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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 stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.

Autodesk presently has a consensus target price of $356.83, suggesting a potential upside of 9.33%. Workday has a consensus target price of $286.81, suggesting a potential upside of 24.12%. Given Workday's stronger consensus rating and higher possible 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)
17 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.71
Workday
1 Sell rating(s)
8 Hold rating(s)
19 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.73

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$6.13B11.34$1.11B$4.8367.57
Workday$8.45B7.31$526M$2.16106.98

Autodesk has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Workday has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Autodesk had 3 more articles in the media than Workday. MarketBeat recorded 36 mentions for Autodesk and 33 mentions for Workday. Workday's average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Autodesk's score of 1.23 indicating that Workday is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Autodesk
28 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Workday
27 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

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 endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Autodesk has a net margin of 15.75% compared to Workday's net margin of 6.51%. Autodesk's return on equity of 51.23% beat Workday's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Autodesk15.75% 51.23% 12.77%
Workday 6.51%9.74%5.01%

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$61.70B$19.55B$30.50B$9.94B
Dividend YieldN/A3.45%3.16%4.53%
P/E Ratio106.9878.50443.7026.13
Price / Sales7.3166.471,972.81121.74
Price / Cash59.5882.8133.8529.11
Price / Book6.818.337.066.09
Net Income$526M$355.98M$808.41M$266.19M
7 Day Performance0.11%-0.57%-0.16%0.44%
1 Month Performance4.06%4.38%2.93%4.88%
1 Year Performance-9.24%73.11%24,208.68%26.03%

Workday Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WDAY
Workday
4.9447 of 5 stars
$231.08
0.0%
$286.81
+24.1%
-9.2%$61.70B$8.45B106.9820,400Positive News
ADSK
Autodesk
4.6583 of 5 stars
$314.70
+9.1%
$355.43
+12.9%
+30.4%$67.35B$6.13B65.1615,300Positive News
High Trading Volume
INTU
Intuit
4.9563 of 5 stars
$667.00
-0.2%
$797.62
+19.6%
+9.4%$186.06B$18.83B48.5418,800Positive News
META
Meta Platforms
4.1352 of 5 stars
$738.70
-1.7%
$822.41
+11.3%
+50.4%$1.86T$164.50B26.7574,067Trending News
TEAM
Atlassian
4.6987 of 5 stars
$177.78
+0.6%
$256.90
+44.5%
+6.9%$46.64B$5.22B-179.5713,813Trending News
Analyst Downgrade
ANET
Arista Networks
4.636 of 5 stars
$136.46
+0.2%
$138.07
+1.2%
+81.8%$171.51B$7.00B53.674,412Positive News
Short Interest ↓
Gap Up
CRM
Salesforce
4.9017 of 5 stars
$256.37
+0.7%
$341.47
+33.2%
+2.6%$245.09B$38.59B40.1276,453Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Insider Trade
Analyst Revision
DT
Dynatrace
4.9346 of 5 stars
$50.59
-0.6%
$62.72
+24.0%
-0.5%$15.25B$1.78B31.045,200Positive News
HUBS
HubSpot
4.7575 of 5 stars
$483.11
+1.4%
$726.04
+50.3%
-1.8%$25.45B$2.63B-2,100.468,246Trending News
Analyst Revision
NOW
ServiceNow
4.8661 of 5 stars
$918.49
-1.1%
$1,115.20
+21.4%
+10.7%$191.04B$10.98B115.6826,293Positive News
ADBE
Adobe
4.8536 of 5 stars
$356.70
+0.8%
$459.52
+28.8%
-38.1%$151.31B$21.51B22.8230,709Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
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This page (NASDAQ:WDAY) was last updated on 9/8/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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