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Workday, Inc. · Nasdaq · Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation · CIK 1327811 · All filings on SEC.gov

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34 / 37risk-factor paragraphs added / removed in latest 10-K
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0Form 4 filings reporting open-market purchases (last 180 days)
28Form 4 filings reporting open-market sales (last 180 days)

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What changed in the latest 10-K

Comparing 10-K filed 2026-03-06 (period ending 2026-01-31) with 10-K filed 2025-03-11 (period ending 2025-01-31).

Risk Factors (10-K Item 1A)

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New heading “If we are not able to realize a return on our current development efforts or offer new features, enhancements, and modifications to our products and services that are desired by current or potential customers, our business and operating results could be adversely affected.”

New heading “If we are not able to realize a return on the investments we have made toward entering new markets and new lines of business, our business and operating results could be adversely affected.”

New heading “The use of new and evolving technologies in our offerings at Workday, including generative and agentic AI capabilities, may result in reputational harm and increased litigation, and adversely affect our operating results.”

Removed heading “The use of new and evolving technologies in our offerings at Workday, including AI, may result in reputational harm and increased litigation, and adversely affect our operating results.”

Removed heading “If we are not able to realize a return on our current development efforts or offer new features, enhancements, and modifications to our services that are desired by current or potential customers, our business and operating results could be adversely affected.”

Removed heading “If we are unable to successfully integrate our applications with a variety of third-party technologies, our business and operating results could be adversely affected.”

Removed heading “We have a history of cumulative losses, and we may not sustain profitability on a GAAP basis in the future.”

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Removed text topics: litigation, lawsuit, generative ai, ai
“We are increasingly building AI into the Workday product suite and have recently made announcements about our plans to embrace agentic AI. As with many cutting-edge innovations, these technologies can present new risks and challenges. A quickly evolving technical, legal, and regulatory environment may cause us to incur increased research and development costs, or divert resources from other development efforts, to address ethical, legal, operational, or compliance requirements or other issues related to AI. …”
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New text topics: litigation, lawsuit, ai, regulation
“We are increasingly building and integrating AI into the Workday product suite, including generative and agentic AI, and we are increasingly using AI products and technologies in the course of running our business at Workday. As with many cutting-edge innovations, these technologies can present new risks and challenges. A quickly evolving technical, legal, and regulatory environment may cause us to incur increased research and development costs, or divert resources from other development efforts, to address ethical, legal, operational, or compliance requirements or other issues related to AI. …”
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New text topics: investigation, fine, penalt, sanction
“We may be subject to additional audits and investigations relating to our government contracts, and any violations could result in various civil and criminal penalties and administrative sanctions, including termination of contracts, suspension of payments, payment of fines, and suspension or debarment from future government business, as well as harm to our reputation and financial results.”
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Removed text topics: investigation, fine, penalt, sanction
“We may be subject to additional audits and investigations relating to our government contracts, and any violations could result in various civil and criminal penalties and administrative sanctions, including termination of contracts, refunding or suspending of payments, forfeiture of profits, payment of fines, and suspension or debarment from future government business.”
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New text topics: tariff, liquidity, inflation, interest rate
“Our future revenues rely on continued demand by existing customers and the acquisition of new customers who may be subject to economic hardship due to recent macroeconomic events, including concerns about the impact of potential or imposed tariffs, inflation or the interest rate environment, and may delay or reduce their enterprise software spending to preserve capital and liquidity. …”
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New text topics: litigation, ai
“The use of new and evolving technologies in our offerings at Workday, including generative and agentic AI capabilities, may result in reputational harm and increased litigation, and adversely affect our operating results.”
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Investing in our securities involves a high degree of risk. You should carefully consider the risks and uncertainties described below, together with all of the other information in this report, including the consolidated financial statements and the related notes included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, before making an investment decision. The risks and uncertainties described below reflect our beliefs and opinions as to the factors and events that could materially and adversely affect our business or the market price of our securities in the future. References to past events are provided by way of example only and are not intended to be a complete listing or a representation as to whether or not any of the risks, events, or uncertainties described below have occurred in the past. The risks and uncertainties described below are not the only ones we face. Additional risks and uncertainties that we are unaware of, or that we currently believe are not material, may also become important factors that materially and adversely affect our business. If any of the following risks actually occurs, our business operations, financial condition, operating results, and prospects could be materially and adversely affected. The market price of our securities could decline due to the materialization of these or any other risks, and you could lose part or all of your investment.

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•any slowdown or failure of our technical operations infrastructure, including our data centers and computing infrastructure operated by third parties, or the impact of service outages or delays in the deployment of our applications, or the failure of our applications to perform properly;

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•our ability to compete effectively in the intensely competitive markets in which we participate, including against non-specialist AI-native solutions;

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•our ability to compete effectively in the intensely competitive markets in which we participate;

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•our ability to realize a return on our current development efforts or offer new features, such as those involving AI, enhancements, and modifications to our products and services, and our ability to realize a return on the investments we have made toward entering new markets and new lines of business;

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•exposure to risks inherent to international expansion and sales to customers outside the United StatesU.S. or with international operations;

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•our ability to realize a return on our current development efforts or offer new features, enhancements, and modifications to our products and services, and our ability to realize a return on the investments we have made toward entering new markets and new lines of business;

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•the technical, legal, and regulatory environment in connection with our use of new and evolving technologies in our offerings, such as AI;

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•new and evolving technologies such as AI;

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We have experienced significant growth in the number of users, transactions, and data that our operations infrastructure supports. If we do not accurately predict our infrastructure requirements or fail to adapt and scale, we may experiencesee an increase in service outages or delays, or significant increases in operating costs, which may adversely affect our business and operating results.

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We have experienced, and may in the future experience, defects, system disruptions, outages, and other performance problems, including the failure of our applications to perform properly. These problems may be caused by a variety of factors, including infrastructure and software or code changes, vendor issues, software and system defects, human error, viruses, worms, security attacks (internal and external), fraud, spikes in customer usage, and denial of service issues. For example, in July 2025, we identified and subsequently remediated an issue impacting reporting from high-volume data sources in the tenants of certain customers that may have yielded incomplete queries without displaying an error message. In addition, we may also encounter difficulties integrating acquired technologies, which may result in the failure of our applications to perform properly. All of these issues may result in increased operational costs, delays in new feature rollouts, customer loss, reputational damage, and legal or regulatory liability, including liability under customer contracts.

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We host our applications and serve our customers and users globally from data centers operated by third parties and rely upon third-party partnersvendors to operate certain aspects of our services. We control our applications and data, but we do not control the facilities, operations, and physical security of these locations. Disruption of or interference at these locations has and could in the future impact our operations and our business could be adversely impacted. For example, we have experienced disruptions at certain of our co-location data centers in the U.S. due to high temperatures and power outages that resulted in a brief temporary outage of our services for a subset of our customers. These facilities may also be subject to cybersecurity breaches, capacity constraints, financial difficulties, break-ins, sabotage, intentional acts of vandalism and similar misconduct, natural catastrophic events, as well as local administrative actions, changes to legal or permitting requirements, and litigation to stop, limit, or delay operations, and our disaster recovery planning may not account for all eventualities.

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Any changes in third-party service levels atwith our hosted infrastructure providers, or any errors, defects, disruptions, or other performance problems with our applications or the infrastructure on which they run, including internet infrastructure, could adversely affect our reputation and may damage our customers’ or other users’ stored filesdata or result in lengthy interruptions in our services. Interruptions in our services might adversely affect our reputation and operating results, cause us to issue refunds or service credits to customers, subject us to potential liabilities, result in contract terminations, or adversely affect our renewal rates.

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The markets for enterprise cloud applications, including AI-powered solutions, are highly competitive, with relatively low barriers to entry for some applications or services. Some of our competitors are larger and have greater name recognition, significantly longer operating histories, access to larger customer bases, larger marketing budgets, and significantly greater resources to devote to the research, development, promotion, and sale of their products and services than we do. This may allow our competitors to respond more effectively than us to new or emerging technologies and changes in market conditions.

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Our primary competitors are Oracle and SAP, well-established providers of financial management and HCM applications, which have long-standing relationships with customers and partners. Some customers may be hesitant to switch vendors or to adopt cloud applications such as ours and may prefer to maintain their existing relationships with competitors. We also face competition from other enterprise software vendors, from regional competitors that only operate in certain geographic markets, and from vendors of specific applications that address only one or a portion of our applications, some of which offer cloud-based or AI-powered solutions. These vendors include, without limitation: Anaplan, Inc., ADP, Coupa Software Inc., Dayforce, Inc., Microsoft, ServiceNow, Inc., and UKG Inc. We may also face greater competition from non-specialist solutions relying on generic large language models (“LLMs”), generative AI, and general-purpose agents to address a broad range of business needs. In order to take advantage of customer demand for cloud and AI-powered applications, legacy vendors are expanding their cloud or AI-powered applications through acquisitions, strategic alliances, and organic development. In addition, other cloud or AI platform companies that provide services in different target markets or industries may develop applications or acquire companies that operate in our target markets or industries, and some potential customers may elect to develop their own internal applications. As the market evolves and as existing and new market participants introduce new types of technologies, such as generative and agentic AI, and different approaches that enable organizations to address their HCM and financial needs, our ability to maintain market differentiation may affect our competitive position.

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Furthermore, our current or potential competitors may be acquired by, or merge with, third parties with greater available resources and the ability to initiate or withstand substantial price competition. Our competitors may also establish cooperative relationships among themselves or with third parties that may further enhance their offerings, integrations, or resources. Many of our competitors also have major distribution agreements with consultants, system integrators, and resellers and such partners may prefer to maintain their existing relationships with competitors. With the introduction of new technologies, such as generative AI, we expect competition to intensify in the future. As we attempt to sell our products and solutions to potential and current customers, we must demonstrate that our products and solutions are superior to other solutions available to their organizations, including generic LLMs, software created using natural language prompts and generative AI (referred to as vibe coding) and other emerging technologies. If our competitors’ products, services, or technologies, including generative and agentic AI capabilities, become more accepted than our products, if their customer support efforts are preferred by customers, if they are successful in bringing their products or services to market earlier than ours, if they scale at a faster rate, or if their products or services are more technologically capable or resonate more with the market than ours, including having more or easier to use integrations for software solutions used and preferred by our customers, then our revenues could be adversely affected. In addition, our competitors may offer their products and services at a lower price, or may offer price concessions, delayed payment terms, financing terms, or other terms and conditions that are more enticing to potential customers. Due to the complex nature of implementing financial management solutions, the lifecycle of the contracts for such solutions tends to be long. Therefore, if we lose a current customer to a competitor or fail to secure a prospective customer for financial management solutions, there is a long duration before we will be able to approach that customer again with our sales efforts for such solutions. Pricing pressures and increased competition could result in reduced sales, reduced margins, losses, or a failure to maintain or improve our competitive market position, any of which could adversely affect our business and operating results.

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We operate on a global scale, and as a result, our business and revenues are impacted by global economic and geopolitical conditions. Global economic developments, including increased tariffs, geopolitical volatilities, downturns or recessions, political instability, and global health crises may negatively affect us or our ability to accurately forecast and plan our future business activity. In addition, volatile geopolitical situations have led and could lead to further economic disruption. Any sustained adverse impacts from these and other recent macroeconomic events could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, operating results, and earnings guidance that we may issue from time to time, which could have a material effect on the value of our Class A common stock.

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Our future revenues rely on continued demand by existing customers and the acquisition of new customers who may be subject to economic hardship due to recent macroeconomic events, including concerns about inflation or the interest rate environment, and may delay or reduce their enterprise software spending to preserve capital and liquidity. In connection with recent macroeconomic events, we have experienced and may continue to experience delays in purchasing decisions from existing and prospective customers, increased demand for price concessions and delayed payment terms, and a reduction in customer demand. Our business, financial condition, and operating results may be negatively impacted in future periods due to the prolonged impacts of recent macroeconomic events, which may not be fully reflected in our operating results and overall financial performance until future periods.

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Our success and future growth depend largely upon the continued services of our executive officers, other members of senior management, and other key employees. Effective February 1, 2024, the start of our fiscal 2025, in accordance with an established succession plan, Aneel Bhusri stepped down from his role as Co-CEO and assumed the role of Executive Chair, and Carl Eschenbach, formerly Co-CEO alongside Mr. Bhusri, assumed the role of sole CEO. We do not have employment agreements with our executive officers or other key employees that require them to continue to work for us for any specified period, and they could terminate their employment with us at any time. We have and may continue to execute our growth plan through strategic investments to attract and retain executive officers, senior management, or other key employees that may not be offset by increased performance or revenues. In February 2026, Aneel Bhusri, formerly Executive Chair, assumed the role of CEO and Carl Eschenbach ceased to serve as CEO. Key employee and executive leadership changes have the potential to disrupt our business, impact our ability to preserve our culture, negatively affect our ability to attract and retain talent, or otherwise have a serious adverse effect on our business and operating results.

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To execute our growth plan, we must attract, enable, develop, and retain highly qualified talent. Our ability to compete and succeed in a highly competitive environment is directly correlated to our ability to recruit and retain highly skilled and experienced employees, especially in the areas of product development, cybersecurity, senior sales executives, and engineers with significant experience in designing and developing software and internet-related services, includingespecially in AI.AI and emerging technologies. The expansion of our sales infrastructure, both domestically and internationally, is necessary to grow our customer base and business. Our business may be adversely affected if our efforts to attract and enable new members of our direct sales force do not generate a corresponding increase in revenues. We have experienced, and we expect to continue to experience, significant competition in hiring and retaining employees with appropriate qualifications.

