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Paylocity Holding Corporation earns 30% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
30%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 21 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 21%
Operating margin · Software - Application median 8.2% · 12 months to Q3 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.89×
Cash conversion · 1.75× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- −4.4%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 12% |
| FY2021 | 9.1% |
| FY2022 | 9.9% |
| FY2023 | 13% |
| FY2024 | 19% |
| FY2025 | 19% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 69%
- Operating margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 21%
- Net margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 15%
- Free cash flow margin
- 28%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 13%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $1.73B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $487M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $258M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 30%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Software - Application
Ranks #29 of 90 by Smart Score