Workday surges 18.7% to $208.09, leading a software sweep of the day's top gainers
As seen on the 24/7 Wall St. homepage on August 13, 2026.
Workday closed 18.7% higher at $208.09, the biggest single-session move across our 110-stock priority list. Software names took four of the five top spots, while Coherent and Cipher Mining each shed more than 7%.
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Workday's 18.7% advance to $208.09 on August 13 was the largest single-session move across the priority list, well clear of every other name tracked that day. Moves of that size in a large-cap software stock are uncommon and tend to draw sustained attention from institutional desks in the sessions that follow.
Software names filled four of the five top spots among the day's gainers, with SanDisk, GoPro and DocuSign joining Workday and Archer Aviation rounding out the group. The breadth of the move points to a broad sector tailwind behind the gains.
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On the other side of the ledger, Coherent and Cipher Mining were the two steepest decliners of the session, followed by Marathon Digital, Hims and Hers, and Lucid. The losses were concentrated in hardware and digital-asset-adjacent names, worth monitoring if sector rotation continues.
For investors already holding Workday, a one-day move of nearly 19% puts the question on whether the new price level holds. Those watching from the sidelines will want to keep an eye on the stock to gauge whether volume and price action confirm the move or signal a fade.