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Paychex (PAXY) to Report Q3 Earnings: What's in the Cards?
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Paychex, Inc. (PAYX - Free Report) is scheduled to report third-quarter fiscal 2019 results on Mar 27, before market open.
While the top line is likely to benefit from strength across total service revenues and interest on funds held for clients, the bottom line is expected to be driven by lower tax rates.
Over the past, shares of Paychex have gained 28.1% compared with 18.6% rise of the industry it belongs to and 5.6% increase of the Zacks S&P 500 composite.
Top Line Likely to Improve Year Over Year
The Zacks Consensus Estimate for Paychex’s total revenues in third-quarter fiscal 2019 is pegged at $1.03 billion, indicating an increase of 19.4% year over year. The top line is likely to benefit from strength across total service revenues and interest on funds held for clients. In second-quarter fiscal 2019, total revenues of $858.9 million increased 7% year over year.
Post-adoption of Accounting Standards Codification Topic 606, Paychex classified its total service revenues as Management Solutions revenues, and PEO and insurance services revenues.
Revenues from Management Solutions is expected to be driven by increases in the company’s client bases across many of its services and contribution from the acquisition of Lessor Group.
The same for PEO and insurance services revenues should benefit from increase in clients and client worksite employees across the company’s PEO business. Insurance Services revenues should benefit from an increase in the number of health and benefit applicants.
Interest on funds held by clients is likely to benefit from higher average interest rates earned.
Earnings Likely to Grow on Tax Reform
The U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), which reduced corporate tax rates significantly, is likely to boost Paychex’s earnings in the to-be-reported quarter. Notably, the consensus estimate for earnings per share (EPS) is pegged at 89 cents, indicating year-over-year growth of 41.3%.
In second-quarter fiscal 2019, adjusted earnings per share of 65 cents increased 20% year over year.
What Our Model Says
According to the Zacks model, a company with a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), 2 (Buy) or 3 (Hold) has a good chance of beating estimates if it also has a positive Earnings ESP. Zacks Rank #4 (Sell) or 5 (Strong Sell) stocks are best avoided, especially when the company is seeing negative estimate revisions. You can uncover the best stocks to buy or sell before they're reported with our Earnings ESP Filter .
Paychex has a Zacks Rank #2 and an Earnings ESP of 0.00%.
Here are a few stocks from the broader Zacks Business Services sector that investors may consider as our model shows that these have the right combination of elements to beat estimates.
Avis Budget (CAR - Free Report) has an Earnings ESP of +19.61% and a Zacks Rank #3.
Accenture (ACN - Free Report) has an Earnings ESP of +1.19% and a Zacks Rank #3.
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Paychex (PAXY) to Report Q3 Earnings: What's in the Cards?
Paychex, Inc. (PAYX - Free Report) is scheduled to report third-quarter fiscal 2019 results on Mar 27, before market open.
While the top line is likely to benefit from strength across total service revenues and interest on funds held for clients, the bottom line is expected to be driven by lower tax rates.
Over the past, shares of Paychex have gained 28.1% compared with 18.6% rise of the industry it belongs to and 5.6% increase of the Zacks S&P 500 composite.
Top Line Likely to Improve Year Over Year
The Zacks Consensus Estimate for Paychex’s total revenues in third-quarter fiscal 2019 is pegged at $1.03 billion, indicating an increase of 19.4% year over year. The top line is likely to benefit from strength across total service revenues and interest on funds held for clients. In second-quarter fiscal 2019, total revenues of $858.9 million increased 7% year over year.
Post-adoption of Accounting Standards Codification Topic 606, Paychex classified its total service revenues as Management Solutions revenues, and PEO and insurance services revenues.
Revenues from Management Solutions is expected to be driven by increases in the company’s client bases across many of its services and contribution from the acquisition of Lessor Group.
The same for PEO and insurance services revenues should benefit from increase in clients and client worksite employees across the company’s PEO business. Insurance Services revenues should benefit from an increase in the number of health and benefit applicants.
Interest on funds held by clients is likely to benefit from higher average interest rates earned.
Earnings Likely to Grow on Tax Reform
The U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), which reduced corporate tax rates significantly, is likely to boost Paychex’s earnings in the to-be-reported quarter. Notably, the consensus estimate for earnings per share (EPS) is pegged at 89 cents, indicating year-over-year growth of 41.3%.
In second-quarter fiscal 2019, adjusted earnings per share of 65 cents increased 20% year over year.
What Our Model Says
According to the Zacks model, a company with a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), 2 (Buy) or 3 (Hold) has a good chance of beating estimates if it also has a positive Earnings ESP. Zacks Rank #4 (Sell) or 5 (Strong Sell) stocks are best avoided, especially when the company is seeing negative estimate revisions. You can uncover the best stocks to buy or sell before they're reported with our Earnings ESP Filter .
Paychex has a Zacks Rank #2 and an Earnings ESP of 0.00%.
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Stocks to Consider
Here are a few stocks from the broader Zacks Business Services sector that investors may consider as our model shows that these have the right combination of elements to beat estimates.
IHS Markit (INFO - Free Report) has an Earnings ESP of +0.53% and a Zacks Rank #2. You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank stocks here.
Avis Budget (CAR - Free Report) has an Earnings ESP of +19.61% and a Zacks Rank #3.
Accenture (ACN - Free Report) has an Earnings ESP of +1.19% and a Zacks Rank #3.
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Would you like to see the updated picks from our best market-beating strategies? From 2017 through 2018, while the S&P 500 gained +15.8%, five of our screens returned +38.0%, +61.3%, +61.6%, +68.1%, and +98.3%.
This outperformance has not just been a recent phenomenon. From 2000 – 2018, while the S&P averaged +4.8% per year, our top strategies averaged up to +56.2% per year.
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