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WDAY · NasdaqGS
Workday, Inc.
Software - Application · United States
- Market cap (USD)
- US$46.72B
- Trailing P/E
- 39.57x
- Forward P/E
- 14.66x
- Quarterly revenue growth
- 12.8%
- Trailing net margin
- 12.3%
- Indicated dividend yield
- —
Snapshot 2026-09-20 · Latest financial period 2026-07-31 · Yahoo Finance. Quotes may be delayed; reporting periods can differ.
Company background
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.
Company websiteQ2 FY2027
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WDAY peer comparison
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| Metric | WDAYWorkday, Inc.Snapshot 2026-09-20Financial period: 2026-07-31 | NOWServiceNow, Inc.Snapshot 2026-09-20Financial period: 2026-06-30 | HUBSHubSpot, Inc.Snapshot 2026-09-20Financial period: 2026-06-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Market capMarket value, converted to USD | US$46.72B | US$140.06B | US$11.06B |
| Forward P/EProvider forward earnings estimate | 14.66x | 27.06x | 12.85x |
| EV / EBITDAEnterprise value / trailing EBITDA | 29.69x | 49.65x | 61.76x |
| Revenue growthLatest quarter vs prior-year quarter | 12.8% | 24.0% | 19.8% |
| Operating marginLatest reported quarter | 11.8% | 4.1% | 4.9% |
| Free cash flow yieldTrailing cash flow / market cap | 6.5% | 3.7% | 6.0% |
| Net debt / EBITDANet debt / trailing EBITDA | 0.23x | 1.31x | -7.03x |
| Debt / equityTotal debt / positive book equity | 0.58x | 0.68x | 0.14x |
| Trailing P/ETrailing twelve-month earnings | 39.57x | 84.67x | 76.91x |
| Price / bookPrice / positive book equity per share | 7.22x | 11.19x | 6.48x |
| EV / salesEnterprise value / trailing revenue | 4.64x | 9.76x | 2.81x |
| Earnings growthLatest quarter vs prior-year quarter | 206.0% | -21.9% | — |
| Gross marginTrailing twelve months | 75.8% | 74.8% | 83.2% |
| Net marginTrailing twelve months | 12.3% | 11.3% | 4.3% |
| Return on equityProvider trailing return; positive equity only | 16.0% | 14.2% | 7.9% |
| Free cash flow marginTrailing free cash flow / revenue | 30.0% | 35.0% | 19.3% |
| Dividend yieldIndicated annual dividend / price | — | — | — |
| Earnings payoutProvider trailing dividend payout | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Current ratioCurrent assets / current liabilities | 0.91x | 0.70x | 1.38x |
| BetaProvider historical market sensitivity | 1.08 | 0.97 | 1.18 |
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THE RESEARCH RECORD
Research history for WDAY
Q2 FY20272026-08-30
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Q1 FY20272026-05-22
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