Paycom Software, Inc. (PAYC)

Every FINRA and SEC series the site collects for Paycom Software, Inc.: short interest with days to cover, daily short sale volume, fails to deliver and Form 4 insider trades. Listed on NYSE.

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2.6M

Short interest

settlement 2026-08-14

2.1

Days to cover

-19.4% vs prior

63.5%

Short share of volume

2026-09-11

117

Fails to deliver

settlement 2026-07-28

Insider flow, 90 days

0 buys, 0 sells

As of 2026-09-11.

Short interest

FINRA, twice a month; the last 12 months shown, all 48 settlements in the JSON

As of 14 August 2026, short interest in PAYC is 2,640,709 shares, down 961,859 shares over the last month. Over the last 48 readings it ranged from 1,666,636 shares (15 April 2025) to 5,345,345 shares (31 March 2026). At the reported average volume of 1.2M shares a day that is 2.1 days to cover.

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Settlement	Shares short	Change	Avg daily volume	Days to cover
2026-08-14	2,640,709	-19.4%	1,236,489	2.14
2026-07-31	3,275,660	-9.1%	800,476	4.09
2026-07-15	3,602,568	-7.2%	816,224	4.41
2026-06-30	3,879,884	-2.8%	1,313,007	2.95
2026-06-15	3,992,798	+0.5%	851,732	4.69
2026-05-29	3,974,139	-4.6%	817,168	4.86
2026-05-15	4,165,907	-6.5%	1,216,555	3.42
2026-04-30	4,457,368	-6.0%	808,838	5.51
2026-04-15	4,743,589	-11.3%	990,275	4.79
2026-03-31	5,345,345	+15.5%	2,499,176	2.14
2026-03-13	4,628,083	+11.3%	1,699,460	2.72
2026-02-27	4,159,966	-3.8%	2,840,456	1.46
2026-02-13	4,321,954	+27.4%	2,345,432	1.84
2026-01-30	3,392,894	+11.0%	1,211,661	2.80
2026-01-15	3,055,554	+16.4%	771,944	3.96
2025-12-31	2,626,247	+6.3%	822,219	3.19
2025-12-15	2,471,590	-3.1%	715,765	3.45
2025-11-28	2,550,810	+9.2%	727,313	3.51
2025-11-14	2,336,892	-17.2%	1,056,048	2.21
2025-10-31	2,821,443	+8.1%	526,192	5.36
2025-10-15	2,611,194	+2.9%	772,107	3.38
2025-09-30	2,538,899	+2.4%	777,149	3.27
2025-09-15	2,479,064	+0.4%	579,483	4.28
2025-08-29	2,468,936	-6.3%	590,772	4.18

Daily short volume

FINRA Reg SHO, last 60 sessions. JSON

As of 11 September 2026, the short share of PAYC volume is 63.5%, up 3.5 points over the last five sessions. Over the last 52 readings it ranged from 25.8% (1 July 2026) to 72.7% (30 July 2026). The latest reading is 6.8 points above the 30-session average of 56.8%, on 204K shares reported.

Date	Short volume	Total volume	Short share	Exempt
2026-09-11	130K	204K	63.5%	3
2026-09-10	117K	241K	48.6%	0
2026-09-09	180K	279K	64.4%	0
2026-09-08	209K	354K	59.1%	0
2026-09-04	186K	283K	65.6%	670
2026-09-03	163K	271K	60.0%	0
2026-09-02	154K	279K	55.1%	0
2026-09-01	191K	264K	72.2%	0
2026-08-31	155K	245K	63.0%	20
2026-08-28	118K	186K	63.6%	0
2026-08-27	159K	334K	47.5%	32
2026-08-26	115K	205K	56.4%	0
2026-08-25	86K	224K	38.5%	0
2026-08-24	104K	182K	56.9%	0
2026-08-21	168K	244K	69.1%	0
2026-08-20	152K	267K	57.2%	1,755
2026-08-19	118K	267K	44.4%	96
2026-08-18	145K	330K	43.9%	65
2026-08-17	112K	189K	59.6%	97
2026-08-14	120K	210K	56.9%	0
2026-08-13	357K	538K	66.4%	7
2026-08-12	181K	300K	60.4%	80
2026-08-11	183K	301K	60.9%	0
2026-08-10	257K	504K	51.0%	0
2026-08-07	318K	588K	54.0%	0
2026-08-06	786K	2.1M	36.8%	2,499
2026-08-05	233K	389K	59.8%	0
2026-08-04	280K	504K	55.5%	0
2026-08-03	226K	430K	52.4%	21
2026-07-31	275K	455K	60.5%	0

Fails to deliver

SEC, by settlement date. JSON

As of 28 July 2026, the fails-to-deliver balance in PAYC is 117 shares, down 302 shares over the last settlement date. Over the last 52 readings it ranged from 1 share (18 September 2025) to 535,902 shares (23 March 2026). The latest reading sits at the bottom of that range.

