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The score compares business activities in annual filings released in 2025. Core activities receive four times the weight of material activities. Industries that fewer companies share carry more weight.

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Filing-derived business activity overlapCounts of retained positive business classifications. Circle sizes do not encode the counts or the weighted similarity score.ADP only3Shared4DOCU only2

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Enterprise Software

ADP Core

Annual filing released 2025-08-06 · GPT 6 Luna

Reportable Segments Our two reportable business segments are Employer Services and Professional Employer Organization (“PEO”), and are based on the way that management reviews the performance of, and makes decisions about, our businesses. For financial data by segment and by geographic area, see Note 15 to the “Consolidated Financial Statements” contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Employer Services. Our Employer Services segment serves clients ranging from single-employee small businesses to large enterprises with tens of thousands of employees around the world, offering a comprehensive range of technology-based HCM solutions, including our strategic, cloud-based platforms, and HRO (other than PEO) solutions.
HCM Solutions Integrated HCM Solutions. Our premier suite of HCM products offers complete solutions that assist employers of all types and sizes in all stages of the employment cycle, from recruitment to retirement. Our suite of HCM solutions are powered by our strategic, cloud-based, award-winning platforms, including: • RUN Powered by ADP is an all-in-one platform designed specifically for small businesses to simplify payroll, HR, and compliance. It combines easy-to-use technology with 24/7 real-person support from ADP’s team of payroll professionals. RUN also integrates with other ADP solutions, including workforce management, workers’ compensation, benefits, and retirement services. • ADP Workforce Now is a flexible HCM solution used across mid-sized and large businesses in North America to manage their employees. More businesses use ADP
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DOCU Core

Annual filing released 2025-03-18 · GPT 6 Luna

We offer subscriptions to our products to businesses at all scales, from global enterprises down to very small businesses (“VSBs”). We offer more than 1,000 active partner integrations with the applications that many of our customers already use so that they can create, commit, and manage agreements directly within these applications. We have a diverse customer base spanning across virtually all industries and around the world with no significant customer concentration. No single customer accounted for more than 10% of total revenue in any of the periods presented.
Direct Sales: We sell subscriptions primarily through our direct sales force across our field offices around the world. Our account executives and account managers focus on new and existing enterprise and commercial customers. Our direct sales team focuses on companies looking to streamline front office operations (e.g., sales, services or marketing) and back office operations (e.g., human resources, procurement, finance, or legal). By expanding within an organization, we believe we can generate large amounts of incremental revenue through the addition of new users and Envelopes, plan upgrades, expansions, and additional offerings to other functions or business units.
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SaaS

ADP Core

Annual filing released 2025-08-06 · GPT 6 Luna

Reportable Segments Our two reportable business segments are Employer Services and Professional Employer Organization (“PEO”), and are based on the way that management reviews the performance of, and makes decisions about, our businesses. For financial data by segment and by geographic area, see Note 15 to the “Consolidated Financial Statements” contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Employer Services. Our Employer Services segment serves clients ranging from single-employee small businesses to large enterprises with tens of thousands of employees around the world, offering a comprehensive range of technology-based HCM solutions, including our strategic, cloud-based platforms, and HRO (other than PEO) solutions.
HCM Solutions Integrated HCM Solutions. Our premier suite of HCM products offers complete solutions that assist employers of all types and sizes in all stages of the employment cycle, from recruitment to retirement. Our suite of HCM solutions are powered by our strategic, cloud-based, award-winning platforms, including: • RUN Powered by ADP is an all-in-one platform designed specifically for small businesses to simplify payroll, HR, and compliance. It combines easy-to-use technology with 24/7 real-person support from ADP’s team of payroll professionals. RUN also integrates with other ADP solutions, including workforce management, workers’ compensation, benefits, and retirement services. • ADP Workforce Now is a flexible HCM solution used across mid-sized and large businesses in North America to manage their employees. More businesses use ADP
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DOCU Core

