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Workday, Inc.

WDAY 6.5

Software - Application · 45.5B market cap · site

Price and target zones价格与目标区间

$188.86
$155–175 entry买入$238.19+ full value估值上限 · 18× fwd52wk52周 $110–$250-24% off the high距高点

What the company does公司做什么

Workday makes cloud software that large companies use to run two core back-office jobs: managing employees and managing money. It replaces older systems that used to run on a company's own computers. Instead, Workday keeps everything in one online database that staff reach from any web browser. It sells mainly to large companies, universities, hospitals, and government bodies. Two founders started Workday in 2005 to build a fresh alternative to the older HR software one of them had built before.Workday制作云软件,供大公司用来做两件核心的后台工作:管理员工和管理钱。它取代了过去在公司自己计算机上运行的老系统。它把所有东西都放在一个在线数据库里,员工从任何一个网页浏览器就能访问。它主要卖给大公司、大学、医院和政府机构。两位创始人在2005年创办了Workday,想做一个全新的替代品,来取代其中一位以前做过的那套老的HR软件。

Earns from营收来源 customers pay a recurring fee, billed under multi-year contracts, to keep using the online software.客户按多年合同支付反复收取的费用,以持续使用这套在线软件。

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

Revenue breakdown营收构成 share of revenue营收占比

93%Subscription services订阅服务
7%Professional services专业服务
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Subscription services订阅服务93% · $8.8B

This is the recurring cloud fee that funds Workday's business: large employers, universities, and government bodies pay yearly to run payroll, HR records, financial books, and budgeting inside Workday's single online system. Contracts run for multiple years, so the fee renews with little added sales effort and gives Workday steady, forecastable cash flow. Because customer data sits deep inside Workday's database, moving to a rival system is slow and costly, which keeps renewal rates high.这是支撑Workday业务的经常性云服务费:大型雇主、大学和政府机构每年付费,在Workday的单一在线系统中运行薪资、人力资源记录、财务账目和预算编制。合同为多年期,因此费用会自动续订,几乎不需要额外销售投入,为Workday带来稳定、可预测的现金流。由于客户数据深度嵌入Workday的数据库,转向竞争对手系统既缓慢又昂贵,这有助于维持较高的续订率。

  • Human Capital Management (HCM)人力资本管理(HCM) — software that holds every employee's record, runs payroll, and manages hiring, pay, and benefits for a large company.为大公司保存每位员工记录、发放薪资、管理招聘、薪酬和福利的软件。
  • Financial Management财务管理 — software that tracks a company's money: bills it owes, bills it is owed, and the reports it needs to close its books each period.追踪一家公司资金的软件:它该付的账、别人该付它的账,以及每个周期结账时需要的报表。
  • Adaptive Planning — software that helps a company build a budget and change it fast when sales, costs, or staffing plans shift.帮助公司编制预算、并在销售、成本或人员计划变动时快速调整预算的软件。
Professional services专业服务7% · $0.7B

This is the one-time fee Workday charges to get a new customer live: configuring pay rules, benefit plans, and accounting structures, then training the customer's own staff to run the system. It is a startup cost rather than a recurring one, so it fades as a share of revenue once a customer moves past its initial rollout. A shrinking mix of this fee against the subscription base is usually a sign of a maturing, higher-margin business.这是Workday为新客户部署系统收取的一次性费用:配置薪资规则、福利计划和会计结构,并在系统上线后培训客户自己的员工使用。这是一项启动成本,而非经常性费用,因此在客户完成初期部署后,其占收入的比例会逐渐下降。这项费用相对订阅收入基数的占比缩小,通常表明业务正走向成熟、利润率更高的阶段。

  • Implementation and configuration实施与配置 — Workday staff or approved partners set up the software to match a customer's pay rules, benefit plans, and accounting structure.Workday 员工或认可的合作伙伴把软件设置好,以匹配客户的薪酬规则、福利方案和会计结构。
  • Training培训 — Workday teaches a customer's own staff how to run the software after it goes live.软件上线后,Workday 教客户自己的员工如何使用它。

Company facts公司资料

Founded成立时间
2005
Headquarters总部
Pleasanton, California
Employees员工人数
20,896
Industry行业
Software - Application
Country国家
United States

Investment thesis投资逻辑 from the watchlist来自关注列表

📋 Re-analyzed 8/27 — BUY→ACCUMULATE, conviction 8.0→6.5. The "12.6x fwd, cheap" read was Yahoo pricing FY2028; true fwd ~18x ([[pitfall-vendor-forward-eps-is-the-wrong-fiscal-year]]). 🔻 Backlog growth cratered 17%→10.9%→8.0% over two quarters — now below revenue growth, firing the baseline's own kill-switch. TTM FCF growth decelerated to +2.4%; SBC/revenue ticked up; cash cushion thinned. ⚡ **NEW:

Silver Lake take-private talks (Reuters 8/13), chatter $230-250/sh, founders control 68% of the vote** — left unpriced, not baked into conviction. FV $175-235 (central ~$200). Entry $155-175. Trim 18x fwd.

8/27 重新分析——买入→增持,信念 8.0→6.5。 "12.6x fwd 便宜"实为雅虎按 FY2028 计价,真实前瞻约 18x。 订单积压增速两季骤降 17%→10.9%→8.0%,已低于营收增速,触发基线自设的止损线。 TTM FCF 增速降至 +2.4%,SBC/营收上升,现金垫变薄。 新变量:Silver Lake 私有化谈判(路透 8/13,传 $230-250/股,创始人控 68% 投票权),未计入信念。 FV $175-235。 入场 $155-175,减持 18x fwd。

Historical results历史业绩 past fiscal years — these values do not change过去财年——这些数值不会变动

Profit margins利润率 the share of revenue that stays as profit营收中留存为利润的比例

Gross profit毛利润
76%
Operating profit营业利润
12%
Net profit净利润
12%

of every $1 of revenue每 $1 营收中的占比

Return on equity净资产收益率
16%
Revenue growth营收增长
+13%

Competitors竞争对手

SAPOracleADP

Why customers stay客户为什么留下

once a company moves every employee record and every finance transaction into Workday's single database, pulling that data back out and rebuilding it in a rival system is slow, risky, and costly, so customers rarely switch.一旦一家公司把每一条员工记录和每一笔财务交易都搬进了Workday的单一数据库,再把这些数据取出来、在对手的系统里重建,就又慢、又有风险、又费钱,所以客户很少更换。

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