PAYXPaychex
Unless we state otherwise or the context otherwise requires, the terms “Paychex,” the “Company,” “we,” “our,” and “us” refer to Paychex, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and its consolidated subsidiaries. 10-K, Item 1
- Employees
- 17,600
- Headquarters
- Rochester, NY
- CEO
- John B. Gibson
- Next results
- around Dec 18, 2026
Dilution: new shares, stock pay and buybacks
prospectuses (S-3, 424B) of the last three years and the 10-K cash flow From EDGARDiluted shares: 360.00M in the year to May 31, 2026 2026 -0.6%2025 0.0%2024 -0.1%2023 -0.2%
Change in the diluted weighted average share count from the fiscal year before, stock splits taken out. Bars use one scale for stock pay and buybacks. Prospectuses are read from their cover page; preliminary ones are left out. Cash & buybacks, year by year → · How
FY2026, from the cash flow statement in the 10-K, added up.
Came from
| Operating cash flow | $2.6B |
| Cash on hand used | $1.2B |
Went to
| Capital spending | $234.9M |
| Acquisitions | $400K |
| Buybacks | $611.0M |
| Dividends | $1.6B |
| Debt repaid | $400.0M |
| Other, net investments bought and sold, other financing and investing lines, and exchange rates |
$970.3M |
Each number is a line of the cash flow statement as the company tagged it. "Other, net" is what those lines do not cover (investments bought and sold, other financing and investing lines, and exchange rates); Tickdelta does not estimate it.
Each CEO's years
The CEO of each fiscal year as named in the proxy's pay versus performance table, and what the 10-Ks show for those years. Facts, not a grade.
John B. Gibson, Martin Mucci
- Operating cash flow
- $1.7B
- Capital spending
- $143.0M
- Acquisitions
- $2.7M
- Buybacks
- $0
- Dividends
- $1.2B
- Stock-based pay
- $62.6M
- Diluted shares since FY2022
- -0.2%
- Revenue since FY2022
- +9%
- Debt since FY2022
- +$2.0M
- CEO pay (reported)
- $21.1M
John B. Gibson
- Operating cash flow
- $1.6B
- Capital spending
- $133.8M
- Acquisitions
- $24.9M
- Buybacks
- $145.2M
- Dividends
- $999.6M
- Stock-based pay
- $52.8M
- Diluted shares since FY2021
- +0.3%
- Revenue since FY2021
- +14%
- Debt since FY2021
- +$1.7M
- CEO pay (reported)
- $11.0M
| Fiscal year to | Buybacks | Dividends | Stock pay | Shares issued for cash | Diluted shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | $611.0M | $1.6B | $96.1M | - | 360.00M |
| 2025-05-31 | $104.5M | $1.4B | $111.8M | - | 362.00M |
| 2024-05-31 | $169.2M | $1.3B | $61.1M | - | 362.10M |
| 2023-05-31 | $0 | $1.2B | $62.6M | - | 362.30M |
| 2022-05-31 | $145.2M | $999.6M | $52.8M | - | 363.10M |
From the XBRL of the 10-Ks (cash flow statement and diluted weighted average shares); each year as reported in the latest 10-K that includes it. Concepts: buybacks = PaymentsForRepurchaseOfCommonStock; dividends = PaymentsOfDividendsCommonStock; sbc = ShareBasedCompensation; diluted_shares = WeightedAverageNumberOfDilutedSharesOutstanding.
Price paid per share
What PAYX paid on average for each share it bought back, each fiscal year: dollars spent divided by shares bought, both from the 10-K.
| Fiscal year to | Shares bought | Spent | Average price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-05-31 | 2.90M | $166.2M | $57.31 |
Shares and dollars from the statement of shareholders' equity (the cash flow line also counts shares withheld for taxes, so it is not used). Share counts filed before a stock split are put on today's count. A year where the 10-K does not tag both numbers is left out. The latest year with both numbers tagged is 2017.
Work on PAYX in a spreadsheet:
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CSV.
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