Paychex Stock Forecast, Price & News

13 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Paychex in the last twelve months. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 6 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 Tuesday, July 6th 2021.
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Paychex, Inc. (NASDAQ:PAYX) posted its earnings results on Monday, April, 5th. The business services provider reported $0.96 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.92 by $0.04. The business services provider earned $1.11 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.11 billion. Paychex had a net margin of 26.66% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 37.99%. The business's revenue was down 2.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $0.97 earnings per share.
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Paychex's stock was trading at $74.68 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, PAYX stock has increased by 29.0% and is now trading at $96.34.
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Paychex announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, April 30th. Shareholders 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 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.74%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend 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 $2.48 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.50%. Paychex does not yet have a strock track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio of Paychex is 82.67%. 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 78.98% in the coming year. This indicates that Paychex may not be able to sustain their current dividend.
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Paychex issued an update on its FY 2021 earnings guidance on Tuesday, May, 4th. The company provided EPS guidance of 2.940-3.000 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share 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.

13 brokers have issued 1-year price objectives for Paychex's stock. Their forecasts range from $65.00 to $105.00. On average, they expect Paychex's share price to reach $93.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.5%.
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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 a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (8.20%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.79%), Northern Trust Corp (1.40%), Bahl & Gaynor Inc. (0.70%), Swiss National Bank (0.61%) and Alliancebernstein L.P. (0.59%). 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., Bahl & Gaynor Inc., Bank of Nova Scotia, American International Group Inc., Marathon Asset Management LLP, Shell Asset Management Co., Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp, and Cibc World Markets Corp. 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 bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Parnassus Investments CA, GSB Wealth Management LLC, Alliancebernstein L.P., Prudential Financial Inc., BNP Paribas Arbitrage SA, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Landscape Capital Management L.L.C., and Geode Capital Management LLC.
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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 $96.34.

Paychex has a market capitalization of $34.72 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 15,600 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]