Workday (WDAY) Return on Capital Employed [ROCE] (2013 - 2026)
Workday (WDAY) posted Return on Capital Employed [ROCE] of 9.56% for fiscal Q2 2027 (quarter ended Jul 31, 2026), up 5.40 percentage points from 4.17% a year earlier.
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Workday (WDAY) Return on Capital Employed [ROCE] (2013 - 2026) Analysis & Trends
For FY2026 (ended Jan 31, 2026), Workday's Return on Capital Employed [ROCE] came in at 6.19%, up 2.63 percentage points from FY2025.
- Annual Return on Capital Employed [ROCE] has increased for three consecutive fiscal years, with a five-year change of +13.32 percentage points (FY2021 to FY2026).
- In prior fiscal years, Workday's Return on Capital Employed [ROCE] was 3.56% in FY2025 (+1.71 pp), 1.85% in FY2024 (+4.86 pp), -3.01% in FY2023 (-0.46 pp) and -2.55% in FY2022 (+4.58 pp).
- The fiscal Q2 2027 figure stands as the highest quarterly Return on Capital Employed [ROCE] in data going back to fiscal Q4 2013.
- The strongest year-over-year quarter for Return on Capital Employed [ROCE] in the past five years was fiscal Q3 2022, with a gain of 6.16 percentage points; the weakest was fiscal Q3 2023, with a drop of 0.79 percentage points.
Peer Set
Peer Comparison
| # | Company | Market Cap | Enterprise Value | Gross Profit (Qtr) | ROCE (Qtr) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Palantir Technologies | 453.55 Bn | 422.61 Bn | 1.64 Bn | 28.02% |
| 2 | Oracle | 430.98 Bn | 303.54 Bn | - | 9.81% |
| 3 | Sap Se | 256.23 Bn | 177.31 Bn | 8.40 Bn | 33.74% |
| 4 | Salesforce | 193.08 Bn | 148.96 Bn | 8.70 Bn | 10.68% |
| 5 | ServiceNow | 138.94 Bn | 117.40 Bn | 2.82 Bn | 10.59% |
| 6 | Automatic Data Processing | 102.51 Bn | 84.63 Bn | 2.51 Bn | -46.62% |
| 7 | Intuit | 75.44 Bn | 54.79 Bn | 3.44 Bn | 21.09% |
| 8 | Relx | 60.79 Bn | 57.76 Bn | - | - |
| 9 | Strategy | 56.32 Bn | 49.31 Bn | 81.55 Mn | -68.70% |
| 10 | Workday | 44.89 Bn | 21.02 Bn | 2.00 Bn | 9.56% |
Historic Data
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Historic Data
| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Jul 31, 2026 | 9.56% |
| Jan 31, 2026 | 6.24% |
| Oct 31, 2025 | 4.84% |
| Jul 31, 2025 | 4.17% |
| Apr 30, 2025 | 3.05% |
| Jan 31, 2025 | 3.56% |
| Oct 31, 2024 | 3.52% |
| Jul 31, 2024 | 2.95% |
| Apr 30, 2024 | 2.27% |
| Jan 31, 2024 | 1.81% |
| Oct 31, 2023 | 0.16% |
| Jul 31, 2023 | -1.06% |
| Apr 30, 2023 | -1.81% |
| Jan 31, 2023 | -2.67% |
| Oct 31, 2022 | -2.57% |
| Jul 31, 2022 | -2.25% |
| Apr 30, 2022 | -2.19% |
| Jan 31, 2022 | -2.37% |
| Oct 31, 2021 | -1.78% |
| Jul 31, 2021 | -2.76% |
API Access
Workday Return on Capital Employed [ROCE] 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-capital-employed-%5Broce%5D&ticker=WDAY&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEYimport requests
url = "https://data.businessquant.com/historic"
params = {"slug": "return-on-capital-employed-[roce]", "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-capital-employed-%5Broce%5D&ticker=WDAY&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();