Annual filing released 2025-03-18 · GPT 6 Luna

VSBs typically become customers by quickly utilizing our digital and self-serve channels and generate smaller average contract values, while commercial and enterprise customers typically involve longer sales cycles, larger contract values, and greater expansion opportunities for us. We generate substantially all our revenue from sales of subscriptions, which accounted for 97% of our revenue in each of the years ended January 31, 2025 and 2024. Our subscription fees are primarily comprised of fees from customers using our products and access to customer support. Subscriptions generally range from one to three years, and substantially all our multi-year customers pay in annual installments, one year in advance.
Subscription Revenue Subscription revenue consists of fees for the use of our software platform and our technical infrastructure and access to customer support, which includes phone or email support. We typically invoice customers annually in advance. We recognize subscription revenue ratably over the term of the contract subscription period beginning on the date access to our software platform is provided.
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Software

ADP Core

Annual filing released 2025-08-06 · GPT 6 Luna

Reportable Segments Our two reportable business segments are Employer Services and Professional Employer Organization (“PEO”), and are based on the way that management reviews the performance of, and makes decisions about, our businesses. For financial data by segment and by geographic area, see Note 15 to the “Consolidated Financial Statements” contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Employer Services. Our Employer Services segment serves clients ranging from single-employee small businesses to large enterprises with tens of thousands of employees around the world, offering a comprehensive range of technology-based HCM solutions, including our strategic, cloud-based platforms, and HRO (other than PEO) solutions.
HCM Solutions Integrated HCM Solutions. Our premier suite of HCM products offers complete solutions that assist employers of all types and sizes in all stages of the employment cycle, from recruitment to retirement. Our suite of HCM solutions are powered by our strategic, cloud-based, award-winning platforms, including: • RUN Powered by ADP is an all-in-one platform designed specifically for small businesses to simplify payroll, HR, and compliance. It combines easy-to-use technology with 24/7 real-person support from ADP’s team of payroll professionals. RUN also integrates with other ADP solutions, including workforce management, workers’ compensation, benefits, and retirement services. • ADP Workforce Now is a flexible HCM solution used across mid-sized and large businesses in North America to manage their employees. More businesses use ADP
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DOCU Core

Annual filing released 2025-03-18 · GPT 6 Luna

Docusign solutions bring agreements to life, accelerating and simplifying the process of doing business. Docusign’s core offerings — our intelligent agreement management (“IAM”) platform, the world’s leading eSignature solution, and contract lifecycle management (“CLM”) solution — allow organizations to boost productivity, accelerate contract review cycles, and transform agreement data into insights and actions, while providing a better customer experience. Docusign’s IAM platform automates agreement workflows, uncovers actionable insights, and leverages AI capabilities, enabling organizations to create, commit, and manage agreements, from virtually anywhere in the world, securely. As of January 31, 2025, nearly 1.7 million customers and more than a billion users worldwide utilize Docusign to accelerate and simplify the process of doing business.
VSBs typically become customers by quickly utilizing our digital and self-serve channels and generate smaller average contract values, while commercial and enterprise customers typically involve longer sales cycles, larger contract values, and greater expansion opportunities for us. We generate substantially all our revenue from sales of subscriptions, which accounted for 97% of our revenue in each of the years ended January 31, 2025 and 2024. Our subscription fees are primarily comprised of fees from customers using our products and access to customer support. Subscriptions generally range from one to three years, and substantially all our multi-year customers pay in annual installments, one year in advance.
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Technology

