Automatic Data Processing Inc. (ADP)

Name: Automatic Data Processing Inc. (ADP): results, filings decoded, planned insider sales, 13F holders, insiders, Congress and short interest
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Automatic Data Processing Inc. (ADP) reported revenue of $5.5 billion for Q4 FY2026, the quarter ended 30 June 2026, up 6.8% on the same quarter a year earlier. Net income was $979 million, up 7.5% on the year, and diluted earnings per share $2.45. The figures are the company's own, from the 10-K it filed with the SEC on 5 August 2026.

Revenue$5.5 billionup 6.8%

Net income$979 millionup 7.5%

Diluted EPS$2.45

QuarterQ4 FY2026ended 30 June 2026

Ratios

From the filings

ROE73.2%

ROCE48.4%

Operating margin24.2%

Net margin20.1%

FCF margin23.9%

Interest cover11.58

Debt to equity0.82

Cash conversion1.23

Share count, 1 year-1.9%

Sales CAGR, 3 years6.8%

Profit CAGR, 3 years9.0%

EPS, TTM$10.94

At the close of 21 September 2026

Price$269.94

Market cap$107.4 billion

Stock P/E24.67

Price to book17.80

EV / EBITDA18.31

Dividend yield2.5%

Market cap / sales4.89

52-week high$293.66

52-week low$188.79

Price, 1 year-7.6%

Price CAGR, 3 years4.1%

Price CAGR, 5 years6.4%

Every figure is arithmetic on the filed lines (hover a name for the formula); the priced ones use the latest daily close, CBOE delayed quotes, daily history, by CBOE, for splits. Debt to equity here stands on long-term debt as Automatic Data Processing Inc. files it, with lease liabilities counted separately and never inside it. Nothing here is a valuation or a view.

Price, 17 September 2021 to 21 September 2026

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Daily closes from CBOE delayed quotes, daily history, by CBOE, for splits; the last is 21 September 2026. P/E is the close over the trailing four quarters' EPS as filed at each filing date, on the current share count; the dashed line is the median over the range shown. Sales and margin are quarterly revenue and the operating margin from the tables above. EV/EBITDA, price to book and market cap to sales use the latest filed balance sheet and share count at each date. Drawn in your browser; the range and overlay you pick are remembered here only.

The public record on ADP

Filings	14 in twelve months: 7 current reports (8-K), about 4 results of operations; 2 material agreement; 1 new financial obligation; 1 other events; 1 shareholder vote
Planned insider sales	19 Form 144 notices in twelve months, $17.9 million; latest 3 September 2026
Options tape	put/call 1.01 by open interest on 23 September 2026; the straddle prices a 2.3% move to 25 September 2026
Holders	10 of the followed funds hold it; largest Geode Capital Management; 3 Schedule 13D or 13G filings in twelve months
Insider trading	38 sales and 1 purchase on Form 4 in twelve months
Congress	6 House trades disclosed in six months
Short interest	10.8 million shares short, 5.14 days to cover at 31 August 2026
Documents	the 10-K, the 10-Qs, the proxy and 4 earnings press releases, each linked

Quarterly results, the last 12 quarters

	Q1 FY2024	Q2 FY2024	Q3 FY2024	Q4 FY2024 *	Q1 FY2025	Q2 FY2025	Q3 FY2025	Q4 FY2025 *	Q1 FY2026	Q2 FY2026	Q3 FY2026	Q4 FY2026 *
Revenue	4,512	4,668	5,254	4,768	4,833	5,048	5,553	5,127	5,175	5,359	5,939	5,474
Cost of revenue	2,515	2,562	2,768	2,632	2,634	2,742	2,904	2,817	2,836	2,890	3,072	2,962
Gross profit	1,997	2,106	2,486	2,137	2,199	2,306	2,649	2,310	2,339	2,470	2,867	2,511
Gross margin	44%	45%	47%	45%	46%	46%	48%	45%	45%	46%	48%	46%
R&D	236	229	243	248	233	240	247	269	251	258	254	266
SG&A	880	922	941	1,035	927	1,006	1,016	1,103	1,006	1,068	1,082	1,252
Operating income	1,025	1,079	1,482	1,000	1,134	1,170	1,558	1,093	1,197	1,277	1,707	1,138
Operating margin	23%	23%	28%	21%	23%	23%	28%	21%	23%	24%	29%	21%
Interest expense	91.6	105	62.7	102	138	130	74.8	114	135	124	78.7	121
Pre-tax income	1,093	1,144	1,546	1,089	1,236	1,261	1,622	1,191	1,308	1,383	1,782	1,258
Tax rate	21%	23%	23%	24%	23%	24%	23%	24%	23%	23%	24%	22%
Net income	859	878	1,185	829	956	963	1,250	911	1,013	1,062	1,360	979
Net margin	19%	19%	23%	17%	20%	19%	23%	18%	20%	20%	23%	18%
Diluted EPS	$2.08	$2.13	$2.88	$2.01	$2.34	$2.35	$3.06	$2.23	$2.49	$2.62	$3.38	$2.45
Operating cash flow	326	1,032	1,498	1,301	824	1,150	1,526	1,439	642	1,133	2,238	1,428
Capital expenditure	39.3	54.8	59.6	54.7	58.8	39.4	36.4	34.1	46.7	26.5	50.6	72.8
Free cash flow	287	978	1,438	1,246	766	1,111	1,489	1,405	596	1,106	2,187	1,355
Buybacks	250	255	292	436	373	272	312	324	366	516	581	620
Dividends paid	516	516	576	575	573	572	628	626	627	629	687	683
Shares outstanding	412m	411m	410m	408m	408m	407m	406m	405m	405m	403m	401m	398m
Filing	10-Q	10-Q	10-Q	10-K	10-Q	10-Q	10-Q	10-K	10-Q	10-Q	10-Q	10-K

