Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP)

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Automatic Data Processing, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Automatic Data Processing, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $12 billion in fiscal 2017 to $22 billion in fiscal 2026, up 6.6% a year; it rose in 9 of 9 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-06-30, Automatic Data Processing, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 1.0% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 81% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 69 sales (69 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-12, buying about $746 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-06-30, Automatic Data Processing, Inc. earned about 73 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 16 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 90 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.3% over the year (the filed statements).

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Automatic Data Processing, Inc.'s standing among 68 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $22 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 1% by size; a net margin of 20.1% ranks in the top 20%; revenue growth of 6.8% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 46% (its annual reports).

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Automatic Data Processing, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Black, Maria (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2023-01-03, 3.9 years (bottom 46% of its family); the 28 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.7 years (top 36%); 4 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 28 people in charge now (top 15%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Automatic Data Processing, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $4.2 billion against debt of $5.0 billion leaves -1.2% of its assets as net cash, bottom 24% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 24.8% of revenue (top 14%); a gross margin of 46.4% (bottom 31%); research spending of 4.7% of revenue (bottom 17%) (its annual report).

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Automatic Data Processing, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew 6.8% a year over the last three filed years against 6.6% over all 10, speeding up (top 20% of its family); the newest year grew 6.7% (bottom 45%); research spending grew 6.8% a year (top 32%) (its annual reports). Automatic Data Processing, Inc. reported 5 product lines in fiscal 2026: HCM at $9.1 billion (42%), PEO Zero Margin Benefits Pass Throughs at $4.6 billion (21%), HRO at $4.0 billion (18%), and 2 more; 5 of 5 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Automatic Data Processing, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $22 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 0.1% below the $22 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 44% of its family); net income of $4.4 billion against a prior three-year average of $3.7 billion (bottom 37%); a net margin of 20.1% against 19.4% before (bottom 32%) (its annual reports).