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In February 2025, we announced the Fiscal 2026 Restructuring Plan, which is intended to prioritize our investments and advance our growth and is currently expected to result in the reduction of approximately 8% of our workforce. We expect this plan to be substantially complete by the second quarter of fiscal 2026, subject to local law and consultation requirements. The Fiscal 2026 Restructuring Plan could negatively impact our ability to attract, retain, and motivate employees.

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We must also continue to retain, develop, and motivate existing employees through our compensation practices, company culture, and career development opportunities. The compensation and incentives we have available to attract, retain, and motivate employees may not meet the expectations of current and prospective employees as the competition for talent intensifies. For example, our equity awards may become less effective if our stock price decreases or increases at a slower rate than our talent competitors. Further, our current and future office environments and our current hybrid work policy may not meet the expectations of our employees or prospective employees, and may amplify challenges in recruiting and retention. We believe that a critical component of our success has been our corporate culture and our core values. As we continue to grow and change, we may find it difficult to maintain our corporate culture among a larger number of employees who are dispersed throughout various geographic regions, including difficulties due to managing the complexities of communicating with all employees. Efforts to restructure our workforce, such as the Fiscal 2026 Restructuring Plan,workforce may be disruptive and adversely impact employee morale or our corporate culture. Failure to maintain or adapt our culture could negatively affect our ability to attract new employees or to retain our current employees and our business and future growth prospects could be adversely affected.

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The markets for enterprise cloud applications, including AI-powered solutions, are highly competitive, with relatively low barriers to entry for some applications or services. Some of our competitors are larger and have greater name recognition, significantly longer operating histories, access to larger customer bases, larger marketing budgets, and significantly greater resources to devote to the development, promotion, and sale of their products and services than we do. This may allow our competitors to respond more effectively than us to new or emerging technologies and changes in market conditions.

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Our primary competitors are Oracle and SAP, well-established providers of financial management and HCM applications, which have long-standing relationships with customers and partners. Some customers may be hesitant to switch vendors or to adopt cloud applications such as ours and may prefer to maintain their existing relationships with competitors. We also face competition from other enterprise software vendors, from regional competitors that only operate in certain geographic markets, and from vendors of specific applications that address only one or a portion of our applications, some of which offer cloud-based or AI-powered solutions. These vendors include, without limitation: Anaplan, Inc., ADP, Coupa Software Inc., Dayforce, Inc., Infor, Inc., Microsoft Corporation, and UKG Inc. In order to take advantage of customer demand for cloud and AI-powered applications, legacy vendors are expanding their cloud or AI-powered applications through acquisitions, strategic alliances, and organic development. In addition, other cloud or AI platform companies that provide services in different target markets or industries may develop applications or acquire companies that operate in our target markets or industries, and some potential customers may elect to develop their own internal applications. As the market matures and as existing and new market participants introduce new types of technologies, such as generative and agentic AI, and different approaches that enable organizations to address their HCM and financial needs, we expect this competition to intensify in the future.

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Furthermore, our current or potential competitors may be acquired by, or merge with, third parties with greater available resources and the ability to initiate or withstand substantial price competition. Our competitors may also establish cooperative relationships among themselves or with third parties that may further enhance their offerings or resources. Many of our competitors also have major distribution agreements with consultants, system integrators, and resellers and such partners may prefer to maintain their existing relationships with competitors. With the introduction of new technologies, such as generative AI, we expect competition to intensify in the future. If our competitors’ products, services, or technologies become more accepted than our products, if they are successful in bringing their products or services to market earlier than ours, or if their products or services are more technologically capable than ours, then our revenues could be adversely affected. In addition, our competitors may offer their products and services at a lower price, or may offer price concessions, delayed payment terms, financing terms, or other terms and conditions that are more enticing to potential customers. Due to the complex nature of implementing financial management solutions, the lifecycle of the contracts for such solutions tends to be long. Therefore, if we lose a current customer to a competitor or fail to secure a prospective customer for financials management solutions, there is a long duration before we will be able to approach that customer again with our sales efforts for such solutions. Pricing pressures and increased competition could result in reduced sales, reduced margins, losses, or a failure to maintain or improve our competitive market position, any of which could adversely affect our business and operating results.

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Our strategy for additional growth depends, in part, on sales generated through our network of partners and professional services provided by our partners. If the operations of these partners are disrupted, including as a direct or indirect result of recent macroeconomic conditions, our own operations may suffer, which could adversely impact our operating results. Identifying partners, and negotiating and documenting relationships with them, and marketing and promoting partnerships requires significant time and resources, and we cannot ensure that these partnerships will result in increased customer adoption or usage of our applications or increased revenue. We may be at a disadvantage if our competitors are effective in providing incentives to our current or potential partners to favor their products or services or to prevent or reduce subscriptions to our services, or in negotiating better rates or terms with such partners, particularly in international markets where our potential partners may have existing relationships with our competitors. In addition, acquisitions of our partners by our competitors could end our strategic relationship with such acquired partner and result in a decrease in the number of our current and potential customers.

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Our partner training and educational programs may not be effective or utilized consistently by partners. New partners may require extensive training and/or may require significant time and resources to achieve productivity.productivity, and such requirements may deter potential partners due to the significant time and financial investment required. Changes to our direct go-to-market models and expanded product and service offerings may cause friction with our partnerspartners, require increased time and financial investment, and may increase the risk in our partner ecosystem. The actions of our partners may subject us to lawsuits, potential liability, and reputational harm if, for example, any of our partners misrepresent the functionality of our products to prospective or current customers, fail to perform services to our customers’ expectations, or violate laws or our corporate policies.policies, such as laws and policies around privacy, cybersecurity, and responsible AI. In addition, we resell certain products and services offered by our partners and could incur potential liability and reputational harm if our partners fail to provide such products and services as represented to customers. Our partners may utilize our platform to develop products and services that could potentially compete with products and services that we offer currently or in the future. Concerns over competitive matters or intellectual property ownership could constrain these partnerships. If we fail to effectively manage and grow our network of partners, maintain good relationships with our partners, or properly monitor the quality and efficacy of their service delivery, or if our partners do not effectively market and sell our subscription services, use greater efforts to market and sell their own products or services or those of our competitors, or fail to meet the needs or expectations of our customers, our ability to sell our products and efficiently provide our services may be impacted, and our operating results and growth rate may be harmed.

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If we are not able to realize a return on our current development efforts or offer new features, enhancements, and modifications to our products and services that are desired by current or potential customers, our business and operating results could be adversely affected.

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Developing software applications and related enhancements, features, and modifications, including those involving AI, including generative and agentic AI or other emerging technologies, is expensive, and the investment in product development often involves a long return on investment cycle. We believe that we must continue to dedicate a significant amount of resources to our development efforts to maintain our competitive position. Accelerated application introductions and short application life cycles require high levels of expenditures that could adversely affect our operating results if not offset by revenue increases. However, we may not receive significant revenues from these investments for several years, if at all. If we are unable to provide new features, enhancements to user experience, and modifications in a timely and cost-effective manner that achieve market acceptance, align with customer expectations, and that keep pace with rapid technological developments and changing regulatory landscapes, it may negatively impact our customer renewal rates, limit the market for our solutions, or impair our ability to attract new customers and our business and operating results could be adversely affected. For example, AI is propelling advancements in technology, but if we fail to innovate and keep up with advancements in AI technology, if Workday’s AI-powered solutions, including our current and planned agentic AI solutions, fail to be delivered as planned or at all, fail to operate as expected or to meet customer expectations, if we fail to successfully monetize our AI-powered solutions, or if we do not have sufficient access to development resources and the technologies required to build and improve our applications, our business and reputation may be harmed.

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If we are not able to realize a return on the investments we have made toward entering new markets and new lines of business, our business and operating results could be adversely affected.

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We continue to seek opportunities to enter into new markets and/or new lines of business, some of which we may have very limited or no experience in. For example, we have and continue to make significant targeted investments in entering the medium-enterprise and U.S. federal government markets and see our success in these markets as key contributors to our future growth. Additionally, we have made and continue to make significant investments in platform offerings and AI, including generative AI and agentic capabilities. As an entrant to new markets and new lines of business, we may not be effective in convincing prospective customers that our solutions will address their needs, and we may not accurately estimate our infrastructure needs, human resource requirements, or operating expenses with regard to these new markets and new lines of business. We may also fail to accurately anticipate adoption rates of these new lines of business or their underlying technology. Also, we may not be able to properly price our solutions in these new markets, which could negatively affect our ability to sell to customers. Furthermore, customers in these new markets or of the new lines of business may demand more or different features and professional services, which may require us to devote even greater research and development, sales, support, and professional services resources to such customers. If we fail to generate adequate revenues from these new markets and lines of business, or if we fail to do so within the envisioned timeframe, it could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and operating results.

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SalesOur international presence, continued expansion, and sales to customers outside the United StatesU.S. or with international operations expose us to risks inherent in global operations.

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The growth of our business and future prospects depends on our ability to further expand our operations and increase our sales outside of the United StatesU.S. as a percentage of our total revenues. Operating globally requires significant resources and management attention and subjects us to regulatory, economic, and political risks that are different from those in the United States.U.S. Our investments and efforts to further expand internationally may not be successful in creating additional demand for our applications outside of the United StatesU.S. or in effectively selling subscriptions to our applications in all of the markets we enter. Risks associated with doing business on a global scale that could adversely affect our business, include:

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•the need to adhere to local laws and regulations, including those related to data localization, privacy, and anti-corruptionanti-corruption, which may make it more difficult to penetrate certain international market segments with highly specialized compliance, contracting, and data sovereignty requirements;

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•difficulties in appropriately staffing and managing foreign operations and providing appropriate compensation and benefits for local markets;

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•difficulties in leveraging executive presence andpresence, maintaining company culture globallyglobally, and conforming with local cultural contexts and customs;

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•increased travel, real estate, infrastructure, and legal and regulatory compliance costs associated with international operations;

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•potentially weaker protection for intellectual property and other legal rights than in the United StatesU.S. and practical difficulties in enforcing intellectual property and other rights;

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•laws, contracting approaches, customs, and business practices favoring local competitorsvendors over U.S.-based companies, which may be increased by geopolitical tensions;

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•restrictive governmental actions focused on cross-border trade, such as import and export restrictions, duties, quotas, potential or imposed tariffs, trade disputes, and barriers or sanctions, as well as any retaliatory actions, that may prevent us from offering certain portions of our products or services to a particular market, may increase our operating costscosts, or may subject us to monetary fines or penalties;

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•compliance challenges related to the complexity of multiple, conflicting, and changing governmental laws and regulations, including employment, tax, privacy, intellectual property, financial services, AI, and data protection laws and regulationsregulations, as well as challenges with differing legal, alternative dispute, and regulatory systems;

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•increased compliance costs related to government regulatory reviews or audits, including those related to international cybersecurity and environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”)sustainability requirements;

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Implementation of our applications may be technically complicated because they are designed to enable complex and varied business processes across large organizations, integrate data from a broad and complex range of workflows and systems, and may involve deployment in a variety of environments. Incorrect or improper implementation or use of our applications could result in customer and user dissatisfaction and harm our business and operating results.

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In order for our customers to successfully implement our applications, they need access to highly skilled and trained service professionals. Third parties provide a majority of deployment services for our customers, but professional services may also be performed by our own staff or by a combination of the two. If customers are not satisfied with the quality and timing of work performed by us or a third party or with the type of professional services or applications delivered, or if we or a third party have not delivered on commitments made to our customers, then we could incur additional costs to address the situation, the revenue recognition of the contract could be impacted, and the dissatisfaction with our services could damage our ability to expand the applications subscribed to by our customers. Negative publicity related to our customer relationships, regardless of its accuracy, may further damage our business by affecting our ability to compete for new business with current and prospective customers both domestic and abroad.

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Our customers have no obligation to renew their subscriptions for our applications after the expiration of either the initial or renewed subscription period. Our customers’ renewal rates fluctuate as a result of a number of factors, including their level of satisfaction with our applications and pricing, their awareness and adoption of the benefits and features of our applications, their ability to continue their operations and spending levels, reductions in their headcount, and the evolution of their business. If our customers do not renew their subscriptions for our applications on similar pricing terms or renew for fewer elements of our applications, our revenues may decline, and we may not be able to meet our revenue projections, which could negatively impact our business and the market price of our Class A common stock.

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Our future success also depends, in part, on our ability to sell additional products to our current customers, and the success rate of such endeavors is difficult to predict, especially with regard to any new lines of business that we may introduce from time to time. This has and may continue to require increasingly costly marketing and sales efforts that are targeted at senior management, and if these efforts are not successful, our business and operating results may suffer. Additionally, acquisitions of our customers by other companies have led, and could continue to lead, to cancellation of our contracts with those customers, thereby reducing the number of our existing and potential customers.

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The use of new and evolving technologies in our offerings at Workday, including AI, may result in reputational harm and increased litigation, and adversely affect our operating results.

