How is Automatic Data Processing (ADP) doing?

Automatic Data Processing is a company in the software, application industry, based in Roseland, NJ, worth $108.3B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.

Updated Oct 9, 2026

P3 score

Weak

Automatic Data Processing shares are down 7% over the past year, 19 points behind the S&P 500. Its type is Broken Year. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 28th percentile on market beat, the 44th on staying power and the 9th on business growth. It appears on 5 of our dashboards, including 4th on “Which companies grow earnings every year?”.

$270.88−7% in a yearWorth $108.3B

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Past year

The past year

Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.

ADP against the S&P 500, past year

$100 a year ago. Automatic Data Processing −7%, the S&P 500 +16%.

ADPS&P 500

What kind of stock is it?

Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.

Broken Year

LaggingErraticSlowingSold

Lagging, erratic, a soft business, and sellers in charge.

NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepNow

Broken Year since Sep; Sleepy Staple before that.

Also Broken Year (94 in all): ROP · CBSH · LNT · CTAS · BF.B · CMS

EmbracedToppingAccumulatingRejectedStable rankBellwetherDistribution TopCoiled SpringWallflowerHolding rankFaith TradeRolling OverBottom FishedSleepy StapleUnsteady rankHot HandChurning WinnerTurning UpShow-Me GrowerBouncy rankSpeculative PopExhausted RallyFalling KnifeBroken Year

How is it doing against its group?

Its group is Software / cloud, 53 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Enterprise software and cloud — the long-duration growth engine.

ADP, past year−7%33 of 53 in the group

Rest of the group+15%equal-weighted

S&P 500+16%past year

Automatic Data Processing is −7% over the past year, against +15% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 33rd of 53 in Software / cloud.

ADPRest of the group

Best in the groupRNG RingCentral+193%TWLO Twilio+154%OKTA Okta+151%

Worst in the groupINTU Intuit−54%ORCL Oracle−51%HUBS HubSpot−50%

Its closest rivalsPAYX Paychex−18%PCTY Paylocity0%PAYC Paycom+13%WDAY Workday−22%INTU Intuit−54%

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How much does it move?

Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.

About usual Automatic Data Processing typically moves 2.1% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings less than 79% of large US stocks.

Typical day2.1%about $5.63 a share

Its usual2.4%about usual, 0.9× its year’s average

Against the S&P 5002.1×the index’s typical day is 1.1%

Unusual day±4.2%twice its typical day

Deepest fall, past year−35%now 7% below its high

In the S&P’s down weeks76%of the index’s fall, three years; beta 0.5

Typical daily move (ATR)Its year’s average 2.37%

ADP on our dashboards

Every question where Automatic Data Processing appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with ADP highlighted. Select a column to sort.

Question	Reading	Place	Details
Which companies grow earnings every year? Business quality	99A decade+	4 of 60	Years of growth 11 years · Growth, 5Y +13% a yr · Latest EPS 10.95
Which companies are built to last? Business quality	65Solid	40 of 60	Steady margins 88 · Reliable cash 56 · Balance sheet 51
Who is spending big on expansion? Business quality	96Ramping	14 of 60	Capex, 1Y +101% · A year $339.9M · % of revenue 2%
Which dividends are safe? Dividends and buybacks	39Watch	49 of 80	Yield 2.6% · Paid out of earnings 61% · Reliable cash 56
Which companies raise their dividend every year? Dividends and buybacks	97Decades	13 of 60	Years raised 42+ years · Growth, 5Y +12% a yr · Yield 2.6%

Go deeper on Stox

ADP’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.

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How to read this page

How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.

Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.

Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.

Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.

Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.

For financial statements, earnings and news, see ADP’s full profile on Stox.

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