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 2025, 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
19,000
Headquarters
Website
Paychex Metrics
BasicAdvanced
$36bn
22.22
$4.53
0.87
$4.43
4.73%
Price and volume
Market cap
$36bn
Beta
0.87
52-week high
$154.90
52-week low
$85.45
Average daily volume
3.1m
Dividend rate
$4.43
Financial strength
Current ratio
1.26
Quick ratio
0.489
Long term debt to equity
114.944
Total debt to equity
124.91
Dividend payout ratio (TTM)
94.97%
Interest coverage (TTM)
9.29%
Profitability
EBITDA (TTM)
2,908.5
Gross margin (TTM)
73.93%
Net profit margin (TTM)
25.84%
Operating margin (TTM)
39.37%
Effective tax rate (TTM)
23.73%
Revenue per employee (TTM)
$330,000
Management effectiveness
Return on assets (TTM)
10.85%
Return on equity (TTM)
40.26%
Valuation
Price to earnings (TTM)
22.22
Price to revenue (TTM)
5.714
Price to book
8.98
Price to tangible book (TTM)
-15.95
Price to free cash flow (TTM)
17.317
Free cash flow yield (TTM)
5.77%
Free cash flow per share (TTM)
5.811
Dividend yield (TTM)
4.40%
Forward dividend yield
4.73%
Growth
Revenue change (TTM)
16.44%
Earnings per share change (TTM)
-5.84%
3-year revenue growth (CAGR)
8.77%
10-year revenue growth (CAGR)
8.16%
3-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
2.96%
10-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
8.30%
3-year dividend per share growth (CAGR)
10.99%
10-year dividend per share growth (CAGR)
10.17%
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Paychex News
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Paychex Declares a 10% Increase to Quarterly Cash Dividend
Business Wire·1 month ago

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Forbes·2 months ago

Tapcheck Teams with Paychex to Deliver Seamless Embedded On-Demand Pay Solution Giving Instant Access to Worksite Employees
Business Wire·2 months ago
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