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How to buy Workday stock (WDAY)

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Workday is a software - application business based in the US. Workday shares (WDAY) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $239.47 – an increase of 0.98% over the previous week. Workday employs 19,908 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $7.9 billion.

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Workday stock price (NASDAQ: WDAY)

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Workday shares at a glance

Information last updated 2024-10-04.
Latest market close$239.47
52-week range$199.81 - $311.28
50-day moving average $239.61
200-day moving average $253.99
Wall St. target price$289.26
PE ratio 41.8567
Dividend yield N/A
Earnings per share (TTM) $5.79

Is it a good time to buy Workday stock?

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Workday price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $239.47 from 2024-10-08

1 week (2024-10-03) -0.61%
1 month (2024-09-10) -6.30%
3 months (2024-07-10) 7.35%
6 months (2024-04-10) -10.26%
1 year (2023-10-10) 8.40%
2 years (2022-10-10) 61.99%
3 years (2021-10-06) 256.33
5 years (2019-10-10) 37.37%

Is Workday stock undervalued or overvalued?

Valuing Workday stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Workday's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Workday's P/E ratio

Workday's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 42x. In other words, Workday shares trade at around 42x recent earnings.

That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.

Workday's PEG ratio

Workday's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 2.2863. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Workday's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Workday's EBITDA

Workday's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $636 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Workday's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Workday financials

Revenue TTM $7.9 billion
Operating margin TTM 5.32%
Gross profit TTM $4.5 billion
Return on assets TTM 1.43%
Return on equity TTM 21.08%
Profit margin 19.6%
Book value $31.37
Market Capitalization $63.8 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Workday's environmental, social and governance track record

Environmental, social and governance (known as ESG) criteria are a set of three factors used to measure the sustainability and social impact of companies like Workday.

When it comes to ESG scores, lower is better, and lower scores are generally associated with lower risk for would-be investors.

Workday's total ESG risk score

Total ESG risk: 18.25

Socially conscious investors use ESG scores to screen how an investment aligns with their worldview, and Workday's overall score of 18.25 (as at 12/31/2018) is excellent – landing it in it in the 12nd percentile of companies rated in the same sector.

ESG scores are increasingly used to estimate the level of risk a company like Workday is exposed to within the areas of "environmental" (carbon footprint, resource use etc.), "social" (health and safety, human rights etc.), and "governance" (anti-corruption, tax transparency etc.).

Workday's environmental score

Environmental score: 4.18/100

Workday's environmental score of 4.18 puts it squarely in the 7th percentile of companies rated in the same sector. This could suggest that Workday is a leader in its sector terms of its environmental impact, and exposed to a lower level of risk.

Workday's social score

Social score: 11.83/100

Workday's social score of 11.83 puts it squarely in the 7th percentile of companies rated in the same sector. This could suggest that Workday is a leader in its sector when it comes to taking good care of its workforce and the communities it impacts.

Workday's governance score

Governance score: 11.73/100

Workday's governance score puts it squarely in the 7th percentile of companies rated in the same sector. That could suggest that Workday is a leader in its sector when it comes to responsible management and strategy, and exposed to a lower level of risk.

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) summary

Workday Inc was last rated for ESG on: 2019-01-01.

Total ESG score 18.25
Total ESG percentile 11.86
Environmental score 4.18
Environmental score percentile 7
Social score 11.83
Social score percentile 7
Governance score 11.73
Governance score percentile 7

Workday share dividends

We're not expecting Workday to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Workday share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Workday's shares have ranged in value from as little as $199.81 up to $311.28. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

WDAY.US volatility(beta: 1.34)Avg. volatility(beta: 1.00)LowHigh

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Workday's is 1.344. This would suggest that Workday's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Workday overview

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. It also provides spend management solutions that help organizations to streamline supplier selection and contracts, manage indirect spend, and build and execute sourcing events, such as requests for proposals; 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; and applications for analytics and reporting comprising augmented analytics to surface insights to the line of business in simple-to-understand stories, machine learning to drive efficiency and automation, and benchmarks to compare performance against other companies. Further, it provides supply chain and inventory solutions to healthcare organizations; solutions to manage the end-to-end student and faculty lifecycle; and Workday Extend for customers and their developers to build custom applications.

Frequently asked questions

What percentage of Workday is owned by insiders or institutions?
Currently 1.225% of Workday shares are held by insiders and 90.853% by institutions.
How many people work for Workday?
Latest data suggests 19,908 work at Workday.
When does the fiscal year end for Workday?
Workday's fiscal year ends in January.
Where is Workday based?
Workday's address is: 6110 Stoneridge Mall Road, Pleasanton, CA, United States, 94588
What is Workday's ISIN number?
Workday's international securities identification number is: US98138H1014
What is Workday's CUSIP number?
Workday's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 98138H101

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