ADPAutomatic Data Processing
Is the price fair?
Neither cheap nor expensive: growth expectations in line with delivery and in its normal P/E range.
Priced for ~3% a year FCF growth. Moderate growth expectations are priced in.
In its normal range: P/E 24.8 vs a 26.4 median over 41 quarters (−6% vs median).
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What ADP's price assumes
Automatic Data Processing trades at 24.8× earnings against 33.9× for the median Software - Application name, cheaper than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Software - Application median 33.9 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Free cash flow yield
- 6.0%
Free cash flow yield · Software - Application median 6.9%
- 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.
- Price / book
- 14.7
Price / book · as of 2026-Q2
Details›
- Price / bookas of 2026-Q2
- 14.7
- Industrials median P/E440 names
- 26.5
- Software - Application median P/E126 names
- 33.9
- 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 | $248.51 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $288.59 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $311.20 |
| 52-week range | $187.37 – $287.40 |
| Today | $270.87 |
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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