Paychex Stock Forecast, Price & News

14 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Paychex in the last twelve months. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 9 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street 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 saw a increase in short interest during the month of January. As of January 29th, there was short interest totaling 7,100,000 shares, an increase of 23.9% from the January 14th total of 5,730,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,650,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.3 days. Approximately 2.2% of the shares of the stock are sold short.
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Paychex is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, March 24th 2021.
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Paychex, Inc. (NASDAQ:PAYX) released its earnings results on Tuesday, December, 22nd. The business services provider reported $0.73 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.66 by $0.07. The business services provider earned $983.70 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $956.30 million. Paychex had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 37.99% and a net margin of 26.66%. The business's quarterly revenue was down .7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.70 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 shares have increased by 21.8% and is now trading at $90.99.
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Paychex declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, January 22nd. Shareholders of record on Monday, February 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.62 per share on Thursday, February 25th. This represents a $2.48 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.73%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, January 29th.
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Paychex pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.74%. 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 Pre-Market earnings guidance on Wednesday, December, 23rd. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 2.88-2.97 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $2.82. The company issued revenue guidance of $3.919-4.041 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $3.94 billion.

14 analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Paychex's shares. Their forecasts range from $55.00 to $105.00. On average, they anticipate Paychex's share price to reach $87.67 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.7%.
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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 number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (8.78%), Wells Fargo & Company MN (2.72%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (2.06%), Select Equity Group L.P. (1.81%), Northern Trust Corp (1.41%) and Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (1.26%). Company insiders that own Paychex stock include David J S Flaschen, Efrain Rivera, Jennifer R Vossler, 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., American International Group Inc., Crawford Investment Counsel Inc., Morgan Stanley, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc., Schroder Investment Management Group, and Schroder Investment Management Group. Company insiders that have sold Paychex company stock in the last year include David J S Flaschen, Efrain Rivera, John B Gibson, Joseph Doody, 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 Norges Bank, Select Equity Group L.P., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Alliancebernstein L.P., Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc., Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB publ , and Dimensional Fund Advisors LP.
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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 $90.99.

Paychex has a market capitalization of $32.81 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]