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Workday Slides 6% After Founder Sale and Anthropic Agent Launch

Investor worry centers on AI agents that could cut demand for per-seat software.

Overview

  • Workday shares fell roughly 6–6.6% to close near $119 and then slipped again the next session, touching about $112.69 intraday, according to Benzinga.
  • Co-founder David Duffield sold 107,500 shares for about $13.9 million under a preset Rule 10b5-1 plan, which more than halved his remaining stake to roughly 105,000 shares.
  • CFO Zane Rowe sold 6,000 shares and executive Robert Enslin sold 5,373 through Rule 10b5-1 plans that pre-schedule trades, with Rowe’s sale used to cover taxes on vested equity.
  • Anthropic introduced Managed Agents, a hosted service for long, multi-step autonomous workflows that use policy-guarded tools to act inside software, a setup investors fear could undercut seat-based SaaS pricing over time.
  • Several firms trimmed targets in recent weeks, yet the 34-analyst view remains Moderate Buy with an average target near $199.71 and institutional ownership around 89.8%.