Settlement	Shares failed	Price	Value
2026-07-28	117	$151.30	$18K
2026-07-21	419	$149.71	$63K
2026-07-06	124,669	$139.21	$17.4M
2026-07-02	61,559	$133.96	$8.2M
2026-06-30	1,500	$127.18	$191K
2026-06-29	1,147	$129.18	$148K
2026-06-26	6	$124.48	$747
2026-06-25	284	$127.22	$36K
2026-06-23	27	$123.67	$3K
2026-06-15	1,166	$134.52	$157K
2026-06-12	234	$132.24	$31K
2026-06-05	7,822	$137.08	$1.1M
2026-06-01	24,283	$139.67	$3.4M
2026-04-22	3,451	$130.44	$450K
2026-04-10	134	$114.84	$15K
2026-04-08	179	$124.22	$22K
2026-04-06	97	$123.56	$12K
2026-03-31	4	$120.97	$484
2026-03-24	91,288	$126.59	$11.6M
2026-03-23	535,902	$124.82	$66.9M
2026-03-17	3,442	$123.47	$425K
2026-03-16	28,306	$125.71	$3.6M
2026-03-12	10,399	$130.33	$1.4M
2026-03-10	1	$138.25	$138
2026-03-09	20,898	$138.01	$2.9M
2026-03-06	40,936	$136.66	$5.6M
2026-03-05	31	$134.11	$4K
2026-02-24	9,779	$114.43	$1.1M
2026-02-13	988	$119.76	$118K
2026-02-12	1,436	$118.71	$170K

Insider trades

SEC Form 4, newest first. JSON

No open-market insider trades were reported for PAYC in the last 90 days. The most recent filings are listed below; grants and option exercises carry a weaker signal than voluntary trades. Latest filing: Boelte Craig E. on 2026-08-10.

