Workday (NASDAQ:WDAY) Releases Quarterly Earnings Results

Workday (NASDAQ:WDAY) posted its earnings results on Tuesday. The software maker reported $0.48 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $1.75 by ($1.27), Zacks reports. Workday had a return on equity of 6.13% and a net margin of 19.86%. The firm had revenue of $2.21 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.18 billion. Workday updated its FY 2026 guidance to EPS and its Q1 2026 guidance to EPS.

Workday Stock Performance

NASDAQ WDAY opened at $271.09 on Thursday. Workday has a 52-week low of $199.81 and a 52-week high of $298.50. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.35, a quick ratio of 2.05 and a current ratio of 2.05. The company has a market capitalization of $72.11 billion, a P/E ratio of 44.96, a P/E/G ratio of 3.55 and a beta of 1.35. The company has a fifty day moving average of $260.01 and a 200-day moving average of $254.24.

Insider Transactions at Workday

In other Workday news, Director Wayne A.I. Frederick sold 1,829 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, January 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $253.09, for a total value of $462,901.61. Following the completion of the sale, the director now directly owns 6,845 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,732,401.05. The trade was a 21.09 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. Also, major shareholder David A. Duffield sold 70,090 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, January 8th. The stock was sold at an average price of $254.53, for a total transaction of $17,840,007.70. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now directly owns 102,997 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $26,215,826.41. This represents a 40.49 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last ninety days, insiders sold 438,819 shares of company stock valued at $113,142,592. Insiders own 20.00% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several research firms have commented on WDAY. Bank of America dropped their target price on shares of Workday from $310.00 to $285.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research report on Wednesday, November 27th. UBS Group lifted their target price on shares of Workday from $255.00 to $285.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research report on Wednesday. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft raised shares of Workday from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and lifted their target price for the stock from $265.00 to $300.00 in a research report on Wednesday, January 8th. JMP Securities restated a “market outperform” rating and set a $315.00 price target on shares of Workday in a research note on Thursday, February 6th. Finally, The Goldman Sachs Group raised their price target on shares of Workday from $310.00 to $345.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday. Ten equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, twenty have assigned a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, Workday has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $301.61.

Workday Company Profile

Workday, Inc provides enterprise cloud applications in the United States and internationally. Its applications help its customers to plan, execute, analyze, and extend to other applications and environments to manage their business and operations. The company offers a suite of financial management applications to maintain accounting information in the general ledger; manage financial processes, such as payables and receivables; identify real-time financial, operational, and management insights; enhance financial consolidation; reduce time-to-close; promote internal control and auditability; and achieve consistency across finance operations.