NASDAQ:PCTY - Paylocity Stock Price, Forecast & News

Paylocity trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "PCTY."

Paylocity Holding Corp (NASDAQ:PCTY) posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, October, 30th. The software maker reported $0.36 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.11 by $0.25. The software maker earned $126.72 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $124.15 million. Paylocity had a return on equity of 19.03% and a net margin of 11.78%. The firm's revenue was up 26.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $0.20 EPS. View Paylocity's Earnings History.

Paylocity is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 5th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Paylocity.

13 equities research analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Paylocity's stock. Their forecasts range from $89.00 to $155.00. On average, they expect Paylocity's share price to reach $114.64 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 17.6%. View Analyst Price Targets for Paylocity.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Paylocity in the last year. There are currently 6 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Paylocity.

News stories about PCTY stock have been trending extremely negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Paylocity earned a news sentiment score of -5.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the software maker a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Paylocity.

Paylocity saw a increase in short interest in the month of December. As of December 13th, there was short interest totalling 1,330,000 shares, an increase of 11.8% from the November 28th total of 1,190,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 301,400 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 4.4 days. Currently, 3.9% of the company's shares are short sold. View Paylocity's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Paylocity include Square (SQ), Splunk (SPLK), Synopsys (SNPS), ANSYS (ANSS), Veeva Systems (VEEV), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), NortonLifeLock (NLOK), Check Point Software Technologies (CHKP), Symantec (SYMC), Paycom Software (PAYC), Atlassian (TEAM), Twilio (TWLO), SS&C Technologies (SSNC), Okta (OKTA) and Citrix Systems (CTXS).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Paylocity investors own include Alibaba Group (BABA), NVIDIA (NVDA), Paycom Software (PAYC), Lululemon Athletica (LULU), Visa (V), Walt Disney (DIS), salesforce.com (CRM), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Paypal (PYPL) and Mastercard (MA).

Paylocity's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Riverbridge Partners LLC (1.26%), Tocqueville Asset Management L.P. (0.09%), Archford Capital Strategies LLC (0.04%), Gradient Investments LLC (0.02%), We Are One Seven LLC (0.01%) and Hanlon Investment Management Inc. (0.00%). Company insiders that own Paylocity stock include Andrew Cappotelli, Edward W Gaty, Ellen Carnahan, Jeffrey T Diehl, Mark S Kinsey, Michael R Haske, Ronald V Waters, Steven I Sarowitz, Steven R Beauchamp and Toby J Williams. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Paylocity.

PCTY stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Tocqueville Asset Management L.P., Riverbridge Partners LLC and Archford Capital Strategies LLC. Company insiders that have sold Paylocity company stock in the last year include Andrew Cappotelli, Edward W Gaty, Jeffrey T Diehl, Mark S Kinsey, Michael R Haske, Ronald V Waters, Steven I Sarowitz, Steven R Beauchamp and Toby J Williams. View Insider Buying and Selling for Paylocity.

PCTY stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Gradient Investments LLC, Hanlon Investment Management Inc., Winslow Evans & Crocker Inc. and We Are One Seven LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Paylocity.

Shares of PCTY can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of PCTY stock can currently be purchased for approximately $139.11.

Paylocity has a market capitalization of $7.44 billion and generates $467.63 million in revenue each year. The software maker earns $53.82 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.08 on an earnings per share basis. Paylocity employs 3,050 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Paylocity.

The official website for Paylocity is http://www.paylocity.com/.

Paylocity's mailing address is 1400 AMERICAN LANE, SCHAUMBURG IL, 60173. The software maker can be reached via phone at 847-463-3200 or via email at [email protected]