Income Tax	$509.3M
Investing CF	-4,000,100,000
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-03-25
Last Report Date	2026-02-28
Last Split Date	2000-05-23
Last Split Type	Forward
Last10k Filing Date	2025-07-11
Lynch Fair Value	$41.56
Lynch Upside	-55.76
Ma150	105
Ma150ch	-10.53%
Ma20	91.95
Ma20ch	2.15%
Net CF	529,300,000
Next Earnings Date	2026-06-24
Open	93.69
Optionable	Yes
P FCF Ratio	16.1
P OCF Ratio	14.51
Payment Date	2026-05-29
Position In Range	72.28
Post Close	93.93
Postmarket Change Percent	-1.39
Postmarket Price	$92.62
Ppne	639,000,000
Pre Close	94.26
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$11.57
Relative Volume	0.77x
Revenue	6,333,800,000x
SBC By Revenue	2.16x
Share Based Comp	136,700,000
Tax By Revenue	8.04x
Tax Rate	23.73%
Tr20y	349.74%
Tr6m	-15.23%
Us State	New York
Volume	2,446,537
Z Score	3.23

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Income

PAYX dividend yield, growth & safety

Yield, payout sustainability, and the multi-year growth streak.

Dividend yield

+4.6%

$4.32 annual per share

Payout ratio

+97.8%

Share of earnings returned as dividends. Below 60% is generally sustainable.

5Y dividend CAGR

+11.9%

12 consecutive years of growth

Total shareholder yield

+4.8%

Next ex-dividend date: 2026-05-13

Performance

PAYX stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns PAYX?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+81.7%

Float: +89.7% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+10.2%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

PAYX momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

55.0

Neutral momentum band

Price vs 200-day MA

-16.7%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

0.82

Moves roughly with the market

Sharpe ratio

-1.76

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Questions

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