Paychex (PAYX) Retained Earnings (2009 - 2026)

Paychex has disclosed Retained Earnings across 18 years of filings, most recently posting -$2.7 million for Q1 2026.

• Retained Earnings for Q1 2026 came in at -$2.7 million, up 96.99% year-over-year; the trailing twelve-month figure through Feb 2026 was -$2.7 million (up 96.99% YoY), and the FY2025 annual result was $2.3 billion, up 1669.26% from the prior year.
• Retained Earnings came in at -$2.7 million for Q1 2026 at Paychex, down from $2.0 billion in the prior quarter.
• In the past five years, Retained Earnings ranged from a high of $2.3 billion in Q2 2025 to a low of -$183.1 million in Q3 2023.
• The 5-year median for Retained Earnings is -$47.0 million (2022), against an average of $751.1 million.
• Peak annual rise in Retained Earnings reached 47568.42% in 2022, while the deepest fall reached 182.17% in 2022.
• Paychex's Retained Earnings stood at $1.8 billion in 2022, then gained by 10.93% to $2.0 billion in 2023, then tumbled by 104.57% to -$91.9 million in 2024, then soared by 2221.87% to $2.0 billion in 2025, then plunged by 100.14% to -$2.7 million in 2026.
• The last three Retained Earnings figures came in at -$2.7 million (Q1 2026), $2.0 billion (Q4 2025), and $2.1 billion (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.