Automatic Data Processing
$258.06Change from previous close: −1.43%Absolute change: −$3.74
Valuation
Data as of October 1, 2026
Valuation multiples
- Market cap
- $102.26B
- Enterprise value
- $103.8B
- P/E (trailing 12 months)
- 23.6
- Forward P/E
- 19.3
- PEG
- 2.45
- Price/book
- 17.0
- Price/sales
- 4.66
- EV/EBITDA
- 16.2
- EV/revenue
- 4.73
Profitability and growth
- Gross margin
- 48.7%
- Operating margin
- 23.5%
- Net margin
- 20.1%
- ROE
- 72.2%
- ROA
- 6.2%
- Revenue growth (year over year)
- 6.8%
- Earnings growth (year over year)
- 9.8%
Financial health
- Total cash
- $4.23B
- Total debt
- $5.51B
- Debt/equity
- 0.91
- Current ratio
- 1.05
- Quick ratio
- 0.16
Dividends
- Annual dividend per share
- $6.80
- Dividend yield
- 2.6%
- Payout ratio
- 60.7%
- Ex-dividend date
- September 11, 2026
Analysts and estimates
- Average price target
- $287.60
- Median price target
- $287.00
- High price target
- $322.00
- Low price target
- $225.00
- Number of analysts
- 15
- Consensus
- Hold
- Forward EPS
- $13.40
- EPS estimate, current year
- $12.26
Shares and trading
- Beta
- 0.83
- Average volume
- 2.27M
- Shares outstanding
- 396.25M
- Float
- 396.31M
- Institutional ownership
- 91.7%
- Insider ownership
- 0.1%
- Short interest (% of float)
- 3.0%
- Short ratio (days)
- 5.08