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Workday (MIL:1WDAY) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : 61.23 (As of Jun. 06, 2025)


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What is Workday Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF?

As of today (2025-06-06), Workday's current share price is €219.20. Workday's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Apr. 2025 was €3.58. Workday's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for today is 61.23.

The historical rank and industry rank for Workday's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF or its related term are showing as below:

MIL:1WDAY' s Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 51.09   Med: 77   Max: 198.62
Current: 56.74

During the past years, Workday's highest Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF was 198.62. The lowest was 51.09. And the median was 77.00.

MIL:1WDAY's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF is ranked worse than
69.32% of 704 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 30.235 vs MIL:1WDAY: 56.74

The Shiller PE Ratio was first used by professor Robert Shiller. He uses E10 for his Shiller PE Ratio calculation. E10 is the average of the inflation adjusted earnings per share of a company over the past 10 years. The similar calculation is applied by GuruFocus to calculate the Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF. The Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share is the average of the inflation adjusted free cash flow per share of a company over the past 10 years.

Workday's adjusted free cash flow per share data for the three months ended in Apr. 2025 was €1.386. Add all the adjusted free cash flow per share for the past 10 years together and divide 10 will get our Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share, which is €3.58 for the trailing ten years ended in Apr. 2025.

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Workday Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Historical Data

The historical data trend for Workday's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Workday Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Chart

Workday Annual Data
Trend Jan16 Jan17 Jan18 Jan19 Jan20 Jan21 Jan22 Jan23 Jan24 Jan25
Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only - 135.57 72.09 87.30 61.62

Workday Quarterly Data
Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23 Jan24 Apr24 Jul24 Oct24 Jan25 Apr25
Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 70.15 61.07 60.65 61.62 55.63

Competitive Comparison of Workday's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF

For the Software - Application subindustry, Workday's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF, along with its competitors' market caps and Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Workday's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Workday's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Workday's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF falls into.


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Workday Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Calculation

Like the Shiller PE Ratio, the Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF takes the Free Cash Flow per Share from the past 10 years, adjusts it for inflation, and then calculates the average. This average is then used for the P/FCF calculation. Because it considers this 10-year average, it's often referred to as the CAPFCF Ratio.

The Shiller PE Ratio was first used by professor Robert Shiller to measure the valuation of the overall market. The similar calculation is applied by GuruFocus to calculate the Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF.

Workday's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for today is calculated as

Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF=Share Price/ Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share
=219.20/3.58
=61.23

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

Workday's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Apr. 2025 is calculated as:

For example, Workday's adjusted Free Cash Flow per Share data for the three months ended in Apr. 2025 was:

Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare=Free Cash Flow per Share/CPI of Apr. 2025 (Change)*Current CPI (Apr. 2025)
=1.386/135.3468*135.3468
=1.386

Current CPI (Apr. 2025) = 135.3468.

Workday Quarterly Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
201507 -0.049 100.691 -0.066
201510 0.069 100.346 0.093
201601 0.270 99.957 0.366
201604 0.581 100.947 0.779
201607 -0.092 101.524 -0.123
201610 0.200 101.988 0.265
201701 0.361 102.456 0.477
201704 0.684 103.167 0.897
201707 -0.098 103.278 -0.128
201710 0.438 104.070 0.570
201801 0.309 104.578 0.400
201804 0.518 105.708 0.663
201807 0.013 106.324 0.017
201810 0.235 106.695 0.298
201901 0.780 106.200 0.994
201904 0.572 107.818 0.718
201907 0.097 108.250 0.121
201910 0.803 108.577 1.001
202001 0.973 108.841 1.210
202004 0.805 108.173 1.007
202007 0.334 109.318 0.414
202010 0.770 109.861 0.949
202101 1.710 110.364 2.097
202104 1.312 112.673 1.576
202107 0.360 115.183 0.423
202110 1.189 116.696 1.379
202201 1.857 118.619 2.119
202204 1.401 121.978 1.555
202207 -0.210 125.002 -0.227
202210 1.386 125.734 1.492
202301 2.221 126.223 2.382
202304 0.729 127.992 0.771
202307 1.231 128.974 1.292
202310 1.386 129.810 1.445
202401 3.233 130.124 3.363
202404 1.003 132.289 1.026
202407 1.776 132.708 1.811
202410 1.220 133.182 1.240
202501 3.671 134.029 3.707
202504 1.386 135.347 1.386

Add all the adjusted free cash flow per share together and divide 10 will get our Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share.

Please note that we use the CPI data of the country/region where the company is headquartered. If the CPI data for that country/region is not available, then we will use the CPI data of the United States as default.


Workday  (MIL:1WDAY) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Explanation

Compared with the regular Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow, which works poorly for cyclical businesses, the Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF smoothed out the fluctuations of free cash flow during business cycles. Therefore it is more accurate in reflecting the valuation of the company.

If a company has consistent business performance, the Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF should give similar results to regular Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow.


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Workday is a software company that offers human capital management, or HCM, financial management, and business planning solutions for enterprises. Known for being a cloud-only software provider, Workday was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

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