Paychex PAYX Institutional Ownership

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At close: Oct 15, 2026 · 4:00 PM EDT

As of the 13F quarter ended Jun 30, 2026, 1,525 institutions held 82.44% of Paychex (PAYX) shares outstanding. Versus the prior quarter, institutional ownership was up 2.65 percentage points, the holder count rose by 20 and shares held were up 3.37%. The largest holder is Capital International Investors with 28.84Mn shares (8.04% of outstanding).

Updated Oct 11, 2026 Paychex (PAYX) stock price and overview

Institutions by Trading Activity

1,525 Institutions

Increased 783 51.3%

Unchanged 212 13.9%

Reduced 530 34.8%

Ownership Statistics

13F · as of 30 Jun, 2026

Institutional Ownership

82.44%

▲+2.65 pp QoQ

Shares Held by Institutions

295.88Mn

of 358.90Mn outstanding

▲+3.37% QoQ

Shares Outstanding

358.90Mn

63.02Mn held outside 13F filers

Institutional Investors

1,525

filed 13F for Jun 2026

▲+20 vs prior quarter

Net Shares Added (QoQ)

+9.65Mn

accumulated since last quarter

Value of Holdings

$32.07Bn

reported market value

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Ownership Summary

Updated Oct 11, 2026

Paychex Inc (NASDAQ:PAYX) appeared in the 13F filings of 1,525 institutional investors for the quarter ended June 30, 2026.

These investors held 82.44% of Paychex's outstanding shares at the end of Q2 2026, up from 79.80% in Q1 2026.
Total shares held in PAYX rose 3.37% from Q1 2026; the number of holders fell 8.90% from Q2 2025.
Of the 1,525 holders of PAYX in Q2 2026, 783 added to their positions, 530 reduced their stakes and 212 left their positions unchanged.
Combined, institutional investors held 295.88Mn shares of PAYX as of Q2 2026, up 9.65Mn from the prior quarter and up 21.19Mn from a year earlier.
As of June 30, 2026, the biggest holder of Paychex was Capital International Investors with 28.84Mn shares, or 8.04% of shares outstanding.
Among holders that already owned Paychex, the biggest buyers in Q2 2026 were Invesco Ltd. (+7.79Mn shares), Victory Capital Management Inc (+1.34Mn shares), Morgan Stanley (+1.24Mn shares), Millennium Management LLC (+1.19Mn shares) and AQR Capital Management LLC (+1.13Mn shares).
Among holders that kept a stake in Paychex, the biggest sellers in Q2 2026 were Ameriprise Financial Inc (-1.62Mn shares), Select Equity Group, L.P. (-1.35Mn shares), Capital International Investors (-1.11Mn shares), Renaissance Technologies LLC (-947.7K shares) and Neuberger Berman Group LLC (-791.02K shares).
Per Business Quant, the top 10 investors in PAYX for the quarter ended June 30, 2026 were Capital International Investors (28.84Mn shares), BlackRock, Inc. (27.75Mn shares), Vanguard Capital Management LLC (21.04Mn shares), Vanguard Portfolio Management LLC (15.28Mn shares), State Street Corp (14.41Mn shares), Invesco Ltd. (13.04Mn shares), Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc (10.4Mn shares), Geode Capital Management, LLC (10.25Mn shares), Morgan Stanley (6.54Mn shares) and Federated Hermes, Inc. (5.88Mn shares).

Form 13F Holdings

1,527 Institutional Holders

Report period 30 Jun, 2026

Total shares held 295.88Mn

Of outstanding 82.44%

#	Institution	CIK	Shares Held	% of Outstanding	Change (QoQ)	Change (%)	Value (USD)
1	Capital International Investors	0001562230	28,840,445	8.04%	▼1,108,241	-3.70%	$2.84Bn
2	BlackRock, Inc.	0002012383	27,753,178	7.73%	▼661,274	-2.33%	$2.73Bn
3	VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC	0002100119	21,040,690	5.86%	▲75,420	+0.36%	$2.07Bn
4	VANGUARD PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT LLC	0002100121	15,277,715	4.26%	▲28,155	+0.18%	$1.50Bn
5	State Street Corp	0000093751	14,411,341	4.02%	▲361,713	+2.57%	$1.42Bn
6	Invesco Ltd.	0000914208	13,040,655	3.63%	▲7,789,747	+148.35%	$1.28Bn
7	CHARLES SCHWAB INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT INC	0000884546	10,402,177	2.90%	▲1,026,924	+10.95%	$1.02Bn
8	GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC	0001214717	10,250,030	2.86%	▼20,498	-0.20%	$1.01Bn
9	Morgan Stanley	0000895421	6,540,823	1.82%	▲1,242,795	+23.46%	$643.16Mn
10	Federated Hermes, Inc.	0001056288	5,881,768	1.64%	▼3,808	-0.06%	$578.35Mn
11	Goldman Sachs Group Inc	0000886982	4,619,471	1.29%	▲660,155	+16.67%	$454.23Mn
12	Bank Of America Corp /De/	0000070858	4,414,326	1.23%	▲90,436	+2.09%	$434.06Mn
13	Northern Trust Corp	0000073124	4,006,462	1.12%	▲9,665	+0.24%	$393.96Mn
14	Wells Fargo & Company/Mn	0000072971	3,852,234	1.07%	▼387,014	-9.13%	$378.79Mn
15	FIRST TRUST ADVISORS LP	0001125816	3,366,093	0.94%	▲1,022,037	+43.60%	$330.99Mn
16	UBS Group AG	0001610520	3,303,592	0.92%	▼228,797	-6.48%	$324.84Mn
17	Jpmorgan Chase & Co	0000019617	2,838,927	0.79%	▲96,048	+3.50%	$283.35Mn
18	ENVESTNET ASSET MANAGEMENT INC	0001407543	2,764,004	0.77%	▼10,469	-0.38%	$271.78Mn
19	VICTORY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT INC	0001040188	2,741,215	0.76%	▲1,341,349	+95.82%	$269.54Mn
20	DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP	0000354204	2,706,479	0.75%	▼116,090	-4.11%	$266.16Mn

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