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We are increasingly building AI into the Workday product suite and have recently made announcements about our plans to embrace agentic AI. As with many cutting-edge innovations, these technologies can present new risks and challenges. A quickly evolving technical, legal, and regulatory environment may cause us to incur increased research and development costs, or divert resources from other development efforts, to address ethical, legal, operational, or compliance requirements or other issues related to AI. For example, the European Union’s (“EU”) AI Act (“EU AI Act”) puts new requirements on providers of AI technologies and we are currently analyzing the EU AI Act to ensure compliance in alignment with various deadlines in the coming years. Additionally, existing laws and regulations may apply to us in new ways, the nature and extent of which are difficult to predict and subject to change over time. The risks and challenges presented by these technologies could undermine public confidence in AI, which could slow its adoption and affect our business. Many of our products are powered by AI, some of which include the use of large language models and generative AI, for use cases that could potentially impact human, civil, privacy, or employment rights and dignities. To the extent that our products and technologies rely on the use of large language models provided by third parties, we may face additional uncertainties and liabilities. Any failure to accurately identify and address our responsibilities and liabilities in this uncertain environment, and adequately address relevant ethical and social issues that may arise with such technologies and use cases, as well as failure by others in our industry, or actions taken by our customers, employees, or end users (including misuse of these technologies), could negatively affect the adoption of our offerings and subject us to reputational harm, regulatory action, or litigation, which may harm our financial condition and operating results. We already are defending against a lawsuit alleging that our products and services enable discrimination, and although we believe that such claims lack merit, and the majority of the claims have been dismissed, legal proceedings can be lengthy, expensive, and disruptive to our operations and customers (particularly where, as in the present litigation, the plaintiff may seek to also litigate against certain of Workday’s customers). We may be subject to other litigation and regulatory actions that may cause financial, competitive, and developmental impacts, and could lead to legal liability. In addition, regardless of outcome, these types of claims could cause reputational harm to our brand, including our ability to sell newly acquired products that use AI. Our employees, customers, or customers’ employees who are dissatisfied with our public statements, policies, practices, or solutions related to the development and use of AI may express opinions that could introduce reputational or business harm, or cease their relationship with us.

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If we are not able to realize a return on our current development efforts or offer new features, enhancements, and modifications to our services that are desired by current or potential customers, our business and operating results could be adversely affected.

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Developing software applications and related enhancements, features, and modifications, including those involving AI, is expensive, and the investment in product development often involves a long return on investment cycle. Accelerated application introductions and short application life cycles require high levels of expenditures that could adversely affect our operating results if not offset by revenue increases, and we believe that we must continue to dedicate a significant amount of resources to our development efforts to maintain our competitive position. However, we may not receive significant revenues from these investments for several years, if at all. If we are unable to provide new features, enhancements to user experience, and modifications in a timely and cost-effective manner that achieve market acceptance, align with customer expectations, and that keep pace with rapid technological developments and changing regulatory landscapes, it may negatively impact our customer renewal rates, limit the market for our solutions, or impair our ability to attract new customers and our business and operating results could be adversely affected. For example, AI is propelling advancements in technology, but if we fail to innovate and keep up with advancements in AI technology, if Workday Illuminate solutions fail to be delivered as planned or at all, fail to operate as expected or to meet customer expectations, or if we do not have sufficient access to development resources and the technologies required to build and improve our applications, our business and reputation may be harmed.

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We believe that developing and maintaining widespread positive awareness of our brand is critical to our growth. However, brand promotion activities may not generate the awareness or increased revenues we anticipate, and even if they do, any increase in revenues may not offset the significant expenses we incur in building our brand.

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If we fail to successfully promote and maintain positive awareness of our brand, or we fail to expand positive awareness of our newer solutions or products, we may fail to attract or retain customers necessary to realize a sufficient return on our brand-building efforts, or to achieve the widespread positive brand awareness that is critical for broad customer adoption of our applications and for the end user experience. We have and may continue to experience reputational harm from, among other things, the introduction of new products, features, or services that do not meet customer expectations; our use of new and evolving technologies, including AI; service outages or disruptions; issues with product quality or performance; backlash from customers, government entities, or other stakeholders that disagree with our product offering decisions or public policy, ethical, or political positions; significant litigation or regulatory actions that negatively reflect on our business practices; and data security breaches or compliance failures. Any unfavorable publicity or perception of our brand or our applications, including any unfavorable candidate or end user experience, could negatively impact our ability to attract and retain customers and also make it more difficult to hire and retain employees.

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If we are unable to successfully integrate our applications with a variety of third-party technologies, our business and operating results could be adversely affected.

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As Workday Mobile becomes increasingly important to Workday’s customer experience, we also need to continuously modify and enhance our applications to keep pace with changes in third-party internet-related hardware, iOS, Android, other mobile-related operating systems, platforms, and technologies, and other third-party software, communication, browser, and database technologies, as well as with customer expectations. Any failure of our applications to operate effectively with future network platforms and other third-party technologies, or changes in such technologies that degrade the functionality of our products or give preferential treatment to competitive services, could reduce the demand for our applications, result in customer and end user dissatisfaction, and adversely affect our business and operating results.

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These impacts may continue through integration activities. Moreover, we may be unable to complete proposed transactions timely or at all due tofor a variety of reasons, such as our failure to obtain any necessary funding to complete an acquisition in a timely manner or on favorable terms,funding, the failure to obtain required regulatory or other approvals, litigation,or the impact of litigation or other disputes, which may obligate us to pay a termination fee.disputes. We also may not achieve the anticipated benefits from an acquisition due to a number of factors, including:

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•inability or difficulty integrating the intellectual property, technology infrastructure, and operations of the acquired business, including difficulty in addressing potential identified or unknown security risks or vulnerabilities of the acquired business or product;

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•the impact on stockholder dilution and our operating results from the additional stock-based compensation issued in connection with the acquisition;

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•a failure to maintain the information systems of an acquired business, including difficulties in increasing or maintaining the security standards for acquired technology, which could increase the risk of a security breach of such system;

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•adverse effects on our brandbrand, reputation, or existing business relationships with business partners and customers as a result of the acquisition, including integrating acquired technologies and a delay in market acceptance of and difficulty in transitioning new and existing customers to acquired product lines or services;

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The following discussion of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included included in Part II, Item 8 of this report. The following discussion contains forward-looking statements that reflect our plans, estimates, and beliefs. Our actual results could differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to these differences include those discussed below and elsewhere in this report, particularly in “Risk Factors” included in Part I, Item 1A of this report.

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Workday is the enterprise AI platform thatfor helpsmanaging organizationspeople, manage their most important assets – their peoplemoney, and money.agents. We deliver cloud-basedcloud-based, AI-powered applications for HCM, financial management, HCM, planning, spend management, and analytics.planning. Our diverse customer base includes emerging, medium-sized, and large global organizations within numerous industry categories,industries, including financial services, government, higher education, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, professional and business services, financialretail, services,technology healthcare, education, government, technology,and media, retail, and hospitality.transportation. WithWorkday Workday, ourhelps customers have an AI-powered platform that can help them deliver better employee experiences, increase productivity, improve operational efficiencies, and provide insights for faster, data-driven decision-making.

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We have achieved significant growth since our inception in 2005, when we pioneered HCM in the cloud. As a result of our innovation and commitment to customer success, today we are a Fortune 500 company with more than 11,00011,500 customers around the world. As we continue to grow, we are focused on driving sustainable, long-term subscription revenue growth by adding new customers and expanding our relationships with existing customers through increased adoption of our suite of solutions. Central to this effort is investing in strategic growth areas including leveraging the power of our platform to drive increased adoption of our full suite of applications, expanding internationally, developing innovative AI solutions, expanding internationally, growing our partner ecosystem, deepening our presence in industry verticals,verticals and the emerging and medium enterprise market, and exploring strategic acquisitions to complement our organic innovation. Our investments across these targeted growth areas may require additional costs, but we remain committed to optimizing resource allocation and realizing a return on our investments. Over time, we believe these investments will support revenue growth and a more scalable business.

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We are focused on expanding our operating margin by driving scale and building efficiencies across the business through investments in people, processes, and systems. In February 2025, we announced the Fiscal 2026 Restructuring Plan, which is intended to prioritize our investments and continue advancing our ongoing focus on durable growth. The plan is currently expected to result in the reduction of approximately 8% of our workforce. In connection with this plan, we expect to exit certain owned office space. As a result of our focus on expanding operating margin, we expect our product development, sales and marketing, and general and administrative expenses as a percentage of total revenues will decrease over the longer term as we grow our revenues and invest in a disciplined manner to support our long-term growth objectives.

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Recent macroeconomic events including increased tariffs, elevated inflation, and fluctuating interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, as well as geopolitical instability, continue to impact the global economy and create uncertainty, volatility, and disruption of financial markets. Despite this, we are confident in the long-term overall health of our business, the strength of our product offerings, and our ability to continue to execute on our strategy and help our customers on their human capital and finance digital transformation journeys. Demand for our products remains strong, we continue to achieve solid new subscription bookings, and our near-term revenues are relatively predictable as a result of our subscription-based business model.

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We have experienced, and may continue to experience, a moderation of revenue growth rates due to deal scrutiny and the lengthening of certain sales cycles, particularly within net new opportunities, and reduced growth in headcount level commitments upon renewals of existing customers. Further, we have provided, and may continue to provide, certain customers with more flexible payment terms. If the economic uncertainty continues, we may also experience additional negative impacts on customer renewals, customer collections, sales and marketing efforts, customer deployments, product development, or other financial metrics. Any of these factors could harm our business, financial condition, and operating results. For further discussion of the potential impacts of recent macroeconomic events on our business, financial condition, and operating results, see “Risk Factors” included in Part I, Item 1A of this report.

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Additional notable transactions from fiscal 2026 include:

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•Business combinations: In September 2025, we acquired Paradox, a candidate experience agent that uses conversational AI to simplify every step of the job application journey, for purchase consideration of $1.1 billion, and in November 2025, we acquired Sana, a leading AI company building the next generation of enterprise knowledge tools, for purchase consideration of $1.1 billion.

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•Share repurchases: During fiscal 2026, we repurchased approximately 12.8 million shares of our Class A common stock for $2.9 billion as part of our share repurchase programs.

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•Restructuring activities: In February 2025, we announced a restructuring plan (“Fiscal 2026 Restructuring Plan”), intended to prioritize our investments and continue advancing our ongoing focus on durable growth. The plan resulted in the reduction of approximately 7.5% of our workforce and the exit of certain owned office space. In February 2026, we announced an additional restructuring plan (“Fiscal 2027 Restructuring Plan”) intended to better align our people and resources to our highest priorities in fiscal 2027. The plan is expected to result in the reduction of approximately 2% of our workforce, and in the impairment of certain office space and long-lived assets. For fiscal 2026, we incurred approximately $303 million in costs related to these restructuring activities.

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Recent macroeconomic events including increased tariffs, elevated inflation, and fluctuating interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, as well as geopolitical instability, continue to impact the global economy and create uncertainty, volatility, and disruption of financial markets. As a result, we have experienced, and may continue to experience, a moderation of revenue growth rates due to deal scrutiny and the lengthening of certain sales cycles, particularly within net new opportunities, as well as reduced growth in headcount-level commitments upon renewals of existing customers. The extended sales cycles are particularly evident in the government, higher education, and healthcare industries which are tied to federal funding. Further, we have provided, and may continue to provide, certain customers with more flexible payment terms. For further discussion of the potential impacts of recent macroeconomic events on our business, financial condition, and operating results, see “Risk Factors” included in Part I, Item 1A of this report.

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We derive our revenues from subscription services and professional services. Subscription services revenues primarily consist of fees that give ourprovide customers access to our cloud applications, whichwith includestandard relatedand enhanced customer support. Professional services revenues include fees for deployment services, optimization services, and training.

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Our professional services consulting engagements are billed on a time and materials or fixed price basis. We generally invoice our customers inas arrearsthe work is performed for ourtime professionaland services.materials arrangements, and in advance for fixed price arrangements. For contracts billed on a time and materials basis, revenues are recognized over time as the professional services are performed. For contracts billed on a fixed price basis, revenues are recognized over time based on the proportion of the professional services performed. In some cases, we supplement our consulting teams by subcontracting resources from our service partners and deploying them on customer engagements. As the Workday-related consulting practices of our partner firms continue to develop, we expect these partners to increasingly contract directly with our subscription customers for services engagements.

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Costs of subscription services revenues. Costs of subscription services revenues consist primarily of expenses associated with hosting our applications and providingdelivering standard and enhanced customer support,support includingservices. These costs include employee-related expenses, expenses related to data center capacity and computingthird-party infrastructurehosted operated by third parties, andinfrastructure, depreciation of our data center equipment.equipment, amortization of certain acquisition-related intangible assets, and allocated overhead.

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Costs of professional services revenues. Costs of professional services revenues consist primarily of employee-related expenses associated with these services, subcontractor expenses, travel expenses, and travelallocated expenses.overhead.

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Product development expenses. Product development expenses consist primarily of employee-related expenses associated with our efforts to add new features and applications, increase functionality, and enhance the ease of use of our cloud applications, as well as expenses related to datathird-party centerhosted capacity.infrastructure, and allocated overhead.

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Sales and marketing expenses. Sales and marketing expenses consist primarily of employee-related expenses, sales commissions, marketing programs, travel expenses, amortization of certain acquisition-related intangible assets, and travelallocated expenses.overhead. Marketing programs consist of advertising, events, corporate communications, brand awareness, brand ambassador campaigns, and product marketing activities. Sales commissions are considered incremental costs of obtaining a contract with a customer. Sales commissions for new revenue contracts are capitalized and amortized on a straight-line basis over a period of benefit that we have determined to be five years.

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General and administrative expenses. General and administrative expenses consist primarily of employee-related expenses for our finance and accounting, legal, human resources, and information systems personnel, as well as professional services fees, allocated overhead, and other corporate expenses.

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We allocate shared costs, such as facilities, IT, benefits, and recruiting, primarily based on headcount. As such, overhead expenses are reflected in each of the costs and expenses categories.

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Restructuring expenses. Restructuring expenses are associated with a formal restructuring program and consist of charges related to workforce reductions, including employee transition, severance payments, employee benefits, and share-based compensation, as well as exit charges associated with the closure of facilities.facilities and other exit and disposal activities.

