PCTY Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Paylocity Holding | NASDAQ:PCTY)

Paylocity is a cloud-based human capital management provider offering payroll, compliance, and human resources management solutions. With the addition of expense and IT management modules, Paylocity unifies back-office operations spanning HR, finance, and IT on a single platform and bills customers on a subscription basis. The firm's customer base skews toward the midmarket and is primarily based in the US. As of fiscal 2026, Paylocity has nearly 44,400 customers.

Paylocity Holding trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol PCTY.

As of October 23, 2026, PCTY stock price declined to $177.19 with 410,874 million shares trading.

PCTY has a beta of 0.25, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. PCTY has a correlation of 0.01 to the broad based SPY ETF.

PCTY has a market cap of $9.24 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Paylocity Holding reported $445 million in Revenue and $1.84 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $13 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.36.

In the last 3 years, PCTY traded as high as $223.80 and as low as $92.99.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that PCTY belongs to (by Net Assets): IJH, VTI, VB, VBK, VXF.

PCTY has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +16.6% while the SPY ETF gained +14.3%. PCTY has also outperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +46.9% and +15.1%, respectively, while the SPY returned +3.2% and -2.4%, respectively.

PCTY support price is $173.99 and resistance is $181.35 (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 PCTY shares will trade within this expected range on the day.