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WDAY·Workday, Inc.

$200.17
-1.67 (-0.83%)
Pre-Market
High
$199.79
Open
$198.03
Market Cap
51.09B
52W High
$254.00
Low
$195.00
P. Close
$200.17
P/E
40.84
52W Low
$110.36
Fwd P/E
15.12
DailyIQ Est.
$216.91
Inst. Own.
69.9%
Short Interest
4.92%
Days to Cover
6.0
NewEarnings release, scored · filed Aug 27, 2026New outlook issued · 43 lines scoredSee the breakdown
Technical Score (1D)
18
BEARISH
News Sentiment
69
BULLISH
On Nov 5, Workday was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Service‑Centric Enterprises for the fifth consecutive year and became the sole vendor selected as a Customers’ Choice in Gartner Peer Insights for the same category. The dual accolades were reported to underscore the platform’s growing validation among enterprises seeking AI‑driven automation and a unified data model. According to the source, the recognition was expected to strengthen Workday’s investment narrative ahead of its upcoming earnings release, potentially supporting a positive market reaction. No other developments were reported for the company on that date.
LOW TARGET
$92 -52.8%
3 analysts
MEAN TARGET
$209 +7.3%
31 analysts
HIGH TARGET
$275 +41.0%
16 analysts
PRICE RANGE
$92.00 - $275.00
SB / B / H / S / SS
10/15/22/2/1
DAILYIQ EST.
$216.91 (+11.2%)
Sector
Technology
Industry
Software - Application
Exchange
NMS
Country
United States
Symbol
WDAY
Description
Workday, Inc. delivers cloud-based enterprise applications designed to streamline core business functions for organizations across various industries. The company's primary focus is on providing financial management solutions, which empower businesses to maintain financial data, automate processes, and gain real-time insights for enhanced decision-making. Workday also offers a comprehensive suite of human capital management tools to support the entire employee lifecycle, from recruitment and onboarding to compensation and development. Furthermore, Workday's portfolio includes spend management, planning, and analytics applications, alongside specialized offerings like supply chain solutions for healthcare and student lifecycle management for educational institutions. The company's direct sales model facilitates the distribution of its solutions, helping businesses optimize operations and achieve greater efficiency.
Bought (1Y)
0 shares
$0
Sold (1Y)
2,178,066 shares
$349.3M
Garfield Mark S.Chief Accounting Officer
Sell918 shares2026-10-12
DUFFIELD DAVID A-
Conversion99,835 shares2026-10-09
DUFFIELD DAVID A-
Sell1,502 shares2026-10-09
DUFFIELD DAVID A-
Sell10,472 shares2026-10-09
DUFFIELD DAVID A-
Sell12,732 shares2026-10-09
70/ 100
Bullish
Overall: Bullish
✓Revenue growing year over year
✓Positive net margin
✓Positive operating cash flow
Net Margin
7.3%
Revenue CAGR
39.0%
Current Ratio
1.32x
Debt / Equity
0.38x
Return on Equity
8.9%

EPS

EstBeatMiss
$1.62$1.95$2.29$2.62$2.95Q4'24Q4'26Q2'27Q3'27
QtrEstActual+/−
Q3'27$2.79 - -
Q2'27$2.61$2.75+5.3%
Q4'26$2.32$2.47+6.4%
Q4'24$1.78$1.92+8.1%

Revenue

EstBeatMiss
$2.1B$2.3B$2.5B$2.7B$2.8BQ4'24Q4'26Q2'27Q3'27
QtrEstActual+/−
Q3'27$2.7B - -
Q2'27$2.7B - -
Q4'26$2.6B$2.5B-1.2%
Q4'24 - $2.2B -

Market Data

WDAY Stock Snapshot

BEARISH18/100
$197.20−$2.59 (1.3%)
Market cap
51.09B
P/E ratio
40.8
Day range
$195.00 – $199.79
News sentiment
69/100 · Bullish
Analyst target
$209.25 (+6.1%)
Consensus
Hold · 50 analysts
52-week range+78.7% off low · -22.4% from high
$110.36$254.00
Price $197.20 DailyIQ Est. $216.91

The chart on WDAY has not stabilised: price is in the middle of its 52-week range and the trend is still down. Sector peers are worth watching - large caps in Technology tend to move together on rotation.

Reverse DCF

What growth is priced into WDAY?

