Automatic Data Processing
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.
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 · USDThe 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.
Who owns Automatic Data Processing — and what changed
Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30
Superinvestors in Automatic Data Processing · what they did last quarter
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
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.
Recent filings
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