Date	Insider	Title	Type	Shares	Price	Value	Owned after
2026-08-10	Boelte Craig E.	n/a	Gift	1K	$0.00	$0	175K
2026-07-08	Boelte Craig E.	n/a	Grant	1K	$0.00	$0	176K
2026-05-18	Peck Randall	Chief Operating Officer	Sell	3K	$140.50	$351K	55K
2026-05-10	Peck Randall	Chief Operating Officer	Tax withholding	336	$138.44	$47K	58K
2026-05-10	Hadlock Terrell Shane	President/Chief Client Officer	Tax withholding	3K	$138.44	$378K	73K
2026-05-04	TURNEY SHAREN J	n/a	Grant	2K	$0.00	$0	6K
2026-05-04	WATTS J C JR	n/a	Grant	2K	$0.00	$0	11K
2026-05-04	PETERS FREDERICK C II	n/a	Grant	2K	$0.00	$0	18K
2026-05-04	DUQUES HENRY C	n/a	Grant	2K	$0.00	$0	6K
2026-05-04	BINZ JOSEPH LEO	n/a	Grant	2K	$0.00	$0	8K
2026-02-18	Richison Chad R.	CEO and Chairman	Grant	72K	$0.00	$0	2.8M
2026-02-18	Peck Randall	Chief Operating Officer	Grant	10K	$0.00	$0	58K
2026-02-18	York Jeffrey D.	Chief Sales Officer	Grant	14K	$0.00	$0	14K
2026-02-18	Hadlock Terrell Shane	President/Chief Client Officer	Grant	21K	$0.00	$0	75K
2026-02-18	Foster Robert D.	Chief Financial Officer	Grant	18K	$0.00	$0	38K
2026-02-10	Richison Chad R.	CEO, President and Chairman	Tax withholding	19K	$124.94	$2.4M	2.7M
2026-02-10	Richison Chad R.	CEO, President and Chairman	Grant	43K	$0.00	$0	2.7M
2026-02-10	Peck Randall	Chief Operating Officer	Tax withholding	4K	$124.94	$460K	48K
2026-02-10	Peck Randall	Chief Operating Officer	Grant	8K	$0.00	$0	52K
2026-02-10	Foster Robert D.	Chief Financial Officer	Tax withholding	4K	$124.94	$439K	20K
2026-02-10	Foster Robert D.	Chief Financial Officer	Grant	10K	$0.00	$0	23K
2026-02-05	Richison Chad R.	CEO, President and Chairman	Tax withholding	5K	$131.59	$684K	2.7M
2026-02-05	Peck Randall	Chief Operating Officer	Tax withholding	4K	$131.59	$486K	44K
2026-02-05	Foster Robert D.	Chief Financial Officer	Tax withholding	969	$131.59	$128K	14K
2025-12-10	Foster Robert D.	Chief Financial Officer	Sell	1K	$162.66	$211K	15K
2025-12-05	Peck Randall	Chief Operating Officer	Sell	744	$166.52	$124K	47K
2025-12-05	Peck Randall	Chief Operating Officer	Sell	6	$166.50	$999	48K
2025-12-05	Peck Randall	Chief Operating Officer	Sell	1K	$165.50	$239K	48K
2025-11-21	Richison Chad R.	CEO, President and Chairman	Gift	112	$0.00	$0	1K
2025-11-21	Richison Chad R.	CEO, President and Chairman	Gift	2K	$0.00	$0	2.7M
2025-11-14	Foster Robert D.	Chief Financial Officer	Tax withholding	1K	$166.12	$181K	16K
2025-11-01	Gannon Rachael	Chief Automation Officer	Tax withholding	56	$184.85	$10K	12K
2025-09-12	Smith Bradley Scott	Chief Information Officer	Sell	24	$225.69	$5K	25K
2025-09-12	Smith Bradley Scott	Chief Information Officer	Sell	138	$224.82	$31K	25K
2025-09-12	Smith Bradley Scott	Chief Information Officer	Sell	752	$223.47	$168K	25K
2025-09-12	Smith Bradley Scott	Chief Information Officer	Sell	586	$222.54	$130K	25K
2025-07-17	Smith Bradley Scott	Chief Information Officer	Gift	1K	$0.00	$0	26K
2025-06-12	Smith Bradley Scott	Chief Information Officer	Sell	19	$252.36	$5K	27K
2025-06-12	Smith Bradley Scott	Chief Information Officer	Sell	289	$250.75	$72K	27K
2025-06-12	Smith Bradley Scott	Chief Information Officer	Sell	880	$250.16	$220K	28K
2025-06-12	Smith Bradley Scott	Chief Information Officer	Sell	131	$249.03	$33K	28K
2025-06-12	Smith Bradley Scott	Chief Information Officer	Sell	97	$247.88	$24K	29K
2025-06-12	Smith Bradley Scott	Chief Information Officer	Sell	65	$246.92	$16K	29K

Form 4 filings are due within two business days of the trade. Insiders sell for many reasons that say nothing about the company; open-market buys are the rarer, stronger signal.

Planned sales (Form 144)

Newest first. JSON

1 Form 144 notice on file for PAYC worth $668K at the prices reported; 1 in the last 90 days worth $668K. Latest: Hadlock Terrell Shane filed on 2026-08-28 to sell 2,818 shares ($668K) from 2026-08-27.

Filed	Seller	Shares	Market value	Of outstanding	Sale from	Broker
2026-08-28	Hadlock Terrell ShaneOfficer	3K	$668K	0.006%	2026-08-27	Morgan Stanley Co.

Large holders (13D and 13G)

One row per reporting person, newest filing first. JSON

2 holders above 5% have filed on PAYC, 2 on Schedule 13D (active intent). The largest reported stake is Chad Richison at 13.1% of the class (5,899,707 shares), filed 2026-09-03 for an event on 2026-09-01.

Filed	Form	Holder	Shares	Of class	Event
2026-09-03	13D/Ano. 21	Chad Richisonindividual	5.9M	13.1%	2026-09-01
2026-09-03	13D/Ano. 21	Ernest Group, Inc.corporation	3.2M	7.1%	2026-09-01

13F holders

Tracked managers holding PAYC at their latest 13F. JSON

8 of the 30 tracked managers held PAYC at their latest 13F, $284.7M in total at quarter-end prices. Two Sigma Investments is the largest at $177.0M (0.1% of its portfolio) as of 2026-06-30. Over the prior quarter 1 added shares and 6 cut.

