Workday, Inc. (WDAY)
Workday, Inc. provides enterprise cloud applications in the United States and internationally. The company offers a suite of financial management applications to maintain accounting information; manage financial processes, such as payables and receivables; identify real-time financial, operational, and management insights; perform financial consolidation; reduce time-to-close; promote internal control and auditability; and achieve consistency across finance operations. It also provides spend management solutions that help organizations to streamline supplier selection and contract management, build and execute sourcing events, such as requests for proposals, and manage indirect spend; expense management solutions to submit and approve expenses; and a suite of human capital management applications that enables HR teams to hire, onboard, pay, develop, reskill, and provide employee experiences. In addition, the company offers planning applications. Further, it provides supply chain and inventory solutions to healthcare organizations; solutions to manage the end-to-end student and faculty lifecycle; Workday Extend for customers and their developers to build custom applications. The company serves the professional and business services, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, media, education, government, technology, media, retail, and hospitality industries. It sells its solutions through its direct sales organization. The company was formerly known as North Tahoe Power Tools, Inc. and changed its name to Workday, Inc. in July 2005. Workday, Inc. was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.
- Ticker
- WDAY
- Exchange
- Nasdaq
- Sector
- Technology
- Industry
- Software - Application
- Market cap
- $46.49B
- 52-week range
- $110.36 - $236.80
Valuation
- Share price
- $192.90 (close of Nov 6, 2026)
- P/E (TTM)
- 38.97x
- Price to book
- 7.20x
- Price to free cash flow
- 16.35x
- Enterprise value
- $49.60B
- Book value per share
- $26.80
Price performance
| Period | Change |
|---|---|
| 1 day | -3.63% |
| 5 days | -2.49% |
| 1 month | +3.40% |
| 3 months | +13.31% |
| 6 months | +57.30% |
| Year to date | -10.19% |
| 1 year | -14.08% |
| 3 years | -11.67% |
| 5 years | -33.46% |
| 10 years | +133.06% |
| All time | +296.18% |
Short interest
- As of
- Oct 15, 2026
- Short % of float
- 7.50%
- Shares short
- 12.75M
- Days to cover
- 5.98
- Change since prior report
- +1.05%
- Source
- FINRA consolidated short interest
Members of Congress who disclosed WDAY trades
Gilbert Ray Cisneros · Julia Letlow · Jefferson Shreve · Lisa McClain · Alan Armstrong · Julie Johnson · Robert Bresnahan
Super investors holding WDAY
First Eagle Investment (First Eagle Investment Management, LLC) · Richard Pzena (Pzena Investment Management) · Ken Griffin (Citadel) · Bill Nygren (Harris Associates LP) · Ray Dalio (Bridgewater Associates)
Profitability and growth
- Return on equity
- 8.88%
- Return on invested capital
- 3.48%
- Return on assets
- 3.83%
- Return on capital employed
- 6.16%
- Gross margin
- 72.53%
- Net margin
- 7.26%
- EBITDA margin
- 10.03%
- Revenue growth
- 13.09%
- Net income growth
- 31.75%
- Free cash flow growth
- 26.69%
Cash flow and balance sheet
- Free cash flow yield (TTM)
- 6.12%
- Current ratio
- 0.91x
- Net debt to EBITDA
- 1.77x
Latest reported year
- Period end
- Jan 31, 2026
- Fiscal year
- 2026
- Revenue
- $9.55B
- Cost of revenue
- $2.62B
- Gross profit
- $6.93B
- EBITDA
- $958.00M
- Net income
- $693.00M
- Earnings per share
- $2.61
- Research and development
- $2.68B
- Interest expense
- $114.00M
- Shares outstanding
- 265.10M
Income statement by year
| Period end | Revenue | Gross profit | Net income | EPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-31 | $9.55B | $6.93B | $693.00M | $2.61 |
| 2025-01-31 | $8.45B | $6.29B | $526.00M | $1.98 |
| 2024-01-31 | $7.26B | $5.49B | $1.38B | $5.28 |
| 2023-01-31 | $6.22B | $4.47B | -$367.00M | -$1.44 |
| 2022-01-31 | $5.14B | $3.71B | $29.00M | $0.12 |
| 2021-01-31 | $4.32B | $3.12B | -$282.43M | -$1.19 |
| 2020-01-31 | $3.63B | $2.56B | -$480.67M | -$2.12 |
| 2019-01-31 | $2.82B | $1.99B | -$418.26M | -$1.93 |
| 2018-01-31 | $2.14B | $1.51B | -$321.22M | -$1.55 |
| 2017-01-31 | $1.57B | $1.09B | -$384.70M | -$1.94 |
Margins and returns by year
| Period end | Gross margin | Net margin | Return on equity | Return on capital |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-31 | 72.53% | 7.26% | 8.88% | 3.48% |
| 2025-01-31 | 74.51% | 6.23% | 5.82% | 2.44% |
| 2024-01-31 | 75.60% | 19.02% | 17.09% | 1.61% |
| 2023-01-31 | 71.85% | -5.90% | -6.57% | -2.51% |
| 2022-01-31 | 72.21% | 0.56% | 0.64% | -1.55% |
| 2021-01-31 | 72.25% | -6.54% | -8.62% | -4.51% |
| 2020-01-31 | 70.63% | -13.25% | -19.33% | -12.34% |
| 2019-01-31 | 70.41% | -14.82% | -21.36% | -14.47% |
| 2018-01-31 | 70.63% | -14.99% | -20.33% | -9.87% |
| 2017-01-31 | 69.29% | -24.43% | -30.13% | -27.59% |
Cash and debt by year
| Period end | Cash | Debt |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-31 | $1.50B | $2.99B |
| 2025-01-31 | $1.54B | $2.98B |
| 2024-01-31 | $2.01B | $2.98B |
| 2023-01-31 | $1.89B | $2.98B |
| 2022-01-31 | $1.53B | $617.35M |
| 2021-01-31 | $1.38B | $691.91M |
| 2020-01-31 | $731.14M | $1.02B |
| 2019-01-31 | $638.55M | $972.26M |
| 2018-01-31 | $1.13B | $1.15B |
| 2017-01-31 | $539.92M | - |
Free cash flow by year
| Period end | Free cash flow | Stock-based compensation |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-31 | $2.78B | $1.63B |
| 2025-01-31 | $2.19B | $1.52B |
| 2024-01-31 | $1.92B | $1.42B |
| 2023-01-31 | $1.29B | $1.29B |
| 2022-01-31 | $1.65B | $1.10B |
| 2021-01-31 | $1.27B | $1.00B |
| 2020-01-31 | $864.60M | $859.57M |
| 2019-01-31 | $404.15M | $652.47M |
| 2018-01-31 | $324.19M | $478.43M |
| 2017-01-31 | $229.81M | $372.27M |
Investor relations
Next earnings report
- Next confirmed report
- Nov 24, 2026
- Consensus EPS estimate
- $1.28
Past earnings dates
| Reported | Fiscal period | EPS estimate |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-27 | Jul 2026 | $1.26 |
| 2026-05-21 | Apr 2026 | $1.17 |
| 2026-02-24 | Jan 2026 | $1.01 |
| 2025-11-25 | Oct 2025 | $0.92 |
| 2025-08-21 | Jul 2025 | $0.80 |
| 2025-05-22 | Apr 2025 | $0.69 |
| 2025-02-25 | Jan 2025 | $0.59 |
| 2024-11-26 | Oct 2024 | $0.57 |
Filings and sources
- Company website
- workday.com
- SEC filings
- 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K on EDGAR
- Earnings calendar
- All upcoming reports
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