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Paylocity Holding Corp

TechnologyPrepackaged Software
Ticker PCTYSCHAUMBURG, ILFiscal year ends JuneBook value per share $22.30Diluted shares 54.8M

Paylocity Holding Corporation (NASDAQ: PCTY) operates as a leading cloud-based provider of human capital management, finance, and IT software solutions. The company's unified platform helps organizations streamline HR, finance, and IT operations while managing talent, controlling spend, and building workplace culture… From the company’s description.

Fiscal year 2026 · ends 06-30Changes are against fiscal 2025
Sales & profitability
$1.77B
+11.0% year over year
21.79%
+2.7 percentage points
$269.74M
+18.8% year over year
22.08%
+3.7 percentage points
Cash & financing
$533.25M
+27.5% year over year
$427.80M
+24.8% year over year
0.07
Was 0.13× a year earlier
54.8M
−3.1% 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. is shown separately from the annual figures.

What Paylocity Holding Corp does

In the company’s own words

Paylocity Holding Corporation (NASDAQ: PCTY) operates as a leading cloud-based provider of human capital management, finance, and IT software solutions. The company's unified platform helps organizations streamline HR, finance, and IT operations while managing talent, controlling spend, and building workplace culture through AI-embedded workflows designed to reduce manual effort and support data-driven decision-making.

The company serves approximately 44,400 clients across the United States, with clients typically employing over 150 employees on average. Paylocity's comprehensive product suite spans multiple functional areas including payroll and tax services, human resources management, time and labor tracking, talent acquisition and management, benefits administration, and specialized finance and IT tools. The platform features automated payroll processing with complex compliance capabilities, employee self-service portals, workflow automation, performance management systems, compensation planning tools, and integrated expense management. The company also offers specialized services through its Elevate division, providing dedicated teams to execute critical payroll and HR processes on behalf of clients.

Paylocity generates revenue through a recurring SaaS model based on the solutions purchased, number of client employees, and services provided. The company maintains strong client retention, with annual revenue retention rates exceeding 92 percent across recent fiscal years. The platform integrates with hundreds of third-party systems including retirement plan providers, benefits administrators, and insurance brokers through its Integration Marketplace, reducing manual data transfer complexity while strengthening relationships with referral partners.

The company employs approximately 6,900 full-time employees, substantially all located in the United States. Paylocity operates data centers in Illinois and Wisconsin and maintains a direct sales force with defined geographic territories throughout the country. The referral network of 401(k) advisors, benefits administrators, insurance brokers, and HR consultants represents an increasingly important sales channel, accounting for more than 25 percent of new client revenue in recent periods.

The company's website is www.paylocity.com, with investor relations information available at http://investors.paylocity.com.

Company details
Sector
Technology
Industry
Prepackaged Software
Headquarters
SCHAUMBURG, IL
Fiscal year end
June
CIK
1591698
SIC
7372

Financial performance, year by year

Fiscal 2014–2026 · USD
$-192.50M$343.09M$878.68M$1.41B$1.95B2014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026

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 Paylocity Holding Corp — and what changed

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

398
funds hold it
0 of 35
superinvestors hold it
$1.56B
held by funds, at market
27.9%
of shares held by funds

Largest fund holders · Paylocity Holding Corp’s weight in each

T. Rowe Price Mid-Cap Growth Fund, Inc.
RPMGX · T. ROWE PRICE MID-CAP GROWTH FUND, INC.
0.70%of fund net assets
iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF
IJH · iShares Trust
0.12%of fund net assets
VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX FUND
VTI · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.01%of fund net assets
VANGUARD SMALL-CAP INDEX FUND
VB · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.05%of fund net assets
VANGUARD SMALL-CAP GROWTH INDEX FUND
VBK · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.13%of fund net assets

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

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”.

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

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