Paychex PAYX Interest coverage
Interest coverage at other companies
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Where this comes from
Calculated from Paychex’s reported figures.
Based on trailing twelve months.
The official record: Paychex’s 10-Q, filed March 26, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →
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Questions, answered.
- What is Paychex's interest coverage?
- Paychex (PAYX) reported interest coverage of 8.7× in Q4 2025.
- How has Paychex's interest coverage changed year-over-year?
- Paychex's interest coverage decreased by 82.6% year-over-year, from 50.1× to 8.7×.
- What is the long-term trend for Paychex's interest coverage?
- Over 3 years (2021 to 2025), Paychex's interest coverage has grown at a 9.5% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 155.9× to 204.6×.
- What does interest coverage mean?
- How many times the company's operating profit covers its interest bill.
- How do you interpret interest coverage?
- Higher is safer; below ~2× is a warning that earnings provide little cushion against the debt burden. Debt-free companies have no interest expense and the ratio is left blank.
- How does interest coverage compare across companies?
- Comparable across leveraged non-financials; less relevant for net-cash companies with negligible interest.