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Workday, Inc.

Data period: Annual Quarterly Graham uses annual
NASDAQ · Technology
Workday, Inc.
WDAY · Software - Application
$116.93
▼ -4.9 (-4.02%)
Cached · 10 min
Overall Grade
D
Defensive
C
Enterprising
Profitability
B
Gross Profit Margin 76.2%
Operating Margin 13.3%
Net Income Margin 8.7%
Fin. Health
D
Years to Pay Off Debt 17.1 yrs
Working Capital vs Long-Term Debt -$1.9B
Working Capital $57M
Valuation
F
Margin of Safety 0.0%
Price-to-Book 3.52x
Cash Flow
B
Free Cash Flow $616M
CapEx % of Net Income 36.0%
Owner Earnings $394M
About Workday, Inc.
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.
Metric Explanations
What each dimension measures and where the thresholds come from.
Gross Profit Margin
Revenue minus cost of goods sold. Graham's ≥40% threshold identifies businesses with durable pricing power. Note: software and financial companies naturally exceed this; retailers and manufacturers rarely reach it due to their cost structures.
Operating Margin
Profit after operating costs before interest and taxes. A consistent ≥15% operating margin signals a business with real competitive advantages. Capital-intensive industries (airlines, auto, commodities) rarely hit this threshold due to their structural cost base — compare within industry for context.
Net Income Margin
Bottom-line profit as a percentage of revenue. The ≥20% target reflects Buffett's preference for highly profitable businesses. Financial engineering (buybacks, tax optimisation) can inflate this temporarily — look for consistency across multiple years rather than a single strong result.
Years to Pay Off Debt
Total Debt ÷ Net Income. Lower = stronger balance sheet. Important caveat: utilities, telecoms, REITs, and infrastructure companies carry large structural debt by design — their bond-like cash flows service it comfortably at ratios that would alarm Graham. Compare within sector.
Working Capital vs Long-Term Debt
Working Capital minus Long-Term Debt. Negative results are common and expected in capital-return-focused businesses like Apple, Domino's, and McDonald's — where aggressive buybacks and dividends intentionally reduce book equity. This does not indicate financial distress in high-FCF businesses.
Working Capital
Current Assets minus Current Liabilities. Negative working capital can be a deliberate efficiency strategy in businesses that collect cash before paying suppliers (retailers, fast food franchises, subscription businesses). Assess alongside free cash flow generation for full context.
Margin of Safety
How far below the Graham Number the stock trades. Graham required a 33% discount as a buffer against analytical error. However, the Graham Number itself assumes 1960s-era P/E and P/B norms — for modern asset-light businesses it often understates true intrinsic value, making 0% MoS appear misleadingly bad.
Price-to-Book
Market price vs book value per share. Rarely below 1.5x for quality businesses today. Intangible assets (brand, software, patents) don't appear on the balance sheet under accounting rules, making P/B artificially high for asset-light companies like software and consumer brands.
Free Cash Flow
Operating cash flow minus capital expenditures. Buffett's most important metric — cash a business actually generates for its owners after maintaining and growing its asset base. Consistently positive FCF is one of the strongest indicators of a durable, well-run business regardless of accounting profits.
CapEx % of Net Income
Capital expenditure as a share of net income. Low CapEx signals a capital-light business that doesn't need heavy reinvestment to sustain earnings — Buffett's ideal. High CapEx is structurally necessary in manufacturing, airlines, telecoms, and semiconductors. For these industries, a high reading reflects the business model, not poor management.
Owner Earnings
Net Income + Depreciation & Amortisation − Capital Expenditures. Buffett's preferred measure of a company's true annual earning power — what could theoretically be distributed to owners without impairing the business. More reliable than reported EPS because it accounts for the capital cost of maintaining the business.
Market Cap $28.9B
Enterprise Value $30.8B
P/E (TTM) 36.43
Dividend Yield N/A
Exchange NASDAQ
Gross Profit 76.2%
Operating Margin 13.3%
Net Margin 8.7%
Sector Technology
Industry Software - Application
Employees 20834
Country United States
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Full Graham Analysis

Mr. Market is currently offering Workday, Inc. at $116.93.

The business passes only 1 of 6 of Graham's defensive criteria — well below his required standard.

At $116.93, the stock trades at a 358% premium to its Graham Number of $25.51. Graham would consider this price speculative.

There is no margin of safety at the current price. Graham would advise patience and waiting for a better entry point.

Negative NCAV — liabilities exceed current assets. Common in capital-return businesses (buybacks, debt-funded dividends) and capital-intensive industries. Not automatically a warning sign..

Conclusion: By Graham's standards, this stock is speculative at its current price. The intelligent investor would look elsewhere or wait.

