Workday (WDAY) Tax Rate (2021 - 2026)
Workday (WDAY) posted Tax Rate of -93.27% for fiscal Q2 2027 (quarter ended Jul 31, 2026), down 118.27 percentage points from 25.00% a year earlier.
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Workday (WDAY) Tax Rate (2021 - 2026) Analysis & Trends
For the trailing twelve months through Jul 31, 2026, Tax Rate at Workday was -1.95%, down 24.63 percentage points year-over-year; for FY2026 (ended Jan 31, 2026), it came in at 31.32%, up 13.76 percentage points from FY2025.
- Annual Tax Rate shows a five-year change of +33.97 percentage points (FY2021 to FY2026).
- In prior fiscal years, Workday's Tax Rate was 17.55% in FY2025 (+305.48 pp), -287.92% in FY2024 (-246.77 pp), -41.15% in FY2023 (+40.10 pp) and -81.25% in FY2022 (-78.60 pp).
- The fiscal Q2 2027 figure stands as the lowest quarterly Tax Rate since fiscal Q4 2024.
- On a year-over-year basis, Tax Rate increased in six of the last seven quarters, with an average year-over-year change of +103.72 percentage points.
- The strongest year-over-year quarter for Tax Rate in the past five years was fiscal Q4 2025, with a gain of 782.54 percentage points; the weakest was fiscal Q4 2024, with a drop of 699.33 percentage points.
Peer Set
Peer Comparison
| # | Company | Market Cap | Enterprise Value | Gross Profit (Qtr) | Tax Rate (Qtr) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Palantir Technologies | 471.42 Bn | 440.48 Bn | 1.64 Bn | 1.42% |
| 2 | Oracle | 379.54 Bn | 252.10 Bn | - | 15.11% |
| 3 | Sap Se | 295.84 Bn | 224.19 Bn | 8.40 Bn | - |
| 4 | Salesforce | 205.95 Bn | 161.82 Bn | 8.70 Bn | 22.54% |
| 5 | ServiceNow | 162.33 Bn | 140.79 Bn | 2.82 Bn | 31.96% |
| 6 | Automatic Data Processing | 122.50 Bn | 104.63 Bn | 2.51 Bn | 22.20% |
| 7 | Intuit | 95.25 Bn | 74.60 Bn | 3.44 Bn | 32.78% |
| 8 | Relx | 73.89 Bn | 73.01 Bn | - | - |
| 9 | Thomson Reuters | 54.85 Bn | 51.63 Bn | - | 4.37% |
| 10 | Workday | 50.64 Bn | 26.77 Bn | 2.00 Bn | - |
Historic Data
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Historic Data
| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Jan 31, 2026 | 45.08% |
| Oct 31, 2025 | 25.44% |
| Jul 31, 2025 | 25.00% |
| Apr 30, 2025 | 33.98% |
| Jan 31, 2025 | 21.67% |
| Oct 31, 2024 | 14.98% |
| Jul 31, 2024 | 21.43% |
| Apr 30, 2024 | 13.01% |
| Oct 31, 2023 | 11.63% |
| Jul 31, 2023 | 3.66% |
| Apr 30, 2023 | 100.00% |
| Oct 31, 2021 | 4.59% |
API Access
Workday Tax Rate 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=tax-rate&ticker=WDAY&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEYimport requests
url = "https://data.businessquant.com/historic"
params = {"slug": "tax-rate", "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=tax-rate&ticker=WDAY&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();