Buyback yield (TTM)
13.49%
Shareholder yield (TTM)
13.49%
5Y share count change
11.1%
Buyback spend (TTM)
$4.19B
Cumulative buybacks
$4.10B
Key takeaways
- Workday (WDAY) repurchased about $4.19B of stock over the trailing twelve months.
- Diluted share count is up 11.1% over the last ~5 fiscal years — equity issuance and stock-based compensation are outpacing repurchases.
- TTM buyback ÷ stock-based-comp ratio of 2.66× — repurchases more than cover SBC dilution.
- TTM repurchases used about 141% of free cash flow remaining after dividends.
Dividend & buyback yield over time for Workday (WDAY)
Stacked annual yields — buyback yield (TTM cash repurchases ÷ market cap) plus dividend yield from the same fiscal-year-end key-metrics period — show how total cash return per dollar of equity has evolved.
Diluted vs basic shares (annual) for Workday (WDAY)
Diluted weighted-average shares are the EPS denominator — a falling count means buybacks are outpacing SBC dilution.
Year-over-year change in diluted shares for Workday (WDAY)
Green is fewer shares vs the prior fiscal year (net repurchase); red is growth (dilution). The earliest year shown has no prior year to compare.
Cash buyback spend over time for Workday (WDAY)
Latest: $2.90B
Overview
The 2026 reading of Workday (WDAY) buyback spend is $2.90B – surged 313.6% year-over-year.
Across the available history, buyback spend reached its high of $2.90B in 2026 and its low of $0.00 in 2010.
Workday Buyback Spend 2026: $2.90B
In 2026, Workday reported buyback spend of $2.90B, surged 313.6% from 2025. This figure represents the highest annual value in the available history.
Workday Buyback Spend 2025: $700.00M
Workday buyback spend in 2025 was $700.00M, surged 65.5% from 2024.
Workday Buyback Spend 2024: $423.00M
2024's buyback spend for Workday came in at $423.00M, surged 466.5% from 2023.
Workday Buyback Spend 2023: $74.67M
Workday buyback spend in 2023 was $74.67M.
Workday Buyback Spend 2022: $0.00
Workday buyback spend in 2022 was $0.00.
See more financial history for Workday (WDAY).
Buyback, SBC & dilution history
Buyback spend, SBC, net dilution effect, and share count.
| 2026 | $2.90B | $1.63B | $1.27B | 6.31% | 0.26B | -2.2% | |
| 2025 | $700.00M | $1.52B | −$819.00M | 1.00% | 0.27B | +1.5% | |
| 2024 | $423.00M | $1.42B | −$993.00M | 0.55% | 0.27B | +4.1% | |
| 2023 | $74.67M | $1.29B | −$1.22B | 0.16% | 0.25B | +0.3% | |
| 2022 | $0.00 | $1.11B | −$1.11B | — | 0.25B | +7.2% | |
| 2021 | $0.00 | $1.00B | −$1.00B | — | 0.24B | +4.3% | |
| 2020 | $0.00 | $859.57M | −$859.57M | — | 0.23B | +4.8% | |
| 2019 | $0.00 | $652.47M | −$652.47M | — | 0.22B | +4.3% | |
| 2018 | $0.00 | $478.43M | −$478.43M | — | 0.21B | +4.8% | |
| 2017 | $0.00 | $372.27M | −$372.27M | — | 0.20B | +4.3% | |
| 2016 | $0.00 | $249.97M | −$249.97M | — | 0.19B | +3.4% | |
| 2015 | $8.29M | $156.05M | −$147.76M | 0.06% | 0.18B | +7.2% | |
| 2014 | $3.81M | $61.85M | −$58.05M | 0.02% | 0.17B | +131.4% | |
| 2013 | $0.00 | $15.33M | −$15.33M | — | 0.07B | -67.3% | |
| 2012 | $0.00 | $4.18M | −$4.18M | — | 0.23B | 0.0% | |
| 2011 | $0.00 | $1.70M | −$1.70M | — | 0.23B | 0.0% | |
| 2010 | $0.00 | $896.00K | −$896.00K | — | 0.23B | — |
- 2026$2.90B
- 2025$700.00M
- 2024$423.00M
- 2023$74.67M
- 2022$0.00
- 2021$0.00
- 2020$0.00
- 2019$0.00
- 2018$0.00
- 2017$0.00
- 2016$0.00
- 2015$8.29M
- 2014$3.81M
- 2013$0.00
- 2012$0.00
- 2011$0.00
- 2010$0.00
Buybacks vs stock-based compensation for Workday (WDAY)
Annual cash repurchases set against stock-based compensation. Coverage above 1× means buybacks fully offset the equity dilution from SBC. TTM coverage: 2.66×.
Buybacks vs dividends (share of cash returned) for Workday (WDAY)
How Workday splits cash returned to shareholders between dividends and buybacks.
Sector peers by buyback spend
Companies in the same sector as Workday, ranked by their latest buyback spend.
| $90.71B | |
| $40.09B | |
| $18.42B | |
| $6.65B | |
| $6.31B | |
| $1.32B | |
| $0.00 | |
| $0.00 |
- $90.71B
- $40.09B
- $18.42B
- $6.65B
- $6.31B
- $1.32B
- $0.00
Buyback capacity (TTM)
Free cash flow minus dividends paid versus actual TTM repurchases — the headroom bar shows how much of post-dividend FCF is still being deployed elsewhere.
Headroom $2.97B (TTM FCF − TTM dividends, clamped at zero).
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