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PAYX

PAYX

Paychex, Inc. · Technology

US StocksSoftware - ApplicationNMSUSD-34.7% from ATH
Current Price

$100.28

Drawdown from ATH

-34.7%

Last Updated

Jun 17, 2026

Dipsern Grade90d

C

Marginal

Graded against PAYX's own history at this drawdown — not the market's.

What it means: PAYX's own history does not strongly favor buying at this level yet.

What to do: Consider watching and waiting for a deeper dip or a higher grade.

Median 90-Day Return
Historical Win Rate
Last 30 days+9.39%
May 5Jun 16
About PAYX

Paychex, Inc.

Paychex, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides human capital management solutions (HCM) for payroll, employee benefits, human resources (HR), and insurance services for small to medium-sized businesses in the United States, Europe, and India. It offers payroll processing services; payroll tax administration services; employee payment services; and regulatory compliance services. The company provides retirement solutions, such as plan implementation, ongoing compliance with government re

The reading

How Dipsern reads PAYX right now.

Three plain-English paragraphs — current state, historical base rate, and interpretation — so you walk away with context, not a dashboard.

Snapshot

How is PAYX doing right now?

In plain terms: PAYX is 34.7% below its highest-ever price. Dipsern checks every past time it was this far down and grades how the next 90 days usually went.

As of the latest market close, Paychex (PAYX) is trading in a deep drawdown, 34.7% below its all-time high at $100.28. Asset price action of this severity has historically marked attractive entry zones — but only when fundamentals weren't permanently impaired. The historical median return below quantifies that pattern for PAYX specifically.

Historical base rate

What history says at this drawdown

History at this drawdown level is well-populated for PAYX — 830 confirmed observations in the 35%-to-30% band. The Dipsern engine uses these to compute a rolling median rather than a mean, because medians are robust to the kind of fat tails you find in us stocks return distributions. The win rate (% of episodes that closed positive after 90 days) is shown in the segments table below.

Interpretation

What this means for PAYX

For US large-caps, drawdowns of 20-30% are typically driven by macro repricing (rates, earnings, sector rotation). Single-name 50%+ drawdowns are usually structural — the signal alone won't tell you which, but the segments table will show whether prior episodes recovered. Below 20% drawdowns the historical median forward return often becomes attractive — but with rising variance. The win-rate column in the segments table is more useful than the median at this depth.

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Historical depth

Sample sizes by drawdown band

Dipsern segments the full drawdown range into 20 equal-width bands. The table shows the number of confirmed historical observations in each band for PAYX. Median forward returns, win rates, and prediction errors are available in the full analysis.

Drawdown BandObservationsMedian ReturnWin Rate
-65% to -60%22
-60% to -55%83
-55% to -50%165
-50% to -45%448
-45% to -40%578
-40% to -35%803
-35% to -30%Current830
-30% to -25%674
-25% to -20%511
-20% to -15%713
-15% to -10%1118
-10% to -5%1794
Methodology

Every grade is reproducible.

We segment 40+ years of PAYX's price history into 20 equal-width drawdown bands and compute forward median returns, win rates, and prediction error per band. No look-ahead bias. Pure NumPy. Open math, gated numbers.

Years of history

40+

Drawdown bands

20

Look-ahead bias

None

Data sources

4

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Signal computed Jun 17, 2026 using default parameters (90-day return period, 20 segments, 0.95 decay). Data sourced from Yahoo Finance, Binance, CoinGecko, and Steam Market.