Technology / Software - ApplicationUpdated 2026-05-10 22:07 UTC

CRM stock hub

Salesforce is transitioning from a hyper-growth SaaS pioneer to a mature compounder. The thesis centers on a strategic shift from dilutive M&A to disciplined capital allocation, margin expansion, and robust free cash flow generation.

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Fair value midpoint

$237

$172 - $303

Upside to midpoint

+30.3%

Based on latest report

Confidence

88/100

Data quality and model convergence

Market cap

$148.7B

NYSE

Our take

Research highlights

What our analysis says

Pulled from the latest published report. The full reasoning lives under /analysis.

Biggest opportunity

Bull case

Bull: AI-driven workflow automation products like Agentforce act as a massive catalyst, reversing the deceleration trend. Strict cost controls amplify revenue upside into exceptional free cash flow generation, driving significant multiple expansion.

Strong Buy. The market over-penalizes top-line deceleration while under-appreciating the structural pivot toward margin expansion, massive free cash flow conversion, and aggressive share repurchases.

Market data

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Current market quote for this ticker.

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Forecast

Targets

Bull, base, and bear cases with expected-return framing.

Valuation

Models

Fair-value bridge, DCF, owner earnings, and peer multiples.

Sensitivity

Grid

Cost-of-equity and terminal-growth stress table.

Risks

Bear case

Kill scenarios, soft-pass flags, and downside catalysts.

Earnings

Decision tree

Next earnings setup and beat / inline / miss thresholds.

Position sizing

Checkpoints

Entry, exit, conviction, and quarterly monitoring rules.

Financials

History

Revenue, margins, cash flow, and balance-sheet context.

Peers

Comps

Relative valuation and profitability against the cohort.

Moat

Durability

Economic-profit evidence and competitive advantage risk.

Industry cycle

Context

Sector phase, capital cycle, and secular tailwinds.

Scorecard

Factors

Six-factor overlay and 9-category weighted scorecard.

Recommendation

Verdict

Final action, action steps, opportunity, and biggest risk.

Perspectives

Lenses

Growth, value, and income investor reads.

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E12.2

P25 12.5P50 22.3P75 38.6

Trailing P/E0

P25 16.3P50 33.5P75 65.6

ROE12.4

P25 -30.7P50 1.5P75 14.4

ROIC10.9

P25 -18.6P50 1.9P75 13.7

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Indicator catalog

All CRM market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

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Showing 282 of 282 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0001108524
Company name	Salesforce, Inc.
Country	United States
Country code	US
Cusip	79466L302
Employees	83,334
Employees Change	6,881%
Employees Change Percent	9
Enterprise value	$156.9B
Exchange	NYSE
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
In Index	SP500, DOW30
Industry	Software - Application
IPO Date	2004-06-23
Isin	US79466L3024
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$148.7B
Market cap category	Large-Cap
Price	$182
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	498,296.01x
Sector	Technology
Sic	7372
Symbol	CRM
Website	https://www.salesforce.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	5.01%
EV Earnings	21.04x
EV Sales Forward	3.37x
EV/EBIT	17.59x
EV/EBITDA	12.5x
EV/FCF	10.89x
EV/Sales	3.78x
FCF yield	9.68%
Forward P/E	13.77x
P/B ratio	2.86x
P/E ratio	23.31x
P/S ratio	3.58x
PE Ratio10 Y	213.27x
PE Ratio3 Y	93.67x
PE Ratio5 Y	174.98x
PEG ratio	0.86x
PS Forward	3.19x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	21.47%
EBITDA Margin	30.22%
FCF margin	34.68%
Gross margin	77.68%
Gross Profit	$32.3B
Gross Profit Growth	10.27%
Gross Profit Growth Q	11.79%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	11.95%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	15.32%
Net Income	$7.5B
Net Income Growth	20.33%
Net Income Growth Q	13.76%
Net Income Growth Quarters	12%
Net Income Growth Years	3%
Net Income Growth3 Y	229.74%
Net Income Growth5 Y	12.86%
Pretax Margin	22.93%
Profit Margin	17.96%
Profit Per Employee	$89,483
Profitable Years	10
ROA	5.18
Roa5y	3.06
ROCE	11.86
ROE	12.4
Roe5y	6.58
ROIC	10.95
Roic5y	6.45

