Paychex Inc (PAYX)
Nasdaq · Common stock · Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management
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PAYX at a glance
Key statistics
$40.09B
Market capitalization
- Previous close
- $112.62
- Open
- $111.78
- Day range
- $110.95 – $113.47
- Volume
- 223.2K
- Average volume (30 sessions)
- 3.39M
- Shares outstanding
- 355.98M
- Price / earnings
- 22.2
- Earnings per share
- $5.07
- Price / book
- 10.8
- Price / sales
- 6.3
- Dividend yield
- 4.05%
- Beta (1 year, vs SPY)
- 0.02
Where the price sits in its year
52-week range
65% of the range
- Below the 52-week high
- -11.9%
- Above the 52-week low
- +32.7%
Completed sessions through Oct 20, 2026
Technical snapshot
Below its 50-day average, above its 200-day
- 20-day average
- $104.01+8.3%
- 50-day average
- $114.18-1.4%
- 200-day average
- $103.37+9.0%
Between the conventional 30 and 70 bands.
+6.0%
1 week
-2.1%
1 month
+1.7%
3 months
+0.4%
Year to date
-11.0%
1 year
Price change over each window, from completed sessions. Past performance does not indicate future results.
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From the public news wire
PAYX headlines
- Paychex Introduces Agentic AI Recruiting Capabilities Through WISE Hire
GlobeNewswire Inc. · Sep 23, 2026
- WISE at Work: Early Results Show Paychex AI Is Reducing Payroll Errors and Improving Service Efficiency at Scale
GlobeNewswire Inc. · Aug 31, 2026
- Paychex Is Out of Favor—And That’s the Opportunity
Investing.com · Dec 25, 2025
- Paychex and Cintas Show Surprising Labor Market Resilience
Investing.com · Apr 2, 2025
- Paychex Snaps Up Paycor: $4.1 Billion Deal To Strengthen AI-Driven HR Solutions
Benzinga · Jan 7, 2025
- Forecasting The Future: 9 Analyst Projections For Paychex
Benzinga · Jun 27, 2024
SEC Form 4, most recent first
Insider filings
TUCCI JOSEPH M
+4.0K
Director · Grant or award
$447.55K · Oct 15, 2026
MUCCI MARTIN
+1.1K
Director · Grant or award
· Oct 15, 2026
Payton Theresa M.
+4.0K
Director · Grant or award
$447.55K · Oct 15, 2026
About Paychex Inc
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 840,000 clients and manages payroll for one in 11 workers in the United States.
- Exchange
- Nasdaq
- Security
- Common stock
- Industry
- Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management
- Headquarters
- Rochester, NY
- Employees
- 17,600
- Listed since
- Aug 26, 1983
- Website
- paychex.com
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