Workday (NASDAQ:WDAY) Posts Quarterly Earnings Results, Misses Estimates By $1.27 EPS

Workday (NASDAQ:WDAY) posted its quarterly 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 net margin of 19.86% and a return on equity of 6.13%. Workday updated its FY 2026 guidance to EPS and its Q1 2026 guidance to EPS.

Workday Trading Down 2.5 %

Shares of WDAY opened at $255.22 on Wednesday. Workday has a 12-month low of $199.81 and a 12-month high of $311.28. The firm has a market capitalization of $67.89 billion, a P/E ratio of 42.33, a P/E/G ratio of 3.55 and a beta of 1.35. The firm has a 50-day moving average price of $259.97 and a 200 day moving average price of $254.12. The company has a current ratio of 2.05, a quick ratio of 2.05 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.35.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

WDAY has been the topic of a number of recent research reports. Guggenheim upgraded Workday from a “sell” rating to a “neutral” rating in a research note on Monday, January 6th. Bank of America lowered their price objective on Workday from $310.00 to $285.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research report on Wednesday, November 27th. Mizuho lifted their target price on shares of Workday from $280.00 to $320.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Friday, December 13th. Wells Fargo & Company increased their price target on shares of Workday from $300.00 to $330.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Monday, December 9th. Finally, Redburn Atlantic assumed coverage on shares of Workday in a report on Wednesday, February 19th. They issued a “neutral” rating for the company. Ten research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, twenty have given a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $292.54.

Insider Buying and Selling at Workday

In other news, CAO Mark S. Garfield sold 472 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Monday, January 13th. The stock was sold at an average price of $248.24, for a total value of $117,169.28. Following the transaction, the chief accounting officer now owns 35,408 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $8,789,681.92. This represents a 1.32 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, major shareholder David A. Duffield sold 57,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Wednesday, December 18th. The stock was sold at an average price of $275.31, for a total value of $15,692,670.00. Following the transaction, the insider now owns 284,000 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $78,188,040. This represents a 16.72 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold 438,819 shares of company stock worth $113,142,592 in the last ninety days. 20.00% of the stock is owned by insiders.

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.