WDAY pre-earnings setup: Workday reports on November 24, 2026, and our November 6 scan priced it at $194.15 with 18 days to the print, a score of 75 and a 13.8% 14-day implied move on the options market.

The setup is unusual for a name in the mid seventies. Workday has the full 25 points for analyst coverage and the full 15 for a Positive sentiment reading, and it is still the second-weakest analyst book of the seven names printing on November 24.

Twenty of the 42 ratings on WDAY are holds. That is more holds than any other name on that calendar, and it is the reason the conviction column is worth 11.3 points of 25.

What the scanner row says about Workday

Score 75 at rank 21 of the 49 rows we scan, sector Technology, print date November 24, earnings sentiment Positive, short interest 7.5% of float, market capitalization $46.79 billion, implied volatility 82.9, and a scan price of $194.15.

Decomposed, the 75 is 25 points for analyst coverage, 11.3 for a 45.2% buy-side share, 10 for five strong buys, 13.8 for the 14-day implied move, and the full 15 for a Positive sentiment reading.

The score moved up two points from the 73 we published on November 5, and the implied move is why. That column read 11.5% yesterday and reads 13.8% today, and coverage, the book and the sentiment reading are unchanged.

When does WDAY report earnings, and is it a buy before the print?

Workday reports on November 24, 2026, 18 days after our November 6 scan. We publish the score, the marks and the implied move; we do not call buys or sells, and the reader decides what the setup is worth.

The marks on the row are $206.54 on the upside and $181.76 on the downside, which is 6.4% of room either side of the $194.15 scan price. The implied move is 9.8% over three days, 13.8% over seven and 14 over fourteen.

On the November 24 calendar that is the second-widest event we carry. DELL prices 16.6% over fourteen days, WDAY 13.8%, ADI 12.6%, BILI 9.2%, HPQ 9.9%, NTNX 8.5% and ADSK 7.8%.

Where the price has been sitting this month

Workday is one of the few names in our table that is up over the past month. It closed at $200.17 on November 5, which is 7.3% above the October 6 close of $186.55 and 2.4% above the October 29 close of $195.46.

The path was steady rather than violent. The low of the month was $184.26 on October 7, the high was $209.99 on October 22 and October 23, and the stock has held between $184 and $210 for five weeks.

Our November 6 scan prices it at $194.15, which is 3.01% below the November 5 close, so the setup starts from a softer open than the settled closes suggest.

How does the book compare with the other November 24 names?

On buy-side share WDAY is second from the bottom. BILI has 29 bullish ratings out of 30, ADI has 30 out of 34, ADSK has 29 out of 36, DELL has 20 out of 29 and NTNX has 10 out of 17.

Workday has 19 bullish ratings out of 42, which is 45.2%, and only HPQ is lower on that date with 2 buys against 7 sells. WDAY also carries 3 sell ratings, while HPQ carries 7.

Short interest points the other way. WDAY has 7.5% of float short, behind HPQ at 9.8% and BILI at 8.0% but ahead of NTNX at 5.7%, ADSK at 4.8%, DELL at 4.2% and ADI at 2.3%. A crowded book and a patient book are different problems.

How does WDAY sit against the enterprise software names printing around it?

Workday is not the only enterprise software name with a print in the next four weeks. VEEV prints November 25 at a score of 80 and INTU prints November 19 at 74.

CRM prints December 2 at 79, and DOCU and PATH print December 3 at 53 and 52. All five sit in our table, so the comparison is on the same rows and the same scan.

On the analyst side Workday sits in the middle of that group. CRM has 40 bullish ratings out of 56, which is 71.4%, and INTU has 20 out of 34, which is 58.8%. Below Workday's 45.2% come DOCU at 4 bullish ratings out of 20 and PATH at 3 out of 20.

The implied volatility is where Workday is the odd one out. WDAY carries 82.9, and only DELL at 107.6 and ADI at 90.7 carry more in that group. CRM sits at 57.5, VEEV at 55.0 and NTNX at 54.7. A patient analyst book on a wide volatility print is the setup this name actually offers.

What would have to change before the print?

The conviction column first, because it is the only column with room to move in either direction. At 45.2% it is worth 11.3 of 25 points, and each additional buy rating adds roughly six tenths of a point.

Second the implied move, because a wider event would lift the score directly. The column reads 13.8 points today. DELL at 16.6% is the widest on that date, and the market has already shown it will pay up for an enterprise software print in November.

Third the price, because the marks are on the row. The $194.15 scan price sits between a $206.54 post-earnings target and a $181.76 downside mark, and the 7.3% month means a reader is paying more for the print than they were a month ago.

And the calendar behind it. November 24 is a busy day for this site: BILI, DELL, ADSK, ADI, WDAY, NTNX and HPQ all print, and two of those carry a Mixed sentiment reading.

Our scan runs at 6:30 Pacific time and every figure on this page comes from it, published in full at our open data.

So the WDAY pre-earnings setup is a score of 75 built on full coverage and a clean sentiment reading, with 20 holds, three sells and a 7.5% short interest sitting underneath it.

Eighteen days out, the options market is charging 13.8% for the print and the analyst side of the book is still undecided. The reader decides whether a patient book at a wide event is a setup.

Frequently asked questions about Workday

When does Workday report earnings?

Workday reports on November 24, 2026, which is 18 days after our November 6 scan. Six other names in our table print that day, including Dell and Autodesk.

Is Workday a buy before the November 24 print?

The row is a mid seventies score on full coverage and Positive sentiment, with 20 hold ratings and three sells on a 42-analyst book. The implied move is 13.8% over fourteen days, the second widest on that date, and the post-earnings target is $206.54 against a $194.15 scan price.

What is WDAY's implied move into the print?

The options market is charging 6.4% over three days, 9.8% over seven and 13.8% over fourteen. The band runs from $181.76 to $206.54 around the $194.15 scan price, on 82.9 implied volatility.