Jim Cramer Put These 16 Stocks Under the Microscope

2. Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ:WDAY)

Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ:WDAY) is one of the stocks Jim Cramer put under the microscope. Cramer discussed the effect of AI on the stock, as he said:

Second telltale sign that it was all just an artificial program and not the reality of business: The absurd, relentless buying of the enterprise software companies that had been written off for dead. Consider Workday. How many times did I hear in the last six months that Workday was going to be crushed by Anthropic, an AI company that can, let’s say, mimic pretty much every software company out there? I never fully believed that story, but it’s partially true, and it killed the entire cohort. The pessimism was so thick around Workday, the stock was practically untouchable. Sure enough, after it reported Tuesday night, its stock dropped 12 points like that, 130 down to 117 and change ultimately as the stock caught two downgrades and a ton of price target cuts.

But then midday, Workday started to rally, and it actually finished yesterday up nearly three bucks before tacking another six today. This thing went up 22 points from yesterday’s close… When you have a program trade taking over the market, the companies on the anointed buy list become winners. The fact that the quarter was excellent is almost beside the point. Workday’s guidance was dismal, and it’s rallied just as hard.

Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ:WDAY) provides cloud-based applications designed to help organizations manage financial processes, human resources, and business planning.