Paychex (PAYX) closed at $118.04 on October 23, 2026, down 0.6% from the previous close, on volume of 2,205,052 shares (30-day average 3,257,604).
Data as of October 23, 2026.
UBS Issues a Hold Rating on Paychex (PAYX)
TipRanks (Mon, 26-Oct 9:35 AM ET)
Paychex Named one of Inc.'s 2026 Power Partners
Globe Newswire (Mon, 26-Oct 9:00 AM ET)
The Week That Was, The Week Ahead: Macro and Markets, October 25
TipRanks (Sun, 25-Oct 4:25 AM ET)
Paychex Expands Payroll Tax Support with New Tax Penalty Protection Service
Globe Newswire (Mon, 19-Oct 10:00 AM ET)
Paychex Declares Quarterly Dividend
Globe Newswire (Thu, 15-Oct 8:30 AM ET)
SixFifty, a Paychex Company, Launches Agentic HR Compliance Specialist
Globe Newswire (Tue, 13-Oct 9:00 AM ET)
Paychex Honored as a Workforce Management Technology Leader by NelsonHall
Globe Newswire (Thu, 8-Oct 8:00 AM ET)
U.S. Small Business Employment Rate Remains Steady in September
Globe Newswire (Tue, 29-Sep 8:30 AM ET)
Paychex Earns 5-Star Rating on Newsweek's America's Greatest Companies 2026 List
Globe Newswire (Mon, 28-Sep 8:00 AM ET)
Paychex leans on 42.0% adjusted operating margin as PEO and Insurance Solutions revenue jumps 12%
Market Chameleon (Wed, 23-Sep 4:38 AM ET)
Paychex is a cloud-based human capital management provider offering payroll, compliance, talent management, benefits administration, and retirement services. The firm also provides HR outsourcing services, including professional employer organization, or PEO, offerings, enabling clients to reduce HR overhead. Paychex primarily targets small and midsize businesses, although its acquisition of Paycor in 2025 signals the firm's aspirations to expand into the midmarket segment, serving firms with more than 100 employees. As of fiscal 2026, Paychex has approximately 840,000 clients and manages payroll for one in 11 workers in the United States.
Paychex trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol PAYX.
As of October 26, 2026, PAYX stock price declined to $115.22 with 588,227 million shares trading.
PAYX has a beta of 0.08, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. PAYX has a correlation of 0.00 to the broad based SPY ETF.
PAYX has a market cap of $41.02 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.
Last quarter Paychex reported $2 billion in Revenue and $1.34 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $6 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.02.
In the last 3 years, PAYX traded as high as $161.24 and as low as $85.45.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that PAYX belongs to (by Net Assets): SCHD, VTI, QQQ, VOO, VO.
PAYX has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -4.0%, while SPY returned +15.0%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in PAYX shares. However, PAYX has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +5.2% and +10.8%, while SPY returned +3.9% and -1.7%, respectively. This indicates PAYX has been having a stronger performance recently.
PAYX support price is $114.81 and resistance is $118.89 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that PAYX shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