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Total revenues were $9.6 billion for fiscal 2026, compared to $8.4 billion for fiscal 2025, compared to $7.3 billion for fiscal 2024, an increase of $1.2 billion, or 16%. Subscription services revenues were $7.7 billion for fiscal 2025, compared to $6.6 billion for fiscal 2024, an increase of $1.1 billion, or 17%.13%. Subscription services revenues were $8.8 billion for fiscal 2026, compared to $7.7 billion for fiscal 2025, an increase of $1.1 billion, or 14%. Approximately 60% of the increase in subscription services revenues was attributable to expansion ofwithin our customers that existed as of the beginning of the comparable prior fiscalyear year,period, and the remaining 40% was attributable to customers added after the beginning of the comparable prior fiscalyear year.period. Professional services revenues were $719 million for fiscal 2026, compared to $728 million for fiscal 2025, compareda to $656 million for fiscal 2024, an increasedecrease of $72$10 million, or 11%.1%. The increasedecrease in professional services revenues was driven by highervariation demandin forproject oursize and mix of deployment and integration services.services provided as we continue to expand and leverage our service partners.

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Our gross revenue retention rate is based on ARR, which represents the annualized value of active subscription contracts as of the end of each period. Each subscription contract is annualized by dividing the total contract value by the number of days in the contract term and then multiplying by 365. We exclude certain subscription contracts from the calculation, including contracts with terms less than one year that are distinct from our core product offering, such as contracts for tenants which are used for implementation and testing. To the extent that we are negotiating a renewal with a customer after the expiration of the subscription, ARR is only adjusted if the customer churns. We calculate ARR on a constant currency basis using exchange rates set at the beginning of each fiscal year. ARR is a non-GAAP financial measure and should be viewed independently of, and not as a substitute for or combined with, revenue and unearned revenue.

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Total costs and expenses were $8.8 billion for fiscal 2026, compared to $8.0 billion for fiscal 2025, compared to $7.1 billion for fiscal 2024, an increase of $955$800 million, or 13%.10%. The increase in operatingtotal costs and expenses included increases of $555$219 million in restructuring-related expenses, $159 million in third-party hosted infrastructure expenses, $212 million in employee-related expenses, includingnet share-basedof compensation,restructuring-related primarilycost duesavings, to higher average headcount, $84 million in restructuring expenses primarily related to the Fiscal 2026 Restructuring Plan, $57$81 million in facilities and IT-related expenses, $56$52 million inrelated data center capacity expenses, $46 million in subcontractor expenses, $44 million into professional servicesservices, expenses, $38 million in depreciation, $37$41 million in amortization of deferred sales commissionscommissions, due$27 tomillion increasedin sales,amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets, and $31$16 million related to marketing programs.programs, offset by a reduction of $19 million in subcontractor expenses.

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Costs of subscription services were $1.5 billion for fiscal 2026, compared to $1.3 billion for fiscal 2025, compared to $1.0 billion for fiscal 2024, an increase of $235$264 million, or 23%.21%. The increase in costs of subscription services included increases of $132$139 million in third-party hosted infrastructure expenses, $74 million in employee-related expenses, including share-based compensation,expenses primarily due to higherdelivering averageour headcount,enhanced $44customer support services, net of restructuring-related cost savings, $29 million in datafacilities centerand capacityIT-related expenses, and $39$19 million in depreciation.amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets.

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We expect costs of subscription services will continue to increase in absolute dollars as we improve and expand our technical operations infrastructure, including computingthird-party infrastructurehosted operatedinfrastructure, byand thirdas parties.we grow our enhanced customer support services.

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Costs of professional services were $790 million for fiscal 2026, compared to $803 million for fiscal 2025, compareda to $740 million for fiscal 2024, an increasedecrease of $63$13 million, or 9%.2%. The increasedecrease in costs of professional services included increasesa reduction of $46$19 million in subcontractor expenses andoffset $12by an increase of $7 million in employee-relatedfacilities and IT-related expenses. Employee-related expenses remained relatively flat as a result of restructuring-related cost savings.

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We expect costs of professional services as a percentage of total revenues to continue to decline as we relyexpand onand leverage our service partners to deploy our applications and asfocus on growing our subscription services revenues continue to grow as we expand both our customer base and our footprint within our existing customers.revenues.

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Product development expenses were $2.7 billion for fiscal 2026, compared to $2.6 billion for fiscal 2025, compared to $2.5 billion for fiscal 2024, an increase of $160$55 million, or 7%.2%. The increase in product development expenses included an increaseincreases of $158$41 million in employee-related expenses, includingnet share-basedof compensation,restructuring-related primarilycost duesavings, $18 million in third-party hosted infrastructure expenses, and $14 million in facilities and IT-related expenses, offset by a reduction of $11 million related to higherprofessional average headcount.services.

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We expect product development expenses will continue to increase in absolute dollars as we improve and extend our applications and develop new technologies, including costs incurred for hardware maintenance, data center capacity, facility costs, and IT-related expenses.technologies.

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Sales and marketing expenses were $2.6 billion for fiscal 2026, compared to $2.4 billion for fiscal 2025, compared to $2.1 billion for fiscal 2024, an increase of $294$184 million, or 14%.8%. The increase in sales and marketing expenses included increases of $180$76 million in employee-related expenses, includingnet share-basedof compensation,restructuring-related primarilycost duesavings, to higher average headcount, $37$41 million in amortization of deferred sales commissionscommissions, due to increased sales, $30$19 million related to marketing programs, $17 million related to professional services, and $25$17 million in facilities and IT-related expenses.

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We expect sales and marketing expenses to increase in absolute dollars as we continue to invest in our domesticdomestically and international selling and marketing activitiesinternationally to expand awareness of our brand and product offerings to attract new and existing customers.

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General and administrative expenses were $912 million for fiscal 2026, compared to $820 million for fiscal 2025, compared to $702 million for fiscal 2024, an increase of $118$92 million, or 17%.11%. The increase in general and administrative expenses included increases of $73$45 million related to professional services, $20 million in employee-related expenses, includingnet share-basedof compensation,restructuring-related primarilycost due to higher average headcount,savings, and $36$14 million in professionalfacilities servicesand IT-related expenses.

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Restructuring expenses were $84$303 million for fiscal 2025, with no comparable expense in the prior year. We recorded expenses2026, of $65which approximately $186 million forrelated to employee transition, severance payments, employee benefits, and share-based compensation under the Fiscal 2026 Restructuring Plancompensation, and exit$117 million related to impairment charges of $19 million associated with office space reductionsand underother along-lived separate restructuring plan.assets.

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Restructuring expenses were $84 million for fiscal 2025, of which approximately $65 million related to employee transition, severance payments, employee benefits, and share-based compensation, and $19 million related to impairment charges associated with office space.

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For further information, see Note 21, Restructuring, of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in Part II, Item 8 of this report.

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We estimate that we will incur approximately $230 million to $250 million in total charges in connection with the Fiscal 2026 Restructuring Plan, which consists of approximately $200 million to $210 million related to employee transition, severance payments, employee benefits, and share-based compensation, with the balance related to an impairment of office space. The activities associated with this plan are expected to be substantially complete by the second quarter of fiscal 2026, subject to local law and consultation requirements.

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Share-based compensation expense increased by $103$107 million during fiscal 2025,2026, primarily due to restructuring activities and additional grants to new and existing employees.

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Equity compensation is an important element of our compensation philosophy. While we expect share-based compensation expense to grow in absolute dollars as we expand our global workforce, we expect it to continue to decline as a percentage of total revenues.

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GAAP operating income was $415 million, or 4.9% of revenues, in fiscal 2025, compared to $183 million, or 2.5% of revenues in fiscal 2024. The improvement was primarily due to our revenue growth outpacing headcount growth and moderation of operating expenses, including share-based compensation, partially offset by restructuring expenses recognized in the current fiscal year.

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Non-GAAPGAAP operating income was $2.2$721 billion,million, or 25.9%7.5% of revenues, in fiscal 2025,2026, compared to $1.7$415 billion,million, or 24.0%4.9% of revenues in fiscal 2024.2025. The increase wasis primarily due to our revenue growth outpacing headcount growth andgrowth, moderation of operating expenses, including share-based compensation, and restructuring-related cost savings, partially offset by restructuring expenses.

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Non-GAAP operating income was $2.8 billion, or 29.6% of revenues, in fiscal 2026, compared to $2.2 billion, or 25.9% of revenues in fiscal 2025. The increase is primarily due to our revenue growth outpacing headcount growth, moderation of operating expenses, and restructuring-related cost savings.

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Reconciliations of our GAAP to non-GAAP operating income (loss) and operating margin were as follows (in millions, except percentages). See “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” below for further information.

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(1)The Share-based compensation expense lines in the GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliation tables above excludeexcludes share-based compensation expenseassociated with restructuring activities of $56 million and $8 million infor fiscal 20252026 relatedand to2025, restructuringrespectively. initiatives.These Thisexpenses expense isare included in the Restructuring costs lines.costs.

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Other income (expense),income, net was as follows (in millions):

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Other income, net increased by $50$65 million for fiscal 2025,2026, primarily due to $77 million in higher net gains on equity investments and $26 million in higher realized net gains from the sale of debt securities to fund acquisition activities and share repurchases. These increases were offset by a $32 million reduction in interest income earnedresulting from higherboth decreased investment balances and increased averagelower interest rates.

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The income tax provision for fiscal 2026 and 2025 was primarily attributable to an increase in our U.S. pretax income and income tax expenses in profitable foreign jurisdictions.

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On July 4, 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“The 2025 Tax Act”) was signed into law. The 2025 Tax Act makes permanent key elements of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, including 100% bonus depreciation, domestic research cost expensing, and modifications to the international tax framework. The 2025 Tax Act did not have a material impact on our annual effective tax rate and reduced our domestic cash tax outflows for fiscal 2026. The 2025 Tax Act includes multiple effective dates, with certain provisions effective in fiscal 2026 and others phased in through fiscal 2028. We continue to evaluate the impact of the 2025 Tax Act’s provisions that take effect in future periods.

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The income tax benefit for fiscal 2024 was primarily attributable to the $1.1 billion release of our valuation allowance related to all U.S. federal and state deferred tax assets, excluding certain state tax credits.

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As of January 31, 2025,2026, our principal sources of liquidity were cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities totaling $8.0$5.4 billion, which were primarily held for working capital and general corporate purposes. Our cash equivalents and marketable securities are primarily composed of, in order from largest to smallest, corporate bonds, U.S. treasury securities, money market funds, U.S. agency obligations, commercial paper, and asset-backed securities. We have financed our operations primarily through customer payments, issuance of debt,securities, and salessupranational of our common stock.securities.

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Our long-term future capital requirements depend on many factors, including the effects of macroeconomic trends, customer growth rates, subscription renewal activity, headcount growth, the timing and extent of development efforts, the expansion of sales and marketing activities, the introduction of new and enhanced services offerings, infrastructure development, and our investment and acquisition activities. As part of our strategy, we may choose to seek additional debt or equity financing.financing, which may not be available on terms favorable to us or at all. Additionally, our cash provided by operating activities could be affected by various risks and uncertainties, including the “Risk Factors” included in Part I, Item 1A of this report.

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Cash provided by operating activities was $2.5$2.9 billion and $2.1$2.5 billion for fiscal 20252026 and 2024,2025, respectively. In fiscal 2025, theThe improvement in cash flow provided by operating activities was primarily the result of higher cash collections of $868$1.2 millionbillion mainly due to increased salessales, and additional interest income received of $112 million from marketable debt securities,partially offset by increased employee-related payments of $465 million primarily due to higher average headcount and increased supplier payments of $171$335 million to support our continued growth.growth and increased employee-related payments of $272 million, which include payments made under the Fiscal 2026 Restructuring Plan.

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Cash usedprovided in investing activities for fiscal 20252026 was $1.8$333 billion,million, which primarily resulted from a net cash outflowinflows of $667$2.6 millionbillion relatedas towe converted marketable debt securities activities,into cash consideration,to fund acquisition activities and share repurchases, offset by net of cash acquired,outflows of $522$2.1 million and $303 millionbillion for the acquisitions of HiredScore and Evisort, respectively,acquisitions, and capital expenditures of $269$162 million mainly for data center and office space projects.

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Cash used in investing activities for fiscal 20242025 was $1.8 billion, which primarily resulted from a net cash outflow of $1.6$667 billionmillion fromrelated theto timingmarketable debt securities activities, net outflows of purchases$825 andmillion maturitiesfor of marketable securitiesacquisitions, and capital expenditures of $232$269 million for data center and office space projects, offset by proceeds of $144 million from sales of marketable securities.projects.

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Cash used in financing activities for fiscal 2026 was $3.3 billion, which was due to repurchases of common stock of $2.9 billion under our share repurchase programs and taxes paid of $616 million related to net share settlement of equity awards, offset by proceeds of $192 million from the issuance of common stock from employee equity plans.

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Cash used in financing activities for fiscal 2024 was $268 million, which was due to repurchases of common stock of $423 million under our share repurchase programs, offset by proceeds of $155 million from the issuance of common stock from employee equity plans.

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Free cash flows were $2.2$2.8 billion for fiscal 2025,2026, compared to $1.9$2.2 billion for the prior year period. The improvement was primarily the result of higher cash collections of $868$1.2 millionbillion mainly due to increased sales and additionaldecreased interestcapital income receivedexpenditures of $112$107 millionmillion, from marketable debt securities,partially offset by increased employee-related payments of $465 million primarily due to higher average headcount, increased supplier payments of $171$335 million to support our continued growth,growth and increased capitalemployee-related expenditurespayments of $37$272 million.million, which include payments made under the Fiscal 2026 Restructuring Plan.

