Workday (WDAY) EBIT Margin (2011 - 2026)

Workday (WDAY) recorded quarterly EBIT Margin of 6.87% in Q1 2026, down 35.47% quarter-over-quarter from 10.65% in Q4 2025, and up 348.0% on a YoY basis from 1.53% in Q1 2025.

Workday (WDAY) EBIT Margin (2011 - 2026) Analysis & Trends

Workday's EBIT Margin history runs 16 years deep, the most recent figure standing at 6.87% for Q1 2026.

  • In Q1 2026, EBIT Margin rose 348.0% year-over-year to 6.87%; the TTM figure through Jan 2026 stood at 7.54% (up 262.0% YoY), while the FY2026 annual figure was 7.55%, up 263.0% from the prior year.
  • EBIT Margin was 6.87% for Q1 2026 at Workday, down from 10.65% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, EBIT Margin ranged from a high of 10.65% in Q4 2025 to a low of 7.3% in Q1 2022.
  • Historically, EBIT Margin has averaged 2.2% across 5 years, with a median of 3.22% in 2024.
  • The sharpest annual moves came in 2022 and 2024: EBIT Margin slumped 345 bps in 2022, then jumped 950 bps in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of EBIT Margin shows it stood at 1.65% in 2022, then soared by 387 bps to 4.72% in 2023, then soared by 62 bps to 7.64% in 2024, then soared by 39 bps to 10.65% in 2025, then sank by 35 bps to 6.87% in 2026.
  • The last three EBIT Margin figures came in at 6.87% (Q1 2026), 10.65% (Q4 2025), and 10.56% (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) EBIT Margin (Qtr)
1 Sap Se 238.14 Bn 220.17 Bn 8.16 Bn 28.69%
2 Full Truck Alliance 166.83 Bn 164.28 Bn - -
3 Uber Technologies 150.36 Bn 149.32 Bn 11.88 Bn 14.56%
4 Shopify 147.75 Bn 142.01 Bn 1.55 Bn 12.05%
5 Salesforce 140.39 Bn 128.55 Bn 8.56 Bn 21.08%
6 Cadence Design Systems 105.73 Bn 104.32 Bn 1.26 Bn 29.26%
7 ServiceNow 105.42 Bn 100.24 Bn 2.83 Bn 13.34%
8 Automatic Data Processing 89.57 Bn 86.34 Bn 2.87 Bn -22.99%
9 Adobe 85.05 Bn 78.16 Bn 5.90 Bn 33.82%
10 Workday 33.61 Bn 28.17 Bn 1.86 Bn 6.87%

Historic Data

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DateValue
Jan 31, 2026 6.87%
Oct 31, 2025 10.65%
Jul 31, 2025 10.56%
Apr 30, 2025 1.74%
Jan 31, 2025 3.39%
Oct 31, 2024 7.64%
Jul 31, 2024 5.32%
Apr 30, 2024 3.22%
Jan 31, 2024 4.11%
Oct 31, 2023 4.72%
Jul 31, 2023 2.01%
Apr 30, 2023 -1.19%
Jan 31, 2023 -5.39%
Oct 31, 2022 -1.65%
Jul 31, 2022 -2.22%
Apr 30, 2022 -5.08%
Jan 31, 2022 -7.30%
Oct 31, 2021 1.80%
Jul 31, 2021 -0.09%
Apr 30, 2021 -3.26%