Paychex PAYX
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Paychex (PAYX) Short-term Investments (2009 - 2022)

Updated

Paychex's Short-term Investments was $853.9 million in fiscal Q4 2022 (quarter ended May 31, 2022), compared with $36.7 million a year earlier.

Analysis

Paychex (PAYX) Short-term Investments (2009 - 2022) Analysis & Trends

From fiscal Q4 2009 onward, Paychex has reported Short-term Investments for 51 quarters.

  • Short-term Investments shows a five-year compound annual growth rate of 43.8% (FY2017 to FY2022).
  • In earlier fiscal years, Short-term Investments was $36.7 million in FY2021 (+34.9%), $27.2 million in FY2020 (-30.3%), $39 million in FY2019 (-40.9%) and $66 million in FY2018 (-52.4%).
  • The fiscal Q4 2022 figure marks the highest quarterly Short-term Investments in data going back to fiscal Q4 2009.
  • Compared with a year earlier, Short-term Investments was higher in four of the last five quarters, with growth averaging 124.7%.
  • The best year-over-year quarter for Short-term Investments over five years was fiscal Q2 2021 (growth of 408.4%); the worst was fiscal Q2 2020 (a decline of 86.2%).
Peer Set

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr)
1 Palantir Technologies 386.60 Bn 351.42 Bn 1.93 Bn
2 Oracle 343.94 Bn 216.07 Bn -
3 Sap Se 272.35 Bn 199.75 Bn 8.64 Bn
4 Salesforce 175.46 Bn 131.33 Bn 8.70 Bn
5 Automatic Data Processing 122.07 Bn 108.86 Bn 2.53 Bn
6 ServiceNow 105.47 Bn 84.73 Bn 2.90 Bn
7 Intuit 94.25 Bn 73.60 Bn 3.44 Bn
8 Relx 73.66 Bn 72.75 Bn -
9 Strategy 51.78 Bn 38.91 Bn 89.63 Mn
10 Paychex 41.64 Bn 36.72 Bn 1.20 Bn
Historic Data

Historic Data

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DateValue
May 31, 2022 853.90 Mn
Aug 31, 2021 39.60 Mn
May 31, 2021 36.70 Mn
Feb 28, 2021 203.70 Mn
Nov 30, 2020 174.90 Mn
Aug 31, 2020 30.60 Mn
May 31, 2020 27.20 Mn
Feb 29, 2020 73.80 Mn
Nov 30, 2019 34.40 Mn
Aug 31, 2019 40.90 Mn
May 31, 2019 39.00 Mn
Feb 28, 2019 35.60 Mn
Nov 30, 2018 248.40 Mn
Aug 31, 2018 82.90 Mn
May 31, 2018 66.00 Mn
Feb 28, 2018 97.30 Mn
Nov 30, 2017 81.40 Mn
Aug 31, 2017 133.80 Mn
May 31, 2017 138.80 Mn
Feb 28, 2017 214.00 Mn
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