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PAYX Paychex

industrial · valued with glm-5.2 medium conviction · deep-dived 2026-09-01

HOLD
Intrinsic value$59.31
Price (at call)$127.34
Margin of safety -53.4%
vs market (rating basis) -1.4%

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The story

Value drivers

Revenue growth (Y1)9.2%
Terminal growth3.5%
Forecast horizon10y
Target operating margin27.3%
Years to target margin5
Sales-to-capital0.79
Beta1.05
Failure probability0.0%
Cost of capital (WACC)9.1%
Terminal WACC8.8%

Valuation bridge

PV of explicit FCFF9.03B
PV of terminal value15.54B
Equity value21.10B
÷ shares → per share$59.31

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Projected free cash flow to the firm

YrRevenueGrowthMarginNOPATReinvestFCFFPV
1 7.11B 9.2% 37.2% 2.01B 759.04M 1.25B 1.15B
2 7.71B 8.5% 34.7% 2.04B 771.67M 1.27B 1.07B
3 8.32B 7.9% 32.2% 2.04B 775.75M 1.27B 977.73M
4 8.93B 7.3% 29.8% 2.02B 770.43M 1.25B 886.98M
5 9.52B 6.6% 27.3% 1.98B 755.02M 1.23B 794.75M
6 10.09B 6.0% 27.3% 2.10B 728.99M 1.37B 815.07M
7 10.64B 5.4% 27.3% 2.21B 692.08M 1.52B 829.20M
8 11.14B 4.8% 27.3% 2.32B 644.24M 1.67B 836.91M
9 11.60B 4.1% 27.3% 2.41B 585.74M 1.83B 838.14M
10 12.01B 3.5% 27.3% 2.50B 517.10M 1.98B 832.94M

History

DatePriceIntrinsicMoSRating
2026-09-01$127.34 $59.31 -53.4% HOLD
2026-06-23$97.99 $81.04 -17.3% STRONG BUY