WDAY

Workday, Inc. ·Nasdaq Global Select·Technology
175.29 live · 2026-08-12 15:59
74.8%
Brown Bear Score
78.5%
Business Conviction Score
67.1%
Position Health Score
41.9%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · -18.3% · range 112.50–247.69

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets 15.4%
OCF / assets 16.3%
FCF / revenue 30.8%
Gross margin 75.8%
ROIC 9.6%
Forward P/E 13.9

FCF/assets and OCF/assets are the cash-flow measures Brown Bear's own testing found to survive; FCF/revenue is shown alongside for context. Assets are from the latest annual filing (FY2026).

Price vs Earnings growth

Forward EPS growth has outpaced trailing price return by +326.2pp

Confidence 95.0/100

Takeaway Earnings growth is outpacing price — consistent with the stock not yet fully reflecting its improving forward estimates.

Reported earnings

Next report 2026-08-27 after the close · consensus EPS 2.66

Q1 23 revenue: 1.65bnQ1 23 net income: -125.70mQ1 23 EPS: -0.49Q2 23 revenue: 1.68bnQ2 23 net income: 136.00kQ2 23 EPS: 0.00Q2 23Q3 23 revenue: 1.79bnQ3 23 net income: 78.66mQ3 23 EPS: 0.30Q4 23 revenue: 1.87bnQ4 23 net income: 113.71mQ4 23 EPS: 0.43Q4 23Q1 24 revenue: 1.92bnQ1 24 net income: 1.19bnQ1 24 EPS: 4.48Q2 24 revenue: 1.99bnQ2 24 net income: 107.00mQ2 24 EPS: 0.40Q2 24Q3 24 revenue: 2.08bnQ3 24 net income: 132.00mQ3 24 EPS: 0.49Q4 24 revenue: 2.16bnQ4 24 net income: 193.00mQ4 24 EPS: 0.72Q4 24Q2 25 revenue: 2.24bnQ2 25 net income: 68.00mQ2 25 EPS: 0.25Q3 25 revenue: 2.35bnQ3 25 net income: 228.00mQ3 25 EPS: 0.84Q3 25Q4 25 revenue: 2.43bnQ4 25 net income: 252.00mQ4 25 EPS: 0.94Q2 26 revenue: 2.54bnQ2 26 net income: 222.00mQ2 26 EPS: 0.87Q2 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (-0.49–4.48, own scale) Derived Q4

12 quarters to Q2 26. Revenue and net income share one scale, so the gap between them is the margin. The baseline is zero — bars below it are losses. The line is GAAP EPS — it spans every quarter shown, where the reported figure only goes back as far as the consensus feed does.

Quarter endingRevenueYoY Net incomeEPS (GAAP) Filed
2026-04-30 2.54bn +13.5% 222.00m 0.87 2026-05-22
2025-10-31 2.43bn +12.6% 252.00m 0.94 2025-11-26
2025-07-31 2.35bn +12.6% 228.00m 0.84 2025-08-22
2025-04-30 2.24bn +12.6% 68.00m 0.25 2025-05-23

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±3.8%
On an ordinary two days ±1.8% — filings move it 2.1× as much
Direction 6 up, 6 down over 12 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 22 revenue +21.9% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-08-25: price +3.8%Q4 22 revenue +20.5% year on yearQ4 22 filed 2022-11-29: price +15.6%Q4 22Q2 23 revenue +17.4% year on yearQ2 23 filed 2023-05-25: price +10.1%Q3 23 revenue +16.3% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-08-24: price +2.9%Q3 23Q4 23 revenue +16.7% year on yearQ4 23 filed 2023-11-28: price +11.7%Q2 24 revenue +18.1% year on yearQ2 24 filed 2024-05-29: price -3.7%Q2 24Q3 24 revenue +16.7% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-08-28: price -0.9%Q4 24 revenue +15.8% year on yearQ4 24 filed 2024-12-05: price -0.9%Q4 24Q2 25 revenue +12.6% year on yearQ2 25 filed 2025-05-23: price -12.0%Q3 25 revenue +12.6% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-08-22: price -1.8%Q3 25Q4 25 revenue +12.6% year on yearQ4 25 filed 2025-11-26: price -7.7%Q2 26 revenue +13.5% year on yearQ2 26 filed 2026-05-22: price +1.8%Q2 26

Revenue up year on year Revenue down Price move around the filing separate scales — a crossing means nothing

Quarter endingFiledRevenue YoY Move around filingNext 20 sessions vs SPY
2026-04-30 2026-05-22 +13.5% +1.8% -2.7%
2025-10-31 2025-11-26 +12.6% -7.7% +0.6%
2025-07-31 2025-08-22 +12.6% -1.8% +4.1%
2025-04-30 2025-05-23 +12.6% -12.0% -5.4%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Shrinking — shares retired
Diluted shares 254.3M as at 2026-04-30
Change over 1 year -5.9%
Change over 3 years -2.7%
Public float $49.50bn as at 2025-07-31 (10-K)

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyAt Support Zone
Reference band 150.16 — 150.16
Protective stop 129.22 (Atr, 13.9% risk)
Support 131.11 (3 touches, 33.7% away)
Resistance (— away)

Takeaway The shares are about 33.7% above 131.11, a price buyers have stepped in at before. There is no ceiling to point to, because the stock is trading where it has not traded before and nobody has sold it at these levels. That floor has held 3 times, which is how it was spotted. If someone bought at today's price and sold if it dropped through the level below, they would be about 13.9% out of pocket. That is all this figure means — an illustration of the risk, not a price to sell at.

Levels are computed from price structure. They describe where the engine locates support and extension — they are not targets, and not advice.

