Paychex, Inc. (PAYX) FY2026 Q3 Statement of Cash Flows
2025-12-01 to 2026-02-28
Statement of Cash Flows
2025-12-01 to 2026-02-28
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Paychex, Inc. cash flow reconciliation, Dec 1, 2025 through Feb 28, 2026
Cash flows for Dec 1, 2025 through Feb 28, 2026. Cash basis: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash. Beginning cash: Nov 30, 2025. Ending cash: Feb 28, 2026. Beginning and ending cash are dated balances. Positive cash flows add cash; negative cash flows reduce it.
- Beginning cash on Nov 30, 2025
- 1,873,400,000 US dollars. Beginning cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash
- Operating activities
- 812,500,000 US dollars. Net cash provided.
- Net income
- 560,300,000 US dollars
- Depreciation and amortization
- 111,000,000 US dollars
- Amortization of premiums and discounts on AFS securities and long-term debt, net
- negative 1,600,000 US dollars
- Amortization of deferred contract costs
- 62,800,000 US dollars
- Stock-based compensation costs
- 23,100,000 US dollars
- Provision on/(Benefit from) deferred income taxes
- 21,800,000 US dollars
- Premiums paid on cash flow hedges
- 0 US dollars
- Net realized (gains)/losses on sales of AFS securities
- negative 300,000 US dollars
- Provision for credit losses
- 16,900,000 US dollars
- Interest receivable
- negative 2,000,000 US dollars
- Accounts receivable and PEO unbilled receivables, net
- negative 11,000,000 US dollars
- Prepaid expenses and other current assets
- 20,300,000 US dollars
- Accounts payable and other current liabilities
- 109,700,000 US dollars
- Deferred costs
- negative 96,100,000 US dollars
- Net change in other long-term assets and liabilities
- negative 1,400,000 US dollars
- Net change in operating lease right-of-use assets and liabilities
- negative 1,000,000 US dollars
- Investing activities
- 1,400,000 US dollars. Net cash provided.
- Purchases of AFS securities
- negative 4,171,500,000 US dollars
- Proceeds from sales and maturities of AFS securities
- 4,249,600,000 US dollars
- Net purchases of short-term accounts receivable
- negative 20,100,000 US dollars
- Purchases of property and equipment
- negative 51,000,000 US dollars
- Acquisition of businesses, net of cash acquired
- negative 100,000 US dollars
- Purchases of other assets, net
- negative 5,500,000 US dollars
- Financing activities
- 235,300,000 US dollars. Net cash provided.
- Net change in client fund obligations
- 718,900,000 US dollars
- Net change in short-term borrowings
- negative 18,800,000 US dollars
- Dividends paid
- negative 388,000,000 US dollars
- Debt issuance fees
- 0 US dollars
- Repurchases of common shares
- negative 75,000,000 US dollars
- Activity related to equity-based plans
- negative 1,800,000 US dollars
- Operating adjustment reconciliation
- 365,600,000 US dollars. Intermediate calculation joining the operating reconciliation branches. Its gross amount includes any portion of net income routed through this junction. It is not an additional cash source or use.
- financing gross reconciliation
- 718,900,000 US dollars. Gross amount at the activity's junction before offsetting its receipts and deductions. It is not an additional cash source or use.
- investing gross reconciliation
- 4,249,600,000 US dollars. Gross amount at the activity's junction before offsetting its receipts and deductions. It is not an additional cash source or use.
- Exchange-rate effect
- 0 US dollars
- Ending cash on Feb 28, 2026
- 2,922,600,000 US dollars. Ending cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash
- Cash sources and uses
- 2,922,600,000 US dollars. Opening cash plus net sources, equal to net uses plus ending cash.
- Net cash change
- 1,049,200,000 US dollars. Ending cash minus beginning cash.
- Cash flow / Net income
- 1.45×. Operating cash flow divided by reconciliation net income for the same period. Black from 0.90× through 1.10×; green above 1.10×; red below 0.90×. Color uses the unrounded ratio.
- Operating cash flow
- 812,500,000 US dollars. Operating cash flow used in the free cash flow calculation.
- Cash purchases of property, plant and equipment
- 51,000,000 US dollars. These cash purchases are already included in investing activities above.
- Free cash flow
- 761,500,000 US dollars. A supplemental measure; finance-lease payments are excluded from this definition.
Chart connections
- Beginning cash plus operating, investing and financing cash flows plus the exchange-rate effect equals ending cash. Negative amounts reduce cash.
- Financing contributions meet at a reconciliation junction before connecting to the net cash total.
- Investing contributions meet at a reconciliation junction before connecting to the net cash total.
- Operating reconciliation adjustments are not all independent cash receipts.
- Net income enters operating cash directly in the reconciliation. The adjustment junction contributes the remaining $252.20M after reconciling the other positive and negative adjustments. These connections depict an accounting reconciliation, not traced cash receipts.
- Each activity has one net cash bar connected to the shared cash pool. Positive activity totals enter the pool; negative activity totals leave the pool to fund that activity's net payments. The central pool does not assign a particular funding source to a particular payment.
- The intermediate calculation bars include both sides of the displayed activity breakdowns; they are not additional cash flows.
- Operating cash flow minus cash purchases of property, plant and equipment equals free cash flow: 812,500,000 US dollars minus 51,000,000 US dollars equals 761,500,000 US dollars.
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