Stock · WDAY · Technology
United States · Large Cap · listed since 2012 · Revenue 12 mo. $10.2B
Price as of 11/06/2026
Workday, Inc. provides enterprise cloud applications in the United States and internationally.
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.
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Summary
55.4 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
If free cash flow stays at €2.5B (2026), it supports €27.7B. The remaining €14B of the market value assume it grows 5.8% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
5.8%
no growth afterwards
Price to operating cash flow 15.7×, below its usual range.
Middle half of 20 quarters: 24.1× to 32.6×, median 27.0×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
with respect to the priced-in expectation
Since the last quarter
Q2 → Q3 2026
5 more unchanged: Revenue, 12 mo., FCF, 12 mo., Gross margin, EBIT margin, Net debt
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | 8.88% | 14.60% | Rank 31 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 26.51% | 29.77% | Rank 46 |
| EBIT margin | 10.72% | 17.40% | Rank 35 |
| FCF margin | 29.07% | 18.54% | Rank 80 |
| Gross margin | 75.70% | 48.47% | Rank 83 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | 13.09% | 12.70% | Rank 51 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per yeardoes not count towards the rank | – | 9.54% | |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per yeardoes not count towards the rank | – | 14.07% | |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 1.70% | 2.87% | Rank 37 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 1.36% | 2.64% | Rank 26 |
| FCF yield | 5.98% | 3.06% | Rank 79 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 4.69 | 5.18 | Rank 55 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 43.74 | 26.24 | Rank 28 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | −23.68% | −0.59% | Rank 24 |
| Share price, 6 months | 51.39% | −4.46% | Rank 96 |
| Share price, 3 months | 12.51% | −5.84% | Rank 80 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −17.45% | −33.23% | Rank 78 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | −14.31% | 1.65% | Rank 96 |
| Change in share countlower is better | −2.15% | −0.17% | Rank 79 |
| Dividend streak in years | – | 8 | Rank 18 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | 6.00% | −1.57% | Rank 83 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 43.18% | 53.98% | Rank 35 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | −1.20 | −0.20 | Rank 76 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 0.49 | 0.33 | Rank 36 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 54.20% | 50.37% | Rank 45 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, $B | EBIT margin | FCF | Shares | Net debt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1.6 | −22.4% | $227.8M | 198M | −$5.5M |
| 2018 | 2.1 | −14.2% | $313.2M | 208M | $357.0M |
| 2019 | 2.8 | −16.4% | $393.7M | 217M | $566.2M |
| 2020 | 3.6 | −13.9% | $620.1M | 227M | $838.7M |
| 2021 | 4.3 | −5.8% | $1.0B | 237M | $853.9M |
| 2022 | 5.1 | −2.3% | $1.4B | 254M | $568.5M |
| 2023 | 6.2 | −3.6% | $1.3B | 255M | $1.4B |
| 2024 | 7.3 | 2.5% | $1.9B | 265M | $1.3B |
| 2025 | 8.4 | 4.9% | $2.2B | 269M | $1.8B |
| 2026 | 9.6 | 10.7% | $2.8B | 263M | $2.3B |
2 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
Workday Inc mainly meets criteria in the Valuation category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
Workday Inc is rated here with the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
2 of 7 rules met
4 of 11 points
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Selected fundamental metrics for Workday Inc.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 73.3 | 35.1 |
| P/B ratio | 6.5 | 5.5 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 8.9% | 14.6% |
| Equity ratio | 43.2% | 54.0% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 0.49 | 0.33 |
| Dividend yield | 0.0% | 0.9% |
How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.
| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| WDAY | Workday Incthis page | |
| ROP | Roper Technologies Inc | Medium5.5 |
| PAYX | Paychex Inc | High8.2 |
| ADSK | Autodesk Inc | High8.2 |
| MSTR | MicroStrategy Incorporated | locked |
| ZM | Zoom Video Communications Inc | locked |
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