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SAP vs WDAY

Side-by-side comparison of SAP SE (SAP) and Workday Inc. (WDAY): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both companies sit in the Technology sector. SAP focuses on Computer Software: Prepackaged Software, while WDAY focuses on EDP Services.
  • SAP is the larger of the two at $287.59B, about 6.2x WDAY ($46.07B).
  • Over the past year, SAP is down 7.6% and WDAY is down 15.4% - SAP leads by 7.8 points.
  • WDAY has been more active in the news (9 items in the past 4 weeks vs 7 for SAP).
  • Both have 25 recent analyst ratings on file.
PerformanceSAP-7.56%WDAY-15.37%
2025-11-12+0.00%2026-11-11
MetricSAPWDAY
Company
SAP SE
Workday Inc.
Price
$234.18+0.12%
$191.20+1.23%
Market cap
$287.59B
$46.07B
1M return
+6.55%
+2.84%
1Y return
-7.56%
-15.37%
Industry
Computer Software: Prepackaged Software
EDP Services
Exchange
NYSE
NASDAQ
IPO
News (4w)
7
9
Recent ratings
25
25
SAP

SAP SE

SAP SE operates as an enterprise application software company worldwide. The company operates through four segments: Applications, Technology & Support; Concur; Qualtrics; and Services. It offers SAP S/4HANA, an enterprise resource planning suite for intelligent technologies; SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain, a cloud-based solution that delivers real-time supply chain planning capabilities; SAP Intelligent Asset Management, a solution that helps to define, plan, and monitor service and maintenance strategy; SAP SuccessFactors Human Experience Management Suite, a cloud software that helps to develop, manage, and engage people; SAP Ariba, a digital business-to-business marketplace; SAP Concur, a travel and expense management software; and SAP Fieldglass, a cloud application for services procurement and contingent workforce management. The company also provides SAP solutions for enterprise information management that offers capabilities to understand, integrate, cleanse, manage, associate, and archive data; SAP HANA and SAP HANA Cloud, which enables businesses to process and analyze live data; SAP Analytics Cloud, a cloud analytics solution; SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence, a suite of flexible and scalable self-service BI tools; SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, a cloud data warehouse solution for business and IT users; and SAP BW/4HANA, an on-premise data warehouse solution. In addition, it offers SAP Integration Suite that help customers with holistic integration, and API-based and event-based integrations; SAP Extension Suite that provides ready-to-use services to accelerate and develop application extensions; SAP Internet of Things, a cloud solution that generates business outcomes; and SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation, a software robot to mimic human actions and responses. SAP SE was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Walldorf, Germany.

WDAY

Workday Inc.

Workday, Inc. provides enterprise cloud applications worldwide. Its applications help its customers to manage critical business functions and optimize their financial and human resources. The company offers a suite of financial management applications, which enable chief financial officers to maintain accounting information in the general ledger; manage financial processes; identify real-time financial, operational, and management insights; enhance financial consolidation; reduce time-to-close; promote internal control and auditability; and achieve consistency across finance operations. It also provides cloud spend management solutions; a suite of human capital management applications that allows organizations to manage the entire employee lifecycle from recruitment to retirement; Workday applications for planning; and applications for analytics and reporting, including augmented analytics to surface insights to the line of business in simple-to-understand stories, machine learning to drive efficiency and automation, and benchmarks to compare performance against other companies. In addition, the company offers Workday applications serving industries, such as healthcare, higher education, and professional services. It serves technology, financial services, business and professional services, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, retail, and hospitality industries; and educational institutions, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations. Workday, Inc. has a strategic partnership with Google LLC to digitally transform enterprises worldwide. The company was formerly known as North Tahoe Power Tools, Inc. and changed its name to Workday, Inc. in July 2005. Workday, Inc. was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.