* The fourth quarter is the full year less the first three quarters, because the company files the year and not the quarter on its own. Money is in $ million as the company files it, or in $ billion by the switch above the tables; per share figures and the share count are as they are. Free cash flow is operating cash flow less capital expenditure; the effective tax rate is income tax over pre-tax income; margins are the line over revenue. Gross profit is revenue less cost of revenue, and operating income is revenue less the company's own total costs, where the statement does not print those lines. Cash flow lines filed year to date are the difference between two filings. Shares outstanding are at the period end where the balance sheet tags them, otherwise the count on the filing's cover page. A derived fourth-quarter EPS is left blank when a split in the year makes the arithmetic meaningless.

Profit and loss, 12 fiscal years and the trailing twelve months

	FY2015 †	FY2016 †	FY2017 †	FY2018 †	FY2019 †	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024	FY2025	FY2026	TTM
Revenue	10,938	11,668	12,380	13,274	14,110	14,590	15,005	16,498	18,012	19,203	20,561	21,947	21,947
Cost of revenue	6,428	6,840	7,244	7,757	8,022	8,445	8,640	9,462	9,953	10,477	11,097	11,760	11,760
Gross profit	4,511	4,828	5,135	5,515	6,089	6,145	6,365	7,036	8,059	8,726	9,464	10,187	10,187
Gross margin	41.2%	41.4%	41.5%	41.5%	43.2%	42.1%	42.4%	42.6%	44.7%	45.4%	46.0%	46.4%	46.4%
Research and development	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	799	845	956	989	1,029	1,029
Selling, general and administrative	2,497	2,637	2,774	2,959	3,064	3,003	3,040	3,233	3,551	3,779	4,052	4,408	4,408
Operating income	2,008	2,134	2,247	2,409	2,894	3,035	3,265	3,721	4,254	4,586	4,956	5,320	5,320
Operating margin	18.4%	18.3%	18.1%	18.1%	20.5%	20.8%	21.8%	22.6%	23.6%	23.9%	24.1%	24.2%	24.2%
Interest expense	6.5	56.2	80.0	103	130	107	59.7	81.9	253	361	456	459	459
Pre-tax income	2,071	2,235	2,617	2,283	3,006	3,183	3,361	3,804	4,438	4,872	5,310	5,730	5,730
Income tax	694	741	829	398	713	716	763	855	1,026	1,120	1,230	1,317	1,317
Effective tax rate	33.5%	33.2%	31.7%	17.4%	23.7%	22.5%	22.7%	22.5%	23.1%	23.0%	23.2%	23.0%	23.0%
Net income	1,452	1,492	1,788	1,885	2,293	2,466	2,598	2,949	3,412	3,752	4,080	4,414	4,414
Net margin	13.3%	12.8%	14.4%	14.2%	16.2%	16.9%	17.3%	17.9%	18.9%	19.5%	19.8%	20.1%	20.1%
Diluted EPS	$3.05	$3.25	$3.85	$3.66	$5.24	$5.70	$6.07	$7.00	$8.21	$9.10	$9.98	$10.94	$10.94
Filing	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K

Income statement lines from each year's 10-K, the year linked to its filing; TTM is the sum of the last four quarters. Free cash flow is operating cash flow less capital expenditure; the effective tax rate is income tax over pre-tax income; margins are the line over revenue. Gross profit is revenue less cost of revenue, and operating income is revenue less the company's own total costs, where the statement does not print those lines. Those four are arithmetic on the filed numbers; everything else is as filed. Money is in $ million as the company files it, or in $ billion by the switch above the tables; per share figures and share counts are as they are. † The year as the company last restated it in a later filing; rest on a figure for the one first filed. EPS is as filed.

