Automatic Data Processing

ADP

Market cap $98.9B

ROSELAND, N.J., July 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- For the four weeks ending June 27, 2026, U.S. private employers added an average of 19,750 jobs per week, according to the NER Pulse, a weekly update of the monthly ADP National Employment Report  (NER).

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ADP (ADP) has an impressive earnings surprise history and currently possesses the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely beat in its next quarterly report.

ADP's research arm will begin publishing a Canada pay insights report beginning Sept. 3, providing what it said will be an independent labor market indicator of wage trends based on anonymized payroll data representing about 1 million workers in the country.

Dividend Kings are companies that have increased their dividend payments for at least 50 consecutive years. Automatic Data Processing has seen its share price drop over concerns about unemployment.

ROSELAND, N.J., July 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- For the four weeks ending June 20, 2026, U.S. private employers added an average of 21,000 jobs per week, according to the NER Pulse, a weekly update of the monthly ADP National Employment Report (NER).

This is the fourth-straight month of job growth from the BLS, which we haven't seen since the spring of 2025.

ADP's AI gains, margin expansion, dividends and liquidity support its outlook, even as PEO margin pressure, soft volumes and competition pose risks.

Ending the trading week early with Friday's observance of Independence Day, we cram together the last two “Jobs Week” data points: Weekly Jobless Claims and monthly non-farm employment. Pre-market indexes advanced further into the green immediately following these releases: the Dow is +300 points, the S&P 500 +35 and the Nasdaq +240 points.