Workday (NASDAQ:WDAY) Posts Quarterly Earnings Results

Workday (NASDAQ:WDAY) released its earnings results on Tuesday. The software maker reported $0.48 earnings per share 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%. Workday updated its FY 2026 guidance to EPS and its Q1 2026 guidance to EPS.

Workday Stock Down 2.5 %

Shares of Workday stock traded down $6.59 during trading on Tuesday, reaching $255.22. The stock had a trading volume of 4,791,025 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,208,784. The company has a current ratio of 2.05, a quick ratio of 2.05 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.35. The company has a market capitalization of $67.89 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 42.33, a P/E/G ratio of 3.55 and a beta of 1.35. Workday has a 52 week low of $199.81 and a 52 week high of $311.28. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $260.42 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $253.82.

Insider Activity at Workday

In related news, CAO Mark S. Garfield sold 472 shares of the stock in a transaction on Monday, January 13th. The shares were sold at an average price of $248.24, for a total transaction of $117,169.28. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief accounting officer now owns 35,408 shares in the company, valued at approximately $8,789,681.92. This represents a 1.32 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, insider Sayan Chakraborty sold 5,498 shares of Workday stock in a transaction on Friday, November 29th. The shares were sold at an average price of $250.78, for a total transaction of $1,378,788.44. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now owns 121,100 shares in the company, valued at $30,369,458. The trade was a 4.34 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last quarter, insiders have sold 438,819 shares of company stock valued at $113,142,592. 20.00% of the stock is owned by insiders.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of analysts have recently issued reports on WDAY shares. Bank of America reduced their price target on shares of Workday from $310.00 to $285.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, November 27th. Redburn Atlantic assumed coverage on Workday in a report on Wednesday, February 19th. They issued a “neutral” rating on the stock. Royal Bank of Canada raised their price target on shares of Workday from $300.00 to $320.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Wednesday, December 18th. Needham & Company LLC restated a “buy” rating and set a $300.00 price objective on shares of Workday in a research report on Thursday, February 6th. Finally, Scotiabank assumed coverage on shares of Workday in a research report on Monday, November 18th. They issued a “sector outperform” rating and a $340.00 price target for the company. Ten research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, twenty have given a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, Workday presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $291.11.

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.