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Workday Debt-to-Equity

: 0.72 (As of Oct. 2020)
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Workday's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2020 was $1,176 Mil. Workday's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2020 was $1,054 Mil. Workday's Total Stockholders Equity for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2020 was $3,078 Mil. Workday's debt to equity for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2020 was 0.72.

A high debt to equity ratio generally means that a company has been aggressive in financing its growth with debt. This can result in volatile earnings as a result of the additional interest expense.

NAS:WDAY' s Debt-to-Equity Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -0.09   Med: 0.45   Max: 0.96
Current: 0.72
-0.09
0.96

During the past 11 years, the highest Debt-to-Equity Ratio of Workday was 0.96. The lowest was -0.09. And the median was 0.45.

NAS:WDAY's Debt-to-Equity is ranked lower than
78% of the 1897 Companies
in the Software industry.

( Industry Median: 0.20 vs. NAS:WDAY: 0.72 )

Workday Debt-to-Equity Historical Data

* All numbers are in millions except for per share data and ratio. All numbers are in their local exchange's currency.

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Workday Annual Data
Dec10 Jan12 Jan13 Jan14 Jan15 Jan16 Jan17 Jan18 Jan19 Jan20
Debt-to-Equity Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.45 0.42 0.94 0.62 0.63

Workday Quarterly Data
Jan16 Apr16 Jul16 Oct16 Jan17 Apr17 Jul17 Oct17 Jan18 Apr18 Jul18 Oct18 Jan19 Apr19 Jul19 Oct19 Jan20 Apr20 Jul20 Oct20
Debt-to-Equity 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.67 0.63 0.81 0.75 0.72
Competitive Comparison
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Workday Debt-to-Equity Distribution

* The bar in red indicates where Workday's Debt-to-Equity falls into.


Workday Debt-to-Equity Calculation

Debt to Equity measures the financial leverage a company has.

Workday's Debt to Equity Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2020 is calculated as

Debt to Equity=Total Debt / Total Stockholders Equity
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / Total Stockholders Equity
=(310.466 + 1259.392) / 2486.551
=0.63

Workday's Debt to Equity Ratio for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2020 is calculated as

Debt to Equity=Total Debt / Total Stockholders Equity
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / Total Stockholders Equity
=(1175.602 + 1054.078) / 3078.054
=0.72

* All numbers are in millions except for per share data and ratio. All numbers are in their local exchange's currency.

Workday  (NAS:WDAY) Debt-to-Equity Explanation

In the calculation of Debt to Equity, we use the total of Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation and Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation divided by Total Stockholders Equity. In some calculations, Total Liabilities is used to for calculation.

Be Aware

Because a company can increase its ROE % by having more financial leverage, it is important to watch the leverage ratio when investing in high ROE % companies.

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