The trading price of Paychex Inc (NASDAQ:PAYX) floating higher at last check on current market day and closing at $151.20, 4.90% higher than its previous close.
Traders who pay close attention to intraday price movement should know that it has been fluctuating between $144.52 and $153.12. The company’s P/E ratio in the trailing 12-month period was 31.81, while its 5Y monthly beta was 0.981. In examining the 52-week price action we see that the stock hit a 52-week high of $158.37 and a 52-week low of $114.72. Over the past month, the stock has gained 0.13% in value.
Paychex Inc, whose market valuation is $54.44 billion at the time of this writing, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report on 2024-Dec-18. The dividend yield on the company stock is 2.59%, while its Forward Dividend ratio is 3.92. Investors’ optimism about the company’s current quarter earnings report is understandable.
On the technical side, indicators suggest PAYX has a 100% Buy on average for the short term. According to the data of the stock’s medium term indicators, the stock is currently averaging as a 100% Buy, while an average of long term indicators suggests that the stock is currently 100% Buy.
Here is the average analyst rating on the stock as represented by 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock should be considered as either strong buy or strong sell respectively. The number of analysts that have assigned PAYX a recommendation rating is 10. Out of them, 8 rate it a Hold, while 1 recommend Buy, whereas 0 assign an Overweight rating. 0 analyst(s) have tagged Paychex Inc (PAYX) as Underweight, while 1 advise Sell. Analysts have rated the stock Hold, likely urging investors to take advantage of the opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.
If we dig deeper into the stock’s outlook, we see that the stock’s PEG is 5.12, which symbolizes a positive outlook. A quick review shows that PAYX’s price is currently 1.91% off the SMA20 and 2.23% off the SMA50. The RSI metric on the 14-day chart is currently showing 56.64, and weekly volatility stands at 1.54%. When measured over the past 30 days, the indicator reaches 2.12%. Paychex Inc (NASDAQ:PAYX)’s beta value is currently sitting at 0.92, while the Average True Range indicator is currently displaying 3.43. With analysts defining $142-$142 as the low and high price targets, we arrive at a consensus price target of $142 for the trailing 12-month period. The current price is about 6.08% off the estimated low and 6.08% off the forecast high, based on this estimate. Investors will be thrilled if PAYX’s share price rises to $142, which is the median consensus price. At that level, PAYX’s share price would be 6.08% above current price.
To see how Paychex Inc stock has been performing today in comparison to its peers in the industry, here are the numbers: PAYX stock’s performance was 4.90% at last check in today’s session, and 25.12% in the past year. Paychex Inc has a P/E ratio of 31.81.
An evaluation of the daily trading volume of Paychex Inc (NASDAQ:PAYX) indicates that the 3-month average is 1.97 million. However, this figure has increased over the past 10 days to an average of 2.31.
Currently, records show that 360.10 million of the company’s shares remain outstanding. The insiders hold 10.53% of outstanding shares, whereas institutions hold 79.23%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of 2025-03-14, stood at 14.2 million shares, resulting in a short ratio of 6.68 at that time. From this, we can conclude that short interest is 442.00 of the company’s total outstanding shares. It is noteworthy that short shares in March were up slightly from the previous month’s figure, which was 13.53 million. However, since the stock’s price has seen 7.83% year-to-date, investors’ interest is likely to be reignited due to its potential to move even higher.
