NASDAQ:PCTYPaylocity Stock Price, Forecast & News

14 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Paylocity in the last year. There are currently 6 hold ratings and 8 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy."
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Paylocity is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, August 6th 2020.
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Paylocity will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, August 6th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Paylocity Holding Corp (NASDAQ:PCTY) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May, 7th. The software maker reported $0.83 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.70 by $0.13. The software maker earned $171.65 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $164.76 million. Paylocity had a return on equity of 20.82% and a net margin of 12.65%. The company's revenue was up 23.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.51 earnings per share.
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Paylocity updated its fourth quarter 2020 After-Hours earnings guidance on Thursday, May, 7th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $121-131 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $135.89 million.

14 brokers have issued 1-year price objectives for Paylocity's shares. Their forecasts range from $93.00 to $163.00. On average, they anticipate Paylocity's stock price to reach $134.62 in the next twelve months.
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Press coverage about PCTY stock has been trending somewhat negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Paylocity earned a news impact score of -1.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave press coverage about the software maker a news buzz of 5.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days.
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Paylocity saw a drop in short interest in the month of July. As of July 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,720,000 shares, a drop of 15.7% from the June 30th total of 2,040,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 642,800 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.7 days. Currently, 4.8% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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Paylocity trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "PCTY."

Paylocity's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Conestoga Capital Advisors LLC (1.54%), Riverbridge Partners LLC (1.00%), Summit Creek Advisors LLC (0.18%), Retirement Systems of Alabama (0.17%), Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC (0.11%) and Comerica Bank (0.10%). Company insiders that own Paylocity stock 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.
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PCTY stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including First Trust Advisors LP, Summit Creek Advisors LLC, Archford Capital Strategies LLC, Riverbridge Partners LLC, Raymond James & Associates, Wiley BROS. Aintree Capital LLC, and Redhawk Wealth Advisors Inc.. 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.
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PCTY stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Conestoga Capital Advisors LLC, Retirement Systems of Alabama, Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC, UBS Group AG, Comerica Bank, New York State Teachers Retirement System, State of Michigan Retirement System, and Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund.
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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.

Paylocity has a market capitalization of $0.00 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.

The official website for Paylocity is 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]