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by Delia Lind Published 3 years ago Updated 2 years ago
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Mar 10, 2022 · For the full-year 2021, adjusted EBITDA (accounting for 39.7% of revenues) increased 26.8% year over year to $419.3 million. Adjusted EBITDA margin expanded 40 bps to 39.7%. Paycom forecast 2022 ...

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Is Paycom a buy right now?

Paycom Software has received a consensus rating of Buy. The company's average rating score is 2.71, and is based on 10 buy ratings, 4 hold ratings, and no sell ratings.

Will Paycom stock go up?

Paycom Software Inc (NYSE:PAYC)

The 16 analysts offering 12-month price forecasts for Paycom Software Inc have a median target of 380.00, with a high estimate of 450.00 and a low estimate of 334.00. The median estimate represents a +22.41% increase from the last price of 310.42.

Is Paycom overvalued?

The DCF model indicates that Paycom stock is overvalued by 18%. A Relative valuation analysis against the market's largest 500 companies indicates a 64% overvaluation.Oct 1, 2021

Is Paycom undervalued?

PAYC is a poor value at its current trading price as investors are paying more than what its worth in relation to the company's earnings.Jan 5, 2022

Who is paycom owned by?

Chad Richison
Chad Richison is founder and CEO of Paycom, one of the first companies to process payroll completely online. Richison, a former senior manager at payroll firm ADP, founded Paycom in 1998. He took Paycom public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2014 and owns about 14% of its shares.

Is paycom publicly traded?

Paycom Software, Inc., known simply as Paycom, is an American online payroll and human resource technology provider based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma with offices throughout the United States.
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Paycom.
Trade namePaycom
TypePublic
Traded asNYSE: PAYC S&P 500 component
IndustrySoftware SaaS HCM
Founded1998
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How does paycom make money?

Paycom sells human capital management software to organizations and generates a bulk of its revenues from payroll processing. Paycom's product offerings can be fairly compared to ADP's Employer Services segment, which provides technology-based human capital management services.Aug 16, 2021

Revenues

Margins

The company generated revenues of $272.2 million, which increased 12.3% from the year-earlier period and surpassed the consensus mark of $271 million.

Balance Sheet & Cash Flow

Adjusted gross profit increased 11% from the year-ago period to $236.9 million. However, adjusted gross margin contracted 110 bps on a year-on-year basis to 87%. Paycom Software’s adjusted EBITDA increased 12.8% year on year to $133 million. Further, adjusted EBITDA margin advanced 20 bps to 48.9%.

Guidance

Paycom Software exited the quarter with cash and cash equivalents of $215.1 million compared with the $151.7 million recorded in the prior quarter. The company’s balance sheet comprises net long-term debt of $30.5 million compared with the previous quarter’s $30.9 million. Cash from operations was $89.5 million in the quarter.

What is Paycom's growth score?

For the second quarter, Paycom Software estimates revenues between $231 million and $233 million. Management projects adjusted EBITDA of $80-$82 million.

What is Paycom's earnings for 2021?

Currently, Paycom has a nice Growth Score of B, a grade with the same score on the momentum front. However, the stock was allocated a grade of D on the value side, putting it in the bottom 40% for this investment strategy.

Revenues

Paycom reported first-quarter 2021 results on Tuesday. This online payroll and human resource technology provider’s adjusted earnings of $1.47 per share beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 3.52% and rose 10.5% year over year.

Margins

The company generated revenues of $272.2 million, which increased 12.3% from the year-earlier period and surpassed the consensus mark of $271 million.

Balance Sheet & Cash Flow

Adjusted gross profit increased 11% from the year-ago period to $236.9 million. However, adjusted gross margin contracted 110 bps on a year-on-year basis to 87%. Paycom Software’s adjusted EBITDA increased 12.8% year on year to $133 million. Further, adjusted EBITDA margin advanced 20 bps to 48.9%.

Shares fall by double digits after the payroll technology provider reported strong quarterly results and issued bullish guidance. Is it simply a matter of the company's valuation getting ahead of itself?

Paycom Software exited the quarter with cash and cash equivalents of $215.1 million compared with the $151.7 million recorded in the prior quarter. The company’s balance sheet comprises net long-term debt of $30.5 million compared with the previous quarter’s $30.9 million. Cash from operations was $89.5 million in the quarter.

What happened

Brian Feroldi has been covering the healthcare and technology industries for The Motley Fool since 2015. Brian's investing strategy is to buy high-quality companies and then let compounding work its magic. See all of his articles here. Follow @brianferoldi

So what

Shares of Paycom Software ( NYSE:PAYC), a tech company focused on payroll processing and other HR functions, are down by 16% at of 11:55 a.m. EDT on Wednesday after the company reported its third-quarter results.

Now what

Given the huge drop, you would expect that Paycom had either whiffed on its quarterly report or issued disappointing guidance. However, neither looks to be the case.

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