Paychex (PAYX) Debt Ratio (2016 - 2026)

Paychex (PAYX) posted Debt Ratio of 0.28 for Q2 2026, down 7.87% sequentially from 0.31 in Q1 2026, and up 2.16% YoY from 0.28 in Q2 2025.

Paychex (PAYX) Debt Ratio (2016 - 2026) Analysis & Trends

Paychex has reported Debt Ratio for 11 years, with the latest figure at 0.28 in Q2 2026.

Quarterly Debt Ratio rose 2.16% year-over-year to 0.28 in Q2 2026, while the trailing twelve-month figure through May 2026 was 0.28 (up 2.16% YoY) and the FY2026 annual result came in at 0.28, up 2.16% from the prior year.
Debt Ratio slipped to 0.28 in Q2 2026 per PAYX's latest filing, from 0.31 in the prior quarter.
Over five years, Debt Ratio peaked at 0.32 in Q4 2025 and troughed at 0.06 in Q1 2024.
A 5-year average of 0.14 and a median of 0.08 in 2022 frame the typical range for Debt Ratio.
The sharpest annual moves came in 2023 and 2026: Debt Ratio declined 24.84% in 2023, then surged 320.16% in 2026.
Over 5 years, Debt Ratio stood at 0.09 in 2022, then decreased by 23.17% to 0.07 in 2023, then increased by 14.9% to 0.08 in 2024, then soared by 318.51% to 0.32 in 2025, then declined by 13.06% to 0.28 in 2026.
According to Business Quant data, Debt Ratio over the past three periods registered 0.28, 0.31, and 0.32 for Q2 2026, Q1 2026, and Q4 2025 respectively.

#	Company	Market Cap	Enterprise Value	Gross Profit (Qtr)	Debt Ratio (Qtr)
1	Sap Se	255.48 Bn	234.41 Bn	16.51 Bn	0.11
2	Shopify	198.95 Bn	194.00 Bn	1.71 Bn	-
3	Salesforce	160.70 Bn	148.86 Bn	8.56 Bn	0.37
4	Uber Technologies	154.94 Bn	149.73 Bn	6.38 Bn	0.22
5	ServiceNow	128.25 Bn	123.58 Bn	2.82 Bn	0.24
6	Snowflake	114.00 Bn	111.05 Bn	926.45 Mn	-
7	Automatic Data Processing	108.58 Bn	104.35 Bn	2.51 Bn	0.08
8	Adobe	105.34 Bn	99.72 Bn	5.90 Bn	0.22
9	Intuit	94.55 Bn	87.77 Bn	7.24 Bn	0.18
10	Paychex	43.39 Bn	42.27 Bn	1.14 Bn	0.28

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