Paychex Inc. (PAYX)

PAYX · Industrials · United States

Paychex Inc. (PAYX) is a company in the Industrials sector, based in United States. The stock is held in 22 ETFs we track – with its largest weight of 0.38 % in XMIW (msci-world-industrials). Anyone holding one of these ETFs also owns a small indirect stake in Paychex.

Above-average ETF coverage: 22 of the 95 ETFs we cover hold Paychex, spread across 10 indices. That puts the stock in more ETFs than 87.9 % of the 4,334 stocks we cover.

Held in22 ETFs

Highest weight0.38 %

Indices10

SectorIndustrials

CountryUnited States

ISINUS7043261079

WKN868284

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Price chart

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Performance

Performance
Year to date	+4.0 %	1 year	-11.3 %
1 month	-1.5 %	3 months	+19.6 %
Calendar year 2025	-20.0 %

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Measured in euros, Paychex returned +6.0 % year to date and -9.2 % over one year. The gap to the dollar figures above comes from the exchange rate alone: each daily price is converted at the ECB euro reference rate for the same day.

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Risk metrics

Max drawdown-46.4 %

Volatility p.a.26.0 %

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Below peak-26.9 %

Beta to S&P 5000.01

The close on Sep 16, 2026 was 26.9 % below the highest close since Aug 12, 2024, reached on Jun 6, 2025. Over the last 252 trading days, on days when the S&P 500 rose or fell 1 %, Paychex moved on average 0.01 % in the same direction. The correlation of 0.00 shows how reliable that average is: the broad market explained only a small share of the daily moves.

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Correlated with

The strongest co-movers on top, the most inverse below. Low or negative values improve portfolio diversification.

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Key financials

Latest reported fiscal year (FY2025, period end 2026-05-31) as filed with the SEC.

Revenue6.3 bn $

Net income1.8 bn $

Diluted EPS4.89 $

Net margin27.9 %

Return on equity45.4 %

Equity ratio23.5 %

Revenue growth+16.5 %

Revenue and profit by fiscal year
Fiscal year	Revenue	Net income	Margin
FY2023	5.1	0.0	0.0 %
FY2024	5.4	1.7	30.6 %
FY2025	6.3	1.8	27.9 %

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Held in these ETFs

Held in these ETFs
ETF	Index	Weight	per €1,000 in the ETF
XDWI / XMIW	msci-world-industrials	0.38 %	€3.80
WIND	msci-world-industrials	0.38 %	€3.80
EXXT	nasdaq-100	0.19 %	€1.90
XNAS	nasdaq-100	0.19 %	€1.90
2B7K	msci-world-sri	0.18 %	€1.80
XDEQ	msci-world-quality	0.16 %	€1.60
SPYL / SPY5	sp500	0.06 %	€0.60
SXR8	sp500	0.06 %	€0.60
XD9U / XD9D	msci-usa	0.06 %	€0.60
SWWD	msci-world	0.04 %	€0.40
WIMI	msci-world-imi	0.04 %	€0.40
SPYY	msci-acwi	0.04 %	€0.40
EUNL	msci-world	0.04 %	€0.40
IUSQ	msci-acwi	0.04 %	€0.40
SPPW	msci-world	0.04 %	€0.40
XDWD / XDWL	msci-world	0.04 %	€0.40
SPYI / SPSA	msci-acwi-imi	0.00 %	€0.00

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The last column turns the weight into euros: this much of €1,000 invested in one of these funds is allocated to Paychex as of the fund's latest holdings list.

Weight in EUNL since 2019

Sep 30, 2019Sep 16, 2026

In EUNL, a fund tracking the MSCI World, Paychex had a weight of 0.06 % on Sep 30, 2019 and 0.04 % on Sep 16, 2026. Its share peaked at 0.08 % on Sep 30, 2022. The weight rises and falls with the stock's price relative to the other index members, and it also shifts when the index provider changes the composition.

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How much Paychex Inc. overlaps with other holdings in a portfolio is shown by the Portfolio X-Ray and the ETF overlap check.

Stocks with similar ETF exposure

Names that reach a portfolio through largely the same funds as Paychex — the figure counts the ETFs holding both.

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Key figures side by side

Key figures compared with stocks of similar ETF exposure
Stock	1 year	Volatility p.a.	Net margin	Revenue growth
Paychex	-11.3 %	26.0 %	27.9 %	+16.5 %
Axon Enterprise Inc	-37.6 %	59.1 %	4.5 %	+33.5 %
Copart	-33.8 %	28.5 %	–	–
Cintas Corporation	+0.1 %	23.8 %	17.8 %	+8.9 %
Fastenal Company	+3.8 %	25.2 %	15.3 %	+8.7 %
Honeywell Aerospace	–	–	–	–
Honeywell International	+4.4 %	25.1 %	12.6 %	+7.8 %
Old Dominion Freight Line	+18.6 %	38.8 %	–	–
Broadridge Financial Solutions	-32.0 %	25.1 %	12.2 %	+5.9 %

Return and volatility from our daily closing prices in US dollars; margin and growth from the latest SEC annual filing. Fiscal years do not all end on the same date.