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Automatic Data Processing forward PE ADP

Share price divided by analysts' consensus earnings for the next twelve months, since 1996.

Today, Oct 23, 2026
24.8×
10-year median
28.3×
Against its 10-year history
12th
percentile: 0 is its lowest day, 100 its highest
10-year range
16.3× to 35.4×
Peer median
17.3×

Automatic Data Processing's forward PE is 24.8× as of Oct 23, 2026.

That is below its ten-year median of 28.3×, lower than on 88% of days in the last ten years.

Over that time it ranged from 16.3× in Apr 2026 to 35.4× in Dec 2021.

The median for 10 application software stocks of a similar size is 17.3×.

Forward PE over time

The dashed line is the 10-year median and the shaded band the middle half of its days.

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Year by year

YearEnd of yearLowHigh
2026 so far24.8×16.3×24.8×
202523.0×22.5×31.0×
202429.8×24.7×30.9×
202325.4×23.5×29.7×
202228.9×26.2×34.3×
202135.4×27.3×35.4×
202030.9×21.7×35.2×
201932.2×25.3×32.3×
201825.0×24.3×31.1×
201728.8×26.7×30.8×
201630.5×24.2×30.5×
201526.3×23.9×29.9×
201429.3×21.1×29.5×
201323.2×17.9×23.2×
201217.0×15.8×18.2×
201117.4×14.9×18.1×
201015.9×14.1×17.4×
200916.8×13.1×17.2×
200815.1×12.8×18.3×
200718.7×17.7×22.2×

Against its peers

Companies in Software - Application nearest Automatic Data Processing's size, closest first, today.

CompanyForward PE
ADPAutomatic Data Processing24.8×
SNOWSnowflake128×
UBERUber Technologies17.3×
ADBEAdobe9.8×
DDOGDatadog101×
INTUIntuit14.9×
NOWServiceNow35.1×
CDNSCadence Design Systems36.9×
APPAppLovin14.4×
CRMSalesforce16.9×
SHOPShopifyn/m
Peer median17.3×

Where Automatic Data Processing ranks

What the forward PE tells you

Price divided by what analysts expect the company to earn over the next twelve months. It answers "what am I paying for next year" instead of last year.

Estimates are opinions. When forward PE is far below trailing PE, analysts expect a big jump in earnings. If that jump slips, the stock was not as cheap as it looked.

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Valuation data, not investment advice. Prices as of . Reported figures come from the company's filings with the SEC.