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Paylocity Holding Corporation

PCTY Technology Software Application

Paylocity Holding Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2026 (year ended June 2026) was $1.8 billion, up 11.0% from fiscal 2025.

Revenue
+11.0%
EPS
+28.4%
Free cash flow
+10.5%
Total debt
−50.0%

Quarter to June 2026, against a year earlier

170.35 0.61 −0.36%
Market cap
$8.9B
P/E
34.1×
Fwd P/E
28.6×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
8/9
Altman Z
1.96
Beneish M
−2.60
Dividend safety
n/a
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Paylocity Holding Corporation (PCTY) valuation and DCF model

What the price implies · reverse DCF

At $170.35 the price implies free cash flow after share-based pay growing 11.7% a year for ten years.

Free cash flow after share-based pay grew 100.9% a year over the last five years. The price asks for less than its five-year rate. The industry’s median company is priced for 15.8%.

In June 2017 the price assumed 25.6% a year; Paylocity Holding Corporation went on to grow free cash flow after share-based pay 117.4% a year to FY2026.

Price implies
11.7%
Last 5 years, reported
100.9%
Industry median implies
15.8%

The headline discounts the last twelve months’ free cash flow after share-based pay at 9.0% for ten years and grows it 2.5% a year after that, the same for every company, so the figure compares across the market (how a reverse DCF works).

The other way round · DCF
The price needs
11.7% a year for ten years
$170.35
today’s price
Its base case
25.0% a year for five years, then 15.0%
$320.68
88.2% above today’s price

Both are growth in free cash flow after share-based pay, discounted at 9.0%, with 2.5% a year after year ten.

Base case on its own ten-year record Paylocity Holding Corporation’s own growth, carried forward

Its assumptions

Powerpack lets you start from a scenario and type over any of them.

The base case’s inputs, which Powerpack lets you change
1 · Cash flow to equity
the four quarters to June 2026, from the 10-Q and 10-K filings, before share-based pay

Yearly growth in cash flow. It usually slows as the company matures.

Today’s price implies free cash flow after share-based pay growing 11.7% a year for ten years.

2 · Rates

Cost of equity is the yearly return shareholders require, typically 8–11%. Terminal growth is growth forever after year 10, usually near long-run inflation, 2–3%.

3 · Per share

Diluted shares outstanding. Net debt, under Advanced inputs, is taken off before dividing.

Advanced inputs
Free cash flow Revenue and margin
negative is net cash
new shares the cash flow does not pay for

Against Paylocity Holding Corporation’s own cost of capital: risk-free 4.3% + beta 0.41 × equity premium 4.5% = 6.1% cost of equity; weighted, 6.1%.

Use 6.1%
Equity value $17.61b ▲ above market cap $9.36b
Base case value per share $320.68 equity value ÷ 54.92m shares
Current price $170.35 market price per share
Above today’s price 88.2% upside at the base case’s assumptions

How we got there$5.60b 10 years of cash to equity+$11.82b terminal value+$190.67m net cash=$17.61b equity value÷54.92m shares=$320.68 per share

Valuation against its own history

Today’s multiple against its 5- and 10-year averages and the industry median (Software Application).

Multiple Current 5Y avg 10Y avg vs 10Y avg Industry median vs industry 10Y range
P/E 34.07× 41.64× 75.96× 55% below 25.90× 32% above
P/FCF 21.54× 27.21× 57.39× 62% below 17.17× 25% above
P/B 7.54× 7.94× 12.85× 41% below 2.60× 190% above
EV/EBITDA 20.12× 27.24× 50.42× 60% below 15.48× 30% above
EV/Sales 5.09× 5.59× 8.75× 42% below 2.89× 76% above
P/E P/FCF P/B EV/EBITDA EV/Sales
26.31×54.61×82.92×111.22×10Y avg 57.39×2018201920202021202220232024202520262026

PCTY trades at 21.54× P/FCF, against a 10-year average of 57.39× (range 13.21×–119.41×). That is cheaper than 89% of the last 9 year-end readings; re-rating to the average implies $453.93 per share.

Every growth rate on this page is the business’s — its cash flow, FFO or dividend — never its share price’s. A discounted-cash-flow model is only as good as its assumptions. Figures from the 10-K and 10-Q filings. Not investment advice.