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PCTY vs. INTU, TEAM, BILL, DT, HUBS, NOW, PAYC, TYL, WIT, and MDB

Should you be buying Paylocity stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Paylocity include Intuit (INTU), Atlassian (TEAM), BILL (BILL), Dynatrace (DT), HubSpot (HUBS), ServiceNow (NOW), Paycom Software (PAYC), Tyler Technologies (TYL), Wipro (WIT), and MongoDB (MDB). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.

Paylocity vs. Its Competitors

Paylocity (NASDAQ:PCTY) and Intuit (NASDAQ:INTU) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.

Intuit has higher revenue and earnings than Paylocity. Paylocity is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Intuit, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Paylocity$1.60B5.41$227.13M$4.0139.01
Intuit$18.83B9.92$3.87B$13.7448.77

Intuit has a net margin of 20.55% compared to Paylocity's net margin of 14.24%. Intuit's return on equity of 22.72% beat Paylocity's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Paylocity14.24% 22.08% 5.52%
Intuit 20.55%22.72%12.46%

Paylocity presently has a consensus target price of $221.59, suggesting a potential upside of 41.66%. Intuit has a consensus target price of $791.82, suggesting a potential upside of 18.17%. Given Paylocity's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Paylocity is more favorable than Intuit.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Paylocity
0 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
13 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.71
Intuit
1 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
21 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.81

Paylocity has a beta of 0.53, indicating that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intuit has a beta of 1.25, indicating that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.

94.8% of Paylocity shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.7% of Intuit shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.9% of Paylocity shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Intuit shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Intuit had 41 more articles in the media than Paylocity. MarketBeat recorded 48 mentions for Intuit and 7 mentions for Paylocity. Intuit's average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat Paylocity's score of 0.78 indicating that Intuit is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Paylocity
4 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Intuit
41 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Intuit beats Paylocity on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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PCTY vs. The Competition

MetricPaylocityINTERNET SOFTWARE IndustryComputer SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$8.63B$19.76B$33.20B$10.62B
Dividend YieldN/A3.61%3.17%4.70%
P/E Ratio39.0176.63497.9027.12
Price / Sales5.41117.452,313.77205.91
Price / Cash24.2084.3835.0131.12
Price / Book6.999.447.596.66
Net Income$227.13M$354.27M$819.00M$275.95M
7 Day Performance-3.83%1.81%2.89%3.32%
1 Month Performance-10.31%9.59%12.06%10.77%
1 Year Performance-8.11%94.27%24,361.49%33.55%

Paylocity Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PCTY
Paylocity
4.9448 of 5 stars
$156.42
+0.5%
$221.59
+41.7%
-8.6%$8.63B$1.60B39.016,700Positive News
Analyst Forecast
INTU
Intuit
4.9799 of 5 stars
$694.69
-0.5%
$791.82
+14.0%
+11.3%$194.68B$18.83B45.7018,200Positive News
Analyst Downgrade
TEAM
Atlassian
4.7045 of 5 stars
$165.31
-0.8%
$253.04
+53.1%
-12.0%$43.72B$5.22B0.0013,813
BILL
BILL
3.7792 of 5 stars
$54.64
+0.8%
$59.15
+8.3%
-3.8%$5.51B$1.46B180.602,364Trending News
DT
Dynatrace
4.9814 of 5 stars
$49.31
-0.4%
$62.72
+27.2%
-7.9%$14.93B$1.70B66.015,200Positive News
Analyst Downgrade
HUBS
HubSpot
4.7102 of 5 stars
$520.98
+0.6%
$722.93
+38.8%
-15.3%$27.28B$2.63B924.578,246Analyst Downgrade
NOW
ServiceNow
4.9699 of 5 stars
$940.05
+0.4%
$1,122.20
+19.4%
-0.6%$194.69B$10.98B108.7126,293Positive News
PAYC
Paycom Software
4.8544 of 5 stars
$218.08
+0.3%
$241.77
+10.9%
+20.4%$12.59B$1.88B29.397,306
TYL
Tyler Technologies
4.8099 of 5 stars
$529.31
-0.1%
$688.27
+30.0%
-13.3%$22.92B$2.14B75.627,400
WIT
Wipro
3.0191 of 5 stars
$2.66
+0.2%
N/A-59.2%$27.75B$10.43B17.13233,346News Coverage
Positive News
MDB
MongoDB
3.6932 of 5 stars
$317.00
-0.4%
$336.83
+6.3%
+21.0%$25.90B$2.01B0.005,558

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This page (NASDAQ:PCTY) was last updated on 10/6/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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