Learn more about whether Deluxe Corporation is a good stock to buy or sell based on recent news as well as its key financial metrics. Read on to find out how (DLX) grades on certain investment factors and determine whether it meets your investment needs.

Latest Deluxe Corporation Stock News

As of December 19, 2025, Deluxe Corporation had a $1.0 billion market capitalization, putting it in the 47th percentile of companies in the Commercial Services & Supplies industry.

Currently, Deluxe Corporation’s price-earnings ratio is 12.3. Deluxe Corporation’s trailing 12-month revenue is $2.1 billion with a 3.9% profit margin. Year-over-year quarterly sales growth most recently was 2.2%. Analysts expect adjusted earnings to reach $3.550 per share for the current fiscal year. Deluxe Corporation currently has a 5.3% dividend yield.

Our fundamental outlook for the business support services industry is neutral. Participants across the sub-industry carry out a wide scope of applications, including payments for goods and services, human resource (HR) payroll processing, and outsourcing. From here, we think the key gating factors for extended improvement across the sub-industry include: 1) no other exogenous event (e.g., Delta Variant) disrupting the recovery in key industry drivers (e.g., payments, employment levels, etc.,) 2) company-specific strategies around margin and capital return policies are carried out as planned, and 3) little change in new signings growth and client onboarding trends that bank IT and capital markets have experienced lately. We estimate aggregate revenue levels across the sub-industry rise by 11% and adjusted earnings per share by 21% in 2021, aided by suppressed comparable and a systemic recovery in company fundamentals. In the near term, transaction and dollar volumes should swing from steep declines to mid-teens or higher growth in 2021. The S&P Business Support Services Index has increased 10.3% year to date through July 9, lagging the rise of 16.5% from the S&P 1500. In 2020, the sub-industry index rose 23.7%, outperforming the S&P 1500, which increased by 15.8%.

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Grading Deluxe Corporation Stock

Before you choose to buy, sell or hold Deluxe Corporation stock, you’ll want to analyze how it has been graded. Stock evaluation requires access to huge amounts of data and the knowledge and time to sift through it all, making sense of financial ratios, reading income statements and analyzing recent stock movement. To help individual investors decide whether or not to buy (DLX) stock, AAII created A+ Investor, a robust data suite that condenses data research in an actionable and customizable way that is suitable for investors of all knowledge levels.

AAII’s proprietary stock grades come with A+ Investor. These offer intuitive A‐F grades for each of five key investing factors: value, growth, momentum, earnings revisions and quality. Here, we’ll take a closer look at Deluxe Corporation’s stock grades for value, growth and quality. Learn more about A+ Investor here!

Deluxe Corporation Stock Growth Grade

The foundation of growth investing is seeking out stocks of companies exhibiting strong, consistent and prolonged growth that is expected to continue into the future.

In order to compute the Growth Score and assign it a letter grade, the percentile ranks for each of the three individual components‐consistency of annual sales growth, five‐year sales growth rankings adjusted for extreme levels, and consistency of positive annual cash from operations‐must be determined. These three rank figures are added together, and the sum is ranked against the entire stock universe to arrive at a company’s Growth Score to create an equal distribution of grades.

The companies in the bottom 20% of the stock universe receive Growth Grades of F, considered Very Weak, while those in the top 20% receive A grades, which are considered Very Strong.

Deluxe Corporation has a Growth Score of 47, which is Average.

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Deluxe Corporation Stock Momentum Grade

Momentum grades help uncover stocks experiencing anomalously high rates of return; research finds that stocks with high relative levels of momentum tend to outperform, whereas those with low levels of momentum tend to continue underperforming. Momentum is based on the price change of a stock over a specified period relative to all other stocks.

Typically, AAII looks at the weighted relative strength over the trailing four quarters. The weighted four-quarter relative strength rank is the relative price change for each of the past four quarters. The most recent quarterly price change is given a weight of 40% and each of the three previous quarters are given a weighting of 20%.

Deluxe Corporation has a Momentum Score of 60, which is Average.

Deluxe Corporation Stock Earnings Estimate Revisions Grade

The Earnings Estimate Revisions Score considers the magnitude of a company’s earnings surprise in its last two reported fiscal quarters. Often, positive surprises beget further positive surprises‐or at least continued sales growth (the exact opposite is generally true, too).

Estimate revisions offer an indication of what analysts are thinking about the short-term prospects of a firm. The Earnings Estimate Revisions Score is based on the statistical significance of a firm’s last two quarterly earnings surprises and the percentage change in its consensus estimate for the current fiscal year over the past month and past three months.

Deluxe Corporation has an Earnings Estimate Revisions Score of 72, which is Positive.

Other Deluxe Corporation Stock Grades

In addition to Growth, Momentum and Estimate Revisions, A+ Investor also provides grades for Value and Quality.

Successful stock investing involves buying low and selling high, so stock valuation is an important consideration for stock selection. Buying stocks that are going to go up typically means buying stocks that are undervalued in the first place, although momentum investors may argue that point.

AAII’s A+ Investor Quality Grade comes from the ranking of key metrics. Specifically, the Quality Grade is the percentile rank of the composite return on assets (ROA), return on invested capital (ROIC), gross profit relative to assets, buyback yield, change in total liabilities to assets, accruals, Z double prime bankruptcy risk (Z) score and F—Score.

These 2 key factors, when combined with the above, provide a holistic view into a stock. Further, by joining A+ Investor you can see whether Deluxe Corporation’s stock passes any of our 60+ stock screens that have outperformed the market since their creation.

Should I Buy Deluxe Corporation Stock?

Overall, Deluxe Corporation stock has a Growth Grade of C, Momentum Grade of C Earnings Estimate Revisions Grade of B.

Whether or not you should buy Deluxe Corporation stock will ultimately depend on your individual goals, risk tolerance and allocation. AAII can help you figure these out and identify which investments align with what works best for you.

Lastly, it’s important to evaluate a stock by comparing it against others in the same industry. Review the table below to see how Deluxe Corporation stock stands up against its competitors. Click into any of the below tickers to see their stock grades for value, momentum, quality and EPS revisions.

Deluxe Corporation (DLX) Competitors

Companies similar to Deluxe Corporation in the Commercial Services & Supplies industry.

Company name	Ticker	Market Cap
Liquidity Services, Inc.	LQDT	$966.38Mil
Montrose Environmental Group, Inc.	MEG	$923.37Mil
Vestis Corporation	VSTS	$905.93Mil
BrightView Holdings, Inc.	BV	$1.21Bil
MillerKnoll, Inc.	MLKN	$1.24Bil

Deluxe Corporation Stock: Bottom Line

You can use the information about how Deluxe Corporation is graded to determine if you should invest in this stock. However, you should decide whether Deluxe Corporation’s stock is a buy, sell or hold based on a combination of grades, metrics, ratios and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reports.

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