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Automatic Data Processing

IndustrialsBusiness Services & SoftwareS&P 500
Ticker ADPROSELAND, NJFiscal year ends JuneBook value per share $14.95Diluted shares 403.3M

Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADP) operates as a global leader in human capital management solutions, serving over 1.1 million clients across more than 140 countries and territories. The company's website is www.adp.com. From the company’s description.

Fiscal year 2026 · ends 06-30Changes are against fiscal 2025
Sales & profitability
$21.95BFY2026
+6.7% year over year
26.33%FY2026
No change, year over year
$4.41BFY2026
+8.2% year over year
73.18%FY2026
+7.2 percentage points
Cash & financing
$5.44BFY2026
+10.2% year over year
$5.24BFY2026
+9.9% year over year
0.82FY2026
Was 1.41× a year earlier
403.3MFY2026
−1.3% year over year

Margins and return on equity change in ; everything else in percent. Fewer shares and less debt are shown plainly, not as bad news — it depends what you make of buybacks. Dotted labels explain each measure.

What Automatic Data Processing does

In the company’s own words

Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADP) operates as a global leader in human capital management solutions, serving over 1.1 million clients across more than 140 countries and territories. The company's website is www.adp.com.

Founded in 1949, ADP has evolved from a payroll processing pioneer into a comprehensive HCM platform provider. The company processes payroll for approximately 26 million workers in the United States—roughly one in six workers—and moves over $3.5 trillion in client funds annually. Globally, ADP pays over 16 million workers outside the United States through its international solutions.

ADP operates through two primary reportable segments: Employer Services and Professional Employer Organization. The Employer Services segment provides technology-based HCM solutions to clients ranging from single-employee small businesses to large enterprises, offering integrated platforms including RUN Powered by ADP for small businesses, ADP Workforce Now for mid-sized and large organizations, and ADP Lyric HCM for global enterprises. This segment encompasses payroll services, benefits administration, talent management, workforce management solutions, compliance solutions, human resources management, retirement services, and insurance services. The PEO segment, branded as ADP TotalSource, operates as a full-service professional employer organization serving over 19,000 clients and more than 770,000 worksite employees across all 50 U.S. states through a co-employment model.

The company employs approximately 67,000 associates globally and maintains a strategic focus on three core priorities: leading with best-in-class HCM technology powered by artificial intelligence, providing unmatched expertise and outsourcing solutions, and leveraging global scale advantages. ADP's competitive differentiation stems from its industry-leading workforce dataset spanning over 1.1 million clients and 42 million workers, deep domain expertise accumulated over seven decades, and integrated technology platforms that combine automation with human judgment.

ADP invests substantially in research and development, allocating approximately $1.4 billion annually toward developing new products, maintaining existing technologies, and advancing generative and agentic AI capabilities. The company's solutions address the complete employment lifecycle from recruitment through retirement, with particular emphasis on compliance, precision, and confidence in workforce management across diverse industries and geographies.

Company details
Sector
Industrials
Industry (SIC)
Business Services & Software
Headquarters
ROSELAND, NJ
Fiscal year end
June
CIK
8670
SIC
7374

Financial performance, year by year

Fiscal 2012–2026 · USD
$-2.19B$4.39B$10.97B$17.56B$24.14B201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026

The full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.

Ownership

Who owns Automatic Data Processing — and what changed

Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30

857
funds hold it
2 of 35
superinvestors hold it
$30.62B
held by funds, at market
34.9%
of shares held by funds
5
bond issues held by funds

Superinvestors in Automatic Data Processing · what they did last quarter

Terry SmithDECREASED -32.5%
Fundsmith
4.3%of 13F portfolio
Francois RochonINCREASED +56.2%
Giverny Capital
4.9%of 13F portfolio

Share of each manager’s reported 13F portfolio. Change is in shares held, since the previous quarter.

Largest fund holders · Automatic Data Processing’s weight in each

VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX FUND
VTI · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.12%of fund net assets
VANGUARD 500 INDEX FUND
VOO · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.14%of fund net assets
Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF
SCHD · SCHWAB STRATEGIC TRUST
2.25%of fund net assets
0.39%of fund net assets
iShares Core S&P 500 ETF
IVV · iShares Trust
0.14%of fund net assets

Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.

Automatic Data Processing’s bonds, as funds hold them

Funds report holding 5 issues of Automatic Data Processing’s debt, $625.85M at market value — what funds hold, not the company’s total debt. Weighted-average coupon 3.58%, maturing 2028 to 2036.

Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.

Fund ownership is a subset of institutional 13F ownership — the two describe overlapping populations and must not be added together.

Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.

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