CHEAP

At today's price, Workday, Inc. needs to grow free cash flow about 1.0% a year for 3 years, slowing to a long-run rate by year 10, to justify its valuation at a 8.19% cost of capital. Over the last five years its revenue has trended at 31.6% a year, so the market is asking for 30.6 percentage points below its own delivered rate. On that basis WDAY looks priced below what its own growth record supports.

Implied FCF growth
1.0%
Growth trend
31.6%
Growth gap
-30.6 pts
Verdict
CHEAP
Discount rate (WACC)
8.19%
Beta
0.86

Behaviour On Record

What WDAY's own history says about today's numbers

Realized volatility (21d)
34.0% 48th pct
Below its peak
-33.9%
vs 200-day average
+30.2%
Up days (1y)
46%

Workday, Inc. is currently running 34.0% 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 48th percentile — close to its own typical level, against a typical reading of 34.5%.

WDAY is trading -33.9% below its running peak. Across 9 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -32.5%, 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 +30.2% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 98th percentile — a wider gap than this stock usually carries. Over the past year WDAY closed higher on 46% of sessions, and it is currently 2 sessions into a rising streak.

On November specifically: over 9 years of records, WDAY finished the month higher 6 of 9 times, with a median return of +8.3% and an average of +7.2%. Its strongest month historically has been August at +12.1% on average, its weakest September at -5.8%.

Overnight risk is measurable too: WDAY has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 116 of 2,294 sessions (5.1% of the time), with the largest gaps running +6.7% and -8.1%.

All figures computed from 2,295 daily closes between 2017-09-20 and 2026-11-05, 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 Software sector, currently ranked 11th of 12 GICS sectors by relative-strength rotation score (lagging). Within its narrower Software industry group, WDAY ranks 12th of 15 tracked industries, lagging.

Sector rank
#11 of 12
Sector state
Lagging
Sector rotation score
18
Industry rank
#12 of 15

Options Market

What is the options market pricing for WDAY?

CallsPuts

For Workday, Inc.'s nearest expiry (2026-11-06, 0 days out), open interest is roughly balanced between puts and calls (put/call ratio of 0.92), with at-the-money implied volatility around 12.5%.

Put/call ratio (2026-11-06)
0.92
ATM implied volatility
12.5%
Total open interest
2,010

Analyst Consensus Estimates

What do analysts expect WDAY to earn?

Analysts expect Workday, Inc. to earn $11.09 per share in the fiscal year ending Jan 2027 and $8.86 in the fiscal year ending Jan 2029, from 4 estimates. These are analyst forecasts, not company guidance, and later years rest on fewer analysts.

Quarter endingEPS estimateEPS rangeEPS analystsRevenue estimateRevenue analysts
Oct 2026$2.74$2.54 to $2.9236$2.69B34
Jan 2027$2.95$2.74 to $3.2935$2.78B34
Apr 2027$1.60$1.25 to $1.929~$2.64B-
Jul 2027$1.72$1.39 to $2.029~$2.83B-
Oct 2027$1.76$1.33 to $2.059~$2.90B-
Fiscal year endingEPS estimateEPS rangeEPS analystsRevenue estimateRevenue analysts
Jan 2027$11.09$10.69 to $11.7141$10.67B40
Jan 2028$13.24$11.97 to $15.3041$11.78B40
Jan 2029$8.86$6.65 to $10.154~$14.60B-

Revenue marked ~ is our calculation from the EPS estimate, not analyst consensus.

Analyst Rating Changes

Are analysts turning bullish or bearish on WDAY?

Keybanc most recently downgraded Workday, Inc. to Sector Perform on Oct 16, 2026. Over the last 90 days, coverage has run 0 upgrades against 3 downgrades, a net bearish lean.

Latest action
Keybanc: Sector Perform
90-day upgrades
0
90-day downgrades
3
Net rating momentum
-3
DateFirmActionRatingPrice target
Oct 16, 2026KeybancDowngradeOverweight → Sector Perform-
Oct 15, 2026StifelMaintainedHold$160 → $175
Oct 14, 2026UBSMaintainedNeutral$220 → $210
Oct 8, 2026JefferiesMaintainedHold$220 → $210
Oct 5, 2026NeedhamReiteratedBuy$230
Aug 31, 2026Goldman SachsMaintainedNeutral$151 → $164
Aug 28, 2026Freedom BrokerDowngradeBuy → Hold$180 → $200
Aug 28, 2026Wells FargoMaintainedOverweight$215 → $225
Aug 28, 2026StifelMaintainedHold$115 → $160
Aug 28, 2026CitigroupMaintainedNeutral$139 → $201
Aug 28, 2026BarclaysMaintainedOverweight$200 → $224
Aug 28, 2026TD CowenMaintainedHold$220 → $210

Earnings Release, Scored

What did Workday, Inc.'s latest earnings release say?

