I'm Not a Buyer of Workday (WDAY), Says Jim Cramer

By Ramish Cheema | February 24, 2026, 6:55 AM

We recently published 10 Stocks Jim Cramer Talked About.  Workday Incorporated (NASDAQ:WDAY) is one of the stocks Jim Cramer talked about.

Workday Incorporated (NASDAQ:WDAY) is a software company that provides financial management, planning, and other applications. The shares are down by 47% over the past year and by 35% year-to-date. BTIG discussed the firm on February 10th. It reduced the share price target to $230 from $285 and kept a Buy rating on the shares. The firm discussed Workday Incorporated (NASDAQ:WDAY)’s AI strategy and pointed out that it could require the firm to make more investments. A day before, Oppenheimer also discussed the firm as it maintained an Outperform rating. The financial firm outlined that Workday Incorporated (NASDAQ:WDAY) could benefit from the appointment of its new CEO, Aneel Bhusri, in the form of smoother navigation through the software industry’s AI challenges. However, following the CEO’s appointment, Stifel cut Workday Incorporated (NASDAQ:WDAY)’s share price target to $175 from $235 and commented that the firm’s fiscal 2027 guidance could lag estimates. Cramer also tweeted about the new CEO:

“I’m not a buyer of WDAY but lets hope that Aneel Bhusri tells someone, anyone that Anthropic uses WDAY for the same things everyone else does.”

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Disclosure: None. This article is originally published at Insider Monkey.

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