ADP Core

Annual filing released 2025-08-06 · GPT 6 Luna

Reportable Segments Our two reportable business segments are Employer Services and Professional Employer Organization (“PEO”), and are based on the way that management reviews the performance of, and makes decisions about, our businesses. For financial data by segment and by geographic area, see Note 15 to the “Consolidated Financial Statements” contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Employer Services. Our Employer Services segment serves clients ranging from single-employee small businesses to large enterprises with tens of thousands of employees around the world, offering a comprehensive range of technology-based HCM solutions, including our strategic, cloud-based platforms, and HRO (other than PEO) solutions.
HCM Solutions Integrated HCM Solutions. Our premier suite of HCM products offers complete solutions that assist employers of all types and sizes in all stages of the employment cycle, from recruitment to retirement. Our suite of HCM solutions are powered by our strategic, cloud-based, award-winning platforms, including: • RUN Powered by ADP is an all-in-one platform designed specifically for small businesses to simplify payroll, HR, and compliance. It combines easy-to-use technology with 24/7 real-person support from ADP’s team of payroll professionals. RUN also integrates with other ADP solutions, including workforce management, workers’ compensation, benefits, and retirement services. • ADP Workforce Now is a flexible HCM solution used across mid-sized and large businesses in North America to manage their employees. More businesses use ADP
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DOCU Core

Annual filing released 2025-03-18 · GPT 6 Luna

Docusign solutions bring agreements to life, accelerating and simplifying the process of doing business. Docusign’s core offerings — our intelligent agreement management (“IAM”) platform, the world’s leading eSignature solution, and contract lifecycle management (“CLM”) solution — allow organizations to boost productivity, accelerate contract review cycles, and transform agreement data into insights and actions, while providing a better customer experience. Docusign’s IAM platform automates agreement workflows, uncovers actionable insights, and leverages AI capabilities, enabling organizations to create, commit, and manage agreements, from virtually anywhere in the world, securely. As of January 31, 2025, nearly 1.7 million customers and more than a billion users worldwide utilize Docusign to accelerate and simplify the process of doing business.
VSBs typically become customers by quickly utilizing our digital and self-serve channels and generate smaller average contract values, while commercial and enterprise customers typically involve longer sales cycles, larger contract values, and greater expansion opportunities for us. We generate substantially all our revenue from sales of subscriptions, which accounted for 97% of our revenue in each of the years ended January 31, 2025 and 2024. Our subscription fees are primarily comprised of fees from customers using our products and access to customer support. Subscriptions generally range from one to three years, and substantially all our multi-year customers pay in annual installments, one year in advance.
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Analytics

ADP Material

Annual filing released 2025-08-06 · GPT 6 Luna

ADP a distinct, competitive advantage. AI and ML drive many of the key features of ADP’s data products, including ADP DataCloud, our award-winning people analytics solution. ADP DataCloud analyzes aggregated, anonymized and timely HCM and compensation data from more than one million organizations across the U.S., powering solutions that provide clients with in-depth workforce and business insights that enable critical HR decisions. Analytics enhanced by ADP Assist leverages generative AI to deliver answers to analytics questions across key practice areas including benefits, HR, payroll, recruitment and time, helping to remove user friction.
We also offer data analytics and reporting tools that provide clients with insights, benchmarks and performance metrics so they can better manage their workforce. In addition, industry-specific modules are available for labor forecasting, budgeting, activity and task management, grant and project tracking, and tips management. Compliance Solutions. ADP’s Compliance Solutions provides industry-leading expertise in payment compliance and employment-related tax matters that complement the payroll, HR and ERP systems of our clients. In our fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, in the United States, we processed and delivered more than 78 million employee year-end tax statements and moved more than $3.3 trillion in client funds to our clients’ employees, tax authorities and other payees.
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DOCU Not tagged

