Paylocity Holding (PCTY) Return on Capital Employed (2014 - 2026)

Paylocity Holding's (PCTY) quarterly Return on Capital Employed came in at 16.94% in Q1 2026, down 178.0% year-on-year from 21.72% in Q1 2025, and up 103.69% quarter-over-quarter from 459.06% in Q4 2025.

Paylocity Holding (PCTY) Return on Capital Employed (2014 - 2026) Analysis & Trends

Paylocity Holding's Return on Capital Employed history runs 13 years deep, the most recent figure standing at 16.94% for Q1 2026.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Capital Employed fell 178.0% year-over-year to 16.94% in Q1 2026; TTM through Mar 2026 was 16.94%, a 178.0% decrease from a year earlier, with the FY2025 full-year figure at 21.53%, down 896.0% from the prior year.
  • Return on Capital Employed grew to 16.94% in Q1 2026 per PCTY's latest filing, from 459.06% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Capital Employed topped out at 34.11% in Q4 2023 and bottomed at 459.06% in Q4 2025.
  • The 5-year median for Return on Capital Employed is 17.51% (2023), against an average of 10.55%.
  • Across the five-year window, Return on Capital Employed surged 4576 bps in 2022 and slumped 48842 bps in 2025, its largest moves.
  • Year by year, Return on Capital Employed stood at 27.95% in 2022, then increased by 22 bps to 34.11% in 2023, then slipped by 14 bps to 29.36% in 2024, then tumbled by 1664 bps to 459.06% in 2025, then jumped by 104 bps to 16.94% in 2026.
  • Per Business Quant, the three latest PCTY Return on Capital Employed figures stand at 16.94% (Q1 2026), 459.06% (Q4 2025), and 22.97% (Q3 2025).

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) ROCE (Qtr)
1 Sap Se 208.91 Bn 189.27 Bn 8.16 Bn 40.19%
2 Full Truck Alliance 188.77 Bn 186.13 Bn - 9.52%
3 Shopify 145.98 Bn 140.23 Bn 1.55 Bn 12.40%
4 Uber Technologies 141.48 Bn 140.44 Bn 5.95 Bn 12.81%
5 Salesforce 128.51 Bn 116.67 Bn 8.56 Bn 10.65%
6 ServiceNow 98.38 Bn 93.20 Bn 2.82 Bn 10.59%
7 Automatic Data Processing 97.56 Bn 94.34 Bn 2.87 Bn -7.29%
8 Snowflake 91.55 Bn 88.59 Bn 926.45 Mn -25.94%
9 Cadence Design Systems 89.91 Bn 88.50 Bn 1.41 Bn 17.43%
10 Paylocity Holding 6.48 Bn 6.18 Bn 363.19 Mn 16.94%

Historic Data

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DateValue
Mar 31, 2026 16.94%
Dec 31, 2025 -459.06%
Sep 30, 2025 22.97%
Jun 30, 2025 16.23%
Mar 31, 2025 18.73%
Dec 31, 2024 29.36%
Sep 30, 2024 17.32%
Jun 30, 2024 17.55%
Mar 31, 2024 25.74%
Dec 31, 2023 34.11%
Sep 30, 2023 18.93%
Jun 30, 2023 13.25%
Mar 31, 2023 17.51%
Dec 31, 2022 27.95%
Sep 30, 2022 5.29%
Jun 30, 2022 10.27%
Mar 31, 2022 -12.38%
Dec 31, 2021 5.58%
Sep 30, 2021 -40.47%
Jun 30, 2021 8.63%