Paylocity Holding Corp (PCTY) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $184.62, with 0.45 million shares of worth about $82.97 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -7.71% during that period and on July 03, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 2.54%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 55.54M shares, out of which, 44.49M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 4.21% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -3.20%. Year-to-date (YTD), PCTY shares are showing a performance of 39.86% which decreased to -7.44% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $130.51 but also hit the highest price of $223.80 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Paylocity Holding Corp shares is 484.40K. The stock is currently trading 1.55% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -2.18% for SMA50 and it goes to -3.36% lower than SMA200.
Paylocity Holding Corp (NASDAQ: PCTY) currently have 55.54M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 79.18% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $10.20B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.55. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 46.03, while it has posted earnings per share of $4.01 in the same period. Its PEG reads 6.99 and has Quick Ratio of 1.10 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.25. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for PCTY, volatility over the week remained 3.10% while standing at 2.74% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 6.69% while it is estimated to increase by 2.26% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 6.59% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 30.16% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
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 BMO Capital Markets on May 02, 2025 offering an Outperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $210 and $226 to it. Coverage by Scotiabank stated Paylocity Holding Corp (PCTY) stock as a Sector perform in their note to investors on April 16, 2025, suggesting a price target of $190 for the stock. On January 31, 2025, Mizuho Upgrade their recommendations, while on January 16, 2025, Citigroup Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $231. Stock get a Buy rating from Jefferies on October 22, 2024.