Annual filing released 2025-03-18 · GPT 6 Luna

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Insurance

ADP Material

Annual filing released 2025-08-06 · GPT 6 Luna

ADP Indemnity provides workers’ compensation and employer's liability deductible reimbursement insurance protection for PEO Services’ worksite employees up to $1 million per occurrence. PEO Services has secured a workers’ compensation and employer’s liability insurance policy that caps the exposure for each claim at $1 million per occurrence and has also secured aggregate stop loss insurance that caps aggregate losses at a certain level in fiscal years 2012 and prior from an admitted and licensed insurance company of AIG. We utilize historical loss experience and actuarial judgment to determine the estimated claim liability, and changes in estimated ultimate incurred losses are included in the PEO segment.
Additionally, starting in fiscal year 2013, ADP Indemnity paid premiums to enter into reinsurance arrangements with ACE American Insurance Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chubb Limited (“Chubb”), to cover substantially all losses incurred by the Company up to the $1 million per occurrence related to the workers’ compensation and employer's liability deductible reimbursement insurance protection for PEO Services' worksite employees. Each of these reinsurance arrangements limits our overall exposure incurred up to a certain limit. The Company believes the likelihood of ultimate losses exceeding this limit is remote. During fiscal 2025, ADP Indemnity paid a premium of $276 million to enter into a reinsurance arrangement with Chubb to cover substantially all losses incurred by ADP Indemnity for the fiscal 2025 policy year up to $1 million per occurrence.
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DOCU Not tagged

Annual filing released 2025-03-18 · GPT 6 Luna

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Payments

ADP Material

Annual filing released 2025-08-06 · GPT 6 Luna

We provide employers with a wide range of payroll options, including using mobile technology, connecting their major enterprise resource planning (“ERP”) applications with ADP’s payroll services or outsourcing their entire payroll process to us. Employers can choose a variety of payroll payment options including ADP’s electronic wage payment and, in the United States, payroll card solutions and digital accounts. On behalf of our clients in the United States, we prepare and file federal, state and local payroll tax returns, and quarterly and annual Social Security, Medicare, and federal, state and local income tax withholding reports.
We also offer data analytics and reporting tools that provide clients with insights, benchmarks and performance metrics so they can better manage their workforce. In addition, industry-specific modules are available for labor forecasting, budgeting, activity and task management, grant and project tracking, and tips management. Compliance Solutions. ADP’s Compliance Solutions provides industry-leading expertise in payment compliance and employment-related tax matters that complement the payroll, HR and ERP systems of our clients. In our fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, in the United States, we processed and delivered more than 78 million employee year-end tax statements and moved more than $3.3 trillion in client funds to our clients’ employees, tax authorities and other payees.
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DOCU Not tagged

Annual filing released 2025-03-18 · GPT 6 Luna

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Artificial intelligence

ADP Not tagged

Annual filing released 2025-08-06 · GPT 6 Luna

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DOCU Material

Annual filing released 2025-03-18 · GPT 6 Luna

Key products include: •IAM Apps built on our AI-powered IAM platform, enabling customers to connect and optimize every step of the agreement management process. Three versions of these Apps (Core, Sales and CX) launched in Spring of 2024, and contain some combination of our key platform capabilities, in particular: our industry-leading eSignature product; Navigator, which enables customers to create a unified repository of all agreements, including those saved in third-party applications, and uncover actionable insights and contract details through AI; Maestro, which enables customers to easily build and deploy no-code customized workflows to automate and accelerate agreement processes;
and Docusign App Center, which allows customers to customize and extend agreement processes with third-party applications. •eSignature enables sending and signing of agreements on a wide variety of devices, from virtually anywhere in the world, securely. We offer multiple editions and add-ons that can be combined to fit the needs of different organizational sizes, industries and regions. •CLM orchestrates workflows across the entire agreement process. It provides organizations the flexibility to automate complex processes for generating, negotiating, and storing agreements, as well as the ability to leverage AI-powered contract analytics to discover risks and opportunities hidden within agreements.
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Digital Signature And Authentication

