Paylocity Financial Ratios
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Paylocity ratio analysis
Paylocity earned a net margin of 15.2% in FY 2026, up from 14.2% a year earlier. Gross margin was 69.2% compared with a median of 67.1% over the prior 9 years. Return on equity reached 22.1%, meaning Paylocity generated 0.22 dollars of profit for every dollar of shareholders' equity.
Debt-to-equity stood at 0.07 versus 0.13 the year before, and the current ratio was 1.09. At the end of FY 2026, PCTY traded at 23.4 times earnings; across the 10 fiscal years shown, its year-end P/E ranged from 23.4 to 376.5, with a median of 90.4. Valuation ratios use the closing share price on each fiscal year-end date and diluted shares from the income statement; profitability and leverage ratios use reported annual figures. Current valuation multiples are on the statistics page.
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Paylocity financial ratios (annual)
| Ratio | FY 2026 | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2020 | FY 2019 | FY 2018 | FY 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio (at fiscal year end) | 23.39 | 45.93 | 36.32 | 74.11 | 110.47 | 154.80 | 133.03 | 96.72 | 84.09 | 376.50 |
| Price / sales | 3.51 | 6.44 | 5.28 | 8.75 | 11.48 | 16.67 | 14.59 | 10.62 | 8.17 | 7.74 |
| Price / book | 5.10 | 8.33 | 7.17 | 12.20 | 15.96 | 22.21 | 20.85 | 16.12 | 14.50 | 15.74 |
| Gross margin | 69.2% | 68.8% | 68.5% | 68.8% | 66.3% | 65.5% | 67.6% | 67.1% | 60.5% | 58.7% |
| Operating margin | 21.8% | 19.1% | 18.5% | 13.2% | 9.9% | 9.1% | 11.8% | 12.0% | 4.2% | 2.4% |
| Net margin | 15.2% | 14.2% | 14.7% | 12.0% | 10.6% | 11.1% | 11.5% | 11.5% | 10.2% | 2.2% |
| Free cash flow margin | 28.1% | 25.4% | 26.1% | 22.2% | 16.1% | 18.2% | 17.1% | 22.2% | 20.2% | 13.5% |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 22.1% | 18.4% | 20.0% | 16.7% | 14.8% | 14.8% | 16.4% | 17.5% | 18.1% | 4.6% |
| Return on assets (ROA) | 5.5% | 5.2% | 4.9% | 3.8% | 1.9% | 2.9% | 3.2% | 3.0% | 2.6% | 0.6% |
| Debt / equity | 0.07 | 0.13 | 0.00 | — | — | — | 0.25 | — | — | — |
| Current ratio | 1.09 | 1.14 | 1.13 | 1.10 | 1.03 | 1.09 | 1.18 | 1.10 | 1.08 | 1.09 |
| Revenue growth | 11.0% | 13.7% | 19.4% | 37.8% | 34.1% | 13.2% | 20.0% | 23.9% | 25.8% | 30.0% |
| EPS growth | 22.4% | 10.7% | 45.8% | 54.7% | 27.8% | 9.6% | 18.6% | 38.6% | 483.3% | — |