On Tuesday, Paychex Inc. (NASDAQ: PAYX) was 0.18% up from the session before settling in for the closing price of $141.09. A 52-week range for PAYX has been $106.27 – $144.17.
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It was noted that within the last five years, the titan of the Technology sector saw sales topped by 7.04%. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 5.47%. With a float of $321.42 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $360.10 million.
The extent of productivity of a business whose workforce counts for 16500 workers is very important to gauge. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 71.77%, operating margin of 41.13%, and the pretax margin is 41.91%.
Paychex Inc. (PAYX) Insider Updates
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Paychex Inc. stocks. The insider ownership of Paychex Inc. is 10.69%, while institutional ownership is 77.55%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Oct 21 ’24, was worth 5,961,870. Before that another transaction happened on Oct 16 ’24, when Company’s Sr. VP of Sales sold 46,875 for $141.87, making the entire transaction worth $6,649,937. This insider now owns 79,746 shares in total.
Paychex Inc. (PAYX) Performance Highlights and Predictions
Going through the last 3-months fiscal report unveiled on the 8/31/2024, it has been observed that the corporation posted 1.08 earnings per share (EPS) during the time that was better than consensus figure (set at 1.07) by 0.01. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.48 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 5.47% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 6.96% during the next five years compared to 10.30% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Paychex Inc. (NASDAQ: PAYX) Trading Performance Indicators
You can see what Paychex Inc. (PAYX) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 1.38. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 9.58. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 31.21.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 4.69, a number that is poised to hit 1.13 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 5.28 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Paychex Inc. (PAYX)
The latest stats from [Paychex Inc., PAYX] show that its last 5-days average volume of 1.19 million was inferior to 1.8 million than last year’s volume. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 53.87%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 2.20.
During the past 100 days, Paychex Inc.’s (PAYX) raw stochastic average was set at 90.16%, which indicates a significant increase from 60.69% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 13.74% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 19.77% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $133.91, while its 200-day Moving Average is $125.02. Now, the first resistance to watch is $142.14. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $142.93. The third major resistance level sits at $144.23. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $140.05, it is likely to go to the next support level at $138.75. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $137.96.
Paychex Inc. (NASDAQ: PAYX) Key Stats
There are 359,963K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 50.87 billion. As of now, sales total 5,278 M while income totals 1,690 M. Its latest quarter income was 1,319 M while its last quarter net income were 427,400 K.