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We repurchase shares of our Class A common stock under share repurchase programs authorized by our Board of Directors. Under these programs, in accordance with applicable securities laws and other restrictions, we may repurchase shares of our Class A common stock through open market purchases, including through the use of trading plans intended to qualify under Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act, in privately negotiated transactions, or by other means. The timing and total amount of share repurchases will depend upon business, economic, and market conditions, corporate and regulatory requirements, prevailing stock prices, and other considerations. The share repurchase programs have no expiration date, may be suspended or discontinued at any time, and do not obligate us to acquire any amount of Class A common stock.

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“Other regulatory developments in the U.S. present additional risks. For example, the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, gives California consumers, including employees, certain rights similar to those provided by the GDPR, and also provide for statutory damages or fines on a per violation basis that could be very large depending on the regulator's assessed severity of the violation. …”
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Furthermore, we have acquired or partnered with a number of companies, products, services, and technologies over the years, and incorporated third-party products, services, and technologies into our own products and services. Addressing security issues associated with acquisitions, partnerships, incorporated technologies, and our supply chain requires significant resources, and we have inherited and may in the future inherit additional risks upon integration with or use by Workday. In addition, if a high-profile security breach occurs with respect to an industry peer, our customers and potential customers may generally lose trust in the security of financial management, spend management, human capital management, planning, or analytics applications, or in cloud applications for enterprises in general. Any or all of these issues could negatively affect our ability to attract new customers, cause existing customers to elect to terminate or not renew their subscriptions, result in reputational damage, cause us to pay remediation and indemnity costs and/or issue service credits or refunds to customers for prepaid and unused subscription services, or result in lawsuits, regulatory fines, or other action or liabilities, any of which could adversely affect our business and operating results.
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“Regulatory developments in the U.S. present additional risks. For example, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) took effect on January 1, 2020, and the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”), which expands upon the CCPA, came into effect on January 1, 2023. The CCPA and CPRA give California consumers, including employees, certain rights similar to those provided by the GDPR, and also provide for statutory damages or fines on a per violation basis that could be very large depending on the severity of the violation. …”
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We rely on sophisticated information systems and technology, including those provided by third parties, for the secure collection, processing, transmission, and storage of confidential, proprietary, and personal information, and to support our business operations and the availability of our applications. In the past several years, supply chain attacks have increased in frequency and severity. As we are both a provider and consumer of information systems and technology, we are at higher risk of being impacted either directly or indirectly by these attacks. The control systems, cybersecurity program, infrastructure, physical facilities of, and personnel associated with third parties that we rely on or partner with are beyond our control. Our customers may authorize third-party technology providers to access their customer data and any unauthorized use of the third-party technology may result in unauthorized access to such data. The audits we periodically conduct of some of our third-party vendors do not guarantee the security of and may beare unable to prevent security events impacting the information technology systems of third parties thatwe arerely part of our supply chain or that provide valuable services to us, which have resulted and could result in the unauthorized access to data of Workday, our employees, our customers, our third-party partners, or other end users; acquisition, destruction, alteration, use, tampering, release, unavailability, theft or loss of confidential, proprietary, or personal data of Workday, our employees, our customers, our third-party partners, or other end users; or the disruption of our operations and our ability to conduct our business or the availability of our applications; or could otherwise adversely affect our business, financial condition, operating results, or reputation.on.
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Our applications involve the storage and transmission of our customers’ and other users’ sensitive and proprietary information, including personal or identifying information regarding our customers, their employees, job candidates, customers, prospects, and suppliers, as well as financial, accounting, health, and payroll data. Additionally, our operations and the availability of the services we provide also depend on our information technology systems. As a result, a compromise of our applications or systems, or unauthorized access to, acquisition, use, tampering, release, alteration, theft, loss, or destruction of sensitive data, or unavailability of data or our applications, has and could disrupt our operations or impact the availability or performance of our applications; expose us and our customers to regulatory obligations and enforcement actions, litigation, investigations, remediation and indemnity obligations, or supplemental disclosure obligations; damage our reputation and brand; or result in loss of customer, consumer, and partner confidence in the security of our applications,applications; result in an increase in our insurance premiums, suspension or loss of authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (“FedRAMP”) or other authorizations,authorizations; impairment toimpair our business,competitive position; and result in other potential liabilities or related fees, expenses, or loss of revenues.revenues, any of which could adversely affect our business and operating results.
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The global privacy and data privacyprotection compliance landscape continues to become increasingly complex, fragmented, and financially relevant to business operations. As a result, our data processing creates current and prospective risks related to increased regulatory compliance costs, government enforcement actions and/or financial penalties for non-compliance, and reputational harm. For example, the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“DPF”) is in place and provides one method under which EU data can legally be transferred to the U.S. However, it is facing legal challenges. As legal challenges to the DPF remain unresolved, uncertainty may continue regarding the legal requirements for transferring personal data from Europe, an integral aspect of our business that remains governed by, and subject to, General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) requirements. FailureGaps toin complycompliance with the GDPR data processing requirements by either ourselves or our subprocessors could lead to regulatory enforcement actions, which can result in monetary penalties of up to 4% of worldwide revenue, private lawsuits, reputational damage, and loss of customers. Other EU laws, including the EU Data Act, which primarily governs access to and use of non-personal data generated by digital services, have been, and may continue to be implemented, interpreted, and enforced in ways that impose additional rules and restrictions on the deployment, operation, or use of our products and services and may require us to adapt our business practices or contractual arrangements to comply with such requirements. In addition, potential changes to the laws and regulations that relate to the processing of personal data, including legislative proposals pending in the EU and elsewhere, may change the scope or timing of our compliance obligations. Other countries such as Russia, China, Vietnam, and India have also passed or are in the process of passing laws imposing new requirements, including requirements related to consent and varying degrees of restrictive data residency or localization.
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We must also continue to retain, develop, and motivate existing employees through our compensation practices, company culture, and career development opportunities. The compensation and incentives we have availableprovide to attract, retain, and motivate employees may not meet the expectations of current and prospective employees as the competition for talent intensifies.intensifies, For example, our equity awards may become less effectiveand if our stock price decreases or increases at a slower rate than our talent competitors.competitors, our equity awards become less effective. As a part of our annual refresh grant cycle in May 2026, we awarded additional equity grants to our most critical talent to bolster their commitment to our company and to further incentivize their performance towards our goals. Further, our current and future office environments and hybrid work policy may not meet the expectations of our employees or prospective employees, and may amplify challenges in recruiting and retention. We believe that a critical component of our success has been our corporate culture and core values. As we continue to grow and change, we may find it difficult to maintain our corporate culture among a larger number of employees who are dispersed throughout various geographic regions, including difficulties due to managing the complexities of communicating with all employees. Efforts to restructure our workforce may be disruptive and adversely impact employee morale or our corporate culture. Failure to maintain or adapt our culture could negatively affect our ability to attract new employees or to retain our current employees and our business and future growth prospects could be adversely affected.

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Developing software applications and related enhancements, features, and modifications, including those involving AI, including generative and agentic AI or other emerging technologies, is expensive, and the investment in product development often involves a long return on investment cycle. We believe that we must continue to dedicate a significant amount of resources to our development efforts to maintain our competitive position. Accelerated application introductions and short application life cycles require high levels of expenditures that could adversely affect our operating results if not offset by revenue increases. However, we may not receive significant revenues from these investments for several years, if at all. If we are unable to provide new features, enhancements to user experience, and modifications in a timely and cost-effective manner that achieve market acceptance, align with customer expectations, and that keep pace with rapid technological developments and changing regulatory landscapes, it may negatively impact our customer renewal rates, limit the market for our solutions, or impair our ability to attract new customers and our business and operating results could be adversely affected. For example, AI is propelling advancements in technology, but ifrapid deployment of generative and agentic AI technologies can increase operational, legal, and reputational risks. If we fail to innovate and keep up with advancements in AI technology,technology; if Workday’s AI-powered solutions, including our current and planned agentic AI solutions, fail to be delivered as planned or at all, fail to operate as expectedexpected, or fail to meet customer expectations,expectations; if our AI solutions generate inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading outputs and if our customers rely on or use such outputs to their detriment; if we fail to successfully monetize our AI-powered solutions,solutions; or if we do not have sufficient access to development resources and the technologies required to build and improve our applications, our business and reputation may be harmed.

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We continue to seek opportunities to enter into new markets and/or new lines of business, some of which we may have very limited or no experience in. For example, we have and continue to make significant targeted investments in entering the medium-enterprise and U.S. federal government markets and see our success in these markets as key contributors to our future growth. Additionally, we have made and continue to make significant investments in platform offerings and AI, including generative AI and agentic capabilities. As an entrant to new markets and new lines of business, we may not be effective in convincing prospective customers that our solutions will address their needs, and we may not accurately estimate our infrastructure needs, human resource requirements, or operating expenses with regard to these new markets and new lines of business. We may also fail to accurately anticipate adoption rates of these new lines of business or their underlying technology. Also, we may not be able to properly price our solutions in these new markets, which could negatively affect our ability to sell to customers. The markets and monetization strategies for certain of our offerings, including our agentic AI solutions and Workday Data Cloud, remain relatively new and uncertain and as a result, our expansion into such offerings, and related investments, may present additional risks and challenges. For example, we offer certain AI and platform capabilities through a subscription-based flexible pricing model and may increase the number of products through which we do so. WeOur havesuccess limitedis experiencedependent withon determiningour ability to determine optimal pricing under this modelmodel, our ability to educate customers and expecteffectively amarket continuedand needsell forour additionalAI customer education withinsolutions, the sales cycle. Consequently, we may have lower levelslevel of adoption and usage of our AI solutions than we expect, which could negatively impactby our businesscustomers, and operatingour results.costs to deliver these solutions. Furthermore, customers in these new markets or of the new lines of business may demand more or different features and professional services, which may require us to devote even greater research and development, sales, support, and professional services resources to such customers. If we fail to generate adequate revenues from these new markets and lines of business, or if we fail to do so within the envisioned timeframe, it could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and operating results.

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Our applications involve the storage and transmission of our customers’ and other users’ sensitive and proprietary information, including personal or identifying information regarding our customers, their employees, job candidates, customers, prospects, and suppliers, as well as financial, accounting, health, and payroll data. Additionally, our operations and the availability of the services we provide also depend on our information technology systems. As a result, a compromise of our applications or systems, or unauthorized access to, acquisition, use, tampering, release, alteration, theft, loss, or destruction of sensitive data, or unavailability of data or our applications, has and could disrupt our operations or impact the availability or performance of our applications; expose us and our customers to regulatory obligations and enforcement actions, litigation, investigations, remediation and indemnity obligations, or supplemental disclosure obligations; damage our reputation and brand; or result in loss of customer, consumer, and partner confidence in the security of our applications,applications; result in an increase in our insurance premiums, suspension or loss of authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (“FedRAMP”) or other authorizations,authorizations; impairment toimpair our business,competitive position; and result in other potential liabilities or related fees, expenses, or loss of revenues.revenues, any of which could adversely affect our business and operating results.

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In the normal course of business, we are and have been the target of malicious cyber-attack attempts and have experienced and may in the future experience other security events, including the compromise of our information systems by computer hackers, employees, contractors, or vendors, as well as those involving attempts to exploit vulnerabilities in third-party technologies or services on which we rely and those involving software bugs, human error, technical malfunctions, or other malfeasance. The financial and personnel resources we employ to implement and maintain security measures, including our information security risk insurance policy, may not be sufficient to address our security needs. The security measures we have in place vary in maturity across the organization and may not be sufficient to protect against security risks, preserve our operations and services and the integrity of customer and personal information, and prevent data loss, misappropriation, and other security breaches. Our logging may not be and has not been sufficient to fully investigate the scope of an incident. Our information systems have been and may in the future be compromised by computer hackers, employees, contractors, or vendors, as well as software bugs, human error, technical malfunctions, or other malfeasance.

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Cybersecurity threats and attacks are often targeted at companies such as ours and may take a variety of forms ranging from individuals or groups of security researchers, including those who appear to offer a solution to a vulnerability in exchange for some compensation, and insiders, to sophisticated hacker organizations, including state-sponsored actors whoand may launch coordinated attacks, or attacksfinancially motivated by the type of data that is processed by our customers, including our public sector customers, on our platform.actors. These threats may be directed not only at us,us but alsoor at third parties in our supply chain, including cloud service providers, software vendors, open-source software maintainers, and other service providers or partners whose products or services are integrated with or support our platform and solutions. In the normal course of business, we are and have been the target of malicious cyber-attack attempts and have experienced other security events, including those involving attempts to exploit vulnerabilities in third-party technologies or services on which we rely. As our market presence grows and as our ecosystem of partners, integrations, and service providers expands, we face increased risks of cybersecurity attack or other security threats, including supply chain attacks. Additionally, as AI technologies, including generative AI models, develop rapidly, threat actors are using these technologies to create sophisticated new attack methods that are increasingly automated, targeted, and coordinateddamaging, and more difficult to defend against. Threat actors may also target our AI models and related infrastructure in ways that we cannot yet anticipate. Further, remote work and resource access, including our hybrid work model, has and may continue to result in an increased risk of cybersecurity-related events, including phishing and other social engineering attacks, exploitation of any cybersecurity flaws that may exist, an increase in the number cybersecurity threats or attacks, and other security challenges as a result of our employees and our service providers continuing to work remotely from non-corporate managed networks. Examples of key cybersecurity risks include viruses, worms, ransomware, and other malicious software programs, along with social engineering attacks, fraud, credential theft or abuse, exploitation of software bugs or other defects, targeted attacks against cloud services and other hosted software, and exploitation of unmanaged software or systems, any of which can result in a compromise of our applications or systems and the data we store or process, and can result in disclosure of Workday confidential information and intellectual property, production downtimes, reputational harm, and an increase in costs to the business. For example, in August 2025, we were targeted as part of a social engineering campaign against many large organizations, resulting in unauthorized access to some of our internal systems including some commonly available business contact information in our third-party customer relationship management platform.systems. As the techniques used to obtain unauthorized access or sabotage systems change frequently, are becoming increasingly sophisticated and complex, and often are not identified until they are launched against a target, and because evidence of unauthorized activity may not have been captured or retained, or may be proactively destroyed by unauthorized actors, we may be unable to anticipate or timely detect these attacks, assess the true impact they may have on our business and operations, or to implement adequate preventative measures. Any cyber-attacks and other security events may have a significant or material impact on our business and operating results.