Ichimoku Cloud (Adaptive)

Daily cloudPrice ABOVE the cloud | periods 6/18/35 (68% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BULL | cloud twist BULL
Cloud thickness81% percentile (thick — substantial structure)
Chikou spanAbove price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice ABOVE the weekly cloud (context only, not scored)

Takeaway The stock is trading above its cloud — a shaded band drawn from several of its own moving averages, currently 149.66 to 165.24. Being above it means the medium-term picture is pointing upwards, and that band is the first place the stock has recent support if it slips back. Its shorter-term averages agree with that. The band is unusually wide at the moment, so it marks a broad zone rather than a single level.

Trailing returns

21 days +25.4%
63 days +47.8%
126 days +14.4%
252 days -18.0%
Below 252d high29.2%

Trend context

PositionBelow trend
ExtensionNormal
Trend slopeFlat
Direction of travelConverging back to trend

Takeaway The share price is below the level its own longer-run trend suggests is fair, and that fair level is going sideways. The gap between the two has been closing. Neither is stretched far enough to stand out.

Volatility

State Expanding
Current band width43.2% of price
Recent tightest26.7% (9 sessions ago, narrower than 46.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.62×
Band 124.08 — 192.47

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 43% wide. That is normal for this stock, so there is nothing unusual to read into it either way.

Historical trends

0255075100Share price 113.04–184.192026-06-212026-08-12
Position Health Business Conviction Share price

History begins when the site started recording, not when the company listed, so a short line means a short record and nothing more.

Who's Tradingthe flow behind the priceTop ↑

Insider activity

ActivityNo filings in the window
Buy filings0
Sell filings0

Open-market Form 4 purchases and sales over the last 75 days, read from SEC EDGAR Form 4. Grants, option exercises, gifts and shares withheld for tax are excluded — they are compensation mechanics, not a decision to buy or sell. Reported Form 4 activity. Brown Bear tested insider cluster-buying as a return signal and rejected it as era-unstable; shown as fact, not signal.

Volume confirmation

Volume-price trend Above its signal line
Confirmation Moderate

No absorption or distribution event in the recent window.

Takeaway More shares change hands on the days this stock rises than on the days it falls. That is what you would expect to see if the rise is being driven by real buying rather than drifting up on a thin market.

Options Positioning

No binary-event flag

WDAY: no binary-event flag. Near IV 49%, far IV 59% (ratio 0.82), implied move 6.1%.

Implied volatility 49% near (9d) · 59% far (128d)
Term structure 0.82× near/far
Historical volatility 70%
Implied vs historical 0.70×
Implied move ±6.1% by 2026-08-21
Implied move vs ATR 0.43×
Skew Flat (0.98×)
Call wall 180.00 (+2.7% away)
Put wall 140.00 (-20.1% away)
Gamma pin 155.00

Takeaway Insuring against a move in this stock costs less for the next few weeks than for the next few months, which is the normal state of affairs and suggests no particular date is worrying anyone. Options traders are positioned for a move of around 6.1% in either direction by 2026-08-21.

Chain as at 2026-08-12. This is a risk read on whether a specific event is being priced — not a directional view.

Context & Methodthe record, and how it was builtTop ↑

Relative Rotation

ImprovingLeadingLaggingWeakeningvs sectorvs SPYsector vs SPYRS-Ratio →RS-Momentum →

Stock Leadership Confirmed

Rotation health 100.0/100; Strong Rotation Tailwind.

Rotation health 100.0
Rotation strength 65.8
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Leading 111.7 115.0
Stock vs SPY Leading 115.6 104.5
Sector vs SPY Leading 113.6 115.9

Direction of travel: North-West / early recovery

Position only. Brown Bear's RRG redesign programme is closed — five constructions, none beat an appropriate null — so this section describes where the name sits, and is not a signal.

News Headlines

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Headlines are supplied by third-party feeds and are not written, ranked or interpreted by Brown Bear. They feed no score on this page.

Detailed Scoring

Positive signals

  • Piotroski F-score 5/9 (+10.0)
  • Altman Z-score 5.44 (+8.0)
  • Insider conviction score (+5.0)
  • Gross margin quality: 75.8% (+20.4)
  • ROIC quality: 9.6% (+3.9)
  • FCF margin quality: 30.8% (+20.0)
  • ROIC improving by 3.5 pts (+2.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.124) (+8.0)
  • Accrual ratio improving (-0.11 -> -0.12) (+5.0)
  • Relative Strength 14.1% vs sector: OUTPERFORMING (+10.0)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram state (1.84) (+8.0)
  • Track 1: relative strength trend improving (+5.0)
  • Track 1: 20-day momentum acceleration 0.14 (+9.0)
  • Track 1: bullish DI spread 28.3 (+8.0)
  • Track 1: ADX 28.8 and rising (+5.0)
  • Track 1: EMA20 reclaim distance 8.2% (+1.5)
  • Track 1: EMA20 slope improving 7.0% (+5.0)
  • Track 1: positive MACD regime (+3.0)
  • Track 1: MACD line/signal repair quality (+8.0)
  • Track 1: MACD slope improving (+5.0)
  • Track 1: VPT strength 0.31 (+6.2)
  • Track 1: price above EMA50 by 18.0% (+5.0)
  • Track 1: EMA50 slope improving 8.6% (+3.0)
  • Track 1: EMA200 support proximity 8.3% (+1.2)
  • Track 1: Bollinger position 0.75 (+2.0)
  • Regime convergence: CONSTRUCTIVE_PULLBACK confidence 82.6/100 (STRONG) (+16.5)

Negative signals

  • Weak relative momentum rank (0.14)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram deteriorating (-0.77)
  • Track 1: RSI deterioration/extension 77.2, 5-day change +12.6

Chase risk is not elevated for this name, so extension penalties are omitted from the negative signals above.