Workday, Inc.

WDAYUS

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.

Founded2005IPO year2012As of2026-08-04
Market Cap
$44.32B
Enterprise Value
$43.78B
EV / LTM Revenue
4.6x
EV / NTM Revenue
3.9x
Trading multiples

Enterprise value over trailing (LTM) vs. forward (NTM) fundamentals. Click an LTM cell to chart it.

LTM
trailing
NTM
forward
Revenue
3.9x
Gross Profit
5.1x
EBITDA
15.8x
Classification
Sector
Application Software
Sub-sector
HR, Payroll & Workforce Applications
Listing
WDAY
Country
US
Historical valuation & fundamentals

EV / LTM Revenue

Annual financials & analyst forecasts

$MCY2021CY2022CY2023CY2024CY2025CY2026ECY2027E
Revenue YoY21%17%17%13%11%11%
Revenue$5.14B$6.22B$7.24B$8.45B$9.55B$10.57B$11.75B
Gross Profit$3.71B$4.50B$5.47B$6.38B$7.23B
Gross Profit Margin72.2%72.4%75.6%75.5%75.7%
EBITDA$377M$207M$753M$1.08B$1.44B$2.59B$2.88B
EBITDA Margin7.3%3.3%10.4%12.8%15.1%24.5%24.5%
EBIT($116M)($222M)$167M$415M$850M$2.55B$2.83B
Net Income$29M($367M)$1.38B$526M$693M$2.70B$3.15B
Free Cash Flow$1.38B$1.30B$1.91B$2.19B$2.78B
FCF Margin26.8%20.9%26.4%25.9%29.1%
Short-Term Debt$1.30B$91M$0M$99M$0M
Long-Term Debt$617M$2.98B$2.98B$2.98B$2.99B
Cash & Cash Equivalents$1.53B$1.89B$2.01B$1.54B$1.50B
Net Debt$386M$1.18B$968M$1.54B$1.49B
Net Debt / EBITDA1.0x5.7x1.3x1.4x1.0x
Rule of 4041.8%42.9%42.5%42.2%
Figures in $M. True calendar years (Jan–Dec) built from quarterly data — income & cash-flow lines summed across the four quarters, balance sheet as of year-end. E columns are calendarized analyst consensus — gross profit, cash flow and balance-sheet lines are not estimated. Net debt = short-term debt + long-term debt − cash & cash equivalents; Rule of 40 = YoY revenue growth + FCF margin.