ADPAutomatic Data Processing

$281.40

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.

Details
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%
What the market has paid for these earnings: 38 quarters of its own multiple × $10.94 of trailing earnings per share
MethodPer 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.