Skip to main content
Smart Investors Daily
AD

NYSE · ADP

Automatic Data Processing, Inc.

Industrials · Staffing & Employment Services

$272.96

Down-$3.27 (-1.18%)

Updated Aug 17, 2026, 1:12 PM

SID Score

7.0/10

Composite research score

Smart Money

61/100

Neutral

Market cap
86.7B
P/E ratio
20.44
Dividend yield
2.88%
52-week range
$188.16 – $280.59
Volume
1.46M
Avg. volume
2.91M

Price performance

ADP price history

1M range · 20 trading sessions · Daily adjusted prices

ADP closed at $272.96 after 20 trading sessions, up 6.94% for the selected period.

Last close
$272.96
Period change
+6.94%
Period low
$242.88
Period high
$276.23
Daily close
View OHLC price history
ADP OHLC price history, latest 40 sessions
DateOpenHighLowCloseVolume
Aug 14, 2026$276.87$277.33$271.43$272.961.46M
Aug 13, 2026$271.01$276.875$268.73$276.231.91M
Aug 12, 2026$269.20$271.0299$265.8975$269.332.16M
Aug 11, 2026$270.67$273.14$269.49$271.092.11M
Aug 10, 2026$268.93$273.72$268.01$273.6751.7M
Aug 7, 2026$272.78$275.275$270.14$271.322.12M
Aug 6, 2026$271.16$273.81$269.195$273.512.75M
Aug 5, 2026$274.965$274.965$266.73$270.091.93M
Aug 4, 2026$264.41$270.80$263.36$270.622.59M
Aug 3, 2026$270.80$275.56$268.29$269.783.1M
Jul 31, 2026$260.14$266.93$258.9937$266.462.49M
Jul 30, 2026$265.44$267.465$256.90$263.872.9M
Jul 29, 2026$264.88$280.59$261.50$273.374.62M
Jul 28, 2026$259.37$268.17$258.18$264.173.69M
Jul 27, 2026$251.18$257.74$251.18$254.981.72M
Jul 24, 2026$244.56$250.84$243.57$250.091.76M
Jul 23, 2026$242.99$244.80$240.40$242.882.01M
Jul 22, 2026$249.25$249.25$241.65$243.122.01M
Jul 21, 2026$250.73$253.345$246.02$246.222.84M
Jul 20, 2026$254.31$256.01$251.01$255.242.78M

Latest ADP news

The latest Smart Investors Daily articles mentioning ADP.

ADP research

Overview

Company profile and research snapshot.

Company profile

Automatic Data Processing is a global technology company providing cloud-based human capital management solutions, enabling clients to better implement payroll, talent, time, tax, and benefits administration. Additionally, ADP provides human resource outsourcing solutions that permit customers to offload some of their traditional HR tasks. The company operates through two segments: employer services and professional employer organization services. Employer services consist of the company's HCM products as well as a la carte HRO solutions. PEO services contain ADP's comprehensive HRO solution, where it acts as a co-employer with its customer. As of fiscal 2025, ADP serves over 1.1 million clients and pays over 42 million workers across 140 countries.

Visit company website

Analyst outlook

Consensus and target data currently published for this company.

Consensus
Hold
Average target
$278.25
Implied upside
Analysts
11
ADP recent ratings
DateFirmRatingTarget
Aug 5, 2026Cantor FitzgeraldOverweight
Aug 3, 2026Cantor FitzgeraldOverweight
Jul 30, 2026StifelHold
Jul 30, 2026Morgan StanleyEqual-Weight
Jul 30, 2026CitigroupNeutral
Open full forecast

News briefing

No generated briefing is available yet.

Yahoo · Mar 6, 2026

2 Services Stocks with Solid Fundamentals and 1 That Underwhelm

Business services providers play a critical role for enterprises, assisting them with everything from new hardware integrations to consulting and marketing. Still, investors are uneasy as firms face challenges from AI-driven disruptors and tightening corporate budgets. These doubts have caused the industry to lag recently as services stocks have collectively shed 1.2% over the past six months. This drawdown was disappointing since the S&P 500 climbed 5.6%.

Yahoo · Mar 6, 2026

ADP AI Agents Aim To Deepen HR Workflows And Investor Interest

Automatic Data Processing (NasdaqGS:ADP) has introduced AI powered agents within the ADP Marketplace to support HR workflows. The new agents are designed to help organizations with talent discovery, compliance tasks, and workforce analytics. The rollout embeds proactive, integrated AI tools into ADP's existing digital ecosystem for everyday HR management. ADP shares most recently closed at $222.7, with the stock showing a 2.0% gain over the past week but declines of 5.3% over the past month...

Yahoo · Mar 5, 2026

US employers cut a surprising 92,000 jobs last month as unemployment rate rises to 4.4%

American employers unexpectedly cut 92,000 jobs last month, a sign that the labor market remains under strain. The Labor Department reported Friday that hiring deteriorated from January, when companies, nonprofits and government agencies added a healthy 126,000 jobs. The job market had been expected to rebound this year from a lackluster 2025 when the economy, buffeted by President Donald Trump's erratic tariff policies and the lingering effects of high interest rates, generated just 15,000 jobs a month.

AI research layers

Interpretive context generated from the platform’s current data sources.

No results

AI research layers have not been published yet.