Automatic Data Processing price to sales ratio ADP

Market value divided by revenue over the last twelve months, since 2010.

Today, Oct 23, 2026: 5.5×
10-year median: 5.1×
Against its 10-year history: 67th; percentile: 0 is its lowest day, 100 its highest
10-year range: 3.3× to 6.8×
Peer median: 12.0×

Automatic Data Processing's price to sales ratio is 5.5× as of Oct 23, 2026.

That is above its ten-year median of 5.1×, higher than on 67% of days in the last ten years.

Over that time it ranged from 3.3× in Mar 2020 to 6.8× in Dec 2021.

The median for 10 application software stocks of a similar size is 12.0×.

Price to sales ratio over time

median 5.1×

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

Year	End of year	Low	High
2026 so far	5.5×	3.6×	5.5×
2025	5.0×	4.9×	6.6×
2024	6.2×	5.1×	6.4×
2023	5.2×	4.9×	6.0×
2022	5.9×	5.2×	6.6×
2021	6.8×	4.7×	6.8×
2020	5.2×	3.3×	5.4×
2019	5.2×	4.2×	5.3×
2018	4.2×	3.8×	5.0×
2017	4.1×	3.6×	4.3×
2016	3.9×	3.2×	3.9×
2015	3.5×	3.2×	3.9×
2014	3.4×	2.7×	3.5×
2013	3.0×	2.3×	3.0×
2012	2.2×	2.1×	2.4×
2011	2.3×	2.0×	2.6×
2010	2.2×	1.9×	2.2×

Against its peers

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

Company	Price to sales ratio
ADPAutomatic Data Processing	5.5×
SNOWSnowflake	21.1×
UBERUber Technologies	2.5×
ADBEAdobe	4.0×
DDOGDatadog	24.4×
INTUIntuit	4.3×
NOWServiceNow	11.2×
CDNSCadence Design Systems	14.9×
APPAppLovin	12.8×
CRMSalesforce	4.7×
SHOPShopify	16.4×
Peer median	12.0×

Where Automatic Data Processing ranks

#88of 114Application software stocks with the lowest price to sales ratio

What the price to sales ratio tells you

Market value divided by revenue over the last twelve months. Useful for companies with little or no profit yet, since sales are harder to make negative than earnings.

Ignores margins entirely. A software company at 10× sales with 30% margins can be cheaper than a grocer at 1× sales with 2% margins.

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Valuation data, not investment advice. Prices as of Oct 23, 2026. Reported figures come from the company's filings with the SEC.