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NASDAQ · PCTY

Paylocity Holding Corporation

Technology · Software - Application

$170.07

Down-$6.39 (-3.62%)

Updated Oct 28, 2026, 12:24 PM

SID Score

5.9/10

Composite research score

Smart Money

58/100

Neutral

Market cap
8.28B
P/E ratio
36.4
Dividend yield
0.00%
52-week range
$92.99 – $178.53
Volume
784.2K
Avg. volume
618.1K

Price performance · PCTY

PCTY price history

1M range · 21 trading sessions · Daily adjusted prices

Prices through Oct 27, 2026

PCTY closed at $170.07 after 21 trading sessions, up 19.61% for the selected period.

Last close
$170.07
Period change
+19.61%
Period low
$142.19
Period high
$177.67
Daily close
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PCTY OHLC price history, latest 40 sessions
DateOpenHighLowCloseVolume
Oct 27, 2026$175.00$176.4875$169.655$170.07784.2K
Oct 26, 2026$177.19$178.53$174.17$176.46594.03K
Oct 23, 2026$177.26$178.2399$174.99$177.19456.93K
Oct 22, 2026$172.50$178.13$172.02$177.67686.47K
Oct 21, 2026$169.74$171.81$168.32$169.33507.2K
Oct 20, 2026$168.19$171.53$168.085$170.06696.3K
Oct 19, 2026$164.98$167.17$164.9576$166.17436.96K
Oct 16, 2026$168.05$169.09$163.27$166.32459.51K
Oct 15, 2026$159.81$166.475$159.81$166.25744.35K
Oct 14, 2026$157.18$159.46$156.815$159.10576.79K
Oct 13, 2026$155.73$158.565$155.73$158.11527.87K
Oct 12, 2026$155.97$157.97$155.17$156.03500.23K
Oct 9, 2026$153.72$155.31$152.54$153.96445.9K
Oct 8, 2026$148.10$153.15$148.10$153.02712.35K
Oct 7, 2026$146.55$149.93$146.08$148.02571.07K
Oct 6, 2026$147.18$148.65$145.315$146.16526.35K
Oct 5, 2026$145.57$147.67$144.485$147.39556.94K
Oct 2, 2026$147.29$149.00$144.26$144.47560.47K
Oct 1, 2026$145.64$148.57$144.55$146.60768.65K
Sep 30, 2026$142.19$143.465$141.05$142.57571.61K
Sep 29, 2026$143.33$144.35$139.42$142.19621.96K

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Overview

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Company profile

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. Its products help with recruiting and onboarding, payroll, time and labor, human resources, benefits, learning, and performance and compensation workflows. In fiscal 2025, the company generated over $1.5 billion in revenue across more than 41,000 customers.

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Average target
$196.86
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PCTY recent ratings
DateFirmRatingTarget
Oct 27, 2026CitigroupBuy—
Oct 26, 2026BTIGBuy—
Oct 23, 2026GuggenheimBuy—
Oct 20, 2026CitizensMarket Outperform—
Oct 13, 2026BarclaysEqual-Weight—
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Yahoo · Oct 22, 2026

Paylocity Launches AI-Powered Recruiting Optimizer to Accelerate and Scale Recruiting and Hiring Productivity

Powered by Paylocity’s Ignite AI, Recruiting Optimizer helps organizations improve recruiter productivity by 35%, fill roles faster by 25%, and reduce candidate drop-off by 15%.SCHAUMBURG, Ill., Oct. 22, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Paylocity (NASDAQ: PCTY), a leading provider of HCM, Finance, and IT solutions, today introduced Recruiting Optimizer, a new AI-powered solution that extends Paylocity Recruiting with AI agents embedded directly into recruiting workflows to automate the identification, e

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