Workday (NASDAQ:WDAY) versus KANZHUN (NASDAQ:BZ) Financial Comparison

KANZHUN (NASDAQ:BZ) and Workday (NASDAQ:WDAY) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares KANZHUN and Workday”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
KANZHUN	$1.01 billion	8.70	$217.10 million	$0.58	36.84
Workday	$8.45 billion	7.15	$526.00 million	$1.81	124.91

Workday has higher revenue and earnings than KANZHUN. KANZHUN is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Workday, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility and Risk

KANZHUN has a beta of 0.41, suggesting that its share price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Workday has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares KANZHUN and Workday’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
KANZHUN	24.53%	12.34%	9.57%
Workday	5.60%	8.00%	4.12%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for KANZHUN and Workday, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
KANZHUN	0	1	3	1	3.00
Workday	1	7	19	2	2.76

KANZHUN presently has a consensus target price of $18.50, indicating a potential downside of 13.43%. Workday has a consensus target price of $294.3077, indicating a potential upside of 30.17%. Given Workday’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Workday is more favorable than KANZHUN.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

60.7% of KANZHUN shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of Workday shares are held by institutional investors. 5.6% of KANZHUN shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 19.3% of Workday shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Workday beats KANZHUN on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About KANZHUN

Kanzhun Limited, together with its subsidiaries, provides online recruitment services in the People's Republic of China. The company offers its recruitment services through a mobile app under the BOSS Zhipin brand name. Its services allow enterprise customers to access and interact with job seekers and manage their recruitment process. The company also provides management consultancy and technical services. Kanzhun Limited was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People's Republic of China.

About Workday

Workday, Inc. provides enterprise cloud applications in the United States and internationally. Its applications help its customers to plan, execute, analyze, and extend to other applications and environments to manage their business and operations. The company offers a suite of financial management applications to maintain accounting information in the general ledger; manage financial processes, such as payables and receivables; 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 spend management solutions that help organizations to streamline supplier selection and contracts, manage indirect spend, and build and execute sourcing events, such as requests for proposals; expense management solutions to submit and approve expenses; and a suite of human capital management applications that enables HR teams to hire, onboard, pay, develop, reskill, and provide employee experiences. In addition, the company offers planning applications; and applications for analytics and reporting comprising 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. Further, it provides supply chain and inventory solutions to healthcare organizations; solutions to manage the end-to-end student and faculty lifecycle; and Workday Extend for customers and their developers to build custom applications. It serves professional and business services, financial services, healthcare, education, government, technology, media, retail, and hospitality industries. The company was formerly known as North Tahoe Power Tools, Inc. and changed its name to Workday, Inc. in July 2005. Workday, Inc. was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.