Workday (WDAY) Short-term Investments (2020 - 2026)
Workday (WDAY) posted Short-term Investments of $2.74 billion for fiscal Q2 2027 (quarter ended Jul 31, 2026), down 60.4% from $6.92 billion a year earlier.
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Workday (WDAY) Short-term Investments (2020 - 2026) Analysis & Trends
At the end of FY2026 (ended Jan 31, 2026), Workday's Short-term Investments came in at $3.94 billion, down 39.1% from FY2025.
- Annual Short-term Investments shows a five-year compound annual growth rate of 12.9% (FY2021 to FY2026).
- In prior fiscal years, Workday's Short-term Investments was $6.47 billion in FY2025 (+11.6%), $5.8 billion in FY2024 (+37.0%), $4.24 billion in FY2023 (+100.7%) and $2.11 billion in FY2022 (-1.9%).
- The fiscal Q2 2027 figure stands as the lowest quarterly Short-term Investments since fiscal Q4 2022.
- On a year-over-year basis, Short-term Investments increased in four of the last seven quarters, with an average decline of 8.0%.
- The strongest year-over-year quarter for Short-term Investments in the past five years was fiscal Q4 2023, with growth of 100.7%; the weakest was fiscal Q2 2027, with a decline of 60.4%.
Peer Set
Peer Comparison
| # | Company | Market Cap | Enterprise Value | Gross Profit (Qtr) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Palantir Technologies | 450.50 Bn | 419.56 Bn | 1.64 Bn |
| 2 | Oracle | 401.01 Bn | 273.57 Bn | - |
| 3 | Sap Se | 257.03 Bn | 178.11 Bn | 8.40 Bn |
| 4 | Salesforce | 187.04 Bn | 142.92 Bn | 8.70 Bn |
| 5 | ServiceNow | 135.91 Bn | 114.37 Bn | 2.82 Bn |
| 6 | Automatic Data Processing | 104.14 Bn | 86.27 Bn | 2.51 Bn |
| 7 | Intuit | 72.30 Bn | 51.65 Bn | 3.44 Bn |
| 8 | Relx | 60.17 Bn | 57.14 Bn | - |
| 9 | Strategy | 55.31 Bn | 48.30 Bn | 81.55 Mn |
| 10 | Workday | 45.49 Bn | 21.61 Bn | 2.00 Bn |
Historic Data
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Historic Data
| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Jul 31, 2026 | 2.74 Bn |
| Jan 31, 2026 | 3.94 Bn |
| Oct 31, 2025 | 4.23 Bn |
| Jul 31, 2025 | 6.92 Bn |
| Apr 30, 2025 | 7.00 Bn |
| Jan 31, 2025 | 6.47 Bn |
| Oct 31, 2024 | 5.85 Bn |
| Jul 31, 2024 | 5.74 Bn |
| Apr 30, 2024 | 5.43 Bn |
| Jan 31, 2024 | 5.80 Bn |
| Oct 31, 2023 | 5.32 Bn |
| Jul 31, 2023 | 5.22 Bn |
| Apr 30, 2023 | 4.89 Bn |
| Jan 31, 2023 | 4.24 Bn |
| Oct 31, 2022 | 3.92 Bn |
| Jul 31, 2022 | 3.81 Bn |
| Apr 30, 2022 | 3.48 Bn |
| Jan 31, 2022 | 2.11 Bn |
| Oct 31, 2021 | 2.26 Bn |
| Jul 31, 2021 | 2.22 Bn |
API Access
Workday Short-term Investments 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=short-term-investments&ticker=WDAY&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEYimport requests
url = "https://data.businessquant.com/historic"
params = {"slug": "short-term-investments", "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=short-term-investments&ticker=WDAY&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();