Paychex/$PAYX
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About Paychex
Paychex is a cloud-based human capital management provider offering payroll, compliance, talent management, benefits administration, and retirement services. The firm also provides HR outsourcing services, including professional employer organization, or PEO, offerings, enabling clients to reduce HR overhead. Paychex primarily targets small and midsize businesses, although its acquisition of Paycor in 2025 signals the firm's aspirations to expand into the midmarket segment, serving firms with more than 100 employees. As of fiscal 2026, Paychex has approximately 800,000 clients and manages payroll for one in 11 workers in the United States.
Ticker
$PAYX
Sector
Business services
Primary listing
Employees
17,600
Headquarters
Website
Paychex Metrics
BasicAdvanced
$42bn
23.89
$4.89
0.82
$4.43
4.07%
Price and volume
Market cap
$42bn
Beta
0.82
52-week high
$143.58
52-week low
$85.45
Average daily volume
3.7m
Dividend rate
$4.43
Financial strength
Current ratio
1.259
Quick ratio
0.487
Long term debt to equity
123.378
Total debt to equity
123.378
Dividend payout ratio (TTM)
90.31%
Interest coverage (TTM)
9.55%
Profitability
EBITDA (TTM)
3,015.3
Gross margin (TTM)
74.29%
Net profit margin (TTM)
27.03%
Operating margin (TTM)
39.51%
Effective tax rate (TTM)
23.83%
Revenue per employee (TTM)
$370,000
Management effectiveness
Return on assets (TTM)
9.82%
Return on equity (TTM)
44.77%
Valuation
Price to earnings (TTM)
23.894
Price to revenue (TTM)
6.439
Price to book
11.12
Price to tangible book (TTM)
-16.78
Price to free cash flow (TTM)
18.061
Free cash flow yield (TTM)
5.54%
Free cash flow per share (TTM)
6.469
Dividend yield (TTM)
3.79%
Forward dividend yield
4.07%
Growth
Revenue change (TTM)
16.88%
Earnings per share change (TTM)
6.77%
3-year revenue growth (CAGR)
9.15%
10-year revenue growth (CAGR)
8.23%
3-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
4.38%
10-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
8.87%
3-year dividend per share growth (CAGR)
10.76%
10-year dividend per share growth (CAGR)
10.18%
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