Trade of the BUY PAYX · April McClain Delaney
Paychex, Inc. - Common Stock (PAYX)
Mixed signals
| Inside their committee's jurisdiction |
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32/32 |
| Isolated decision, not a bulk rebalance |
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21/22 |
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Small, thinly-followed company
Nobody needs inside information to buy a mega-cap.
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4/10 |
| Member's own account |
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0/8 |
| Committee chair or ranking member |
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0/8 |
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A name they had never held before
A first purchase is a decision; the ninth purchase of the same holding is a standing order.
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0/8 |
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Unusually large for this member
Against their own median trade, not an absolute threshold - and capped, because trades beyond 3x did worse, not better.
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0/6 |
| Position size |
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0/3 |
| Leveraged instrument (option) |
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0/3 |
A high grade is not an allegation. Every input is public, and buying into an industry you work on daily is ordinary expertise. What the trade actually returned is deliberately excluded from this score and shown separately below.
It is also not a forecast. Measured across every settled trade, A-graded ones did not beat E-graded ones to any significant degree — the method page prints the table. This score says a trade looks like a decision rather than administration, and nothing more.
The filing it came from
filed in 27 days Within the 30-day notification window.
How this position ended
| Sold | Held | Return | vs S&P | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Apr 2026 | 419 d | -35.8% | -54.4% | part of the holding |
Closed by the member. What the member did afterwards, for context. The strategy does not act on it: exiting when members disclose selling cost 6.50 points against holding the full twelve months.
This one is in the strategy. It is an in-remit purchase, so it enters the book on the first market open after the filing appeared and is held for 365 days regardless of what the member does next.
This filing disclosed 38 transactions in total, of which 2 share this trade date (21 Feb 2025).
Few other trades share this date, so this reads as a discrete decision rather than a portfolio sweep.
Filed 20 Mar 2025 · source PDF
Same day: TPX
Price
52-week range $83.61 – $134.87. The marker is the entry: the first market open after this filing became public.
Paychex, Inc.
Paychex, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides human capital management solutions (HCM) for human resources, payroll processing, employee benefits, and insurance services for small to medium-sized businesses in the United States, Europe, Canada, India, and Israel. It offers technology and advisory solutions; and payroll tax administration services. The company also provides retirement solutions, such as plan…
| Sector | Technology |
| Industry | Software - Application |
| Analyst range | $95 – $150 |
| Employees | 17,600 |
| Instrument | ST |
| Jurisdiction tags | technology |
Inside this member's remit. Their committees cover aerospaceagriculturecommoditiestechnology
Expressing this with options
An illustration, not a recommendation: the nearest listed expiry to a twelve-month horizon, struck near the money. Chains are live — Yahoo publishes no historical chains, so this is priced today, not when the filing was made, and the move it describes may already have happened.
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Outcome
| Held | This trade | S&P 500 | Alpha |
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| 1m | +0.5% | -5.9% | +6.4% |
| 3m | +4.2% | +6.6% | -2.4% |
| 6m | -8.5% | +19.4% | -27.8% |
| 12m 1yr | -33.5% | +17.3% | -50.8% |
| now 16.7 mo | -11.5% | +38.9% | -50.4% |
| 18m | — | — | — |
| 24m | — | — | — |
| 36m | — | — | — |
| 48m | — | — | — |
| 60m 5yr | — | — | — |
Measured from the first open after disclosure — the earliest anyone reading this could have acted. The highlighted now row sits at its true place in the sequence, so where it falls tells you how long the position has run. The last 5 rows are blank because those windows have not closed yet: this trade was entered 21 Mar 2025, so anything longer than that is still running.
Other congressional trades in PAYX
| Grade | Date | Member | Side | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | 21 Apr 2026 | April McClain Delaney | sale partial | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| C | 16 Apr 2026 | April McClain Delaney | sale partial | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 14 Apr 2026 | Gilbert Cisneros | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 07 Apr 2026 | Rick Larsen | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 27 Mar 2026 | Alan Armstrong | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| C | 24 Feb 2026 | April McClain Delaney | sale partial | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| C | 23 Feb 2026 | April McClain Delaney | sale partial | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| B | 20 Feb 2026 | Shelley M Capito | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| B | 14 Jan 2026 | Richard W. Allen | sale | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| B | 13 Nov 2025 | Shelley M Capito | sale partial | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| B | 12 Nov 2025 | Marjorie Taylor Greene | purchase | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| B | 21 Oct 2025 | Shelley M Capito | sale partial | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| C | 01 Oct 2025 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 25 Sep 2025 | Julie Johnson | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 23 Sep 2025 | Julie Johnson | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 23 Sep 2025 | Julie Johnson | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 04 Aug 2025 | Lisa McClain | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| C | 23 Jul 2025 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 16 Jul 2025 | Lisa McClain | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| C | 26 Jun 2025 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| C | 05 May 2025 | Marjorie Taylor Greene | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| C | 09 Apr 2025 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 09 Apr 2025 | Josh Gottheimer | sale partial | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| C | 19 Mar 2025 | Sheri Biggs | sale | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| C | 27 Feb 2025 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |