Workday (WDAY) Invested Capital (2017 - 2026)
Workday's Invested Capital was $9.45 billion in fiscal Q2 2027 (quarter ended Jul 31, 2026), down 22.3% from $12.16 billion a year earlier.
Workday (WDAY) Invested Capital (2017 - 2026) Analysis & Trends
For FY2026 (ended Jan 31, 2026), Invested Capital at Workday came in at $10.79 billion, down 10.2% from FY2025.
- Invested Capital shows a five-year compound annual growth rate of 16.3% (FY2021 to FY2026).
- In earlier fiscal years, Invested Capital was $12.02 billion in FY2025 (+8.6%), $11.06 billion in FY2024 (+29.2%), $8.56 billion in FY2023 (+34.3%) and $6.37 billion in FY2022 (+25.7%).
- The fiscal Q2 2027 figure marks the lowest quarterly Invested Capital since fiscal Q2 2024.
- Compared with a year earlier, Invested Capital was higher in five of the last seven quarters, with growth averaging 1.9%.
- The best year-over-year quarter for Invested Capital over five years was fiscal Q1 2023 (growth of 68.9%); the worst was fiscal Q2 2027 (a decline of 22.3%).
Peer Comparison
| # | Company | Market Cap | Enterprise Value | Gross Profit (Qtr) | Invested Cap. (Qtr) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Palantir Technologies | 450.50 Bn | 419.56 Bn | 1.64 Bn | - |
| 2 | Oracle | 401.01 Bn | 273.57 Bn | - | 192.53 Bn |
| 3 | Sap Se | 257.03 Bn | 178.11 Bn | 8.40 Bn | 68.16 Bn |
| 4 | Salesforce | 187.04 Bn | 142.92 Bn | 8.70 Bn | 77.67 Bn |
| 5 | ServiceNow | 135.91 Bn | 114.37 Bn | 2.82 Bn | 14.60 Bn |
| 6 | Automatic Data Processing | 104.14 Bn | 86.27 Bn | 2.51 Bn | 11.00 Bn |
| 7 | Intuit | 72.30 Bn | 51.65 Bn | 3.44 Bn | 26.66 Bn |
| 8 | Relx | 60.17 Bn | 57.14 Bn | - | 4.97 Bn |
| 9 | Strategy | 55.31 Bn | 48.30 Bn | 81.55 Mn | 37.60 Bn |
| 10 | Workday | 45.49 Bn | 21.61 Bn | 2.00 Bn | 9.45 Bn |
Historic Data
| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Jul 31, 2026 | 9.45 Bn |
| Jan 31, 2026 | 10.79 Bn |
| Oct 31, 2025 | 11.87 Bn |
| Jul 31, 2025 | 12.16 Bn |
| Apr 30, 2025 | 11.90 Bn |
| Jan 31, 2025 | 12.02 Bn |
| Oct 31, 2024 | 11.61 Bn |
| Jul 31, 2024 | 11.33 Bn |
| Apr 30, 2024 | 11.14 Bn |
| Jan 31, 2024 | 11.06 Bn |
| Oct 31, 2023 | 9.60 Bn |
| Jul 31, 2023 | 9.25 Bn |
| Apr 30, 2023 | 8.92 Bn |
| Jan 31, 2023 | 8.56 Bn |
| Oct 31, 2022 | 8.38 Bn |
| Jul 31, 2022 | 9.25 Bn |
| Apr 30, 2022 | 8.90 Bn |
| Jan 31, 2022 | 6.37 Bn |
| Oct 31, 2021 | 6.06 Bn |
| Jul 31, 2021 | 5.72 Bn |
Workday Invested Capital API
Pull this series into your own models, spreadsheets and apps with the Business Quant
Historical Metrics API. The request below matches the chart above — change the
frequency, period or values and it follows. Swap YOUR_API_KEY for your own key.
https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=invested-capital&ticker=WDAY&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY
import requests
url = "https://data.businessquant.com/historic"
params = {"slug": "invested-capital", "ticker": "WDAY", "period": "max", "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY"}
data = requests.get(url, params=params).json()
const res = await fetch("https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=invested-capital&ticker=WDAY&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();