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PAYX in the last 90 days

Paychex, Inc. Common Stock (PAYX) had 3 congress transactions by 2 members and no insider purchases in filings from the last 90 days.

FINRA’s latest report (settlement 15 SEPT 2026) shows 19,816,479 shares held short, 8.1 days to cover, down 3.0% from the report before.

  • Congress: 1 purchase and 2 sales reported, amounts in the bands the law requires.
  • Delay: each filing below shows how many days passed between the trade and its publication. None of this is real-time.

Latest filing on file: 09 SEPT 2026 · FINRA settlement 15 SEPT 2026 · public filings, reported as filed

What the price is doing

$118$92 → $118 · +29% over six months

PAYX is up 29%. Short sellers have barely moved.

Bets against it — they pay off if the price falls — are down 3% over the same stretch.

$92 STARTAPRMAYJUNJULAUGSEPT07 APR 2026 — Hon. Rick Larsen — $1,001 – $15,00016 APR 2026 — Hon. April McClain Delaney — $1,001 – $15,000 · partial21 APR 2026 — Hon. April McClain Delaney — $1,001 – $15,000 · partial14 APR 2026 — Hon. Gilbert Cisneros — $1,001 – $15,00025 AUG 2026 — Hon. April McClain Delaney — $100,001 – $250,000NOW $118

Politician activityBoughtSold

Short sellers

11 reports · twice a month

APR 0%peak +1%15 SEPT -3%APRMAYJUNJULAUGSEPT

Money betting PAYX falls. Reported twice a month, and it shows up seven working days late.

Politicians

1 buys · 4 sales

Traded over six months

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Short sellers

Bets down 3%

Over six months · newest 15 SEPT 2026

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Insiders

Nothing reported

Traded over six months

Quiet Money

Our take on how well PAYX holds up when sellers show up.

How it holds up · last 60 trading days

Through 15 SEPT 2026

Vulnerable

When PAYX gets hit, it tends to drop more easily than usual.

Lately, PAYX has been easier to push down than usual.

That's been true for the last 2 trading days.

The last 6 months

ResilientMixedVulnerable
APRMAYJUNJULAUGSEPT
25 MAR 2026Now · 15 SEPT 2026

What the filings show

What the filings show · last 90 days

2 of 4 sources

-16Tilted out

Leaning outBalancedLeaning in

The disclosed money is leaning away from this name, on what has actually been filed. This reads on two of the four sources we track.

Short interest
Short interest rose 3.0% — 19,234,786 to 19,816,479 shares between 15 JUL 2026 and 15 SEPT 2026. See the filings →
-8
Congress
2 members of Congress disclosed 1 purchase and 2 sales. See the filings →
-33

This summarises filings that have already been published — it is not a forecast, a rating of the company, or advice. Every figure above is listed in full further down this page, with the document it came from.

FINRA short interest

Settlement 15 SEPT 2026 · shares held short

19,816,479shares held short

Days to cover

8.06

Avg daily volume

2,460,080

Since last report

-2.96%

As of 15 September 2026, 19,816,479 Paychex, Inc. Common Stock shares were held short — the total across every reporting firm, not one fund's position. That is 603,752 shares fewer than the previous report, a 2.96% decrease. At the average daily volume of 2,460,080 shares, that position represents 8.06 days of trading — what the filing calls days to cover.

This is the most recent figure that exists, and it is 17 days old. FINRA collects short interest twice a month, on a settlement date, and publishes it about eight business days later. So nobody has a live short-interest number for PAYX — not us, and not anyone quoting one. We print the settlement date on the figure so you always know which day you are looking at.

Across the 12 reports we hold, the position has fallen from 20,671,661 shares on 31 March 2026 to 19,816,479 today, a change of 4.1%. The highest reading in that window was 20,671,661 shares on 31 March 2026.

