How is Paychex (PAYX) doing?

Paychex is a company in the staffing & employment services industry, based in Rochester, NY, worth $37.0B. 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

Middling

Paychex shares are down 18% over the past year, 29 points behind the S&P 500. Its type is Turning Up. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 18th percentile on market beat, the 42nd on staying power and the 59th on business growth. It appears on 6 of our dashboards.

$103.98−18% in a yearWorth $37.0B

Compare with ADP · PAYC · PCTY · INTU · WDAY

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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.

PAYX against the S&P 500, past year

$100 a year ago. Paychex −18%, the S&P 500 +16%.

PAYXS&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.

Turning Up

LaggingErraticGrowingBought

Lagging and erratic, but the business is growing and buyers are arriving.

NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepNow

Turning Up this month; Show-Me Grower before that.

Also Turning Up (51 in all): PCTY · PTC · CRM · ADSK · MSFT · MSA

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.

PAYX, past year−18%37 of 53 in the group

Rest of the group+15%equal-weighted

S&P 500+16%past year

Paychex is −18% over the past year, against +15% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 37th of 53 in Software / cloud.

PAYXRest 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 rivalsADP Automatic Data Processing−7%PAYC Paycom+13%PCTY Paylocity0%INTU Intuit−54%WDAY Workday−22%

All software stocks ›Software / cloud on Stox ›

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 Paychex typically moves 2.6% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings less than 67% of large US stocks.

Typical day2.6%about $2.72 a share

Its usual2.7%about usual, 1.0× its year’s average

Against the S&P 5002.4×the index’s typical day is 1.1%

Unusual day±5.2%twice its typical day

Deepest fall, past year−33%now 19% below its high

In the S&P’s down weeks69%of the index’s fall, three years; beta 0.5

Typical daily move (ATR)Its year’s average 2.68%

PAYX on our dashboards

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

Question	Reading	Place	Details
How much are stocks swinging? Market health	98Stormy	9 of 60	Daily move now 2.5% · Usual 1.9% · 1M change −10%
Which stocks are analysts upgrading and downgrading? Events	2Upgraded	6 of 60	Upgrades 2 · Downgrades 0 · Latest change JP Morgan: Underweight to Neutral, Sep 24
Which companies earn the most on their capital? Business quality	95Excellent	22 of 60	Return on capital 24% · Gross margin 74% · Cash margin 31%
Which stocks are cheap against their own history? Value	98Cheap	38 of 60	P/E now 20.7x · 10-yr median 28.3x · Earnings, 1Y +13%
Which stocks fell even though the business grew? Value	–	21 of 38	Price, 1Y −18% · Sales, 1Y +14% · EPS, 1Y +13%
Which S&P 500 stocks pay the highest dividends? Dividends and buybacks	98Stretched	41 of 60	Yield 4.5% · Dividend growth, 5Y +11% a yr · Per share 4.54

Go deeper on Stox

PAYX’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 PAYX’s full profile on Stox.

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