How is Workday (WDAY) doing?
Workday is a company in the software, application industry, based in Pleasanton, CA, worth $48.9B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.
Updated Oct 9, 2026
Middling
Workday shares are down 22% over the past year, 32 points behind the S&P 500. Its type is Coiled Spring. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 17th percentile on market beat, the 87th on staying power and the 88th on business growth. It appears on 10 of our dashboards.
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Financials, earnings and news on Stox ›The past year
Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.
What kind of stock is it?
Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.
Coiled Spring
Behind the market but holding its rank, with a growing business and buyers stepping in.
Coiled Spring since May; Wallflower before that.
Also Coiled Spring (60 in all): DOCU · VEEV · APPF · PCOR · BILL · NOW
How is it doing against its group?
Its group is Software / cloud, 53 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Enterprise software and cloud — the long-duration growth engine.
Workday is −22% over the past year, against +15% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 38th of 53 in Software / cloud.
How much does it move?
Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.
About usual Workday typically moves 3.8% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings more than 84% of large US stocks.
WDAY on our dashboards
Every question where Workday appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with WDAY highlighted. Select a column to sort.
| Question | Reading | Place | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Which stocks keep losing? Leading stocks | 9031 of 52 wks | 51 of 60 | vs S&P, 1Y −37 pts |
| Whose profit margins are widening? Business quality | 88Widening | 50 of 60 | Change, 1Y +6.1 pts · Operating margin 12% · Gross margin 80% |
| Which companies earn the most on their capital? Business quality | 88Excellent | 47 of 60 | Return on capital 14% · Gross margin 80% · Cash margin 28% |
| Whose cash flow backs up their earnings? Business quality | 95Backed | 20 of 60 | 3 years 219% · Last year 227% · Free cash flow $2.8B |
| Which companies invest the most in research? Business quality | 92Heavy | 16 of 60 | R&D / revenue 27.7% · R&D a year $2.8B · R&D, 1Y +6% |
| Which stocks fell even though the business grew? Value | – | 20 of 38 | Price, 1Y −22% · Sales, 1Y +13% · EPS, 1Y +127% |
| Which companies have more cash than debt? Value | 93Net cash | 27 of 60 | Net cash $1.6B · % of value +3% · Debt payback 0.6 yrs |
| Who is buying back their own stock? Dividends and buybacks | 96Shrinking | 20 of 60 | Shares, 1Y −7.4% · Bought back $5.2B · % of value 11.0% |
| Which companies pay the most in stock? Dividends and buybacks | 98Heavy | 7 of 60 | % of revenue 16.2% · A year $1.6B · % of cash flow 58% |
| Which companies return the most cash to shareholders? Dividends and buybacks | 96Generous | 22 of 60 | Total 11.0% · Dividends 0.0% · Buybacks 11.0% |
Go deeper on Stox
WDAY’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.
How to read this page
How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.
Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.
Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.
Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.
Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.
For financial statements, earnings and news, see WDAY’s full profile on Stox.
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