Paychex (PAYX) Stock Price & Analysis
PAYX Stock Chart & Stats
- Day’s Range
- MXN 2,169.10 - MXN 2,169.10
- 52-Week Range
- MXN 1,588.71 - MXN 2,330.00
- Previous Close
- MXN 2,169.10
- Volume
- 12
- Average Volume (3M)
- 0
- Market Cap
- MXN 750.04B
- Enterprise Value
- MXN 49.04B
- Total Cash (Recent Filing)
- MXN 934.20M
- Total Debt (Recent Filing)
- MXN 4.62B
- Price to Earnings (P/E)
- 22.2
- Beta
- -0.16
- Next Earnings
- Dec 17, 2026 (Est.)
- EPS Estimate
- 22.9
- Next Dividend Ex-Date
- N/A
- Dividend Yield
- 4.02%
Bulls Say, Bears Say
Bulls Say
Durable High-margin Profitability
Consistently high gross and net margins indicate a scalable service model with meaningful operating efficiency and pricing power. This profitability provides resources to fund product investment, absorb moderate cost pressure, and support durable earnings generation over the next several quarters.
Strong Cash Generation
Cash conversion closely matching net income supports the quality of reported earnings and gives Paychex internal funding capacity. Consistently positive operating and free cash flow can support technology investment, shareholder returns, and resilience without relying heavily on external financing.
PEO Growth And Client Retention
High PEO worksite growth combined with record retention signals strong customer relevance and expanding recurring revenue within the advisory platform. Better retention improves revenue durability, while employee growth and cross-selling can increase value generated from the existing client base.
Bears Say
Meaningfully Higher Leverage
The recent leverage step-up materially changes Paychex's balance-sheet profile compared with earlier years. Higher debt relative to equity can reduce financial flexibility, increase sensitivity to financing costs, and constrain the company's ability to fund investments or absorb an operating downturn.
Slowing Top-line Growth
Recent revenue growth has slowed substantially from earlier periods, limiting the pace at which Paychex can expand its earnings base. A softer top line may make margin expansion and productivity improvements more important, while reducing operating leverage and the room for execution missteps.
Health-care Renewal Uncertainty
Health-care inflation and uncertain PEO plan selections could pressure renewal outcomes, client economics, or revenue growth in affected portions of the book. This risk is particularly relevant during upcoming enrollment periods and may make advisory growth less predictable over the next several quarters.
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Company Description
Paychex
Founded in 1971 and headquartered in Rochester, New York, Paychex, Inc. delivers comprehensive human capital management (HCM) solutions. The company primarily serves small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the United States, Europe, and India, addressing their needs in human resources, payroll administration, employee benefits, and insurance. Its diverse service portfolio includes: Payroll Management: Encompassing core payroll processing, payroll tax administration, employee payment facilitation, and ensuring compliance with regulations like new-hire reporting and garnishment processing. Human Resources Solutions: Providing support for employer compliance, HR and employee benefits administration, risk management outsourcing, and even the availability of professionally trained on-site HR representatives. Retirement Services: Offering full administration for retirement plans, which covers implementation, ongoing adherence to government regulations, reporting for both participants and employers, online access capabilities, electronic funds transfers, and other administrative tasks. Cloud-based HR Software: A suite of software products designed for efficient HR administration, including tools for benefits management, time and attendance tracking, digital communication, recruitment, and onboarding processes. Additional Business Services: This category features plan administration outsourcing, state unemployment insurance services, and various support functions for SMBs such as payroll funding and outsourcing (including payroll processing, invoicing, and tax preparation), payment processing solutions, financial wellness programs, and a resource center for small business loans. Insurance Offerings: Providing both property and casualty coverage, which includes workers' compensation, business-owner policies, cybersecurity protection, and commercial auto insurance, alongside health and benefits coverage like medical, dental, vision, and life insurance. Paychex primarily distributes its services through its dedicated direct sales team.
- Sector
- Technology
- Industry
- Staffing & Employment Services
- CEO
- John Gibson Jr.
- Employees
- 17,600
- Website
- www.paychex.com
- Address
- 911 Panorama Trail South, Rochester, NY, 14625-2396, US
Paychex (PAYX) Earnings & Revenues
PAYX Company Deck
PAYX Earnings Call
Earnings Call SentimentPositive
The call was strongly positive. Paychex reported solid revenue, earnings and margin growth; raised PEO and Insurance Solutions guidance; achieved record PEO retention; and described strong momentum in advisory solutions, bookings, referrals, AI deployment and revenue synergies. The main cautions were a Management Solutions result slightly below expectations due to the favorable mix shift into PEO, a difficult second-quarter comparison, flat employment levels, health-care renewal uncertainty and continued heavy AI investment. Management remained confident in the strategy and full-year outlook.
View all MX:PAYX earnings summariesPAYX Net sales Breakdown
- 74.75% Management Solutions
- 22.01% PEO and Insurance Solutions
- 3.24% Interest on funds held for clients
PAYX Stock 12 Month Forecast
Average Price Target
Technical Analysis
Overall Consensus
| Indicator | Bullish | Neutral | Bearish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall Consensus | 14 | 0 | 6 |
| Technical Analysis | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| Moving Averages | 11 | 0 | 1 |