Showing Key Metrics
Income Highlights
Metric Q2 2026 Q4 2025
Gross Profit % 76.2% 75.7%
Operating Margin % 13.3% 10.9%
Net Income % 8.7% 10.4%
Diluted EPS 0.87 0.94
Balance Sheet Highlights
Metric Q2 2026 Q4 2025
Total Assets $16.1B $17.8B
Total Debt $3.8B $3.8B
Working Capital $57M $4.2B
Years to Pay Debt 17.14 15.05
Cash Flow Highlights
Metric Q2 2026 Q4 2025 Q4 2024
Free Cash Flow $616M $550M N/A
Owner Earnings $394M $375M N/A
CapEx % of Net Income 36.0% 15.1% N/A
📊 Quarterly mode — Graham Fair Value & 7 Criteria require annual data. Switch to Annual for full analysis.
Quarter vs Same Quarter Last Year
YoY strips seasonality
Revenue Growth (YoY)
Prior year: $2.2B ▲ $2.5B +13.5%
Revenue growth vs same quarter last year strips seasonality. Consistent double-digit growth is a Buffett hallmark.
Gross Margin
Prior year: 76.0% ▲ 76.2% +0.2pp
Buffett: consistent gross margin above 40% signals durable pricing power and competitive moat.
Operating Margin
Prior year: 15.1% ▲ 13.3% -1.8pp
Graham: operating margin reflects true business economics before financing. Trend matters as much as level.
Net Margin
Prior year: 3.0% ▲ 8.7% +5.7pp
Net margin can be distorted by one-time items, tax timing, or interest costs — compare to operating margin for signal quality.
Quarterly Health Checks
3 Graham/Buffett criteria that are valid and reliable on quarterly data
✅ Adequate Size
Graham required scale for resilience. Quarterly revenue × 4 gives an annualised proxy.
$2.5B/qtr (≈$10.2B ann.)
vs > $1.5B annualised revenue
❌ Financial Condition
Current assets vs current liabilities — a real-time liquidity snapshot. Valid and reliable on quarterly data.
1.01x current ratio
vs ≥ 2.0x
✅ Free Cash Flow
Buffett's most important single metric. A positive FCF quarter means the business generated real cash for owners after maintaining its asset base.
$616M
vs Positive
Operating Cash Flow
$696M
Latest quarter · Buffett's cash reality check
ROIC
2.8%
Based on latest annual operating income
Return on Invested Capital — Buffett's preferred measure for asset-light businesses. ROIC > 15% consistently signals a durable competitive advantage (moat). More meaningful than P/B for software, pharma, and consumer brand companies where most value is intangible and off-balance-sheet.
Market Cap / Net Assets
3.5x
Net Assets: $6.7B
Asset Context — Software - Application
Software companies store most of their value in code, IP, recurring revenue, and customer relationships — none of which appear on the balance sheet under GAAP. Book value and Net Assets are poor proxies for intrinsic value here. Focus on ROIC, gross margin trajectory, and free cash flow instead.
Peers & Industry
No auto-detected peers for Software - Application. You can manually compare WDAY against any stock using the Compare tool.
"The management of a business is its most important single factor — more important than market position, patents, or financial structure."
— Benjamin Graham
Capital Allocation & Alignment
Insider Ownership
2.14%
Low — management has little skin in the game
Return on Equity (ROE)
3.3%
Weak — poor returns on equity
Return on Assets (ROA)
1.4%
Poor — assets are not generating adequate returns
Share Buybacks (Latest Year)
$2.9B
Management is returning capital to shareholders via buybacks
Debt Trend YoY
-0.4% YoY
Debt is declining — management is deleveraging
Leadership Team
Aneel Bhusri
Co-Founder, CEO & Executive Chairman of the Board
Age 59
Pay: $3,909,259
1.761% of net income
Zane Rowe
Chief Financial Officer
Age 54
Pay: $1,187,790
0.535% of net income
Gerrit Kazmaier
President of Product & Technology
Pay: $1,525,077
0.687% of net income
Robert Enslin
President & Chief Commercial Officer
Age 62
Pay: $633,236
0.285% of net income
David Albert Duffield
Co-Founder & CEO Emeritus
Age 84
Top Institutional Holders
Institution % Owned Shares
Blackrock Inc. 12.79% 20,080,016
Vanguard Capital Management LLC 8.81% 13,833,094
Vanguard Portfolio Management LLC 7.41% 11,637,749
Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management, LLC 6.79% 10,655,733
State Street Corporation 6.07% 9,536,720
Eagle Capital Management LLC 5.55% 8,707,006
First Eagle Investment Management, LLC 4.85% 7,608,713
Geode Capital Management, LLC 3.29% 5,162,786
Risk Analysis
Beta (Market Risk)
1.08
Moderate volatility — moves slightly more than market
Short Interest
15.4% of float
Heavy short selling — market has significant bearish bets
Debt-to-Equity
0.57x
Conservative balance sheet — low financial risk
Current Ratio
1.01x
Adequate liquidity
52-Week Price Range
Low: $110.36 Current: $116.93 High: $249.85
Currently at 5% of 52-week range

Workday, Inc. (WDAY) fundamental analysis — Overall grade D based on profitability, financial health, valuation and cash flow. Graham's Fair Value: $25.51. Margin of safety: 0%. Gross profit margin: 76.2%. Operating margin: 13.3%. Net margin: 8.7%. Market cap: $28.9B. Sector: Technology. Industry: Software - Application. Analysis powered by 360investing — free fundamental stock analysis based on Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett principles.

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