Paychex Inc (PAYX) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $137.94, with 9.26 million shares of worth about $1.28 billion changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 0.09% during that period and on June 25, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -9.40%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 360.20M shares, out of which, 322.15M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -9.56% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -11.63%. Year-to-date (YTD), PAYX shares are showing a performance of 9.51% which decreased to -1.63% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $115.40 but also hit the highest price of $161.24 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Paychex Inc shares is 2.08 million. The stock is currently trading -10.62% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -9.04% for SMA50 and it goes to -5.14% lower than SMA200.
Paychex Inc (NASDAQ: PAYX) currently have 360.20M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 79.32% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $49.68B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.90. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 28.69, while it has posted earnings per share of $4.81 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 1.39 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.21. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for PAYX, volatility over the week remained 5.23% while standing at 2.30% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 7.56% while it is estimated to increase by 8.07% in next year.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by TD Cowen on December 22, 2023 offering a Market perform rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $132 and $123 to it. Coverage by Barclays stated Paychex Inc (PAYX) stock as an Equal weight in their note to investors on December 14, 2023, suggesting a price target of $126 for the stock. On November 07, 2023, UBS Initiated their recommendations, while on September 05, 2023, RBC Capital Mkts Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $130. Stock get a Neutral rating from UBS on June 02, 2023.
