“The unaudited pro forma information reflects certain adjustments that were directly attributable to the acquisition of Airbase, including amortization of acquired intangible assets, interest expense incurred to fund the acquisition and acquisition related cos…”10-K · Aug 5, 2026 ↗
Paylocity Holding Corporation
PCTY
Market read
Paylocity Holding Corporation's current read is isolated; its market group is not confirming.
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 23 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 4 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Revenue increased 11.0% versus the comparable filing period.
- Filing quantifies reductions in interest earned and decreases in interest expense attributed to lower balances and lower interest rates.
- Company disclosed a quantified increase in R&D expenses driven by additional development personnel and capitalized internal-use software adjustments.
Invalidation: The isolated read changes if PCTY's group or a disclosed connection begins moving with it.
Research brief
The story so far
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 23 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 4 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Revenue increased 11.0% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating margin improved 2.7 percentage points.
- Net income increased 18.8% versus the comparable filing period.
No thresholded adverse filing evidence is available yet.
- Filing quantifies reductions in interest earned and decreases in interest expense attributed to lower balances and lower interest rates.
- Company disclosed a quantified increase in R&D expenses driven by additional development personnel and capitalized internal-use software adjustments.
Company research
Understand the business, not just the ticker
Use the company’s filings to identify the few operating, demand, cost, capital and regulatory variables that determine its earnings power.
- Which operating variable is changing?
- Is that change durable, cyclical or one-off?
- What evidence would disprove the current interpretation?
- Latest annual revenue changed +11.0% year over year.
- Operating margin changed +2.7 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Operating cash flow covered net income at 1.98x in the latest annual period.
- Credit and interest rates has repeated adverse evidence across 5 filings.
- Product pipeline and R&D has repeated adverse evidence across 5 filings.
- P/E is 47% below the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
- EV/sales is 20% below the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
Price as of Sep 11, 2026
141.63Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“The increase in research and development expenses was primarily due to $16.3 million of additional employee-related costs related to additional development personnel, net of capitalized internal-use software costs, partially offset by $5.2 million in lower st…”10-K · Aug 5, 2026 ↗
“No impairment was recorded in fiscal 2024, 2025 or 2026 as a result of the Company’s qualitative assessments over its single reporting unit.”10-K · Aug 5, 2026 ↗
“The change in net cash provided by (used in) financing activities from fiscal 2024 to fiscal 2025 was primarily due to the change in client fund obligations of $623.0 million due to the timing of client funds collected and related remittance of those funds to…”10-K · Aug 6, 2025 ↗
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales 4.4× · EV/sales 4.3×. Comparisons use only industry-matched filing peers.
Mechanical 2.0-year scenarios are available as editable assumptions, not consensus.
Price action
How the market is pricing the story
Jodie does not have enough daily observations to draw a useful short-term chart for this asset. The latest quoted price was checked 11 Sept, 15:55 GMT-4; this is a coverage limitation, not a flat-price conclusion.
Developments
No sourced recent-development timeline yet
Jodie has not returned a relevant primary source or news item for PCTY. This is an evidence-coverage gap, not a conclusion that nothing material happened.
Business and financial condition
Reported financial figures are not available yet
Jodie has not returned structured SEC XBRL fundamentals for this asset. This is a coverage limitation, not an assessment of the business or its financial health.
Latest filing assessment
Fundamentals strengthened in the latest filing
10-K filed 2026-08-05 against the comparable filing from 2025-08-06.
Capital and cash conversion
Reported investment and cash context
- Capital spending YoY
- +176.5%
- Capital spending / revenue
- +2.0%
- Free-cash-flow margin
- +28.1%
- FCF margin change
- +2.7 pts
Capex, revenue, and operating cash flow are matched to the same reported duration. Reported accounting context, not a forecast or trading recommendation.
What improved
- Revenue increased 11.0% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating margin improved 2.7 percentage points.
- Net income increased 18.8% versus the comparable filing period.
What weakened
No thresholded deterioration was identified.
Filing receipts
“The change in other income was primarily due to an $11.7 million reduction in interest earned on our cash and cash equivalents from lower average balances and lower interest rates, partially offset by a $7.2 million decrease in interest expense due to less borrowings under our revolving credit facility.”
“The change in net cash provided by operating activities from fiscal 2025 to fiscal 2026 was primarily due to improved operating results after adjusting for non-cash items including stock-based compensation expense, depreciation and amortization expense and deferred income tax expense (benefit) and lower income tax payments resulting from the provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, partially offset by changes in operating assets and liabilities over the same period.”
“The increase in sales and marketing expense was primarily due to $20.5 million of additional employee-related costs, partially offset by $3.7 million in lower stock-based compensation expense.”
Historical filing backfill generated after the original filing window. It is not part of Jodie's live track record.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind PCTY
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depends on
ADPAutomatic Data Processing, Inc.competitorAug 6, 2025 ▾
“Our competitors vary for each of our solutions and primarily include payroll and HR service and software providers, such as Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Dayforce, Inc., Paychex, Inc., Paycom Software, Inc., Ultimate Kronos Group and other local and region…”
PAYCPaycom Software, Inc.competitorAug 6, 2025 ▾
“Our competitors vary for each of our solutions and primarily include payroll and HR service and software providers, such as Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Dayforce, Inc., Paychex, Inc., Paycom Software, Inc., Ultimate Kronos Group and other local and region…”
Depended on by
PAYCPaycom Software, Inc.competitorFeb 19, 2026 ▾
“We compete with companies such as Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Dayforce, Inc., Intuit, Inc., Oracle Corporation, Paychex, Inc., Paylocity Holding Corporation, SAP SE, ServiceNow, Inc., Ultimate Kronos Group, Workday, Inc., and other international, nationa…”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
PCTY is currently a Leader in the organic co-movement group B2B Software & Data. This group is discovered from market behaviour rather than assigned from an industry taxonomy. 3 filing-linked names are in the relationship map; none is currently confirmed as moving with the group.
Context history
Theme membership history
No durable theme membership has been observed for this name yet.