Paychex Inc. (PAYX)

PAYX · Industrials · United States

Paychex Inc. (PAYX) is a US company in the Industrials sector. The stock has its largest weight in XMIW (MSCI World Industrials), at 0.36%. Anyone who holds an ETF containing Paychex also has an indirect stake in the company.

Data and Charts: Paychex

Key Data for Paychex

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Paychex Stock Price Chart

The Paychex chart shows daily closing prices and is set to the current year by default. The stock is down 0.1% year to date and down 4.4% over twelve months. The last recorded close on October 30, 2026, was $112.12, at 64% of the 52-week range.

Price series from our database since Aug 12, 2024, 558 daily values.

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Paychex Stock Performance

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Measured in euros, Paychex is up 5.1% year to date and down 1.1% over twelve months. The difference from the dollar figures above comes from the exchange rate alone. Each daily price is converted at the ECB euro reference rate for that day.

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Alysly Data Analysis: Paychex

What ETF Is Paychex In?

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The last column shows how much of €1,000 in one of these funds goes to Paychex, based on each fund's latest holdings list.

US-listed ETFs holding Paychex (weight per latest SEC filing): SCHD 1.00%, QQQM 0.20%, QQQ 0.15%, VYM 0.15%, ONEQ 0.09%, IVV 0.05%, SPY 0.05%, VOO 0.05%, VTI 0.04%. These funds are registered in the US; retail investors in the EU usually cannot buy them.

Paychex Weight in iShares Core MSCI World (EUNL) Since 2019

In iShares Core MSCI World (EUNL), Paychex had a weight of 0.06% on Sep 30, 2019 and 0.04% on Oct 29, 2026. The fund tracks the MSCI World. Its share peaked at 0.08% on Sep 30, 2022. The weight rises and falls with the stock's price performance relative to the other index members. It can also change when the index provider adjusts the index composition.

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What's Inside Your ETF Portfolio and the ETF overlap check show how much Paychex overlaps with the rest of a portfolio.

What Paychex Executives and Directors Traded Recently

The table shows open-market purchases and sales reported over the past 90 days. Directors, officers and shareholders owning more than ten percent must report such transactions within two trading days. Awards and option exercises are excluded.

“Plan” means the transaction follows a schedule set up in advance under Rule 10b5-1. Sales consistently outnumber purchases in these filings because a large part of executive pay is granted in shares. For comparison: over the period covered, executives and directors reported sales at 271 of 350 tracked companies and purchases at 32.

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Stocks With ETF Exposure Similar to Paychex

Stocks with ETF exposure similar to Paychex

Stock	Shared ETFs	r	1 year	Annualized volatility	Net margin	Revenue growth
Paychex	–	–	-4.4%	27.0%	27.0%	+16.9%
Axon Enterprise Inc	23	–	-42.1%	58.1%	4.5%	+33.5%
Copart	23	–	-29.1%	28.8%	–	–
Honeywell Aerospace	23	–	–	–	–	–
Honeywell International	23	–	+9.1%	24.7%	12.6%	+7.8%
Cintas Corporation	23	–	+19.5%	23.9%	17.8%	+8.9%
Fastenal Company	23	–	+24.9%	24.9%	15.3%	+8.7%
Old Dominion Freight Line	23	–	+25.7%	38.4%	–	–
Paccar	22	–	+3.1%	27.5%	8.4%	-15.5%

These stocks reach a portfolio through largely the same funds as Paychex. “Shared ETFs” counts the funds that hold both.

Return and volatility are calculated from our daily closing prices in US dollars. Margin and growth come from each company's latest SEC annual filing. Because fiscal years do not end on the same date for every company, the underlying periods are not fully identical.

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Fundamental Analysis: Paychex

Paychex Key Financials

Figures come from the SEC annual filing for the latest reported fiscal year (period end May 31, 2026).

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Technical Analysis: Paychex

Paychex Risk Metrics

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The close on Oct 30, 2026, was 29.8% below the highest close since Aug 12, 2024. That high was reached on Jun 6, 2025. When the S&P 500 rose or fell 1%, Paychex moved 0.08% on average in the opposite direction (past 252 trading days). The correlation of -0.03, however, shows only a moderate link to the broad market. Accordingly, moves in the S&P 500 explain only a small part of the daily price moves of Paychex.

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What Paychex Correlates With

The strongest co-movers are listed at the top, the strongest inverse movers at the bottom. Low or negative correlations can help spread risk more broadly across a portfolio.

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