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Paylocity Holding (STU:0P7) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : 74.32 (As of Jun. 01, 2025)


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What is Paylocity Holding Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF?

As of today (2025-06-01), Paylocity Holding's current share price is €165.00. Paylocity Holding's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was €2.22. Paylocity Holding's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for today is 74.32.

The historical rank and industry rank for Paylocity Holding's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF or its related term are showing as below:

STU:0P7' s Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 72.11   Med: 115.86   Max: 273.13
Current: 79.55

During the past years, Paylocity Holding's highest Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF was 273.13. The lowest was 72.11. And the median was 115.86.

STU:0P7's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF is ranked worse than
77.11% of 699 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 29.63 vs STU:0P7: 79.55

The Shiller PE Ratio was first used by professor Robert Shiller. He uses E10 for his Shiller PE Ratio calculation. E10 is the average of the inflation adjusted earnings per share of a company over the past 10 years. The similar calculation is applied by GuruFocus to calculate the Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF. The Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share is the average of the inflation adjusted free cash flow per share of a company over the past 10 years.

Paylocity Holding's adjusted free cash flow per share data for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was €2.732. Add all the adjusted free cash flow per share for the past 10 years together and divide 10 will get our Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share, which is €2.22 for the trailing ten years ended in Mar. 2025.

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Paylocity Holding Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Historical Data

The historical data trend for Paylocity Holding's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF can be seen below:

* 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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Paylocity Holding Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Chart

Paylocity Holding Annual Data
Trend Jun15 Jun16 Jun17 Jun18 Jun19 Jun20 Jun21 Jun22 Jun23 Jun24
Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only - - 180.24 143.82 70.34

Paylocity Holding Quarterly Data
Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Dec24 Mar25
Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 98.05 70.34 81.63 95.39 78.11

Competitive Comparison of Paylocity Holding's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF

For the Software - Application subindustry, Paylocity Holding's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF, along with its competitors' market caps and Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF 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.


Paylocity Holding's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Paylocity Holding's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Paylocity Holding's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF falls into.


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Paylocity Holding Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Calculation

Like the Shiller PE Ratio, the Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF takes the Free Cash Flow per Share from the past 10 years, adjusts it for inflation, and then calculates the average. This average is then used for the P/FCF calculation. Because it considers this 10-year average, it's often referred to as the CAPFCF Ratio.

The Shiller PE Ratio was first used by professor Robert Shiller to measure the valuation of the overall market. The similar calculation is applied by GuruFocus to calculate the Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF.

Paylocity Holding's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for today is calculated as

Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF=Share Price/ Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share
=165.00/2.22
=74.32

* 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.

Paylocity Holding's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 is calculated as:

For example, Paylocity Holding's adjusted Free Cash Flow per Share data for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was:

Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare=Free Cash Flow per Share/CPI of Mar. 2025 (Change)*Current CPI (Mar. 2025)
=2.732/134.9266*134.9266
=2.732

Current CPI (Mar. 2025) = 134.9266.

Paylocity Holding Quarterly Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
201506 -0.061 100.684 -0.082
201509 -0.011 100.392 -0.015
201512 0.015 99.792 0.020
201603 0.191 100.470 0.257
201606 -0.052 101.688 -0.069
201609 -0.069 101.861 -0.091
201612 0.056 101.863 0.074
201703 0.351 102.862 0.460
201706 0.126 103.349 0.164
201709 0.027 104.136 0.035
201712 0.266 104.011 0.345
201803 0.435 105.290 0.557
201806 0.186 106.317 0.236
201809 -0.001 106.507 -0.001
201812 0.278 105.998 0.354
201903 0.598 107.251 0.752
201906 0.456 108.070 0.569
201909 -0.106 108.329 -0.132
201912 0.291 108.420 0.362
202003 0.671 108.902 0.831
202006 0.276 108.767 0.342
202009 -0.174 109.815 -0.214
202012 0.150 109.897 0.184
202103 0.851 111.754 1.027
202106 0.456 114.631 0.537
202109 -0.248 115.734 -0.289
202112 0.233 117.630 0.267
202203 1.053 121.301 1.171
202206 0.649 125.017 0.700
202209 0.053 125.227 0.057
202212 0.825 125.222 0.889
202303 1.887 127.348 1.999
202306 0.801 128.729 0.840
202309 0.741 129.860 0.770
202312 0.921 129.419 0.960
202403 2.370 131.776 2.427
202406 0.936 132.554 0.953
202409 1.171 133.029 1.188
202412 0.620 133.157 0.628
202503 2.732 134.927 2.732

Add all the adjusted free cash flow per share together and divide 10 will get our Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share.

Please note that we use the CPI data of the country/region where the company is headquartered. If the CPI data for that country/region is not available, then we will use the CPI data of the United States as default.


Paylocity Holding  (STU:0P7) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Explanation

Compared with the regular Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow, which works poorly for cyclical businesses, the Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF smoothed out the fluctuations of free cash flow during business cycles. Therefore it is more accurate in reflecting the valuation of the company.

If a company has consistent business performance, the Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF should give similar results to regular Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow.


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Paylocity Holding Business Description

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1400 American Lane, Schaumburg, IL, USA, 60173
Founded in 1997, Paylocity is a cloud-based human capital management and payroll platform servicing midmarket customers. The company's average client size is around 150 employees, and its products help with recruiting and onboarding, payroll, time and labor, human resources, benefits, learning, and performance and compensation workflows. As of fiscal 2024, the company generated over $1.4 billion in revenue across more than 39,000 customers.

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