PAYX - Paychex, Inc.
Paychex, Inc. provides integrated human capital management solutions for human resources (HR), payroll, benefits, and insurance services for small to medium-sized businesses in the United States, Europe, and India. It offers payroll processing services; payroll tax administration services; employee payment services; and regulatory compliance services, such as new-hire reporting and garnishment processing.
As of May 15, 2026: spot at $91.52, ATM IV 34.4%, max pain $95.00, net GEX $787.6K.
- Sector
- Industrials
- Industry
- Staffing & Employment Services
- Market Cap
- $32.22B
- P/E Ratio
- 19.75
- Beta
- 0.82
- 52-Week Range
- 85.45-161.24
- Dividend Yield
- $4.43
- CEO
- John Gibson Jr.
- Employees
- 16,500
- IPO Date
- Aug 26, 1983
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
What PAYX Looks Like to Options Traders Today
IV rank of 59.4% sits near the 1-year median, where strategy choice depends on directional conviction and the event calendar rather than vol regime alone; positive net gamma exposure ($787.6K) means dealers hedge against trend, damping realized volatility and biasing price toward heavy-OI strikes; the 25-delta skew (0.018) is roughly flat across the wings.
What This Page Covers
The PAYX overview links into per-metric analysis views: max pain, gamma exposure, volatility skew, expected move, options chain, open interest history, and aggregate Greeks. Microstructure data is available on short interest, short volume, fail-to-deliver, and market structure. Corporate data is on fundamentals, earnings, analyst ratings, and insider trading.
Frequently asked PAYX overview questions
- What is PAYX?
- PAYX is the ticker symbol for Paychex, Inc., a listed security. Paychex, Inc. provides integrated human capital management solutions for human resources (HR), payroll, benefits, and insurance services for small to medium-sized businesses in the United States, Europe, and India. Listed on NASDAQ. PAYX is the equity ticker shown on this page; equity options traders use the security for directional, volatility, and income strategies via the listed options chain.
- What does the PAYX options snapshot look like today?
- As of May 15, 2026, the PAYX options snapshot shows spot at $91.52, ATM IV 34.4%, IV rank 59.4%, max pain $95.00, net GEX $787.6K, expected move 9.86%. The full options chain, Greeks by strike and expiration, per-strike open-interest distribution, dealer gamma and delta exposure, and the volatility skew surface are linked from this overview page. Each per-metric route refreshes once per trading session and reflects the most recent close-of-business listed-options state.
- What are PAYX's key statistics?
- Paychex, Inc. (PAYX) carries a market capitalization of $32.22B, trailing P/E ratio of 19.75, beta of 0.82 relative to the broader market, 52-week range of 85.45-161.24. Full income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, and TTM ratio history is on the per-ticker fundamentals page; daily price history and 52-week levels are accessible from the same view. These structural inputs frame how the options market prices implied volatility around earnings windows and capital events.
- What sector or industry does PAYX belong to?
- Paychex, Inc. operates in the Industrials sector, in the Staffing & Employment Services industry. Sector classification affects how the ticker correlates with sector ETFs, how it reacts to macro factors like rate moves and commodity prices, and how its options pricing compares to sector peers. Compare PAYX's implied volatility and skew against sector benchmarks to gauge whether the options market is pricing single-name or systemic risk relative to the broader peer group.
- How current is the PAYX data on this page?
- The options snapshot above is dated May 15, 2026 and refreshes once per session, with all per-strike Greeks and exposure aggregates recomputed at the daily close. Company-profile fields (sector, industry, market cap, P/E, IPO date) refresh from the vendor feed nightly. Financials and earnings refresh as 10-K and 10-Q filings are parsed (typically within several business days of the actual report). FINRA microstructure data refreshes on the source's cadence (daily for short volume, bi-monthly for short interest, weekly for the OTC volume file, twice-monthly for SEC FTD).