let's talk to the president and ceo of paychex. back to "mad money." >> thanks, jim, great to be here. >> this was your most robust quarter. what the heck happened? this was a dramatic acceleration in your business, over a three-upon the periothree three-month period. >> i think we had great sales execution particularly in the quarter, but in our selling season at the first of the calendar year. and it's across all divisions, whether it's payroll, hr, 401(k), all the divisions are hitting hard, and our client retention is at a record high. almost hitting $3 billion in revenue is a new high for paychex, and we're excited about it. >> we always try figure out which is which. it seems everything did go into high gear. >> it really did. we had the highest net client growth that we've seen since the recession. that's a combination of great sales and great client retention and service that we're giving the clients. we also are seeing the revenue per client expanding. so all the products and feature set that we offer and the need coming d

. ♪ >>> look at some of the market leaders on the s&p, hershey not surprising and paychex and kel ogsurprising. >> 10:30 is when that bid came out. all other food and staple stocks followed along with it and that's when the market rally in general got moving. i didn't think it was rational you would get a pull back today. the pull back didn't happen by 10:30 and people had to chase it. >> staples are leading the market today. >> it seems as if that's where people want to lay bets that maybe you'll get more juice in the back half of the year. >> what should we watch for in the close today? >> you want to see if you get some kind of wave of mechanical selling. that's happened most months for the last year, year and a half. >> it's going to be interesting again this is the last trading day of the half. a number of stocks have been particularly well in the first half of the year. amd, alarm.com and we'll see how it goes. >> microsoft feels like a month ago. >> it does. >> let's send it over to meli a melissa. ♪ >>> welcome to the halftime report. i'm melissa lee. markets are moving highe

there's a payment processor, name is paychex, p-a-y-c-h-e-x. better profit and the stock is hitting a new high, up 1 1/4%. the higher profits of the company of olive garden, that's darden restaurants, dri, sales disappoi disappoint. don't do that. down 4 1/2% for darden. >> care.com, a winner, it's an on-line marketplace for managing family care. google has a stake. get to the point, nicole, what's with the stock. >> alphabet, google's capital, now they're investing money because they believe in care.com. care.com, child care, elderly care, housekeeping. they're investing over 46 million dollars. this is google capital. they become the top shareholders and they get a seat for the board members and now care.com does a buyback and relative small company, less than $500 million market cap, but alphabet sees this as a growth potential. they're putting their money into this one. >> anytime you see the stock go up 34%, i want to know why. when google puts in a ton of money then you know why it goes up. the i go about board shows a gain of 50 points.