Paychex PAYX Price / sales
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Where this comes from
Calculated from Paychex’s reported figures.
Based on the most recent quarter.
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 price / sales?
- Paychex (PAYX) reported price / sales of 5.3× in Q4 2025.
- How has Paychex's price / sales changed year-over-year?
- Paychex's price / sales decreased by 47.1% year-over-year, from 10× to 5.3×.
- What is the long-term trend for Paychex's price / sales?
- Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Paychex's price / sales has grown at a 4.5% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 32.7× to 39×.
- What does price / sales mean?
- How many dollars investors pay for each dollar of the company's annual sales.
- How do you interpret price / sales?
- Useful when earnings are negative or volatile (e.g. early-stage or cyclical firms). Only comparable across companies with similar margins — a sales dollar is worth more at a high-margin business.
- How does price / sales compare across companies?
- Best compared within a margin cohort; a software P/S and a retailer P/S are not directly comparable.