Is the price fair?
What ADP's price assumes
Automatic Data Processing trades at 25.7× earnings against 32.3× for the median Software - Application name, cheaper than its own group.
25.7
Trailing P/E · Software - Application median 32.3 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Price / sales
- 3.76
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 6.0%
Free cash flow yield · Software - Application median 6.7%
- Growth the price implies
- +3.2%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +3.2% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +9.4% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 12.8
- EV / sales2026-Q1
- 3.79
- Technology median P/E376 names
- 37.0
- Software - Application median P/E93 names
- 32.3
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $5.24B
- Market capitalisation
- $87.3B
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +9.4%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $262.22 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $289.91 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $308.20 |
| 52-week range | $187.37 – $300.67 |
| Today | $281.40 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Software - Application
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