{"id":5889,"date":"2026-08-14T07:14:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T07:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/08\/14\/workday-stock-skyrockets-after-report-of-silver-lake-takeover-talks\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T07:14:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T07:14:26","slug":"workday-stock-skyrockets-after-report-of-silver-lake-takeover-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/08\/14\/workday-stock-skyrockets-after-report-of-silver-lake-takeover-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Workday Stock Skyrockets After Report of Silver Lake Takeover Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Workday shares surged nearly 18%\u2014their best day in a decade\u2014following a Reuters report that private equity firm Silver Lake is in talks to acquire the human resources software company. The news boosted Workday’s market value to nearly $51 billion, signaling a potential renewed interest in software despite ongoing fears about AI’s impact on business models. Co-founder Aneel Bhusri recently returned as CEO, and the company posted strong Q1 earnings and an upped forecast earlier this year.<\/p>\n

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Workday shares surged nearly 18%\u2014their best day in a decade\u2014following a Reuters report that private equity firm Silver Lake is in talks to acquire the human resources software company. The news boosted Workday’s market value to nearly $51 billion, signaling a potential renewed interest in software despite ongoing fears about AI’s impact on business models. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108349346-17866471871786647184-47750254783-1080pnbcnews.jpg?v=1786647186&w=750&h=422&vtcrop=y","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-technology","rifnote_country-united-states","rifnote_executive-aneel-bhusri","rifnote_executive-brent-thill","rifnote_executive-carl-eschenbach","rifnote_executive-egon-durban"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108349346-17866471871786647184-47750254783-1080pnbcnews.jpg?v=1786647186&w=750&h=422&vtcrop=y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}