WDAY·Workday, Inc.
WDAY|Earnings Snapshot
EPS
| Qtr | Est | Actual | +/− |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q4'26 | $2.37 | - | - |
| Q4'24 | $1.78 | $1.92 | +8.1% |
Revenue
| Qtr | Est | Actual | +/− |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q4'26 | $2.6B | - | - |
| Q4'24 | - | $2.2B | - |
WDAY|Monthly Returns
Market Data
WDAY Stock Snapshot
- Market cap
- 46.72B
- P/E ratio
- 37.4
- Day range
- $192.01 – $199.77
- News sentiment
- 87/100 · Bullish
- Analyst target
- $208.68 (+7.0%)
- Consensus
- Hold · 50 analysts
WDAY's technical picture is constructive, with trend and momentum pointing the same direction. Sector peers are worth watching - large caps in Technology tend to move together on rotation.
Reverse DCF
What growth is priced into WDAY?
At today's price, Workday, Inc. needs to grow free cash flow about 2.1% a year for the next 10 years to justify its valuation at a 9.03% cost of capital. Over its actual history it has compounded free cash flow at 60.1% a year, so the market is asking for 58.0 percentage points below its own delivered rate. On that basis WDAY looks priced below what its own growth record supports.
- Implied FCF growth
- 2.1%
- Historical FCF CAGR
- 60.1%
- Growth gap
- -58.0 pts
- Verdict
- CHEAP
- Discount rate (WACC)
- 9.03%
- Beta
- 0.90
Behaviour On Record
What WDAY's own history says about today's numbers
- Realized volatility (21d)
- 48.9% 79th pct
- Below its peak
- -36.8%
- vs 200-day average
- +22.2%
- Up days (1y)
- 47%
Workday, Inc. is currently running 48.9% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against WDAY's own 9 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 79th percentile — elevated for this stock, against a typical reading of 34.6%. The distinction matters because a number that looks calm for one stock is turbulent for another, and the absolute figure on its own tells you neither.
WDAY is trading -36.8% below its running peak. Across 8 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -30.2%, and the deepest was -49.7% in 2022. The current drawdown is already deeper than this stock's typical annual low point, which puts it in the part of its range where past recoveries began — and where past declines also continued.
Price sits +22.2% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 84th percentile — a wider gap than this stock usually carries. Over the past year WDAY closed higher on 47% of sessions, and it is currently 1 session into a falling streak.
On September specifically: over 9 years of records, WDAY finished the month higher 1 of 9 times, with a median return of -5.6% and an average of -5.5%. Its strongest month historically has been August at +12.1% on average, its weakest September at -5.5%. Seasonality is a weak signal on its own — a decade is a small sample and regimes change — but it is a real distribution rather than a rule of thumb.
Overnight risk is measurable too: WDAY has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 114 of 2,260 sessions (5.0% of the time), with the largest gaps running +6.7% and -8.1%. For anyone holding through an event, that rate is a better guide to overnight exposure than the intraday range.
All figures computed from 2,261 daily closes between 2017-09-20 and 2026-09-18, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against WDAY's own 9-year history, not a peer group or index.
Sector Rotation
Is money rotating into or out of WDAY's sector?
Workday, Inc. sits in the Technology sector, currently ranked 1st of 11 GICS sectors by relative-strength rotation score (leading). Within its narrower Software industry group, WDAY ranks 3rd of 15 tracked industries, leading.
- Sector rank
- #1 of 11
- Sector state
- Leading
- Sector rotation score
- 100
- Industry rank
- #3 of 15
Analyst Rating Changes
Are analysts turning bullish or bearish on WDAY?
Goldman Sachs most recently reiterated its rating on Workday, Inc. to Neutral on Aug 31, 2026 with a price target of $164 (from $151). Over the last 90 days, coverage has run 0 upgrades against 3 downgrades, a net bearish lean.
- Latest action
- Goldman Sachs — Neutral
- 90-day upgrades
- 0
- 90-day downgrades
- 3
- Net rating momentum
- -3
