XNAS · Staffing & Employment Services
Last stored close · Sep 18, 2026
Close · Sep 18, 2026
$116.14-0.32%
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Implied upside
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Valuation methods
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TickerWhale Score
62/100
Positive
Score components
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Paychex scores 62 out of 100 overall, which we rate positive. Quality & growth is its strongest area and Valuation its weakest.
What helps
- Technical
- Quality & growth
- Sentiment Signal
What to watch
- Valuation
- Risk
Quality & growth
30%98Strong
- Revenue growth 16.5%
- EPS growth 7.0%
Valuation
25%24Weak
- P/E 23.6
- EV/Sales 7.2
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.
#279 by market cap in our coverage · ~17,600 employees · Listed 1983-08-26 · www.paychex.com
Price history
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Market intelligence
Peer position
#25 / 203sector rank by TickerWhale Score
TickerWhale Score 62 vs sector average 49.1 (+12.9)
Revenue growth (sector)Top 25%
Gross margin (sector)Top 7%
Return on equity (sector)Top 8%
P/E (sector)Cheaper than 65%
Technical analysis
our read · what classic indicators sayTickerWhale technical read
76/100Strong vs universe
Ranks 76th of 100 covered names on our technical composite — the composite itself scores 61/100 · 25% of the TickerWhale Score
Classic chart indicators
Sell
2 buy · 3 sell · 3 neutral of 8 votes
TickerWhale rates PAYX's technical setup strong — 76th percentile of the covered universe. Classic chart indicators lean sell — they read this stock on its own over days, where our score ranks it against every covered name over months, so the two often part company.
Moving averages
3 / 9constructive
- vs 200-day+11.4%
- vs 50-day-2.1%
Momentum
Mixed
- RSI (14)42 · neutral
- Stochasticbuy
- CCIneutral
- Williams %Rbuy
Trend
Mixed
- ADX (14) trend strength15· weak trend
- MACD (12,26,9)sell(histogram -0.958)
How the classic verdict is reached
Moving averages (9) agree on sell — 3 buy vs 6 sell — and carry one vote between them.
Oscillators (7) vote individually: 2 buy · 2 sell · 3 neutral.
Result — 2 buy vs 3 sell of 8 votes = Sell. Neutral votes never decide the verdict.
Fundamentals & valuation
2026-09-18 · revised_latestValuation multiples
- P/E (TTM)23.6
- P/S (TTM)6.6
- P/B11.1
- EV/EBITDA—
- EV/Sales7.2
- PEG3.38
Profitability & returns
- Gross margin73.4%
- Net margin27.9%
- ROE45.4%
- Debt/Equity1.22
Growth
- Revenue growth (YoY)16.5%
- EPS growth (YoY)7.0%
Green favourable · red stretched — multiples and D/E vs sector peers, margins and growth vs absolute thresholds.
Market capitalisation — $41.6B
Fundamentals history
Reported statement totals across recent periods.
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Peers
| Company | Score | Pulse | P/E | P/E fwd | P/B | EV/Sales | Price | Chg | Estimate | Upside | Rev. gr. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PAYXCurrentPaychex | 62 | 61 | 23.6 | — | 11.1 | 7.2 | $116.14 | -0.32% | +16.5% | ||
| ACAArcosa | 79 | 78 | 14.6 | — | 2.4 | 3.0 | $145.84 | +0.27% | +9.7% | ||
| IESCIES Holdings | 79 | 46 | 14.3 | — | 5.3 | 1.6 | $322.16 | +1.58% | +22.7% | ||
| KFYKorn Ferry | 79 | 55 | 14.3 | — | 2.0 | 1.2 | $76.78 | -0.44% | +6.9% | ||
| GEOGeo Group | 76 | 70 | 14.4 | — | 2.8 | 2.0 | $31.76 | -1.18% | +15.3% | ||
| DALDelta Air Lines | 74 | 54 | 13.3 | — | 2.4 | 0.9 | $79.62 | +0.24% | +10.3% |
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