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
- NASDAQ
- Employees
- 17,600
- Headquarters
- Rochester, United States
- Website
- www.paychex.com
Paychex Metrics
BasicAdvanced
$41B
23.68
$4.89
0.81
$4.54
4.11%
Price and volume
Market cap
$41B
Beta
0.81
52-week high
$135.97
52-week low
$85.45
Average daily volume
2.3M
Dividend rate
$4.54
Financial strength
Current ratio
1.259
Quick ratio
0.49
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)
23.681
Price to revenue (TTM)
6.382
Price to book
11.02
Price to tangible book (TTM)
-16.63
Price to free cash flow (TTM)
17.9
Free cash flow yield (TTM)
5.59%
Free cash flow per share (TTM)
6.469
Dividend yield (TTM)
3.92%
Forward dividend yield
4.11%
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%
What the Analysts think about Paychex
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Adjusted Q4 FY26 EPS of $1.32 beat the $1.31 forecast and revenue of $1.61 billion topped the $1.60 billion estimate, reflecting robust demand and effective Paycor integration (investing.com)
Paychex generated $2.6 billion in operating cash flow (up 35% year-over-year) and returned $2.2 billion to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, underscoring strong free cash flow and disciplined capital allocation (investing.com)
The launch of the WISE AI platform provides an agentic workforce solution across Paychex Flex, Paycor, and SurePayroll, reinforcing the company’s AI leadership and differentiating its HCM offerings (investing.com)
Paychex guided fiscal 2027 revenue growth of just 5%–6%, a sharp deceleration from the 17% expansion achieved in fiscal 2026, which led to a 4% share price decline despite a revenue beat (stockopedia.com)
Management Solutions revenue of $1.18 billion in the fourth quarter missed the $1.19 billion consensus, suggesting the core SMB segment may be losing momentum (stockopedia.com)
The firm warned that competition from larger rivals such as ADP remains intense, potentially pressuring client acquisition and pricing power in its markets (stockopedia.com)
Data summarised monthly by Lightyear AI. Last updated on 6 Sept 2026.
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Funds containing Paychex
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Fund name | Fund size | $PAYX weighting |
|---|---|---|
iShares S&P 500 Industrials Sector€2B7C | €673M | 0.67% |
iShares S&P 500 Industrials Sector£IISU | £578M | 0.67% |
iShares MSCI USA Quality Dividend ESG£HDIQ | £578M | 0.58% |
iShares MSCI World Quality Dividend$WQDV | $1.8B | 0.42% |
iShares MSCI World Quality Dividend£WQDS | £1.3B | 0.42% |
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