Screener / SEC EDGAR /CIK 0001327811 /10-K filed Mar 6, 2026, compared with Mar 11, 2025 /Numbers from the XBRL of the 10-Ks
Nasdaq Technology · Data Processing

Workday, Inc. WDAY

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Cash returned and share count, year to Jan 31, 2026

Bought back $2.9B of its own shares, 1.8× what it paid in stock

XBRL, latest 10-K
Buybacks $2.9B cash paid for its own shares
Paid in stock to employees $1.6B stock-based compensation
Share count, 1 year -0.4% fewer shares: each share owns more
Share count, 3 years +5.2% diluted average shares

New shares against shares bought back

Dilution: new shares, stock pay and buybacks · S-3 and 424B, 3 years; 10-K

Shares offered

Since Nov 15, 2023: 1 shelf registration; also 1 notes offering.

“We may offer from time to time Class A common stock, preferred stock, debt securities, or warrants in one or more offerings.”

S-3ASR, May 29, 2026
Every offering filing

Paid in stock

$1.6B

stock-based pay, year to Jan 31, 2026

Bought back

$2.9B

cash paid for its own shares, year to Jan 31, 2026: 1.8× the stock pay

Diluted shares: 268.12M in the year to Jan 31, 2026 2026 -0.4%2025 +1.5%2024 +4.1%2023 +0.3%

Change in the diluted weighted average share count from the fiscal year before, stock splits taken out. Bars use one scale for stock pay and buybacks. Prospectuses are read from their cover page; preliminary ones are left out. How

Net share count, 4 years

Shares, buybacks and stock pay, fiscal years 2022 to 2026 · 10-K XBRL

+5.5% shares
Share count +5.5% diluted average shares, 4 years to Jan 31, 2026, splits taken out
Bought back $4.1B cash paid for its own shares, summed over the 4 years
Paid in stock $5.9B stock-based compensation, summed over the same years
Fiscal yearShares, changeBought backPaid in stockCash from shares sold
Jan 31, 2026 -0.4% $2.9B $1.6B -
Jan 31, 2025 +1.5% $700.0M $1.5B -
Jan 31, 2024 +4.1% $423.0M $1.4B -
Jan 31, 2023 +0.3% $75.0M $1.3B -

Each year's change is the diluted weighted average share count against the year before, with stock splits taken out; the headline change compares the two ends of the span on one basis. Buybacks and stock pay are added up over the same years. Buybacks that only offset stock pay leave the count flat: both are shown, no verdict. How

Where the cash came from and where it went

FY2026, from the cash flow statement in the 10-K, added up

Operating cash flowCash on hand usedOther, netCapital spendingAcquisitionsBuybacks Operating cash flow: $2.9B Operating cash flow $2.9B Cash on hand used: $45.0M Cash on hand used $45.0M Other, net: $2.2B Other, net $2.2B Capital spending: $162.0M Capital spending $162.0M Acquisitions: $2.1B Acquisitions $2.1B Buybacks: $2.9B Buybacks $2.9B

Each number is a line of the cash flow statement as the company tagged it. "Other, net" is what those lines do not cover (investments bought and sold, other financing and investing lines, and exchange rates); Tickdelta does not estimate it.

Where the operating cash went, year by year

FY2017 to FY2026 · cash flow statements, 10-K XBRL

10 years
Operating cash, added up $14.4B 10 fiscal years, FY2017 to FY2026
Reinvested 53% capital spending and acquisitions, as a share of that cash
Returned to owners 28% buybacks and dividends, as a share of that cash
Debt repaid $1.9B gross repayments added up; debt that was refinanced counts each time
Fiscal yearOperating cashCapital spendingAcquisitionsBuybacksDebt repaid
Jan 31, 2026 $2.9B $162.0M$2.1B$2.9B-
Jan 31, 2025 $2.5B $269.0M$825.0M$700.0M-
Jan 31, 2024 $2.1B $232.0M$8.0M$423.0M-
Jan 31, 2023 $1.7B $364.0M-$75.0M$1.8B
Jan 31, 2022 $1.7B -$1.2B-$38.0M
Jan 31, 2021 $1.3B ----
Jan 31, 2020 $864.6M -$473.6M--
Jan 31, 2019 $606.7M $202.5M$1.5B--
Jan 31, 2018 $465.7M $141.5M$5.7M--
Jan 31, 2017 $350.6M $120.8M$147.9M--
Added up$14.4B $1.5B
10% of operating cash
$6.2B
43% of operating cash
$4.1B
28% of operating cash
$1.9B
13% of operating cash

