Paychex (Paychex) EPS (Diluted)

Paychex Annual Data
	Trend	May14	May15	May16	May17	May18	May19	May20	May21	May22	May23
EPS (Diluted)							2.86	3.04	3.03	3.84	4.30

Paychex Quarterly Data
	May19	Aug19	Nov19	Feb20	May20	Aug20	Nov20	Feb21	May21	Aug21	Nov21	Feb22	May22	Aug22	Nov22	Feb23	May23	Aug23	Nov23	Feb24
EPS (Diluted)																1.29	0.97	1.16	1.08	1.38

For the Staffing & Employment Services subindustry, Paychex's PE Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and PE Ratio data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, Paychex's PE Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Paychex's PE Ratio falls into.

Paychex EPS (Diluted) Calculation

EPS (Diluted) is a rough measurement of the amount of a company's profit that can be allocated to one share of its stock. Diluted EPS takes into account all of the outstanding dilutive securities that could potentially be exercised (such as stock options and convertible preferred stock) and shows how such an action would impact earnings per share.

Paychex's Diluted EPS for the fiscal year that ended in May. 2023 is calculated as

Paychex's Diluted EPS for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 is calculated as

EPS (Diluted) for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Feb. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $4.59

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

Paychex  (NAS:PAYX) EPS (Diluted) Explanation

EPS is the single most important variable used by Wall Street in determining the earnings power of a company. But investors need to be aware that Earnings per Share can be easily manipulated by adjusting depreciation and amortization rate or non-recurring items. That's why GuruFocus lists EPS without NRI, which better reflects the company's underlying performance.

Be Aware

Compared with Earnings per share, a company's cash flow is better indicator of the company's earnings power.

If a company's earnings per share is less than cash flow per share over long term, investors need to be cautious and find out why.

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