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Additionally, remote work and resource access, including our hybrid work model, has and may continue to result in an increased risk of cybersecurity-related events, including phishing and other social engineering attacks, exploitation of any cybersecurity flaws that may exist, an increase in the number cybersecurity threats or attacks, and other security challenges as a result of our employees and our service providers continuing to work remotely from non-corporate managed networks. These risks may be further heightened by efforts by malicious actors to obtain or misuse authorized access credentials through deception or impersonation, including by posing as legitimate employees, contractors, or by infiltrating our workforce or service providers through fraudulent recruitment, onboarding, or credential-harvesting activities. If successful, such attacks could enable threat actors to gain persistent access to our systems, move laterally within our environment, exfiltrate sensitive data, disrupt operations, or facilitate additional cyber-attacks, and may be more difficult to detect or prevent due to the use of seemingly legitimate accounts and remote access tools.

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Furthermore, we have acquired or partnered with a number of companies, products, services, and technologies over the years, and incorporated third-party products, services, and technologies into our own products and services. Addressing security issues associated with acquisitions, partnerships, incorporated technologies, and our supply chain requires significant resources, and we have inherited and may in the future inherit additional risks upon integration with or use by Workday. In addition, if a high-profile security breach occurs with respect to an industry peer, our customers and potential customers may generally lose trust in the security of financial management, spend management, human capital management, planning, or analytics applications, or in cloud applications for enterprises in general. Any or all of these issues could negatively affect our ability to attract new customers, cause existing customers to elect to terminate or not renew their subscriptions, result in reputational damage, cause us to pay remediation and indemnity costs and/or issue service credits or refunds to customers for prepaid and unused subscription services, or result in lawsuits, regulatory fines, or other action or liabilities, any of which could adversely affect our business and operating results.

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We rely on sophisticated information systems and technology, including those provided by third parties, for the secure collection, processing, transmission, and storage of confidential, proprietary, and personal information, and to support our business operations and the availability of our applications. In the past several years, supply chain attacks have increased in frequency and severity. As we are both a provider and consumer of information systems and technology, we are at higher risk of being impacted either directly or indirectly by these attacks. The control systems, cybersecurity program, infrastructure, physical facilities of, and personnel associated with third parties that we rely on or partner with are beyond our control. Our customers may authorize third-party technology providers to access their customer data and any unauthorized use of the third-party technology may result in unauthorized access to such data. The audits we periodically conduct of some of our third-party vendors do not guarantee the security of and may beare unable to prevent security events impacting the information technology systems of third parties thatwe arerely part of our supply chain or that provide valuable services to us, which have resulted and could result in the unauthorized access to data of Workday, our employees, our customers, our third-party partners, or other end users; acquisition, destruction, alteration, use, tampering, release, unavailability, theft or loss of confidential, proprietary, or personal data of Workday, our employees, our customers, our third-party partners, or other end users; or the disruption of our operations and our ability to conduct our business or the availability of our applications; or could otherwise adversely affect our business, financial condition, operating results, or reputation.on.

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Legal requirements related to collecting, storing, handling, retaining, and transferring (collectively, “processing”) personal data are rapidly evolving at both the national and international level in ways that require our business to adapt to comply with applicable laws and support customer compliance. As the complexity of our products grows, the regulatory focus on privacy intensifies worldwide, and jurisdictions increasingly consider and adopt privacy laws, the risks related to our business’s processing of personal data also grow. The volume and complexity of these regulatory requirements may continue to increase, including in response to heightened geopolitical tensions and the rapid adoption of AI technologies. In addition, possible adverse interpretations of existing privacy-related laws and regulations by regulators in jurisdictions where our customers operate, as well as the potential adoption of new privacy-related requirements, could impose significant obligations affecting our business or prevent us from offering certain services in jurisdictions where we operate.

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The global privacy and data privacyprotection compliance landscape continues to become increasingly complex, fragmented, and financially relevant to business operations. As a result, our data processing creates current and prospective risks related to increased regulatory compliance costs, government enforcement actions and/or financial penalties for non-compliance, and reputational harm. For example, the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“DPF”) is in place and provides one method under which EU data can legally be transferred to the U.S. However, it is facing legal challenges. As legal challenges to the DPF remain unresolved, uncertainty may continue regarding the legal requirements for transferring personal data from Europe, an integral aspect of our business that remains governed by, and subject to, General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) requirements. FailureGaps toin complycompliance with the GDPR data processing requirements by either ourselves or our subprocessors could lead to regulatory enforcement actions, which can result in monetary penalties of up to 4% of worldwide revenue, private lawsuits, reputational damage, and loss of customers. Other EU laws, including the EU Data Act, which primarily governs access to and use of non-personal data generated by digital services, have been, and may continue to be implemented, interpreted, and enforced in ways that impose additional rules and restrictions on the deployment, operation, or use of our products and services and may require us to adapt our business practices or contractual arrangements to comply with such requirements. In addition, potential changes to the laws and regulations that relate to the processing of personal data, including legislative proposals pending in the EU and elsewhere, may change the scope or timing of our compliance obligations. Other countries such as Russia, China, Vietnam, and India have also passed or are in the process of passing laws imposing new requirements, including requirements related to consent and varying degrees of restrictive data residency or localization.

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Regulatory developments in the U.S. present additional risks. For example, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) took effect on January 1, 2020, and the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”), which expands upon the CCPA, came into effect on January 1, 2023. The CCPA and CPRA give California consumers, including employees, certain rights similar to those provided by the GDPR, and also provide for statutory damages or fines on a per violation basis that could be very large depending on the severity of the violation. In addition, numerous states have enacted, or are considering, comprehensive privacy laws and other laws that touch on the processing of personal data in specific contexts, including in connection with artificial intelligence and automated systems, further contributing to a fragmented and evolving regulatory landscape that has and may continue to create compliance challenges.

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Other regulatory developments in the U.S. present additional risks. For example, the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, gives California consumers, including employees, certain rights similar to those provided by the GDPR, and also provide for statutory damages or fines on a per violation basis that could be very large depending on the regulator's assessed severity of the violation. In addition, numerous states have enacted, or are considering, comprehensive privacy laws and other laws that touch on the processing of personal data in specific contexts, including in connection with AI and automated systems. Certain of these laws and related regulations, including those governing the use of automated decision-making technologies in employment and other consequential decisions, have recently taken effect or will take effect in the near term, further contributing to a fragmented and evolving regulatory landscape that has and may continue to create compliance challenges.

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Furthermore, the U.S. Congress ishas considering numerous privacy bills,considered, and may in the future adopt, federal privacy-related legislation and data regulation, and regulators, including the U.S. Federal Trade CommissionCommission, continueshave brought and continue to bring enforcement actions forrelated unfair or deceptiveto data protection practices and may undertake its own privacy-related rulemaking. In addition to government activity, privacy advocacy and other industry groups have established or may establish various new, additional, or different self-regulatory standards that customers may require us to adhere to, which may place additional burdens on us. Increasing sensitivity of individuals to the unauthorized processing of personal data, whether real or perceived, and an increasingly uncertain trust climate has and may continue to create negative public reaction to technologies, products, and services such as ours or otherwise expose us to liability.

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Taken together, the costs of compliance with and other obligations imposed by privacy and data protection laws and regulations have and may continue to require modification of our services and operations, limit use or adoption of our services, slow the pace at which we close sales transactions, or otherwise adversely affect our business. In addition, privacy and data protection laws, regulations and related enforcement activities may lead to significant fines, penalties, or liabilities for noncompliance. These requirements may impact how personal data must be stored, accessed, and deleted within the products and services and impose certain limitations on how it may be used or shared. Further, the perception of privacy concerns, whether or not valid, may inhibit the adoption, effectiveness, or use of our applications or otherwise impact our business. Compliance with applicable laws and regulations regarding personal data may require changes in services, business practices, or internal systems that result in increased costs, lower revenue, reduced efficiency, or greater difficulty competing with foreign-based firms which could adversely affect our business and operating results.

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Our typical sales cycles for many new customers are six to twelve months but can extend for eighteen months or more, and we expect that this lengthy sales cycle may continue or expand as customers increasingly adopt applications across our platform. We have seen and may continue to see instances of increased scrutiny from existing and prospective customers and the lengthening of certain sales cycles. For example, we have recently experienced lengthening of certain sales cycles, particularly within net new opportunities. The extended sales cycles are particularly evident in the government, higher education, and healthcare industries which are tied to federal funding. Longer sales cycles could cause our operating and financial results to suffer in a given period. Accordingly, the effect of significant downturns in sales and market acceptance of new applications, as well as potential changes in our pricing policies or rate of renewals, may not be fully reflected in our operating results until future periods. Additionally, we may be unable to adjust our cost structure to reflect any such changes in revenues. As a result, increased growth in the number of our customers could result in our recognition of more costs than revenues in the earlier periods of the terms of our agreements. Our subscription model also makes it difficult for us to rapidly increase our revenues through additional sales in any period, as subscription services revenues from new customers generally are recognized over the applicable subscription term. Furthermore, our subscription-based model is largely based on the size of our customers’ employee headcount. Therefore, the addition or loss of employees by our customers, including any significant reductions in force by our customers, or customer insolvencies resulting from severe economic hardship, can and has had an impact on our subscription services revenues. Prolonged decreases in our customers’ headcounts can materially impact our business and operating results in any given period.

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In fiscal 2023, we issued $3.0 billion aggregate principal amount of senior notes (“Senior Notes”), consisting of $1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of 3.500% notes due April 1, 2027, $750 million aggregate principal amount of 3.700% notes due April 1, 2029, and $1.25 billion aggregate principal amount of 3.800% notes due April 1, 2032. Additionally, in fiscal 2023, we entered into a credit agreement (“2022 Credit Agreement”) which provides for a revolving credit facility in an aggregate principal amount of $1.0 billion. As of AprilJuly 30,31, 2026, we had no outstanding revolving loans under the 2022 Credit Agreement.

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As of AprilJuly 30,31, 2026, our Co-Founder and CEO Emeritus, David Duffield, together with his affiliates, held voting rights with respect to approximately 3836 million shares of Class B common stock and 0.1 million shares of Class A common stock. As of AprilJuly 30,31, 2026, our Co-Founder, CEO, and Chair of our Board of Directors, Aneel Bhusri, together with his affiliates, held voting rights with respect to approximately 8 million shares of Class B common stock and 0.40.5 million shares of Class A common stock. In addition, Mr. Bhusri held unvested equity awards representing approximately 11.1 million shares of Class A common stock. Further, Messrs. Duffield and Bhusri have entered into a voting agreement under which each has granted a voting proxy with respect to certain Class B common stock beneficially owned by him effective upon his death or incapacity as described in our registration statement on Form S-1 filed in connection with our IPO. Messrs. Duffield and Bhusri have each initially designated the other as their respective proxies. Accordingly, upon the death or incapacity of either Mr. Duffield or Mr. Bhusri, the other would individually continue to control the voting of shares subject to the voting proxy. Collectively, the shares described above represent a substantial majority of the voting power of our outstanding capital stock. As a result, Messrs. Duffield and Bhusri have the ability to control the outcome of matters submitted to our stockholders for approval, including the election of directors and any merger, consolidation, or sale of all or substantially all of our assets. As stockholders, even as controlling stockholders, they are entitled to vote their shares in their own interests, which may not always be in the interests of our stockholders generally.

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Our Class B common stock has 10 votes per share and our Class A common stock, which is the stock that is publicly traded, has one vote per share. Stockholders who hold shares of Class B common stock, including our executive officers, directors, and other affiliates, together hold a substantial majority of the voting power of our outstanding capital stock as of AprilJuly 30,31, 2026. Because of the ten-to-one voting ratio between our Class B and Class A common stock, the holders of our Class B common stock collectively will continue to control a majority of the combined voting power of our common stock and therefore be able to control all matters submitted to our stockholders for approval until the conversion of all shares of all Class A and Class B shares to a single class of common stock on the date that is the first to occur of (i) October 17, 2032, (ii) such time as the shares of Class B common stock represent less than 9% of the outstanding Class A and Class B common stock, (iii) nine months following the death of both Mr. Duffield and Mr. Bhusri, or (iv) the date on which the holders of a majority of the shares of Class B common stock elect to convert all shares of Class A common stock and Class B common stock into a single class of common stock. This concentrated control will limit or preclude the ability of non-affiliates to influence corporate matters for the foreseeable future.

