Paychex Stock Forecast, Price & News

12 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Paychex in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 5 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" Paychex stock. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in PAYX, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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Paychex is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, June 25th 2021.
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Paychex will be holding an earnings conference call on Friday, June 25th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Paychex, Inc. (NASDAQ:PAYX) released its earnings results on Monday, April, 5th. The business services provider reported $0.96 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.92 by $0.04. The business services provider had revenue of $1.11 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.11 billion. Paychex had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 37.19% and a net margin of 26.76%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was down 2.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $0.97 earnings per share.
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Paychex's stock was trading at $74.68 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, PAYX shares have increased by 39.9% and is now trading at $104.49.
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Paychex announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, April 30th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, May 12th will be paid a dividend of $0.66 per share on Thursday, May 27th. This represents a $2.64 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.53%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, May 11th. This is a positive change from Paychex's previous quarterly dividend of $0.62.
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Paychex pays an annual dividend of $2.64 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.51%. Paychex does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio of Paychex is 88.00%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on EPS estimates, Paychex will have a dividend payout ratio of 82.24% in the coming year. This indicates that Paychex may not be able to sustain their current dividend.
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Paychex updated its FY 2021 earnings guidance on Tuesday, May, 4th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 2.940-3.000 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $2.940. The company issued revenue guidance of $3.96 billion-$4.04 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $3.99 billion.

12 brokerages have issued 12-month target prices for Paychex's shares. Their forecasts range from $78.00 to $105.00. On average, they anticipate Paychex's share price to reach $94.75 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 9.3%.
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975 employees have rated Paychex CEO Martin Mucci on Glassdoor.com. Martin Mucci has an approval rating of 90% among Paychex's employees.

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Paychex trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "PAYX."

Paychex's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (8.20%), Capital International Investors (3.86%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (3.13%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.79%), Select Equity Group L.P. (1.78%) and Northern Trust Corp (1.40%). Company insiders that own Paychex stock include David J S Flaschen, Efrain Rivera, John B Gibson, Joseph Doody, Joseph M Tucci, Joseph M Velli, Laurie L Zaucha, Mark Anthony Bottini, Martin Mucci, Michael E Gioja, Pamela A Joseph, Robert L Schrader, Stephanie L Schaeffer and Tom Bonadio.
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PAYX stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including BlackRock Inc., Capital International Investors, Crawford Investment Counsel Inc., D. E. Shaw & Co. Inc., Nordea Investment Management AB, Bahl & Gaynor Inc., Troy Asset Management Ltd, and Bank of Nova Scotia. Company insiders that have sold Paychex company stock in the last year include David J S Flaschen, Efrain Rivera, John B Gibson, Joseph Doody, Joseph M Tucci, Joseph M Velli, Mark Anthony Bottini, Martin Mucci, Michael E Gioja, Robert L Schrader, and Stephanie L Schaeffer.
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PAYX stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Parnassus Investments CA, GSB Wealth Management LLC, Morgan Stanley, Lazard Asset Management LLC, Mawer Investment Management Ltd., Disciplined Growth Investors Inc. MN, and Amundi Asset Management US Inc..
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Shares of PAYX can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of PAYX stock can currently be purchased for approximately $104.49.

Paychex has a market capitalization of $37.65 billion and generates $4.04 billion in revenue each year. The business services provider earns $1.10 billion in net income (profit) each year or $3.00 on an earnings per share basis.

Paychex employs 15,800 workers across the globe.

The following companies are subsidiares of Paychex: Advance Partners, Advantage Payroll Services, Advantage Payroll Services Inc., Expense Wire LLC, ExpenseWire, Fast 401k Inc., HR Outsourcing, HR Service, HR Services Inc., Icon Time Systems, InterPay, Lessor Group, NETTIME SOLUTIONS L.L.C., Oasis Outsourcing, Olsen Computer Systems, PXC Inc., Paychex Advance LLC, Paychex Benefit Technologies, Paychex Benefit Technologies Inc., Paychex Brazil LLC, Paychex Business Solutions LLC, Paychex Deutschland GmbH, Paychex Insurance Agency Inc., Paychex Insurance Concepts Inc., Paychex Investment LLC, Paychex Management LLC, Paychex North America Inc., Paychex Real Estate LLC, Paychex Recordkeeping Services Inc., Paychex Securities Corporation, Paychex Time & Attendance Inc., Paychex of New York LLC, Rapid Payroll Inc., SurePayroll, SurePayroll Inc., The Payroll Company, ePlan Services, myStaffingPro by HR Services, and nettime Solutions.

Paychex was founded in 1971.

The official website for Paychex is www.paychex.com.

Paychex is headquartered at 911 PANORAMA TRAIL SOUTH, ROCHESTER NY, 14625.

Paychex's mailing address is 911 PANORAMA TRAIL SOUTH, ROCHESTER NY, 14625. The business services provider can be reached via phone at 585-385-6666 or via email at [email protected]