SettlementShares shortDays to cover
15 SEPT 202619,816,4798.06
31 AUG 202620,420,2319.66
14 AUG 202619,240,3178.23
31 JUL 202620,143,4885.60
15 JUL 202619,234,7866.66
30 JUN 202620,374,9224.45
15 JUN 202620,615,3907.00
29 MAY 202620,011,6336.66
15 MAY 202620,483,8686.37
30 APR 202619,139,1416.02
15 APR 202620,371,4445.58
31 MAR 202620,671,6614.14
What is PAYX's short interest?
19,816,479 shares, as of the 15 September 2026 settlement date. That is the figure FINRA published, unadjusted.
What percentage of the float is short?
We do not publish that, because FINRA does not publish float. The regulator reports the number of shares held short; turning it into a percentage needs a share count from somewhere else, and different sources disagree about what counts as float. We would rather give you the number that was actually filed than a percentage built on an assumption.
How current is this?
It is 17 days old, and that is as fresh as short interest gets. FINRA measures it twice a month and publishes it seven business days after the settlement date. Any site showing you a "live" short interest figure is showing you something else.
What does days to cover mean?
It is the short position divided by average daily trading volume — here, 8.06. It describes how many days of ordinary trading the position is equivalent to. It is arithmetic from the filing, not a prediction about what will happen.
Where does this come from?
FINRA's consolidated short interest file, which is public. We read it directly and store it unchanged, except that we blank the days-to-cover placeholder FINRA writes when a stock has almost no volume.

Disclosed insider buying on file

—no purchase on file passed the price check

Open-market purchases only — the amount is a fact, not a verdict.

On file here

Short positions0

Insider purchases0

Congress transactions26

Latest change09 SEPT 2026

SHORT POSITIONS · 0INSIDER BUYS · 0CONGRESS · 26

Congress transactions on file

26 disclosed · newest first · every row links to its filing

WhoAmount as filedTradedFiledLag
Hon. April McClain DelaneySOLD$100,001 – $250,00025 AUG 202609 SEPT 202615 days
Hon. Julie JohnsonSOLD$1,001 – $15,00023 SEPT 202505 AUG 2026316 days — the law says 45
Hon. Julie JohnsonBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00023 SEPT 202505 AUG 2026316 days — the law says 45
Hon. Gilbert CisnerosBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00014 APR 202608 MAY 202624 days
Hon. April McClain DelaneySOLD$1,001 – $15,000 · partial21 APR 202606 MAY 202615 days
Hon. April McClain DelaneySOLD$1,001 – $15,000 · partial16 APR 202606 MAY 202620 days
Hon. Rick LarsenSOLD$1,001 – $15,00007 APR 202615 APR 20268 days
Hon. April McClain DelaneySOLD$1,001 – $15,000 · partial24 FEB 202610 MAR 202614 days
Hon. April McClain DelaneySOLD$1,001 – $15,000 · partial23 FEB 202610 MAR 202615 days
Hon. Richard W. AllenSOLD$15,001 – $50,00014 JAN 202617 FEB 202634 days
Hon. Marjorie Taylor GreeneBOUGHT$15,001 – $50,00012 NOV 202513 NOV 20251 day
Hon. April McClain DelaneyBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00001 OCT 202504 NOV 202534 days
Hon. Julie JohnsonSOLD$1,001 – $15,00025 SEPT 202507 OCT 202512 days
Hon. Sheri BiggsSOLD$15,001 – $50,00019 MAR 202505 OCT 2025200 days — the law says 45
Hon. Lisa McClainSOLD$1,001 – $15,00004 AUG 202512 SEPT 202539 days
Hon. Lisa McClainBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00016 JUL 202513 AUG 202528 days
Hon. April McClain DelaneyBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00026 JUN 202502 JUL 20256 days
Hon. Josh GottheimerSOLD$1,001 – $15,000 · partial09 APR 202514 MAY 202535 days
Hon. Marjorie Taylor GreeneBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00005 MAY 202506 MAY 20251 day
Hon. April McClain DelaneyBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00009 APR 202502 MAY 202523 days
Hon. April McClain DelaneyBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00027 FEB 202520 MAR 202521 days
Hon. April McClain DelaneyBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00021 FEB 202520 MAR 202527 days
Hon. April McClain DelaneyBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00005 FEB 202520 MAR 202543 days
Hon. April McClain DelaneyBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00009 FEB 202520 MAR 202539 days
Hon. Josh GottheimerSOLD$1,001 – $15,000 · partial21 FEB 202506 MAR 202513 days
Hon. Rob BresnahanSOLD$1,001 – $15,00013 JAN 202513 FEB 202531 days
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