XNAS · Staffing & Employment Services
Last stored close · Nov 10, 2026
Close · Nov 10, 2026
$116.20+1.25%
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Implied upside
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Valuation methods
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TickerWhale Score
60/100
Positive
Score components
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Paychex scores 60 out of 100 overall, which we rate positive. Quality & growth is its strongest area and Risk its weakest.
What helps
- Technical
- Quality & growth
- Sentiment Signal
What to watch
- Valuation
- Risk
Quality & growth
30%98Strong
- Revenue growth 13.7%
- EPS growth 13.3%
Valuation
25%32Weak
- P/E 22.9
- EV/Sales 7.1
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.
#285 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
#32 / 202sector rank by TickerWhale Score
TickerWhale Score 60 vs sector average 50.1 (+9.9)
Revenue growth (sector)Top 30%
Gross margin (sector)Top 7%
Return on equity (sector)Top 7%
P/E (sector)Cheaper than 69%
Technical analysis
our read · what classic indicators sayTickerWhale technical read
59/100Positive vs universe
Ranks 59th of 100 covered names on our technical composite — the composite itself scores 62/100 · 25% of the TickerWhale Score
Classic chart indicators
Strong Buy
4 buy · 1 sell · 3 neutral of 8 votes
TickerWhale rates PAYX's technical setup middling — 59th percentile of the covered universe. Classic chart indicators lean buy, pointing the same way.
Moving averages
9 / 9constructive
- vs 200-day+12.0%
- vs 50-day+4.2%
Momentum
Mixed
- RSI (14)56 · neutral
- Stochasticbuy
- CCIneutral
- Williams %Rneutral
Trend
Constructive
- ADX (14) trend strength23· trending
- MACD (12,26,9)buy(histogram 0.410)
How the classic verdict is reached
Moving averages (9) agree on buy — 9 buy vs 0 sell — and carry one vote between them.
Oscillators (7) vote individually: 3 buy · 1 sell · 3 neutral.
Result — 4 buy vs 1 sell of 8 votes = Strong Buy. Neutral votes never decide the verdict.
Fundamentals & valuation
2026-11-10 · revised_latestValuation multiples
- P/E (TTM)22.9
- P/S (TTM)6.5
- P/B11.2
- EV/EBITDA—
- EV/Sales7.1
- PEG1.73
Profitability & returns
- Gross margin73.5%
- Net margin28.3%
- ROE48.5%
- Debt/Equity1.23
Growth
- Revenue growth (YoY)13.7%
- EPS growth (YoY)13.3%
Green favourable · red stretched — multiples and D/E vs sector peers, margins and growth vs absolute thresholds.
Market capitalisation — $41.4B
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 | 60 | 62 | 22.9 | — | 11.2 | 7.1 | $116.20 | +1.25% | +13.7% | ||
| AERAercap Holdings | 81 | 90 | 8.2 | — | 1.5 | 7.7 | $175.85 | +0.24% | +12.2% | ||
| DALDelta Air Lines | 79 | 81 | 18.5 | — | 2.7 | 1.0 | $92.20 | +0.44% | +14.1% | ||
| GEOGeo Group | 77 | 71 | 14.5 | — | 2.8 | 2.0 | $31.94 | +5.97% | +15.3% | ||
| KFYKorn Ferry | 75 | 54 | 14.1 | — | 2.0 | 1.2 | $75.98 | +1.17% | +6.9% | ||
| LUVSouthwest Airlines Company | 71 | 74 | 27.3 | — | 3.2 | 0.8 | $46.32 | +0.04% | +9.5% |
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