AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING INC vs INTUIT INC., two Software stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
ADP and Intuit both sell indispensable business software, and the market now prices them within a few turns of each other, Intuit near 17 times earnings and ADP near 21. Their net margins are close, 22% and 20%, but the shapes differ: ADP's 68% return on equity reflects its asset-light payroll base, while Intuit runs the fatter operating margin at 47%. Intuit also converts more of its price into free cash, 10% to 6%. ADP pays the larger dividend, 2.7% to 1.5%. Two reliable franchises, and for once neither carries a growth premium worth arguing about.
Comparison updated 2026-06-11.
| Metric | ADP | INTU |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $241.91 | $274.96 |
| Market cap | $97.4B | $75.9B |
| Sector | Software | Software |
| Stage | Mature | Growth |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +7.7% | +15.3% |
| P/E | 22.6 | 16.7 |
| P/B | 15.33 | 3.68 |
| P/S | 4.51 | 3.63 |
| EV/EBITDA | 167.9 | 13.5 |
| Revenue growth | +6.9% | +16.6% |
| Operating margin | — | 47.0% |
| Net margin | 20.1% | 21.9% |
| Return on equity | 68.4% | 22.2% |
| Return on assets | 6.7% | 11.7% |
| Return on invested capital | — | 15.8% |
| FCF yield | 5.6% | 10.2% |
| Dividend yield | 2.5% | 1.5% |
| Debt / equity | 0.63 | 0.34 |
| Current ratio | 1.04 | 1.45 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 1.96 | 4.29 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 8 / 9 |
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