Filed Aug 27, 2026 · SEC Form 8-K, Exhibit 99

New outlook issued
Tone76.1/ 100
Hedging words0.25per 100 words

Most important lines

  1. 1

    “We now expect fiscal 2027 subscription revenue of $9.940 billion to $9.950 billion, growth of 13%, while increasing our fiscal 2027 non-GAAP operating margin guidance to 31.0%.

    Guidance raised
  2. 2

    Diluted net income per share was $2.57, compared to diluted net income per share of $0.84 in the same period last year.

  3. 3

    Subscription Revenues of $2.471 Billion, Up 13.9% Year-Over-Year

Peers & ETF holders

WDAY peers & ETF holders

News & sentiment

What is the news saying about WDAY?

WDAY rose 4.6% over the month to Nov 6. News tone held between 0 and 75 from Oct 6 to Oct 30, then jumped to 53 on Nov 2.

Daily close and news tone, Oct 6 to Nov 6
$200Oct 6: tone 52Oct 7: tone 59Oct 8: tone 50Oct 9: tone 68Oct 12Oct 13: tone 66Oct 14: tone 65Oct 15: tone 71Oct 16: tone 39Oct 19: tone 73Oct 20: tone 44Oct 21: tone 75Oct 22: tone 51Oct 23Oct 26: tone 73Oct 27: tone 63Oct 28: tone 75Oct 29: tone 33Oct 30: tone 0Nov 2: tone 53Nov 3: tone 99Nov 4: tone 70Nov 5: tone 73Nov 6: tone 25Oct 6News toneNov 6123
  1. Oct 20 +4.5%same day: Workday Shares Fall on KeyBanc Downgrade. Here's What to Make of WDAY Stock Now.
  2. Oct 22 +3.3%same day: Workday Announces Pricing of $2.5 Billion Senior Notes Offering
  3. Oct 28 -5.4%same day: Workday’s Quarterly Earnings Preview: What You Need to Know

Technical analysis

How strong is WDAY's momentum right now?

On the daily chart WDAY ranks at the 18th percentile for momentum against 1,060 stocks and ETFs, a bearish reading.

Momentum rank by timeframe0 = weakest, 100 = strongest
See what drives the rankThe inputs behind each timeframe's momentum rank, plus RSI, stochastics, Bollinger Bands and moving averages. Free with an account.

Institutional ownership

Are big funds buying or selling WDAY?

105 of the 216 tracked managers added to WDAY in their latest 13F and 110 trimmed. Together they own 69.9% of the company, worth $23.1B. BlackRock and Vanguard Capital Management alone hold 13.3%.

105adding110trimming1unchanged
Largest holders by stake, latest 13FBar = share of WDAY
  1. $2.6B positionAdded 5.2% last quarter
  2. $1.6B positionTrimmed 4.4% last quarter
  3. $1.6B positionAdded 19.0% last quarter
  4. $1.4B positionAdded 30.1% last quarter
  5. $1.4B positionTrimmed 4.0% last quarter
  6. $1.2B positionAdded 0.4% last quarter
  7. $1.1B positionAdded 16.0% last quarter
  8. $997.1M positionAdded 82.0% last quarter
  9. $721.7M positionAdded 14.4% last quarter
  10. $566.0M positionAdded 17.2% last quarter
Full holdings history

Congressional trading

Is Congress trading WDAY?

8 members of Congress disclosed 25 WDAY trades between Nov 11, 2022 and Aug 18, 2026: 14 buys and 11 sells, about $389.5K in estimated value.

BuysSells2023202420252026
BuySell$1K–$15K$15K–$50K$50K–$100K$100K–$250K

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How has WDAY done against its peers?

Over the six months to Nov 6, WDAY returned +58.9%. Of the 15 related stocks and ETFs, 3 did better, led by SNOW at +103.9%.

Change since May 6, through Nov 6
−100%0%+100%+200%May 6JunJulAugSepOctNov 6SNOW +103.9%WDAY +58.9%ORCL −38.3%