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Workday Inc

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What Do They Do?

Sells cloud software for managing employees, finances, and business planning to medium-sized organizations and large global companies.

How Do They Make Money?

Organizations pay for cloud-application access and support under contracts, generally billed annually in advance as service continues throughout the contract term. They also pay for deployment, optimization, and training, billed as time-and-materials work is performed or in advance for fixed-price work.

revenue
SegmentShareRevenue
Subscription services
Recurring

92%
FY2023: 90%
Costs of professional services
Sold outright
7.5%
FY2023: 10%

Who Are Their Customers?

Emerging, medium-sized, and large global organizations across industries buy Workday's software. Workday sells directly and through sales partners and resellers, and also through Workday Marketplace.

Do Revenues Turn Into Profits?

Yes. It kept 7 cents of every revenue dollar as net income in FY2026 and turned 29 cents into free cash flow.

Operating income, FY2026
8% of revenue
▲ +74% vs FY2025 ($415M, 5%)
Net income, FY2026
7% of revenue
▲ +32% vs FY2025 ($526M, 6%)
Free cash flow, FY2026
29% of revenue
▲ +27% vs FY2025 ($2.2B, 26%)

How Are They Changing?

Since the FY2026 annual report
Latest quarter: Q2 FY2027, the three months to Jul 31, 2026
Revenue
▲ +13%
vs $2.3B in Q2 FY2026
Net income
▲ +177%
vs $228M in Q2 FY2026
Subscription services share of revenue vs 92.4% in Q2 FY2026

Growing. Revenue grew 86% in 4 years, from $5.1B in FY2022 to $9.6B in FY2026, about 17% a year.

AI agent tools The earlier report described AI and machine learning embedded in its applications, plus analytics and extension tools. The latest report adds purpose-built AI agents, an AI experience platform, and tools for customers and partners to build agents on Workday.

Revenue over time
Subscription services Costs of professional services
$10B$5B$0

Who Do They Compete With?

Competes with Oracle, SAP, Anaplan, ADP, Coupa Software, Dayforce, Microsoft, NetSuite, ServiceNow, and UKG

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