Management's Discussion & Analysis (MD&A) (10-Q Part I, Item 2)

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“Total costs and expenses were $4.5 billion for the six months ended July 31, 2026, compared to $4.3 billion for the prior year period, an increase of $240 million, or 6%. The increase in total costs and expenses included increases of $185 million in employee-related expenses, $82 million in third-party hosted infrastructure expenses, $80 million in facilities and IT-related expenses, $29 million in amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets, and $22 million in amortization of deferred sales commissions, offset by a reduction of $167 million in restructuring expenses.”
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“The income tax benefit for the three and six months ended July 31, 2026, was primarily attributable to an intra-entity transfer of certain intellectual property rights as part of an internal legal entity restructuring. In connection with the transaction, we recognized $374 million of deferred tax assets related to deductible temporary differences associated with certain tax attributes transferred at carryover basis. This benefit was partially offset by income tax expense primarily attributable to earnings in the U.S. and profitable foreign jurisdictions.”
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“GAAP operating income was $338 million, or 13.3% of revenues, for the three months ended April 30, 2026, compared to the prior year GAAP operating income of $39 million, or 1.8% of revenues. The increase is primarily due to our revenue growth outpacing headcount growth, a reduction in restructuring expenses, and moderation of operating expenses, including share-based compensation.”
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“GAAP operating income was $651 million, or 12.5% of revenues, for the six months ended July 31, 2026, compared to the prior year GAAP operating income of $287 million, or 6.3% of revenues. The increase is primarily due to our revenue growth outpacing headcount growth, a reduction in restructuring expenses, and moderation of operating expenses.”
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Total costs and expenses were $2.2$2.3 billion for the three months ended AprilJuly 30,31, 2026, compared to $2.2$2.1 billion for the prior year period, an increase of $4$236 million, or 0.2%.11%. The increase in total costs and expenses included increases of $60$126 million in employee-related expenses, $51$43 million in facilities and IT-related expenses, $32 million in third-party hosted infrastructure expenses, $36 million in facilities and IT-related expenses, $15$14 million in amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets, and $11 million in amortization of deferred sales commissions, offset by a reduction of $166 million in restructuring expenses.commissions.
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We have achieved significant growth since our inception in 2005, when we pioneered HCM in the cloud. As a result of our innovation and commitment to customer success, today we are a Fortune 500 company with more than 11,500 customers around the world. As we continue to grow, we are focused on driving sustainable, long-term subscription revenue growth by adding new customers and expanding our relationships with existing customers through increased adoption of our suite of solutions. Central to this effort is investing in strategic growth areas including developing innovative AI solutions, expanding internationally, growing our partner ecosystem, deepening our presence in industry verticals and the emerging and medium enterprise market, and exploring strategic acquisitions to complement our organic innovation. Our investments across these targeted growth areas may require additional costs, but we remain committed to optimizing resource allocation and realizing a return on our investments. Over time, we believe these investments will support revenue growth and a more scalable business.

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Impact of Current Economic and Market Conditions

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Recent macroeconomic events and evolving market conditions are impacting aspects of our business including customer behavior and the way we market, price, and sell our solutions. External factors such as increased tariffs, elevated inflation and energy prices, the evolving legislative and regulatory environment, and fluctuating interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, as well as geopolitical instability and conflicts, continue to impact the global economy and create uncertainty, volatility, and disruption of financial markets. As a result, we have experienced, and may continue to experience, a moderation of revenue growth rates due to deal scrutiny and the lengthening of certain sales cycles, particularly within net new opportunities, as well as reduced growth in headcount-level commitments upon renewals of existing customers. The extended sales cycles are particularly evident in the government, higher education, and healthcare industries which are tied to federal funding. Further, we have provided, and may continue to provide, certain customers with more flexible payment terms. Additionally, to address the rapidly changing technology market and AI landscape, we are addressing shifts in customer buying behavior and demand through actions such as new pricing models and sales and marketing strategies, all of which are dependent on our ability to optimally price our solutions, customer adoption and usage, and our costs to deliver our solutions. For further discussion of the potential impacts of recent macroeconomic events and market conditions on our business, financial condition, and operating results, see “Risk Factors” included in Part II, Item 1A of this report.

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Subscription services revenues accounted for approximately 93% of our total revenues for the three and six months ended AprilJuly 30,31, 2026, and represented 97% of our total unearned revenue as of AprilJuly 30,31, 2026. Subscription services revenues are driven primarily by the number of customers, the number of workers at each customer, the specific applications subscribed to by each customer, and the price of our applications.

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Our subscription revenue backlog, which is also referred to as remaining performance obligations for subscription contracts, represents contracted subscription services revenues that have not yet been recognized and includes billed and unbilled amounts. Subscription revenue backlog may fluctuate from period-to-period due to a number of factors, including the timing of renewals and overall renewal rates, new business growth, average contract duration, industry and product mix, business combinations, and seasonality.

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Total revenues were $2.6 billion for the three months ended July 31, 2026, compared to $2.3 billion for the prior year period, an increase of $301 million, or 13%. Subscription services revenues were $2.5 billion for the three months ended AprilJuly 30,31, 2026, compared to $2.2 billion for the prior year period, an increase of $302 million, or 13%. Subscription services revenues were $2.4 billion for the three months ended April 30, 2026, compared to $2.1 billion for the prior year period, an increase of $295 million, or 14%. Approximately 60% of the increase in subscription services revenues was attributable to expansion within our customers that existed as of the beginning of the comparable prior year period, and the remaining 40% was attributable to customers added after the beginning of the comparable prior year period. Professional services revenues were $188$178 million for the three months ended AprilJuly 30,31, 2026, compared to $181$179 million for the prior year period, ana increasedecrease of $7$1 million, or 4%.1%. Professional services revenues remained relatively flat as we continued to expand and leverage our service providers.

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Total revenues were $5.2 billion for the six months ended July 31, 2026, compared to $4.6 billion for the prior year period, an increase of $603 million, or 13%. Subscription services revenues were $4.8 billion for the six months ended July 31, 2026, compared to $4.2 billion for the prior year period, an increase of $597 million, or 14%. Approximately 60% of the increase in subscription services revenues was attributable to expansion within our customers that existed as of the beginning of the prior fiscal year, and the remaining 40% was attributable to customers added after the beginning of the prior fiscal year. Professional services revenues were $365 million for the six months ended July 31, 2026, compared to $360 million for the prior year period, an increase of $6 million, or 2%. Professional services revenues remained relatively flat as we continued to expand and leverage our service providers.

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Our growth in subscription services revenues attributable to existing customers is further reflected by our gross revenue retention rate of approximately 97% as of AprilJuly 30,31, 2026. Our gross revenue retention rate measures the percentage of recurring revenue retained from existing customers and is calculated by taking total annual recurring revenue (“ARR”) of our customers as of the corresponding prior period-end and comparing that to ARR from that same set of customers as of the current period-end. The metric takes into account recurring revenues lost to product or customer churn but does not account for additional revenue earned from add-ons or net expansions, which include volume and price adjustments. Our high gross revenue retention rate demonstrates our ability to maintain our existing customer base and drive strong overall customer satisfaction.

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As of AprilJuly 30,31, 2026, our total subscription revenue backlog was $27.3$27.4 billion, withand $8.812-month billionsubscription expectedrevenue tobacklog bewas recognized$9.0 in revenues over the next 12 months.billion. As of AprilJuly 30,31, 2025, our total subscription revenue backlog was $24.6$25.4 billion, withand $7.612-month billionsubscription expectedrevenue tobacklog bewas recognized$7.9 in revenues over the next 12 months.billion. The increase in subscription revenue backlog was primarily driven by expansion within our existing customer base, sales to new customers, and timing of renewals for existing customers.

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Total costs and expenses were $2.2$2.3 billion for the three months ended AprilJuly 30,31, 2026, compared to $2.2$2.1 billion for the prior year period, an increase of $4$236 million, or 0.2%.11%. The increase in total costs and expenses included increases of $60$126 million in employee-related expenses, $51$43 million in facilities and IT-related expenses, $32 million in third-party hosted infrastructure expenses, $36 million in facilities and IT-related expenses, $15$14 million in amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets, and $11 million in amortization of deferred sales commissions, offset by a reduction of $166 million in restructuring expenses.commissions.

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Total costs and expenses were $4.5 billion for the six months ended July 31, 2026, compared to $4.3 billion for the prior year period, an increase of $240 million, or 6%. The increase in total costs and expenses included increases of $185 million in employee-related expenses, $82 million in third-party hosted infrastructure expenses, $80 million in facilities and IT-related expenses, $29 million in amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets, and $22 million in amortization of deferred sales commissions, offset by a reduction of $167 million in restructuring expenses.

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Costs of subscription services were $412$436 million for the three months ended AprilJuly 30,31, 2026, compared to $350$370 million for the prior year period, an increase of $62$66 million, or 18%. The increase in costs of subscription services included increases of $47$33 million in third-party hosted infrastructure expensesexpenses, and$14 $11million in employee-related expenses, $9 million in amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets.assets, and $9 million in facilities and IT-related expenses.

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Costs of subscription services were $848 million for the six months ended July 31, 2026, compared to $720 million for the prior year period, an increase of $128 million, or 18%. The increase in costs of subscription services included increases of $80 million in third-party hosted infrastructure expenses, $20 million in amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets, $17 million in employee-related expenses, and $11 million in facilities and IT-related expenses.

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Costs of professional services were $192$216 million for the three months ended AprilJuly 30,31, 2026, compared to $187$212 million for the prior year period, an increase of $5$4 million, or 3%.2%. Costs of professional services remained relatively flat.

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Costs of professional services were $408 million for the six months ended July 31, 2026, compared to $399 million for the prior year period, an increase of $9 million, or 2%. Costs of professional services remained relatively flat.

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Product development expenses were $705$747 million for the three months ended AprilJuly 30,31, 2026, compared to $663$660 million for the prior year period, an increase of $42$88 million, or 6%.13%. The increase in product development expenses included increases of $31$71 million in employee-related expenses and $16$22 million in facilities and IT-related expenses.

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Product development expenses were $1.5 billion for the six months ended July 31, 2026, compared to $1.3 billion for the prior year period, an increase of $130 million, or 10%. The increase in product development expenses included increases of $102 million in employee-related expenses and $38 million in facilities and IT-related expenses.

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Sales and marketing expenses were $679$706 million for the three months ended AprilJuly 30,31, 2026, compared to $623$641 million for the prior year period, an increase of $56$65 million, or 9%.10%. The increase in sales and marketing expenses included increases of $22$28 million in employee-related expenses, $11 million in amortization of deferred sales commissions, and $11$8 million inrelated facilitiesto andmarketing IT-related expenses.programs.

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Sales and marketing expenses were $1.4 billion for the six months ended July 31, 2026, compared to $1.3 billion for the prior year period, an increase of $122 million, or 10%. The increase in sales and marketing expenses included increases of $51 million in employee-related expenses, $22 million in amortization of deferred sales commissions, $17 million in facilities and IT-related expenses, and $9 million related to marketing programs.

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General and administrative expenses were $216$231 million for the three months ended AprilJuly 30,31, 2026, compared to $212$216 million for the prior year period, an increase of $4$15 million, or 2%.7%. GeneralThe increase in general and administrative expenses remainedincluded relativelyan flat.increase of $8 million in employee-related expenses.

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General and administrative expenses were $447 million for the six months ended July 31, 2026, compared to $429 million for the prior year period, an increase of $19 million, or 4%. The increase in general and administrative expenses included increases of $11 million in facilities and IT-related expenses and $7 million in employee-related expenses.

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There were no material restructuring expenses recognized during the three and six months ended AprilJuly 30,31, 2026.

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Restructuring expenses were $166$1 million and $167 million for the three and six months ended AprilJuly 30,31, 2025, ofrespectively. whichThese $132expenses included $133 million related to employee transition, severance payments, employee benefits, and share-based compensation, and $34 million related to an impairment of office space.

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Share-based compensation expense decreasedincreased by $50$71 million for the three months ended AprilJuly 30,31, 2026, compared to the prior year period, primarily due to aadditional reductiongrants into restructuringnew expenses.and existing employees.

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Share-based compensation expense increased by $20 million for the six months ended July 31, 2026, compared to the prior year period, primarily due to additional grants to new and existing employees, offset by a reduction in restructuring expenses.

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Equity compensation is an important element of our compensation philosophy. While weWe expect share-based compensation expense to grow in absolute dollars as we expandcontinue to issue share-based awards to our globalemployees workforce, we expect it tobut decline as a percentage of total revenues.

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GAAP operating income was $338 million, or 13.3% of revenues, for the three months ended April 30, 2026, compared to the prior year GAAP operating income of $39 million, or 1.8% of revenues. The increase is primarily due to our revenue growth outpacing headcount growth, a reduction in restructuring expenses, and moderation of operating expenses, including share-based compensation.

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Non-GAAPGAAP operating income was $809$313 million, or 31.8%11.8% of revenues, for the three months ended AprilJuly 30,31, 2026, compared to the prior year non-GAAPGAAP operating income of $677$248 million, or 30.2%10.6% of revenues. The increase is primarily due to our revenue growth outpacing headcount growth and moderation of operating expenses.

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GAAP operating income was $651 million, or 12.5% of revenues, for the six months ended July 31, 2026, compared to the prior year GAAP operating income of $287 million, or 6.3% of revenues. The increase is primarily due to our revenue growth outpacing headcount growth, a reduction in restructuring expenses, and moderation of operating expenses.

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Non-GAAP operating income was $824 million, or 31.1% of revenues, for the three months ended July 31, 2026, compared to the prior year non-GAAP operating income of $680 million, or 29.0% of revenues. The increase is primarily due to our revenue growth outpacing headcount growth and moderation of operating expenses.

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Non-GAAP operating income was $1.6 billion, or 31.5% of revenues, for the six months ended July 31, 2026, compared to the prior year non-GAAP operating income of $1.4 billion, or 29.6% of revenues. The increase is primarily due to our revenue growth outpacing headcount growth and moderation of operating expenses.

