Workday Inc (WDAY) — Quality & forensics
As of 2026-09-18 — refreshed nightly. Closelook readings from an investment research diary, not ratings or advice.
The Closelook module scores
- Valuation 46
- Quality 63
- Growth 68
- Balance sheet 52
- Cash quality 82
- Capital allocation 67
- Momentum 72
Scores are computed nightly across the coverage universe and read relative to it — the methodology lives in the company-scoring explainer.
Financial forensics — the academic screens
Sits in the safe zone (above 2.99). The Z-Score estimates financial-distress risk from five balance-sheet and earnings ratios.
Nine binary fundamental-strength checks across profitability, leverage and operating efficiency.
Screens reported earnings for statistical manipulation patterns — below the −1.78 manipulation-risk threshold. A screen, not an accusation.
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FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-18
Quick answers
What is Workday Inc's Closelook quality reading?
The composite reads 65/100 across 7 modules, as of 2026-09-18: valuation 46, quality 63, growth 68, balance sheet 52, cash quality 82, capital allocation 67, momentum 72. Closelook scores are research diary readings, not ratings or investment advice.
What is Workday Inc's Altman Z-Score?
3.50, which sits in the safe zone (above 2.99) as of 2026-09-18. The Altman Z-Score estimates financial distress risk from five balance-sheet and earnings ratios.
What is Workday Inc's Piotroski F-Score?
8 of 9, as of 2026-09-18. The F-Score counts nine binary fundamental-strength signals across profitability, leverage and operating efficiency.
What does Workday Inc's Beneish M-Score indicate?
-3.03 — below the −1.78 manipulation-risk threshold, as of 2026-09-18. The M-Score screens reported earnings for statistical manipulation patterns; it is a screen, not an accusation.
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Dailies
- Oil knocks on $100 and Wall Street sells everything but the AI pipe: Intel +9%, Lumentum +11%, Dow −1.2% — Seoul buys the dip and the Kospi is back above 7,000
On the other side, the iShares software ETF fell 1.8%: Shopify −7.6%, UiPath −7.8%, Atlassian −6.9%, ServiceNow −5.0%, Workday −4.9%, Zscaler −4.6%, Intuit −4.1%, Adobe −3.5%.
- Chips up again, software down again — Friday's split is turning into a trend
Second session of the same trade, and it is widening: the optical and hardware names are up 7% to 12%, Intel 9%, AMD through $500, while Shopify falls 7%, Intuit, Workday and Booking 6%, and ServiceNow, Salesforce and Adobe 3% to 4%.
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Snowflake and Databricks are strongest on governed context; MongoDB on live state; SAP, Salesforce, Workday and Oracle own the authoritative objects.
- Great numbers, falling stocks — the market has stopped rewarding even record earnings
Marvell, Autodesk and IREN fell too; only Elastic was rewarded, and Workday finished a dollar short.
- The bar moves overnight: three beat-and-raise prints get sold after hours.
Rubrik, Autodesk and Marvell are all punished despite beating or raising, Elastic is paid +20.9% and Workday shrugs, and Friday stacks the Warsh keynote onto IEF's weekly close at 93.04.
- Daylight pays the five-print evening at scale — Salesforce +20%, Okta +27%, CrowdStrike +18%, Nvidia +7.6% — while ten of eleven sectors trade red and technology alone carries the index.
Five more prints land tonight: Rubrik — a print-record card with zero flat reactions in its history — alongside Workday, which trades +3.25% to 196.94 into its own report, Autodesk, Elastic and IREN.
- The five-print evening resolves bullish — Nvidia's supply-constrained 70% guide flips a muted release into a paid call, and Salesforce and CrowdStrike are paid double digits.
Rubrik — a card with zero flat reactions in its history — reports tonight alongside Workday, Autodesk and Dollar General; PDD's three-session print-record window closes at today's close, and all five of Wednesday's prints score theirs on…
- The Treasury buys duration with bills, hard assets read it first — Bitcoin toward 70,000, gold through 4,400, as the minutes turn hawkish and Korea answers its crash with a buyback
Software kept its bid — IGV +0.83%, Salesforce +5.07% to 206.09, Workday +4.08% to 198.42, Cloud ETF +0.36% — and health care led every sector, XLV +3.51% to 175.68, up 4.34% over five days.
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