Automatic Data Processing, Inc.

ADP stock score: 62/100

$294.50 · +0.60% · Scored Oct 21, 2026

Technical
67
Fundamental
57
News
31

The reading

Automatic Data Processing (ADP) scores 62 out of 100, which reads neutral, higher than 89% of Technology stocks and 80% of the 4,166 US stocks we score.

The composite is technicals and fundamentals weighted equally: technicals read 67, fundamentals 57.

Among the fundamentals, Fund Ownership at 100 and Return on Equity (ROE) at 97 score highest, while Price to Book Ratio at 3 weighs the most against it.

On the daily chart, trend-following indicators average 71 and contrarian oscillators 23 — a split worth reading before trusting the technical total.

News sentiment is negative at 31; it is shown, not counted in the composite.

Since Jul 24, 2026 the composite has ranged from 55 to 73, and it is up 7 points over the period.

What’s driving the score

The strongest and weakest of the scorers that count toward ADP’s composite. Each returns 0–100, higher is more bullish — including metrics where low is good, like P/E.

Fundamental

57

Pulling it up

  • Fund Ownership100

    Fund ownership tracks institutional investor holdings and changes.

  • Return on Equity (ROE)97

    Return on Equity (ROE) measures how efficiently a company generates profits from shareholder equity.

  • Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)96

    Return on Invested Capital measures the operating profit a company earns on all the capital invested in it, debt and equity alike.

Holding it back

  • Price to Book Ratio3

    Price-to-Book ratio compares market value to book value.

  • Quick Ratio12

    Quick ratio measures a company's ability to meet short-term obligations with liquid assets.

  • Price Target28

    Price target score compares the current stock price to analyst consensus targets.

40 weighted scorers; 1 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

Technical · daily

65

Pulling it up

  • Parabolic SAR (PSAR)100

    Parabolic SAR (Stop and Reverse) provides trailing stop levels that follow price trends.

  • VWAP100

    Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) shows the average price weighted by volume.

  • Stochastic (14)100

    Stochastic Oscillator (14-period) compares the current price to its range over 14 periods.

Holding it back

  • Bollinger Bands (50)0

    Bollinger Bands (50-period) measure where price sits between bands two standard deviations around its 50-period average.

  • Williams %R (28)0

    Williams %R (28-period) places the close within the last 28 periods' high-low range.

  • Williams %R (14)0

    Williams %R (14-period) measures where the current price sits within the recent high-low range.

61 weighted scorers; 4 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

News · shown, not counted

Global News
31

Technical score by timeframe

ChartScoreWeight
Hourly551
Daily653
Weekly702
Monthly702
Quarterly692

Composite score, last 90 days

05010062Jul 24, 2026Oct 21, 2026Jul 24, 2026: 55Jul 25, 2026: 55Jul 26, 2026: 55Jul 27, 2026: 56Jul 28, 2026: 56Jul 29, 2026: 73Jul 30, 2026: 65Jul 31, 2026: 63Aug 2, 2026: 58Aug 3, 2026: 60Aug 4, 2026: 60Aug 5, 2026: 59Aug 6, 2026: 58Aug 7, 2026: 61Aug 8, 2026: 61Aug 9, 2026: 61Aug 10, 2026: 61Aug 11, 2026: 61Aug 12, 2026: 59Aug 13, 2026: 61Aug 14, 2026: 61Aug 15, 2026: 61Aug 16, 2026: 61Aug 17, 2026: 59Aug 18, 2026: 60Aug 19, 2026: 61Aug 20, 2026: 61Aug 22, 2026: 62Aug 23, 2026: 62Aug 24, 2026: 62Aug 25, 2026: 61Aug 26, 2026: 61Aug 27, 2026: 62Aug 28, 2026: 62Aug 29, 2026: 62Aug 30, 2026: 62Aug 31, 2026: 62Sep 1, 2026: 61Sep 2, 2026: 61Sep 3, 2026: 61Sep 4, 2026: 60Sep 5, 2026: 60Sep 6, 2026: 60Sep 7, 2026: 60Sep 8, 2026: 59Sep 9, 2026: 57Sep 10, 2026: 58Sep 11, 2026: 59Sep 12, 2026: 59Sep 13, 2026: 59Sep 14, 2026: 61Sep 15, 2026: 61Sep 16, 2026: 59Sep 17, 2026: 59Sep 18, 2026: 59Sep 19, 2026: 59Sep 20, 2026: 59Sep 21, 2026: 59Sep 22, 2026: 59Sep 23, 2026: 59Sep 24, 2026: 59Sep 25, 2026: 57Sep 26, 2026: 57Sep 27, 2026: 57Sep 28, 2026: 57Sep 29, 2026: 57Sep 30, 2026: 56Oct 1, 2026: 58Oct 2, 2026: 56Oct 3, 2026: 56Oct 4, 2026: 57Oct 5, 2026: 58Oct 6, 2026: 58Oct 7, 2026: 59Oct 8, 2026: 61Oct 9, 2026: 61Oct 10, 2026: 61Oct 11, 2026: 61Oct 12, 2026: 61Oct 13, 2026: 62Oct 14, 2026: 62Oct 15, 2026: 62Oct 16, 2026: 62Oct 17, 2026: 62Oct 18, 2026: 62Oct 19, 2026: 62Oct 20, 2026: 62Oct 21, 2026: 62
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Key facts

Market cap
$116.7B
Sector
Technology
Industry
Software - Application
Beta
0.84
Risk grade (1–10)
1
Next earnings
Oct 28, 2026

Software - Application peers

CompanyMarket capScore
UBER Uber Technologies$138.1B52
SNOW Snowflake$113.9B47
ADBE Adobe$99.3B56
DDOG Datadog$98.1B58
CDNS Cadence Design Systems$89.8B55
INTU Intuit$89.7B53

Questions

What is ADP's stock score today?

ADP scores 62/100 (Neutral) as of Oct 21, 2026: technical 67, fundamental 57, and news sentiment 31, which is shown but not counted. Scores are recomputed every night.

Is ADP a buy?

The score is not a buy or sell recommendation. A 62 says the technical and fundamental signals we measure lean neutral today, relative to every other stock scored the same way. Use the breakdown above to see why, and treat it as a starting point for your own research.

How is the ADP score calculated?

101 weighted scorers feed it today: 40 fundamental, scored against Technology ranges, and 61 technical on the daily chart, with 5 timeframes blended into the technical total. Every scorer returns 0–100; missing data is left out, never counted as zero.

Scores are information, not investment advice. Computed from Yahoo Finance, Finnhub and Alpha Vantage data; technical indicators via TA-Lib. Past scores do not predict future returns.