ADP Not tagged

Annual filing released 2025-08-06 · GPT 6 Luna

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DOCU Core

Annual filing released 2025-03-18 · GPT 6 Luna

Docusign solutions bring agreements to life, accelerating and simplifying the process of doing business. Docusign’s core offerings — our intelligent agreement management (“IAM”) platform, the world’s leading eSignature solution, and contract lifecycle management (“CLM”) solution — allow organizations to boost productivity, accelerate contract review cycles, and transform agreement data into insights and actions, while providing a better customer experience. Docusign’s IAM platform automates agreement workflows, uncovers actionable insights, and leverages AI capabilities, enabling organizations to create, commit, and manage agreements, from virtually anywhere in the world, securely. As of January 31, 2025, nearly 1.7 million customers and more than a billion users worldwide utilize Docusign to accelerate and simplify the process of doing business.
and Docusign App Center, which allows customers to customize and extend agreement processes with third-party applications. •eSignature enables sending and signing of agreements on a wide variety of devices, from virtually anywhere in the world, securely. We offer multiple editions and add-ons that can be combined to fit the needs of different organizational sizes, industries and regions. •CLM orchestrates workflows across the entire agreement process. It provides organizations the flexibility to automate complex processes for generating, negotiating, and storing agreements, as well as the ability to leverage AI-powered contract analytics to discover risks and opportunities hidden within agreements.
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Automatic Data Processing

ADP · XNAS

Automatic Data Processing, Inc. provides cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solutions worldwide. It operates in two segments, Employer Services and Professional Employer Organization (PEO). The Employer Services segment offers strategic, cloud-based platforms, and human resources (HR) outsourcing solutions. This segment's offerings include RUN Powered by ADP, a software platform for small business payroll, HR, and compliance; ADP Workforce Now, a HCM solution used across mid-sized and large businesses to manage employees; and ADP Lyric HCM, a solution for HR management, payroll, workforce management, talent, and data analytics. The PEO Services segment provides HR and employment administration outsourcing solutions under ADP TotalSource name to businesses through a co-employment model. The segment also provides guidance, user-friendly technology, comprehensive employee benefits, and a risk management, safety, and workers' compensation program. The company was founded in 1949 and is headquartered in Roseland, New Jersey.

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DocuSign, Inc. Common Stock

DOCU · XNAS

DocuSign, Inc. provides electronic signature solution in the United States and internationally. The company offers AI-powered intelligent agreement management (IAM) platform to optimize the agreement management process and provides e-signature solution that enables sending and signing of agreements on various devices; Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM), which automates workflows across the entire agreement process; Document Generation streamlines the process of generating new, custom agreements; and Gen for Salesforce for automated agreement generation within Salesforce. It also provides Identify, a signer-identification option for checking government-issued IDs; Standards-Based Signatures, which support signatures that involve digital certificates; Monitor that uses advanced analytics; Notary which enables notaries public to conduct remote online notarization transactions; and Web Forms. In addition, the company offers Real Estate for eSignature that provides a way for brokers and agents to manage the entire real estate transaction digitally. eSignature and CLM are FedRAMP, an authorized version of DocuSign eSignature for U.S. federal government agencies; and life sciences modules that support compliance with the electronic signature practices. The company sells its products through direct and partner-assisted sales, and digital self-service purchasing. DocuSign, Inc. was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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MetricADPDOCU
ExchangeXNASXNAS
SectorTechnologyTechnology
IndustrySoftware - ApplicationSoftware - Application
Market observation2026-11-092026-11-09
Closing price (USD)$302.06$77.75
Market cap (USD)$119.24B$14.53B
P/E (TTM)26.35×44.04×
Latest annual period2026-06-302026-01-31
Revenue (annual, USD)$21.95B$3.22B
Net income (annual, USD)$4.41B$309.08M
Gross margin (annual)46.42%79.40%

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ADP period ended 2026-06-30 · available 2026-08-05 · SEC filing ↗DOCU period ended 2026-01-31 · available 2026-03-18 · SEC filing ↗

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Business overlap uses industry tags from annual filings released in 2025. Each core activity receives full weight; each material activity receives one quarter of that weight. Rarer industries carry more weight. We sum the smaller exposure for each shared activity and divide it by the sum of the larger exposure for every activity in either company. This measures business overlap, rather than price correlation or expected returns.

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