Paychex, Inc.

PAYX · Technology

$104.00
-0.46% today

What a holder would want to know before buying PAYX: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.

Where the price sits
Low $85.57 · Apr 2026High $128.59 · Oct 2025

Today’s price is 22% above the lowest point of the past year and 19% below the highest.

Over the past year it was cheaper than today on 46% of days and more expensive on 54%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on 53% of days.

Right at its average price of the last 200 trading days.

How bad does it get

Fell 20% or more 3 times in 10 years. The deepest fall was 46%; the longest took 2.5 years to get back to its peak. 2 of 3 have recovered so far.

It is in one now: 35% below the Jun 2025 peak.

Jun 2025
−46%not back yet
Apr 2022
−26%back in 2.5 years
Feb 2020
−44%back in 9 months
What you own

Paychex, Inc. · Technology · Software - Application · a large company worth $37.01B

Paychex, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides human capital management solutions (HCM) for human resources, payroll processing, employee benefits, and insurance services for small to medium-sized businesses in…

Is it making money?
2023
2024
2025
2026

revenue profit

Sales of $6.51B in 2026, with $1.76B of profit. Sales grew in 3 of the last 3 years.

Keeps about 27 cents of every dollar of sales as profit.

Is it healthy?
Cash
$934.20M
Debt
$4.62B
Free cash flow / yr
$1.89B

Would need about 2.4 years of free cash flow to repay all its debt.

Is it expensive?

You pay $21 for every $1 of last year’s profit, and $16 for every $1 of profit expected next year.

A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.

Pays 4.56% a year in dividends at today’s price · next ex-dividend Jul 28.

What others are doing

19 analysts: 2 say buy, 15 hold, 2 sell. Their average 12-month target is $113.93 (range $96.00–$150.00).

Insiders made 0 purchases and 5 sales in the last 6 months. Executives routinely sell shares they were paid in; buying with their own money is the rarer signal.

Free data from Yahoo Finance, refreshed daily. This is evidence about the business and its price history, not a recommendation.

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