On July 21, Workday fell 5.59% in pre-market trading, trading at $140.0/share, with turnover of $298,400. The software sector remains under sustained selling pressure as aftershocks from IBM's earnings miss continue to weigh on the industry.

On the news front, IBM previously disclosed preliminary Q2 revenue of $17.2 billion, significantly below the Wall Street consensus of $17.9 billion, triggering a single-day plunge of over 25% — the largest in the company's history. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna stated that some clients are redirecting capital expenditure toward servers, storage, and memory hardware, squeezing software procurement budgets. Analysts noted that while the gap may stem from IT budget reallocation, fundamental weakness could be interpreted as AI disrupting core software businesses, placing further pressure on sector valuations.

Within the Application Software sector, Salesforce fell 3.92% and Palantir Technologies declined 1.02%, reflecting broad-based sector weakness. Despite Workday's Q1 earnings beat and strong AI agent customer growth, the stock has been unable to sustain recovery attempts amid persistent sector-wide selling pressure driven by the hardware-over-software spending rotation narrative.

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