Avoid the stress of overpaying for a stock or missing an opportunity by using the right tools and insights to evaluate Workday, Inc. before investing.

In this article, we go over a few key elements for understanding Workday, Inc.’s stock price such as:

• Workday, Inc.’s current stock price and volume
• Why Workday, Inc.’s stock price changed recently
• Upgrades and downgrades for WDAY from analysts
• WDAY’s stock price momentum as measured by its relative strength

About Workday, Inc. (WDAY)

Before we jump into Workday, Inc.’s stock price, history, target price and what caused it to recently rise, let’s take a look at some background.

Workday, Inc. provides enterprise cloud applications in the United States and internationally. The company offers a suite of financial management applications to maintain accounting information; manage financial processes, such as payables and receivables; identify real-time financial, operational, and management insights; perform financial consolidation; reduce time-to-close; promote internal control and auditability; and achieve consistency across finance operations. It also provides spend management solutions that help organizations to streamline supplier selection and contract management, build and execute sourcing events, such as requests for proposals, and manage indirect spend; expense management solutions to submit and approve expenses; and a suite of human capital management applications that enables HR teams to hire, onboard, pay, develop, reskill, and provide employee experiences. In addition, the company offers planning applications. Further, it provides supply chain and inventory solutions to healthcare organizations; solutions to manage the end-to-end student and faculty lifecycle; Workday Extend for customers and their developers to build custom applications. The company serves the professional and business services, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, media, education, government, technology, media, retail, and hospitality industries. It sells its solutions through its direct sales organization. The company was formerly known as North Tahoe Power Tools, Inc. and changed its name to Workday, Inc. in July 2005. Workday, Inc. was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

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Workday, Inc.’s Stock Price as of Market Close

As of July 31, 2026, 4:00 PM, CST, Workday, Inc.’s stock price was $160.340.

Workday, Inc. is up 1.41% from its previous closing price of $158.110.

During the last market session, Workday, Inc.’s stock traded between $152.100 and $160.890. Currently, there are approximately 253.89 million shares outstanding for Workday, Inc..

Workday, Inc.’s price-earnings (P/E) ratio is currently at 49.9, which is high compared to the Software industry median of 34.8. The price-earnings ratio gauges market expectation of future performance by relating a stock’s current share price to its earnings per share.

Workday, Inc. Stock Price History

Workday, Inc.’s (WDAY) price is currently up 30.98% so far this month.

During the month of July, Workday, Inc.’s stock price has reached a high of $170.400 and a low of $126.080.

Over the last year, Workday, Inc. has hit prices as high as $249.850 and as low as $110.360. Year to date, Workday, Inc.’s stock is down 25.35%.

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What Caused Workday, Inc. Stock’s Price to Rise?

Stock prices are primarily based on seller supply and buyer demand. But have you ever wondered about what other factors affect a stock's price?

When an analyst changes their opinion of a stock by upgrading or downgrading their rating, it often leads to a sudden stock price adjustment. As of July 31, 2026, there was 1 analyst who downgraded Workday, Inc.’s stock and 0 analysts who upgraded over the last month.

Additionally, you'll want to evaluate Workday, Inc.’s financial health and valuation. Investors can use AAII's Value Grade, which combines six key valuation metrics like P/E and P/S ratios for a comprehensive analysis to conduct analysis on Workday, Inc.’s valuation and financial health. This approach mitigates the limitations of single-metric evaluations.

Workday, Inc.’s current valuation based on AAII’s Value Grade is a D, which means it is considered to be Expensive.

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Lastly, news and media coverage as well as recent press reports about the company or its industry may cause stock prices to fluctuate. You can check out the most recent news articles about Workday, Inc. (WDAY) by visiting AAII Stock Evaluator.

Relative Price Strength of Workday, Inc.

Relative price strength measures a stock's performance against the market, helping investors identify stocks that are outperforming benchmarks.

For AAII’s Momentum Grade, a weighted relative price strength is calculated. Follow this link to learn more about the Momentum Grade.

As of July 31, 2026, Workday, Inc. has a weighted four-quarter relative price strength of -3.75%, which translates to a Momentum Score of 40 and is considered to be Weak.

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Workday, Inc. Stock Price: Bottom Line

As of July 31, 2026, Workday, Inc.’s stock price is $160.340, which is up 1.41% from its previous closing price.

AAII advises against making stock decisions based solely on price or past returns. Instead, consider a variety of metrics, fundamentals, and analytics to evaluate a stock like Workday, Inc. stock prices are influenced by market supply and demand and offer just a snapshot of a company's overall health.

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