Paychex (PAYX) Cash & Current Investments (2009 - 2026)

Paychex's (PAYX) quarterly Cash & Current Investments came in at $1.8 billion in Q1 2026, up 11.12% year-on-year from $1.6 billion in Q1 2025, and up 16.66% quarter-over-quarter from $1.5 billion in Q4 2025.

Paychex (PAYX) Cash & Current Investments (2009 - 2026) Analysis & Trends

Paychex has disclosed Cash & Current Investments across 18 years of filings, most recently posting $1.8 billion for Q1 2026.

  • Cash & Current Investments for Q1 2026 came in at $1.8 billion, up 11.12% year-over-year; the trailing twelve-month figure through Feb 2026 was $1.8 billion (up 11.12% YoY), and the FY2025 annual result was $1.7 billion, up 10.54% from the prior year.
  • Cash & Current Investments came in at $1.8 billion for Q1 2026 at Paychex, up from $1.5 billion in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Cash & Current Investments ranged from a high of $1.8 billion in Q1 2026 to a low of $323.3 million in Q1 2022.
  • The 5-year median for Cash & Current Investments is $1.4 billion (2023), against an average of $1.3 billion.
  • Across the five-year window, Cash & Current Investments plunged 61.58% in 2022 and jumped 324.84% in 2023, its largest moves.
  • Paychex's Cash & Current Investments stood at $1.2 billion in 2022, then increased by 22.24% to $1.4 billion in 2023, then slipped by 10.33% to $1.3 billion in 2024, then rose by 21.43% to $1.5 billion in 2025, then gained by 16.66% to $1.8 billion in 2026.
  • The last three Cash & Current Investments figures came in at $1.8 billion (Q1 2026), $1.5 billion (Q4 2025), and $859.4 million (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) Cash & Current Investments (Qtr)
1 Sap Se 238.14 Bn 220.17 Bn 8.16 Bn 18.56 Bn
2 Full Truck Alliance 166.83 Bn 164.28 Bn - 2.67 Bn
3 Uber Technologies 150.36 Bn 149.32 Bn 11.88 Bn 1.21 Bn
4 Shopify 147.75 Bn 142.01 Bn 1.55 Bn 5.74 Bn
5 Salesforce 140.39 Bn 128.55 Bn 8.56 Bn 11.84 Bn
6 Cadence Design Systems 105.73 Bn 104.32 Bn 1.26 Bn 1.41 Bn
7 ServiceNow 105.42 Bn 100.24 Bn 2.83 Bn 5.18 Bn
8 Automatic Data Processing 89.57 Bn 86.34 Bn 2.87 Bn 3.23 Bn
9 Adobe 85.05 Bn 78.16 Bn 5.90 Bn 5.63 Bn
10 Paychex 36.04 Bn 34.25 Bn 1.38 Bn 1.79 Bn

Historic Data

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Feb 28, 2026 1.79 Bn
Nov 30, 2025 1.54 Bn
Aug 31, 2025 859.40 Mn
May 31, 2025 1.68 Bn
Feb 28, 2025 1.61 Bn
Nov 30, 2024 1.27 Bn
Aug 31, 2024 1.51 Bn
May 31, 2024 1.52 Bn
Feb 29, 2024 1.73 Bn
Nov 30, 2023 1.41 Bn
Aug 31, 2023 1.70 Bn
May 31, 2023 1.27 Bn
Feb 28, 2023 1.37 Bn
Nov 30, 2022 1.15 Bn
Aug 31, 2022 1.24 Bn
May 31, 2022 420.30 Mn
Feb 28, 2022 323.30 Mn
Nov 30, 2021 688.70 Mn
Aug 31, 2021 1.15 Bn
May 31, 2021 1.03 Bn