Workday (WDAY) Return on Assets [ROA] (2013 - 2026)
Workday (WDAY) posted Return on Assets [ROA] of 7.41% for fiscal Q2 2027 (quarter ended Jul 31, 2026), up 4.09 percentage points from 3.32% a year earlier.
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Workday (WDAY) Return on Assets [ROA] (2013 - 2026) Analysis & Trends
For FY2026 (ended Jan 31, 2026), Workday's Return on Assets [ROA] came in at 3.84%, up 0.79 percentage points from FY2025.
- Annual Return on Assets [ROA] shows a five-year change of +7.48 percentage points (FY2021 to FY2026).
- In prior fiscal years, Workday's Return on Assets [ROA] was 3.06% in FY2025 (-6.17 pp), 9.23% in FY2024 (+12.29 pp), -3.06% in FY2023 (-3.36 pp) and 0.30% in FY2022 (+3.94 pp).
- The fiscal Q2 2027 figure stands as the highest quarterly Return on Assets [ROA] since fiscal Q3 2025.
- On a year-over-year basis, Return on Assets [ROA] increased in three of the last seven quarters, with an average year-over-year change of -1.53 percentage points.
- The strongest year-over-year quarter for Return on Assets [ROA] in the past five years was fiscal Q4 2024, with a gain of 11.93 percentage points; the weakest was fiscal Q1 2026, with a drop of 6.42 percentage points.
Peer Set
Peer Comparison
| # | Company | Market Cap | Enterprise Value | Gross Profit (Qtr) | ROA (Qtr) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Palantir Technologies | 450.50 Bn | 419.56 Bn | 1.64 Bn | 27.71% |
| 2 | Oracle | 401.01 Bn | 273.57 Bn | - | 6.70% |
| 3 | Sap Se | 257.03 Bn | 178.11 Bn | 8.40 Bn | 10.87% |
| 4 | Salesforce | 187.04 Bn | 142.92 Bn | 8.70 Bn | 8.95% |
| 5 | ServiceNow | 135.91 Bn | 114.37 Bn | 2.82 Bn | 5.96% |
| 6 | Automatic Data Processing | 104.14 Bn | 86.27 Bn | 2.51 Bn | 6.91% |
| 7 | Intuit | 72.30 Bn | 51.65 Bn | 3.44 Bn | 12.00% |
| 8 | Relx | 60.17 Bn | 57.14 Bn | - | - |
| 9 | Strategy | 55.31 Bn | 48.30 Bn | 81.55 Mn | -56.94% |
| 10 | Workday | 45.49 Bn | 21.61 Bn | 2.00 Bn | 7.41% |
Historic Data
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Historic Data
| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Jul 31, 2026 | 7.41% |
| Jan 31, 2026 | 3.87% |
| Oct 31, 2025 | 3.60% |
| Jul 31, 2025 | 3.32% |
| Apr 30, 2025 | 2.77% |
| Jan 31, 2025 | 3.06% |
| Oct 31, 2024 | 9.92% |
| Jul 31, 2024 | 9.58% |
| Apr 30, 2024 | 9.19% |
| Jan 31, 2024 | 9.09% |
| Oct 31, 2023 | 0.48% |
| Jul 31, 2023 | -0.90% |
| Apr 30, 2023 | -1.98% |
| Jan 31, 2023 | -2.84% |
| Oct 31, 2022 | -2.46% |
| Jul 31, 2022 | -1.51% |
| Apr 30, 2022 | -0.23% |
| Jan 31, 2022 | 0.29% |
| Oct 31, 2021 | 0.33% |
| Jul 31, 2021 | -0.41% |
API Access
Workday Return on Assets [ROA] 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=return-on-assets-%5Broa%5D&ticker=WDAY&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEYimport requests
url = "https://data.businessquant.com/historic"
params = {"slug": "return-on-assets-[roa]", "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=return-on-assets-%5Broa%5D&ticker=WDAY&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();