DJ Paychex Inc. Stock Underperforms Friday When Compared To Competitors
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Shares of Paychex Inc. $(PAYX)$ slipped 6.65% to $143.32 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around rough trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index falling 5.97% to 5,074.08 and Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 5.50% to 38,314.86.
This was the stock's second consecutive day of losses.
Paychex Inc. closed 9.50% short of its 52-week high of $158.37, which the company reached on March 10th.
The stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors Friday, as Oracle Corp. $(ORCL)$ fell 6.53% to $128.27, Intuit Inc. $(INTU)$ fell 6.18% to $561.53, and Automatic Data Processing Inc. $(ADP)$ fell 6.31% to $286.13.
Trading volume (3.0 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 2.1 M.
Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet. Data compiled April 4, 2025.
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April 04, 2025 16:43 ET (20:43 GMT)
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