Paychex, Inc. (PAYX)

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Paychex, 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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Paychex, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $3.2 billion in fiscal 2017 to $6.5 billion in fiscal 2026, up 8.4% 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 2026-05-31, Paychex, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 0.2% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 82% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 6 sales and 2 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-21, buying about $197 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-05-31, Paychex, Inc. earned about 47 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 30 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 77 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.6% over the year (the filed statements).

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Paychex, Inc.'s standing among 14 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $6.5 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 6% by size; a net margin of 27% ranks in the top 11%; revenue growth of 9.2% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 46% (its annual reports).

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Paychex, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Gibson, John B (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2022-10-18, 4.1 years (bottom 42% of its family); the 20 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6.3 years (top 21%); 6 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 20 people in charge now (top 39%; 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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Paychex, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $1.1 billion against debt of $4.6 billion leaves -21.4% of its assets as net cash, bottom 19% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 35.7% of revenue (top 11%); a gross margin of 74.3% (top 21%) (its annual report).

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Paychex, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew 9.2% a year over the last three filed years against 8.4% over all 10, speeding up (top 19% of its family); the newest year grew 16.9% (top 27%); capital spending grew 18% a year (top 41%) (its annual reports). Paychex, Inc. tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

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Paychex, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $6.5 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 10.8% above the $5.9 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 21% of its family); net income of $1.8 billion against a prior three-year average of $1.6 billion (top 29%); a net margin of 27% against 31% before (bottom 46%) (its annual reports).