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Paycom Software, Inc. PAYC

14 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only

Revenue

$2.1B

▲ 8.9% YoY

Net income

$453.4M

▼ 9.7% YoY

Free cash flow

$408.0M

▲ 19.6% YoY

In brief

What this company does

Paycom Software, Inc. provides a cloud-based human capital management solution delivered as software-as-a-service. The solution is based on a core system of record maintained in a single database for all HCM functions, including payroll, talent acquisition, talent management, human resources management, and time and labor management applications. The company has approximately 39,200 clients, or approximately 20,300 clients based on parent company grouping. The company stored data for over 7.4 million persons employed by its clients during the year ended December 31, 2025. As of December 31, 2025, the company employed 5,770 people, substantially all of whom were full-time employees. The company operates in a single operating segment and a single reporting segment. Paycom was founded in 1998 and became a publicly traded company through its initial public offering in 2014.

Written from the business description in Paycom Software, Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 19 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 2.1B

Revenue, FY2025 · full 14-year series below

Revenue $B Net income $B

FY2025 · Revenue 2.1 · Net income 0.5

Compound annual growth

Revenue

+14.3%

+19.5%

+24.8%

Net income

+17.2%

+25.9%

+36.0%

EPS, diluted

+18.6%

+26.9%

+36.5%

Returned to shareholders

+63.0%

+51.1%

3 yrs

5 yrs

10 yrs

15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +19.5% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +25.9%, earnings per share at +26.9%.

The share count fell from 0.06B to 0.05B — the buyback concentrates the same profit into fewer slices.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

22 cents

of every revenue dollar became profit

Operating margin Net margin

FY2025 · Operating 27.6% · Net 22.1%

ROE

FY2025 · ROE 27.4%

Gross margin83.2%

Operating margin27.6%

Net margin22.1%

Return on assets6.7%

EBITDAUSD 743.5M

Each USD of equity produced 27 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 410.3M

returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks

Free cash flow $M

FY2025 · FCF 408.0

Net buybacks $M Dividends $M

FY2025 · Dividends 84.8 · Net buybacks 325.5

Dividends paidUSD 84.8M

Net buybacksUSD 325.5M

Share of profit90.5%

Consecutive raises—

USD 84.8M in dividends and USD 325.5M in buybacks — 90% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 7.6B

EquityUSD 1.7B

CashUSD 370.0M

Current ratio1.09×

Equity funds 23% of total assets.

The 14-year record

14 fiscal years

Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

row low → row highnegative

Metric	2025	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012
Revenue $B	2.1	1.9	1.7	1.4	1.1	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1
Operating income $B	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	·
EBITDA $B	0.7	0.8	0.6	0.5	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	·
Income tax $B	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	−0.0
Net income $B	0.5	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	−0.0
Free cash flow $B	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	−0.0	0.0
EPS, diluted $	8.08	8.92	5.88	4.84	3.37	2.46	3.09	2.34	2.10	1.19	0.36	0.11	0.01	−0.01
Dividend / sh $	0.38	0.38	0.38	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·
Payout %	19	17	19	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·
ROE %	27.4	34.9	27.4	27.1	25.3	24.3	41.9	44.5	50.7	46.3	24.3	14.3	11.8	·
Shares out B	0.05	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.05	0.05	·

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 58 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 14 of 19 fiscal years. 27 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures

ActivityServices-Prepackaged Software

Listed onNYSE

Incorporated inDelaware

Fiscal year endsDecember 31

Data on record since2012