Paychex (Paychex) Dividends per Share : $3.56 (TTM As of Feb. 2024)

Paychex Dividends per Share Chart

Paychex Annual Data
	Trend	May14	May15	May16	May17	May18	May19	May20	May21	May22	May23
Dividends per Share		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					2.30	2.48	2.52	2.77	3.26

Paychex Quarterly Data
	May19	Aug19	Nov19	Feb20	May20	Aug20	Nov20	Feb21	May21	Aug21	Nov21	Feb22	May22	Aug22	Nov22	Feb23	May23	Aug23	Nov23	Feb24
Dividends per Share	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.79	0.89	0.89	0.89	0.89

Competitive Comparison of Paychex's Dividends per Share

For the Staffing & Employment Services subindustry, Paychex's Dividend Yield %, along with its competitors' market caps and Dividend Yield % data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

Paychex's Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Business Services Industry

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, Paychex's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Paychex's Dividend Yield % falls into.

Paychex Dividends per Share Calculation

Dividends paid to per common share.

Paychex  (NAS:PAYX) Dividends per Share Explanation

1. Dividend Payout Ratio measures the percentage of the company's earnings paid out as dividends.

Paychex's Dividend Payout Ratio for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 is calculated as

During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Payout Ratio of Paychex was 0.83. The lowest was 0.74. And the median was 0.82.

Warning Sign:

If a company's dividend payout ratio is too high, its dividend may not be sustainable. The dividend payout ratio of Paychex Inc is 0.78, which seems too high.

2. Dividend Yield % measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.

Paychex Recent Full-Year* Dividend History

* GuruFocus has an internal rule that if the most recent dividend payment frequency is at least 4 times a year, then the full year will be calculated according to the frequency of payment or the one-year time frame, whichever is stricter.
* GuruFocus converts dividend currency to local traded share price currency in order to calculate dividend yield. Please refer to the last column "Forex Rate" in the above table.

Paychex's Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as

Current Share Price is $121.97.
Paychex's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is $3.56.

During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Yield of Paychex was 4.77%. The lowest was 1.54%. And the median was 2.87%.

Good Sign:

Paychex Inc stock dividend yield is close to 3-year high.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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