Fund	Quarter	Shares	Value	Of portfolio	Change in shares
Two Sigma Investments	2026-06-30	1.4M	$177.0M	0.13%	-340K
AQR Capital Management	2026-06-30	301K	$37.9M	0.01%	+214K
Citadel Advisors	2026-06-30	248K	$31.2M	0.00%	-148K
Millennium Management	2026-06-30	173K	$21.7M	0.01%	new or n/a
Fisher Asset Management	2026-06-30	57K	$7.2M	0.00%	-3K
D. E. Shaw & Co.	2026-06-30	29K	$3.6M	0.00%	-3K
Point72 Asset Management	2026-06-30	29K	$3.6M	0.00%	-5K
Bridgewater Associates	2026-06-30	20K	$2.5M	0.01%	-21K

Only the 30 tracked managers on the funds hub; a 13F reports long positions in US listed stock at quarter end, 45 days late, and says nothing about shorts or positions sold since.

What this page is

Paycom Software, Inc. in the regulatory record

Regulators publish company data in separate files that never sit next to each other: FINRA's twice-monthly short interest, its daily short sale volume, the SEC's fails-to-deliver counts, and each insider's Form 4. A company page pulls every series the site collects for one ticker onto one URL, keyed by the SEC's own ticker list, so the short position, the daily flow, the settlement fails and what insiders are doing can be read together.

Each section has its own history table, a summary sentence built from the rows (last value, change, range with dates) and its own JSON and CSV links. Nothing on the page is written by a model; the sentences change only when the data does. A page exists only for companies with data in at least two series, and every section says when its source last updated.

This page follows Paycom Software, Inc. (PAYC), SEC CIK 1590955, listed on NYSE. The cross-market tables live on the short interest and insider transactions hubs.

Source and method

Short interest: FINRA consolidated short interestTwice a month, about eight business days after settlement. Latest 2026-08-14.JSON and CSV
Daily short volume: FINRA Reg SHO daily filesEvery trading day, loaded the following morning. Latest 2026-09-11.JSON and CSV
Fails to deliver: SEC fails-to-deliver dataTwice a month, a few weeks after the half month ends. Latest 2026-07-28.JSON and CSV
Planned sales: SEC EDGAR Form 144EDGAR read every 30 minutes; a notice is filed on or before the sell order. Latest 2026-08-28.JSON and CSV
Large holders: SEC EDGAR Schedule 13D and 13GEDGAR read every 30 minutes; 13D within five business days of crossing 5%, 13G on the passive schedule. Latest 2026-09-03.JSON and CSV
13F holders: SEC EDGAR Form 13F-HRQuarterly, filed within 45 days of quarter end; 30 tracked managers. Latest 2026-06-30.JSON and CSV
Insider trades: SEC EDGAR Form 4EDGAR read every 30 minutes; filings are due two business days after the trade. Latest 2026-08-10.JSON and CSV
Company record: EDGAR filing index for CIK 1590955Ticker, name and exchange from the SEC's company list, refreshed weekly.
Rate limits: 30 requests a minute without a key, 120 a minute with a key from a free account.

Data checks. Every dataset is checked against its source once a day. This dataset passed the last run, 12 Sep 05:40 UTC.

How to read it

Read the position against the flow: rising short interest with a high daily short share is new shorting; rising short interest with a normal short share is old shorts holding on.
Insider buys next to a crowded short are the combination that has historically preceded squeezes; insider sells next to a crowded short are common and mean little.
Fails to deliver matter relative to the float, not in absolute shares; a million failed shares in a mega cap is noise.

Analysis of what the data shows, not advice. XOOMAR does not recommend buying, selling or holding anything.

Datasets

Frequently Asked Questions

How much of PAYC is sold short?

2,640,709 shares were held short at the 2026-08-14 settlement, 2.1 days of average volume. FINRA publishes the next count about eight business days after the 15th and the last business day of the month.

What is PAYC's daily short volume?

On 2026-09-11, 129,568 of the 203,895 PAYC shares reported to FINRA were sold short, 63.5% of the day's reported volume. Short volume is a flow for one day, not a position.

Does PAYC have fails to deliver?

The SEC's latest file shows 117 PAYC shares failed to deliver at settlement 2026-07-28. Fails are reported per settlement date and published twice a month with a lag.

Are PAYC insiders buying or selling?

Have PAYC insiders filed to sell?

Who owns more than 5% of PAYC?

Which funds hold PAYC?

Data on this page is provided for informational purposes only and is not financial advice. See our editorial policy.

Paycom Software, Inc. (PAYC)

Short interest

Daily short volume

Fails to deliver

Insider trades

Planned sales (Form 144)

Large holders (13D and 13G)

13F holders

Paycom Software, Inc. in the regulatory record

Source and method

How to read it

Other company pages

Datasets

Frequently Asked Questions