Cash flow and capital returned

	FY2015 †	FY2016 †	FY2017 †	FY2018 †	FY2019 †	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024	FY2025	FY2026	TTM
Operating cash flow	1,974	1,897	2,126	2,515	2,688	3,026	3,093	3,100	4,208	4,158	4,940	5,441	5,441
Capital expenditure	159	168	240	206	162	173	179	174	206	208	169	197	197
Free cash flow	1,815	1,729	1,886	2,309	2,526	2,854	2,915	2,925	4,001	3,949	4,771	5,245	5,245
Free cash flow margin	16.6%	14.8%	15.2%	17.4%	17.9%	19.6%	19.4%	17.7%	22.2%	20.6%	23.2%	23.9%	23.9%
Depreciation and amortisation	278	289	316	378	409	480	511	515	549	562	582	586	586
Share-based compensation	143	138	139	175	167	131	175	202	220	244	266	243	243
Buybacks	1,557	1,156	1,260	989	938	1,006	1,372	1,969	1,121	1,232	1,280	2,083	2,083
Dividends paid	928	944	995	1,064	1,293	1,470	1,576	1,659	1,904	2,183	2,399	2,626	2,626
Dividend per share	$1.95	$2.08	$2.24	$2.52	$3.06	$3.52	$3.70	$4.05	$4.79	$5.45	$6.02	$6.64	n/a
Diluted shares, weighted	476m	459m	450m	443m	438m	433m	428m	421m	416m	412m	409m	403m	403m
Shares outstanding at period end	466m	456m	445m	439m	434m	430m	424m	416m	412m	408m	405m	398m	398m
Filing	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K

Buybacks and dividends are the cash paid in the year, from the cash flow statement; the dividend per share is as declared. Diluted shares are the weighted average for the year; a falling count is the buybacks net of issuance. TTM sums the last four quarters; the share counts are the latest quarter's.

Balance sheet at year end

	FY2015 †	FY2016 †	FY2017 †	FY2018 †	FY2019 †	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024	FY2025	FY2026	TTM
Total assets	33,110	43,670	38,887	38,849	41,888	39,166	48,772	63,068	50,971	54,363	53,369	63,193	63,193
Cash and equivalents	1,639	3,191	2,780	2,170	1,949	1,908	2,575	1,436	2,084	2,913	3,348	4,230	4,230
Receivables	1,547	1,743	1,704	1,984	2,439	2,441	2,727	3,171	3,010	3,428	3,579	3,521	3,521
Goodwill	1,794	1,682	1,741	2,244	2,323	2,309	2,338	2,300	2,339	2,354	3,274	3,284	3,284
Long-term debt	9.2	2,008	2,002	2,002	2,002	1,003	2,985	2,987	2,989	2,991	3,975	4,964	4,964
Borrowings, as the company tags them	n/a	2,022	2,020	2,013	2,011	2,008	3,007	3,006	3,005	3,004	4,003	5,002	5,002
Operating lease liabilities	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0.0	344	343	371	350	329	321	307	307
Shareholders' equity	4,808	4,482	3,977	4,736	5,400	5,752	5,670	3,225	3,509	4,548	6,188	6,031	6,031
Filing	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K	10-K

At the fiscal year end; the TTM column is the latest quarter end. A line the company does not tag under the usual name is left out.

Compounded growth

	10 years	5 years	3 years	TTM
Sales growth, compounded	6.5%	7.9%	6.8%	6.7%
Profit growth, compounded	11.5%	11.2%	9.0%	8.2%
Return on equity, average	62.6%	82.1%	73.9%	73.2%

Compounded growth is the latest fiscal year over the year that many years earlier, annualised; the TTM column is the last four quarters over the four before. Return on equity is net income over shareholders' equity at each year end, averaged over the window (the TTM column is the latest year alone); equity is the parent's shareholders' equity as tagged in the 10-K. Arithmetic on filed numbers, nothing forecast.

Peers: Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation

Company	Market cap	P/E	ROE	Op. margin	Sales growth TTM	Debt to equity	Div. yield
Automatic Data Processing Inc. ADP	$107.4 billion	24.67	73.2%	24.2%	6.7%	0.82	2.5%
Workday, Inc. WDAY	$47.3 billion	38.85	19.4%	10.7%	13.3%	0.46	n/a
Reddit, Inc. RDDT	$32.1 billion	36.91	26.5%	28.2%	66.6%	n/a	n/a
Verisk Analytics, Inc. VRSK	$22.5 billion	26.22	n/a	44.0%	5.9%	n/a	1.1%

The names on this site in the same industry (the SEC's SIC description), by market capitalisation. Each figure is the same arithmetic as the ratio box above, on each company's own filings and latest close.

Filings

Filing	Period	Filed	Where
10-K	30 June 2026	5 August 2026	EDGAR
10-Q	31 March 2026	30 April 2026	EDGAR
10-Q	31 December 2025	29 January 2026	EDGAR
10-Q	30 September 2025	31 October 2025	EDGAR
10-K	30 June 2025	6 August 2025	EDGAR
10-Q	31 March 2025	1 May 2025	EDGAR
10-Q	31 December 2024	30 January 2025	EDGAR
10-Q	30 September 2024	1 November 2024	EDGAR
10-K	30 June 2024	7 August 2024	EDGAR
10-Q	31 March 2024	2 May 2024	EDGAR

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