Paychex Inc (NASDAQ: PAYX) kicked off on Tuesday, down -0.75% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $153.68. Over the past 52 weeks, PAYX has traded in a range of $115.40-$161.24.
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It was noted that within the last five years, the titan of the Technology sector saw sales topped by 6.95%. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 5.70%. With a float of $322.15 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $360.20 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 72.03%, operating margin of 41.52%, and the pretax margin is 41.89%.
Paychex Inc (PAYX) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Software – Application Industry. The insider ownership of Paychex Inc is 10.56%, while institutional ownership is 79.32%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Apr 15 ’25, was worth 544,762. In this transaction Director of this company sold 3,650 shares at a rate of $149.25, taking the stock ownership to the 78,455 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Apr 15 ’25, when Company’s Director proposed sale 3,650 for $149.25, making the entire transaction worth $544,763.
Paychex Inc (PAYX) Latest Financial update
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 5.70% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 6.26% during the next five years compared to 10.30% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Paychex Inc (NASDAQ: PAYX) Trading Performance Indicators
Take a look at Paychex Inc’s (PAYX) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 1.39. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 10.10. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 34.45.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 4.81, a number that is poised to hit 1.19 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 5.29 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 1.78 million was inferior to 1.97 million than last year’s volume. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 17.77%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 2.48.
During the past 100 days, Paychex Inc’s (PAYX) raw stochastic average was set at 66.77%, which indicates a significant increase from 11.47% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 10.47% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 25.16% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $151.13, while its 200-day Moving Average is $144.99. Now, the first resistance to watch is $153.89. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $155.27. The third major resistance level sits at $156.25. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $151.54, it is likely to go to the next support level at $150.56. The third support level lies at $149.19 if the price breaches the second support level.
Paychex Inc (NASDAQ: PAYX) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 54.94 billion has total of 360,191K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 5,278 M in contrast with the sum of 1,690 M annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 1,509 M and last quarter income was 519,300 K.
