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Paylocity Holding Corporation (PCTY) — chart, structure and Closelook read

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Company snapshot — Paylocity Holding Corporation

PCTY in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Paylocity provides cloud-based payroll and human capital management software for businesses in the United States. Its platforms cover payroll, HR administration, time and labour tracking, talent management, benefits and workplace collaboration tools, sold mainly to mid-sized employers. It also offers finance and IT modules such as expense management and identity access control. The company is headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois.
Where it sits in the stack
Paylocity carries no seat in our index; it sits in the software and IT-services corner of our universe, within the application-software industry rather than the AI build-out stack. It provides administrative infrastructure that supports employers generally, not a layer tied to chip design, data-centre build or AI compute.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group does not list a comparison set for Paylocity here; the market commonly compares it with Workday, another cloud-based human capital management platform.
Why Closelook tracks it
Paylocity holds a seat in the Russell 1000 but carries no Closelook score and no peer-group assignment in the diary yet. It has not been quoted or mentioned in any Closelook edition so far.
What the diary watches
Whether employment and payroll volumes among its mid-sized business clients hold up, since that is what the diary would look to first for a change in the read.

Paylocity Holding Corporation (PCTY) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for PCTY, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Software - Application · United States · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Software - Application · United States

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against PCTY on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is Paylocity Holding Corporation (PCTY)?

Paylocity Holding Corporation trades as PCTY on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is PCTY in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Paylocity Holding Corporation is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

Where does PCTY trade against its moving averages?

Uptrend stack intact: Trades +0.9% vs the 50-day and +14.8% vs the 200-day average, 15.2% below the 52-week high and +54.6% off the 52-week low; a golden cross printed 21 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Paylocity Holding Corporation do?

Paylocity provides cloud-based payroll and human capital management software for businesses in the United States. Its platforms cover payroll, HR administration, time and labour tracking, talent management, benefits and workplace collaboration tools, sold mainly to mid-sized employers. It also offers finance and IT modules such as expense management and identity access control. Closelook's peer group does not list a comparison set for Paylocity here; the market commonly compares it with Workday, another cloud-based human capital management platform.

Where does Paylocity Holding Corporation sit in the AI build-out?

Paylocity carries no seat in our index; it sits in the software and IT-services corner of our universe, within the application-software industry rather than the AI build-out stack. It provides administrative infrastructure that supports employers generally, not a layer tied to chip design, data-centre build or AI compute. Paylocity holds a seat in the Russell 1000 but carries no Closelook score and no peer-group assignment in the diary yet. It has not been quoted or mentioned in any Closelook edition so far.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for PCTY, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Software - Application. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.