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WDAY vs. ADSK, INTU, META, TEAM, ANET, CRM, DT, HUBS, NOW, and ADBE

Should you be buying Workday stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Workday include Autodesk (ADSK), Intuit (INTU), Meta Platforms (META), Atlassian (TEAM), Arista Networks (ANET), Salesforce (CRM), Dynatrace (DT), HubSpot (HUBS), ServiceNow (NOW), and Adobe (ADBE). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.

Workday vs. Its Competitors

Autodesk (NASDAQ:ADSK) and Workday (NASDAQ:WDAY) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.

Autodesk has a beta of 1.46, indicating that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Workday has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Autodesk has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Workday. Autodesk is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Workday, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Autodesk$6.13B10.10$1.11B$4.6761.96
Workday$8.45B7.30$526M$1.81127.54

90.2% of Autodesk shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of Workday shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Autodesk shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 20.0% of Workday shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Autodesk has a net margin of 15.90% compared to Workday's net margin of 5.60%. Autodesk's return on equity of 50.77% beat Workday's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Autodesk15.90% 50.77% 12.63%
Workday 5.60%8.00%4.12%

Autodesk presently has a consensus price target of $342.61, indicating a potential upside of 18.41%. Workday has a consensus price target of $293.08, indicating a potential upside of 26.96%. Given Workday's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Workday is more favorable than Autodesk.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Autodesk
0 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
16 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.75
Workday
1 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
19 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.76

In the previous week, Workday had 20 more articles in the media than Autodesk. MarketBeat recorded 55 mentions for Workday and 35 mentions for Autodesk. Autodesk's average media sentiment score of 1.45 beat Workday's score of 1.21 indicating that Autodesk is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Autodesk
28 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Workday
28 Very Positive mention(s)
7 Positive mention(s)
11 Neutral mention(s)
5 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Autodesk beats Workday on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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WDAY vs. The Competition

MetricWorkdayINTERNET SOFTWARE IndustryComputer SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$61.72B$19.48B$29.83B$9.79B
Dividend YieldN/A3.81%3.12%4.10%
P/E Ratio127.7273.4952.2625.28
Price / Sales7.30187.361,265.8588.50
Price / Cash58.2984.8633.6728.45
Price / Book6.818.317.266.01
Net Income$526M$346.10M$804.82M$265.34M
7 Day Performance8.03%3.25%2.09%2.89%
1 Month Performance-0.95%-2.63%-0.58%1.61%
1 Year Performance-0.38%67.56%24,167.42%25.61%

Workday Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WDAY
Workday
4.9035 of 5 stars
$230.85
+2.1%
$293.08
+27.0%
-2.4%$61.72B$8.45B127.7220,400Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
ADSK
Autodesk
4.3497 of 5 stars
$284.62
-2.1%
$342.61
+20.4%
+15.5%$60.91B$6.13B60.9515,300News Coverage
Positive News
INTU
Intuit
4.8156 of 5 stars
$706.09
-5.7%
$806.27
+14.2%
+9.7%$196.96B$18.18B57.3118,800Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
META
Meta Platforms
4.2049 of 5 stars
$765.87
-0.4%
$822.41
+7.4%
+48.9%$1.92T$164.50B27.7374,067Trending News
TEAM
Atlassian
4.8539 of 5 stars
$159.28
-5.2%
$259.76
+63.1%
+8.3%$41.81B$5.22B-160.8912,157Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
High Trading Volume
ANET
Arista Networks
4.3573 of 5 stars
$137.65
-1.1%
$138.07
+0.3%
+55.1%$173.01B$7.00B54.144,412Positive News
CRM
Salesforce
4.9674 of 5 stars
$232.46
-3.3%
$348.16
+49.8%
-7.7%$222.23B$37.90B36.3876,453Trending News
Analyst Upgrade
Options Volume
DT
Dynatrace
4.8936 of 5 stars
$46.02
-0.5%
$62.57
+35.9%
-2.8%$13.88B$1.70B28.245,200Positive News
Analyst Downgrade
HUBS
HubSpot
4.861 of 5 stars
$420.11
-6.6%
$726.04
+72.8%
-11.7%$22.14B$2.63B-1,826.568,246Gap Down
High Trading Volume
NOW
ServiceNow
4.9276 of 5 stars
$855.95
-1.9%
$1,115.20
+30.3%
+4.8%$178.04B$12.06B107.8026,293Positive News
ADBE
Adobe
4.8446 of 5 stars
$333.65
-2.2%
$467.58
+40.1%
-35.9%$141.53B$21.51B21.3530,709Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:WDAY) was last updated on 8/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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