ADP Automatic Data Processing
Industrials · Human Resource & Employment Services · close $288.90 (2026-10-16) · latest quarter in EDGAR: 2026-06-30
Automatic Data Processing (ADP) has a ThetaGrade House Rating of 52/100 (grade C), ranking #21 of 202 in Industrials. Its strongest pillars are cash flow (78) and profitability (73); its weakest is analyst sentiment (17). TTM revenue growth is 6.7% and operating margin 24.2%.
Data as of .
Analyst sentiment
weight 7.5% · 17| Consensus score (1–5) (3.8%) | derived | 4 |
| 90-day net rating shift (3.8%) | derived | 32 |
Growth
weight 30.83% · 40| Revenue growth YoY (TTM) (12.3%) | 6.7% | 40 |
| EPS growth YoY (TTM) (12.3%) | 9.6% | 44 |
| Revenue acceleration (6.2%) | -0.2% | 34 |
Profitability
weight 18.5% · 73| Operating margin (9.9%) | 24.2% | 90 |
| 4Q gross-margin change (8.6%) | 0.4% | 54 |
Balance sheet
weight 18.5% · 57| Net debt / EBITDA (9.9%) | 0.12× | 75 |
| Current ratio (4.9%) | 1.05 | 17 |
| Interest coverage (3.7%) | 11.58× | 64 |
Cash flow
weight 12.33% · 78| FCF margin (6.2%) | 23.9% | 95 |
| FCF yield (6.2%) | 4.6% | 61 |
Valuation
weight 12.33% · 37| P/E (inverted) (6.2%) | 26.41× | 56 |
| EV/Sales (inverted) (6.2%) | 5.26× | 18 |
Technicals (EOD)
| RSI(14) | 71.3 |
| EMA 9 / 21 | 277.08 / 272.34 · crossed up 4d ago |
| 200-day SMA | 238.64 |
| Volume vs 20d avg | 1.13× |
| 20-day return | 6.1% |
Exit-rule monitor
- EXITRating break: House Rating below 60
Data source per metric (SEC XBRL tag or derivation): Revenue: RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax · Gross profit: Revenue − CostOfGoodsAndServicesSold · Operating income: Revenue − CostsAndExpenses · Interest expense: InterestExpense · D&A: DepreciationDepletionAndAmortization · EPS: EarningsPerShareDiluted · Market cap: SEC shares (dei EntityCommonStockSharesOutstanding (cover page)) × EOD close · P/E: EOD close ÷ SEC TTM EPS (EarningsPerShareDiluted).
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FAQ
- What is ADP's House Rating?
- ADP scores 52 out of 100 (grade C) as of 2026-10-16, ranking #21 of 202 Industrials stocks we cover.
- What do analysts say about ADP?
- ThetaGrade's analyst-sentiment pillar for ADP scores 17/100 against its sector peers, which we read as negative. This is our own derived score; we do not republish individual analyst ratings, counts or targets.
- When does ADP report earnings next?
- ADP's next earnings report is estimated for about 2026-10-28 (window 2026-10-25 to 2026-10-31), based on its past SEC 8-K earnings filings. This is an estimate, not a company-confirmed date.
- Is ADP a buy?
- ThetaGrade does not give personal advice. The House Rating is an educational, rules-based summary of public data; see the methodology for how it is built.
Sources: SEC EDGAR filings (fetched 2026-10-18), Finnhub recommendation trends, Massive EOD prices. Scores are sector percentiles; a factor without usable data is a data gap: it is left out and the remaining weights are renormalized (nothing is imputed). Educational only. Methodology