Workday Inc Class A WDAY

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    228
  • Sector
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  • Investment Style
    Mid Growth
  • Market Cap
    57.7592 Bil
  • Forward Div Yield
  • Trailing Div Yield
  • Price/Sales
    8.29
  • Price/Book
    7.73
  • Beta (5-Year)
    1.32
  • Consensus Forward P/E
    29.59
  • Trailing 12-mo Rev

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Valuation Feb 26, 2025
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Workday: Cloud-Only ERP Platform’s High Switching Costs Support Wide Moat
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Luke Yang, CFA
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Analyst Note | by Luke Yang, CFA Updated Mar 14, 2025

We are transferring coverage of Workday and maintaining the company's wide moat rating. Workday sells cloud-native human capital management, or HCM, and financial management platforms that assist with enterprises' back-office workflows. These systems handle critical day-to-day operations data, and customers usually stay with the same vendor for decades. Workday boasts a gross retention rate of over 95% and has had a net retention rate of over 100% for more than seven years in a row, underpinning high switching costs that support a wide economic moat. We are maintaining the company's $300 fair value estimate and currently view shares as undervalued.

Business Strategy and Outlook | by Luke Yang, CFA Updated Mar 14, 2025

Workday is a relatively new entrant to the enterprise resource planning, or ERP, market compared with rivals Oracle and SAP. However, the company was able to take market share from competitors by demonstrating that adopting cloud-native enterprise systems provides a superior user experience and reduces total cost of ownership for modern enterprises

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Price vs. Fair Value

 
Price/Fair Value
Total Return %
Index Total Return %
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 YTD
-2.36 -17.06 53.94 56.95 2.99 45.70 14.01 -38.75 64.98 -6.53 -11.51
0.69 12.44 21.47 -5.05 31.22 20.90 25.78 -19.43 26.44 24.09 -8.35

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