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PaychexPAYXDON'T BUYAug 31, 2016Stock price when the opinion was issued
As of Jun 18, 2026. Market Open.
Since 1995, has returned 14% annually. Margins have been growing as they've grown beyond payroll processing among small/medium-sized businesses, which offer growth. They benefitted from higher interest rates. He continues to buy it, though it's currently expensive. They project 6-8% revenue growth but will be hit if the economic weakens or rates decline.
There is an enormous amount of competition between this and Automatic Data Processing (ADP-Q). She sees competition as holding them both back. They are both trading at very high multiples in the upper 20s, and you are really not getting paid for it in growth. She doesn’t see this as attractive. Trading at 27X forward earnings.