Workday, Inc. (WDAY) Stock

About Workday, Inc.

Workday, Inc. delivers comprehensive, cloud-hosted enterprise software solutions to clients worldwide. These platforms empower organizations to strategize, operate, examine performance, integrate with existing systems, and oversee their overall business functions. A core offering includes a robust suite of financial management tools. These are designed to assist Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) in meticulously maintaining general ledger accounting data, streamlining financial workflows, gaining instant insights into financial and operational metrics, optimizing consolidation, accelerating month-end closes, bolstering internal controls and audit readiness, and ensuring uniformity throughout their financial activities. Workday also provides cloud-based spend management solutions. These facilitate smoother supplier engagement and contract administration, optimize the handling of indirect expenditures, and enable the effective execution of sourcing initiatives, including requests for proposals (RFPs). Its Human Capital Management (HCM) platform stands out, offering a comprehensive set of applications for overseeing the entire employee journey—from initial recruitment through to retirement. This empowers HR departments to efficiently handle hiring, onboarding, payroll, talent development, reskilling programs, and to cultivate exceptional employee experiences. Furthermore, the company offers dedicated applications for business planning, alongside powerful analytics and reporting capabilities. These advanced tools feature augmented analytics that translate complex data into easily digestible narratives for business users, leverage machine learning for enhanced operational efficiency and automation, and provide benchmarking features to compare performance against industry peers. Workday's diverse clientele spans numerous sectors, including professional and business services, financial institutions, healthcare providers, educational bodies, government agencies, technology firms, media organizations, retailers, and the hospitality industry. Originally incorporated in 2005 as North Tahoe Power Tools, Inc., the company adopted the name Workday, Inc. in July of the same year. Its corporate headquarters are located in Pleasanton, California.

Workday, Inc. is led by CEO Aneel Bhusri, employs 20,482 people, headquartered in Pleasanton, US, publicly traded since 2012.

Workday, Inc. (WDAY) stock trades at $147.40 with a market capitalization of $38.61B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 45.80, price-to-book of 3.94, price-to-sales of 3.37. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $110.36 and $276.00, and currently trades 46.6% below its 52-week high.

On profitability, Workday, Inc. generates a return on equity (ROE) of 8.23%, return on capital employed of 13.12%, an operating margin of 8.90%, a net profit margin of 8.60%.

In its most recent fiscal year, Workday, Inc. reported annual revenue of $9.6B, net profit of $693.0M, revenue has compounded at 17.2% a year over the last five years.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.57, a current ratio of 1.32, total assets of $18.1B, $1.5B in cash and equivalents.

WDAY has an average daily trading volume of 5,013,160 shares, a beta of 1.08.

Official website: www.workday.com