Each bar is one fiscal year; its colours add up to what the cash flow statement says the company spent on each line, and the line across it is that year's operating cash flow. Spending above the line was paid from new debt, shares sold or cash on hand. A bar part links to the 10-K it comes from. A line the company did not report is left out, not estimated, so the shares are of operating cash only and can add up to more or less than 100%. Debt repaid is the gross amount, so refinanced debt is counted each time it is repaid. A reading aid, not a grade: Tickdelta does not say whether a split was good. Banks and insurers are left out.

Buybacks, dividends and share count

Year by year · XBRL, each 10-K

Fiscal year toBuybacksDividendsDiluted shares
Jan 31, 2026$2.9B - 268.12M
Jan 31, 2025$700.0M - 269.20M
Jan 31, 2024$423.0M - 265.29M
Jan 31, 2023$75.0M - 254.82M
Jan 31, 2022$0 - 254.03M

From the XBRL of the 10-Ks (cash flow statement and diluted weighted average shares); each year as reported in the latest 10-K that includes it. Concepts: buybacks = PaymentsForRepurchaseOfCommonStock; sbc = ShareBasedCompensation; diluted_shares = WeightedAverageNumberOfDilutedSharesOutstanding.

Buybacks month by month, and what is left to buy

Share buybacks · 10-Q, Part II Item 2, latest 4 quarters

Still open to buy $0 under the programme, end of Jul 2026
Latest month 3,708,000 shares Jul 2026, average $141.56

“In September 2025, our Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of up to $4.0 billion of our outstanding shares of Class A common stock.”

10-Q, Part II Item 2
MonthShares boughtAverage price
Jul 2026 3,708,000 $141.56
Jun 2026 4,005,000 $130.31
May 2026 2,070,000 $125.64
Apr 2026 3,357,000 $121.22
Mar 2026 6,974,000 $135.65
Feb 2026 1,694,000 $145.80
Oct 2025 686,000 $235.70
Sep 2025 2,410,000 $240.76
Aug 2025 271,000 $224.18
Jul 2025 268,000 $234.95
Jun 2025 597,000 $246.78
May 2025 351,000 $251.64

Shares and average price are the numbers in the 10-Q table, row by row; "shares × price" is our multiplication of the two. A row with a price of "-" is an accelerated repurchase paid up front, where the 10-Q does not give a price yet. A 10-Q that counts shares in millions gives a rounded number, shown as "about". Shares withheld for employees' taxes are not in this table. A month that no 10-Q table gives, or that this page could not read with confidence, is not shown.

What the 10-Ks show for each CEO's years

Each CEO's years · the CEO of each fiscal year as named in the proxy's pay versus performance table

Carl Eschenbach

FY2026 · 1 year in the table
Operating cash flow
$2.9B
Capital spending
$162.0M
Acquisitions
$2.1B
Buybacks
$2.9B
Stock-based pay
$1.6B
Diluted shares since FY2025
-0.4%
Revenue since FY2025
+13%
Debt since FY2025
+$3.0M
The proxy that names the CEO

Sources

The cash flow statement, dividends per share and diluted share count in each 10-K's XBRL; Part II Item 2 of each 10-Q for monthly buybacks; offering prospectuses (S-3, 424B) for new shares; Form D data sets for private raises.

Also

CEO pay: what the CEO was paid over the same years.

Work with it

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