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(1)Share-based compensation expense in the GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliation tables above excludes share-based compensation associated with restructuring activities of $42 million for the threesix months ended AprilJuly 30,31, 2025. TheseThis expensesexpense areis included in Restructuring costs. There was no comparable activity for the six months ended July 31, 2026.

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Other income, net decreased by $47$42 million and $89 million for the three and six months ended AprilJuly 30,31, 2026, respectively, compared to the prior year periods. The decreases were primarily due to lower interest income followingresulting from the liquidation of marketable debt securities in the prior fiscal year to fund acquisition activities and share repurchases.

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Provision For (Benefit From) Income Taxes

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The provision for (benefit from) income taxes was as follows (in millions):

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The income tax benefit for the three and six months ended July 31, 2026, was primarily attributable to an intra-entity transfer of certain intellectual property rights as part of an internal legal entity restructuring. In connection with the transaction, we recognized $374 million of deferred tax assets related to deductible temporary differences associated with certain tax attributes transferred at carryover basis. This benefit was partially offset by income tax expense primarily attributable to earnings in the U.S. and profitable foreign jurisdictions.

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The income tax provision for the three months ended April 30, 2026, was primarily attributable to earnings in the U.S. and profitable foreign jurisdictions, and incremental tax expense from share-based compensation awards where the tax deduction realized was lower than the compensation expense recognized.

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The income tax provision for the three and six months ended AprilJuly 30,31, 2025, was primarily attributable to earnings in the U.S. and profitable foreign jurisdictions.

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As of AprilJuly 30,31, 2026, our principal sources of liquidity were cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities totaling $4.4$3.4 billion, which were primarily held for working capital and general corporate purposes. Our cash equivalents and marketable securities are primarily composed of, in order from largest to smallest, corporate bonds, U.S. treasury securities, U.S. agency obligations, money market funds, asset-backed securities, U.S. agency obligations, and supranational securities.

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Our long-term future capital requirements depend on many factors, including the effects of macroeconomic trends, customer growth rates, subscription renewal activity, headcount growth,levels, the timing and extent of development efforts, the expansion of sales and marketing activities, the introduction of new and enhanced services offerings, infrastructure development, and our investment and acquisition activities. As part of our strategy, we may choose to seek additional debt or equity financing, which may not be available on terms favorable to us or at all. Additionally, our cash provided by operating activities could be affected by various risks and uncertainties, including the “Risk Factors” included in Part II, Item 1A of this report.

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Cash provided by operating activities was $696$1.2 millionbillion and $457$1.1 millionbillion for the threesix months ended AprilJuly 30,31, 2026, and 2025, respectively. The improvement in cash provided by operating activities was primarily driven by higher cash collections of $463$723 million mainly due to increased sales, partially offset by increased employee-related payments of $90 million, increased supplier payments of $66$196 million to support our continued growth, increased employee-related payments of $191 million, higher income tax payments of $73 million, and decreased interest income of $30$58 million.

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Cash provided by investing activities was $97$1.0 millionbillion for the threesix months ended AprilJuly 30,31, 2026, which primarily resulted from net cash inflows of $127$1.1 millionbillion related to marketable debt securities activity and net cash inflows of $41$29 million fromrelated the exit ofto non-marketable equity investments,investments activity, offset by capital expenditures of $80$139 million mainly for office space projects.

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Cash used in investing activities was $523$510 million for the threesix months ended AprilJuly 30,31, 2025, which primarily resulted from a net outflowcash outflows of $483$431 million related to marketable debt securities activity andactivity, capital expenditures of $36$64 million mainly for office space projects.projects, and purchases of $15 million for non-marketable equity investments.

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Cash used in financing activities was $1.7$3.1 billion for the threesix months ended AprilJuly 30,31, 2026, which primarily resulted from repurchases of common stock of $1.6$2.9 billion under our share repurchase programs and taxes paid of $146$273 million related to net share settlement of equity awards.awards, offset by proceeds of $98 million from the issuance of common stock from employee equity plans.

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Cash used in financing activities was $501$850 million for the threesix months ended AprilJuly 30,31, 2025, which primarily resulted from repurchases of common stock of $290$589 million under our share repurchase programs and taxes paid of $211$372 million related to net share settlement of equity awards.awards, offset by proceeds of $111 million from the issuance of common stock from employee equity plans.

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Free cash flows were $616$1.1 millionbillion for the threesix months ended AprilJuly 30,31, 2026, compared to $421$1.0 millionbillion for the prior year period. The improvement was primarily driven by higher cash collections of $463$723 million mainly due to increased sales, partially offset by increased employee-related payments of $90 million, increased supplier payments of $66$196 million to support our continued growth, increased employee-related payments of $191 million, increased capital expenditures of $44$75 million, higher income tax payments of $73 million, and decreased interest income of $30$58 million.

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Share repurchase programs authorized by our Board of Directors that were activein effect during the periodsthree presentedand six months ended July 31, 2026, and 2025, were as follows (in millions):

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As of April 30, 2026, we were authorized to repurchase a remaining $1.3 billion of our outstanding shares of Class A common stock under our share repurchase programs.

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As of July 31, 2026, our share repurchase programs were fully completed with no authorization remaining. In August 2026, our Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of up to an additional $4.0 billion of our outstanding shares of Class A common stock. For further information, see Note 13, Stockholders’ Equity, and Note 20, Subsequent Event, of the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements included in Part I, Item 1 of this report.

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See “Results of Operations—Operating Income and Operating Margin” for reconciliations from the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures of GAAP operating income and GAAP operating margin, to the non-GAAP financial measures of non-GAAP operating income and non-GAAP operating margin, for the three and six months ended AprilJuly 30,31, 2026, and 2025.

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See “Liquidity and Capital Resources—Free Cash Flows” for a reconciliation from the most comparable GAAP financial measure, net cash provided by operating activities, to the non-GAAP financial measure, free cash flows, for the threesix months ended AprilJuly 30,31, 2026, and 2025.

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•Business combinations, goodwill, and acquisition-related intangible assets For a further discussion of our critical accounting estimates, refer to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2026. During the threesix months ended AprilJuly 30,31, 2026, there were no significant changes to our critical accounting estimates.

WDAY insider buying and selling (Form 4)

Since 2026-04-11, insiders reported open-market purchases in 0 Form 4 filings and open-market sales in 28 filings (5 insiders, 25 trade dates, 2,086,456 shares, about $326.4M; 28 of these filings say the sales were made under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan). Net open-market shares: -2,086,456 (purchases minus sales); net value about -$326.4M.Totals add up every open-market (code P and S) line in those filings, using the prices reported in the filings. Awards, option exercises, tax withholding and gifts are listed below but not counted.

Trade dateInsiderTransactionSharesPriceValueOwned afterFiling
2026-10-06Rowe Zane
Chief Financial Officer
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
300$184.99 $55.5K275,342 SEC
2026-10-06Rowe Zane
Chief Financial Officer
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
2,800$186.45 $522.1K272,542 SEC
2026-10-06Rowe Zane
Chief Financial Officer
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
1,000$187.17 $187.2K271,542 SEC
2026-10-06Rowe Zane
Chief Financial Officer
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
1,100$188.41 $207.3K270,442 SEC
2026-10-06Rowe Zane
Chief Financial Officer
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
800$189.25 $151.4K269,642 SEC
2026-10-06Kazmaier Gerrit S
President, Prod. and Tech.
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
200$184.85 $37.0K253,843 SEC
2026-10-06Kazmaier Gerrit S
President, Prod. and Tech.
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
1,029$186.32 $191.7K252,814 SEC
2026-10-06Kazmaier Gerrit S
President, Prod. and Tech.
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
500$186.85 $93.4K252,314 SEC
2026-10-06Kazmaier Gerrit S
President, Prod. and Tech.
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
500$188.43 $94.2K251,814 SEC
2026-10-06Kazmaier Gerrit S
President, Prod. and Tech.
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
500$189.49 $94.7K251,314 SEC
2026-10-06Duffield David A
10% owner
Conversion
10b5-1 plan
99,228— —204,277 SEC
2026-10-06Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
2,800$184.80 $517.5K201,477 SEC
2026-10-06Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
10,284$185.86 $1.9M191,193 SEC
2026-10-06Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
45,984$186.66 $8.6M145,209 SEC
2026-10-06Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
10,054$187.77 $1.9M135,155 SEC
2026-10-06Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
19,534$188.64 $3.7M115,621 SEC
2026-10-06Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
10,572$189.39 $2.0M105,049 SEC
2026-10-05Garfield Mark S.
Chief Accounting Officer
Shares withheld for tax 3,491$186.14 $649.8K70,227 SEC
2026-10-05Sauer Richard Harry
Chief Legal Officer & Secty
Shares withheld for tax 6,783$186.14 $1.3M167,960 SEC
2026-10-05Enslin Robert
President, CCO
Shares withheld for tax
10b5-1 plan
5,634$186.14 $1.0M231,607 SEC
2026-10-05Enslin Robert
President, CCO
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
736$185.58 $136.6K230,871 SEC
2026-10-05Enslin Robert
President, CCO
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
1,700$186.39 $316.9K229,171 SEC
2026-10-05Enslin Robert
President, CCO
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
2,091$187.44 $391.9K227,080 SEC
2026-10-05Enslin Robert
President, CCO
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
626$188.19 $117.8K226,454 SEC
2026-10-05Enslin Robert
President, CCO
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
221$188.81 $41.7K226,233 SEC
2026-10-05Rowe Zane
Chief Financial Officer
Shares withheld for tax
10b5-1 plan
10,010$186.14 $1.9M275,642 SEC
2026-10-05Bhusri Aneel
Director, CEO
Shares withheld for tax 8,502$186.14 $1.6M992,050 SEC
2026-10-05Kazmaier Gerrit S
President, Prod. and Tech.
Shares withheld for tax
10b5-1 plan
8,976$186.14 $1.7M254,043 SEC
2026-10-01Duffield David A
10% owner
Conversion
10b5-1 plan
98,446— —203,495 SEC
2026-10-01Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
5,300$183.86 $974.5K198,195 SEC
2026-10-01Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
9,035$184.69 $1.7M189,160 SEC
2026-10-01Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
14,166$185.72 $2.6M174,994 SEC
2026-10-01Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
48,972$186.55 $9.1M126,022 SEC
2026-10-01Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
4,764$187.50 $893.2K121,258 SEC
2026-10-01Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
1,809$188.34 $340.7K119,449 SEC
2026-10-01Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
3,800$190.85 $725.2K115,649 SEC
2026-10-01Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
3,900$191.48 $746.8K111,749 SEC
2026-10-01Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
600$192.26 $115.4K111,149 SEC
2026-10-01Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
4,600$194.03 $892.5K106,549 SEC
2026-10-01Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
1,500$194.77 $292.1K105,049 SEC
2026-09-28Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
23,095$189.84 $4.4M108,953 SEC
2026-09-28Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
3,904$190.60 $744.1K105,049 SEC
2026-09-28Duffield David A
10% owner
Conversion
10b5-1 plan
98,971— —204,020 SEC
2026-09-28Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
2,000$182.67 $365.3K202,020 SEC
2026-09-28Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
3,496$183.88 $642.8K198,524 SEC
2026-09-28Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
1,904$184.67 $351.6K196,620 SEC
2026-09-28Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
1,700$185.78 $315.8K194,920 SEC
2026-09-28Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
1,100$186.80 $205.5K193,820 SEC
2026-09-28Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
23,779$188.13 $4.5M170,041 SEC
2026-09-28Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
37,993$188.94 $7.2M132,048 SEC
2026-09-23Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
1,875$193.62 $363.0K105,049 SEC
2026-09-23Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
2,324$188.92 $439.1K202,338 SEC
2026-09-23Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
1,776$189.69 $336.9K200,562 SEC
2026-09-23Duffield David A
10% owner
Conversion
10b5-1 plan
99,613— —204,662 SEC
2026-09-23Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
4,849$190.95 $925.9K195,713 SEC
2026-09-23Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
24,934$192.84 $4.8M106,924 SEC
2026-09-23Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
63,855$192.10 $12.3M131,858 SEC
2026-09-18Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
12,029$195.73 $2.4M105,049 SEC
2026-09-18Duffield David A
10% owner
Conversion
10b5-1 plan
94,089— —199,138 SEC
2026-09-18Duffield David A
10% owner
Open-market sale
10b5-1 plan
34,859$194.04 $6.8M164,279 SEC

Showing the 60 most recent of 225 transactions.

Well-known investors holding WDAY (13F)

InvestorQuarterSharesReported value% of their 13FChange vs prior quarter
First Eagle Investment Management CL A2026-06-308,824,517$1.1B1.8%Added 16%
Baillie Gifford CL A2026-06-301,198,691$146.7M0.13%Reduced 12%
Citadel Advisors (Ken Griffin) CL A2026-06-30539,136$66.0M0.04%Added 60%
Millennium Management (Israel Englander) CL A2026-06-30248,428$32.3M—Sold out
AQR Capital Management (Cliff Asness) CL A2026-06-30263,543$32.2M0.01%Added 18%
Renaissance Technologies CL A2026-06-30206,300$25.3M0.03%Reduced 65%
Harris Associates (Oakmark Funds) CL A2026-06-30192,764$23.6M0.03%Added 1552%
Two Sigma Investments CL A2026-06-30140,173$17.2M0.01%Reduced 45%
Gotham Asset Management (Joel Greenblatt) CL A2026-06-30133,049$16.3M0.04%Added 92%
D. E. Shaw & Co. CL A2026-06-3022,069$2.7M0.0%Reduced 31%
Bridgewater Associates CL A2026-06-3021,774$2.7M0.01%New position

13F reports are filed up to 45 days after quarter end and show long U.S. equity positions only; options positions are omitted here.

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