Paychex
$100.84Change from previous close: +2.38%Absolute change: +$2.34
Valuation
Data as of October 2, 2026
Valuation multiples
- Market cap
- $35.9B
- Enterprise value
- $39.58B
- P/E (trailing 12 months)
- 19.5
- Forward P/E
- 15.8
- PEG
- 1.84
- Price/book
- 9.60
- Price/sales
- 5.44
- EV/EBITDA
- 12.9
- EV/revenue
- 6.00
Profitability and growth
- Gross margin
- 74.4%
- Operating margin
- 38.5%
- Net margin
- 27.4%
- ROE
- 47.1%
- ROA
- 10.2%
- Revenue growth (year over year)
- 5.9%
- Earnings growth (year over year)
- 13.9%
Financial health
- Total cash
- $934.2M
- Total debt
- $4.62B
- Debt/equity
- 1.25
- Current ratio
- 1.28
- Quick ratio
- 0.52
Dividends
- Annual dividend per share
- $4.76
- Dividend yield
- 4.8%
- Payout ratio
- 90.1%
- Ex-dividend date
- July 28, 2026
Analysts and estimates
- Average price target
- $113.93
- Median price target
- $111.00
- High price target
- $150.00
- Low price target
- $96.00
- Analysts with a price target
- 14
- Consensus
- Hold
- Forward EPS
- $6.39
- EPS estimate, current year
- $5.96
Shares and trading
- Beta
- 0.81
- Average volume
- 3M
- Shares outstanding
- 355.98M
- Float
- 319.09M
- Institutional ownership
- 85.8%
- Insider ownership
- 10.2%
- Short interest (% of float)
- 6.2%
- Short ratio (days)
- 8.58