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr10y	9.53%
Cagr15y	12.14%
Cagr1y	-34.18%
Cagr20y	16.61%
Cagr3y	-2.26%
Cagr5y	-3.15%
EPS Growth	22.64
EPS Growth Q	17.85
EPS Growth Quarters	12
EPS Growth Years	3
EPS Growth3 Y	233.8
EPS Growth5 Y	12.23
FCF Growth	15.83%
FCF Growth Q	39.49%
FCF Growth3 Y	31.64%
FCF Growth5 Y	28.62%
OCF Growth	14.54%
OCF Growth Q	37.63%
OCF Growth10 Y	24.53%
OCF Growth3 Y	28.24%
OCF Growth5 Y	25.58%
Revenue Growth	9.58x
Revenue Growth Q	12.09x
Revenue Growth Quarters	88x
Revenue Growth Years	24x
Revenue Growth3 Y	9.82x
Revenue Growth5 Y	14.34x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$0.39
Assets	$112.3B
Cash	$9.6B
Current Assets	$28.2B
Current Liabilities	$37.1B
Debt	$17.7B
Debt EBITDA	$1.35
Debt Equity	$0.3
Debt FCF	$1.23
Equity	$59.1B
Interest Coverage	25.55
Liabilities	$53.2B
Long Term Assets	$84.1B
Long Term Liabilities	$16B
Net Cash	$-8.1B
Net Cash By Market Cap	$-5.48
Net Debt EBITDA	$0.65
Net Debt Equity	$0.14
Net Debt FCF	$0.57
Tangible Book Value	$-5.6B
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$-6.04
WACC	9.56

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	0.76
Net Working Capital	$-13.6B
Quick ratio	0.64
Working Capital	$-8.9B
Working Capital Turnover	$-11.62

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	1.85%
Dividend Growth	4.46%
Dividend Growth Years	2%
Dividend per share	$1.76
Dividend Years	3
Dividend Yield	0.97%
Ex Div Date	2026-04-09
Last Dividend	$0.44
Payout Frequency	Quarterly
Payout Ratio	22.56%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
10Y total return	148.47%
1Y total return	-34.16%
200-day SMA	226.6
3Y total return	-6.63%
50-day SMA	186.3
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50under200
5Y total return	-14.79%
All Time High	369
All Time High Change	-50.73%
All Time High Date	2024-12-04
All Time Low	2.25
All Time Low Change	7,980.89%
All Time Low Date	2004-08-16
ATR	7.59
Beta	1.14
Beta1y	1.09
Beta2y	1.2
Ch YTD	-31.37
High	181.9
High52	296.1
High52 Date	2025-05-14
High52ch	-38.58%
Low	176.9
Low52	163.5
Low52 Date	2026-04-10
Low52ch	11.19%
Ma50ch	-2.39%
Premarket Change Percent	-4.1
Premarket Price	$179
Premarket Volume	236,773
Price vs 200-day SMA	-19.77%
RSI	48.79
RSI Monthly	38.19
RSI Weekly	38.46
Sharpe ratio	-1.14x
Sortino ratio	-1.31
Total Return	2.82%
Tr YTD	-31.19
Tr15y	457.71%
Tr1m	-0.37%
Tr1w	-1.09%
Tr3m	-4.74%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	36
Analyst Count Top	8
Analyst Price Target Top	$267
Analyst Ratings	Buy
Analyst Ratings Top	Buy
Earnings EPS Estimate	$2.96
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth	14.73
Earnings Revenue Estimate	11,060,319,784x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	12.54x
Operating Income	$8.9B
Operating Income Growth	16.32
Operating Income Growth Q	1.75
Operating Income Growth3 Y	68.68
Operating Income Growth5 Y	81.32
Operating margin	21.47
Price target	$279
Price Target Change	$53.31
Price Target Change Top	$46.92

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	792,675,759%
Float Percent	96.9%
Net Borrowing	5,416,000,000
Shares Insiders	2.97%
Shares Institutions	94.8%
Shares Out	818,053,744
Shares Qo Q	-1.26%
Shares Yo Y	-1.85%
Short Float	9.35%
Short Ratio	5.52
Short Shares	9.06

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$10.9B
Average Volume	12,061,383.6x
Bv Per Share	63.66
CAPEX	$-594M
Ch10y	144.9
Ch15y	449.6
Ch1m	-0.62
Ch1w	-1.09
Ch1y	-34.65
Ch20y	2,031.5
Ch3m	-4.98
Ch3y	-7.98
Ch5y	-16.02
Ch6m	-24.2
Change	-2.43%
Change From Open	1.19
Close	186.3
Days Gap	-3.57
Depreciation Amortization	3,631,000,000
Dollar Volume	2,749,825,679.8
Earnings Date	2026-05-27
Earnings Time	amc
EBIT	$8.9B
EBITDA	$12.5B
EPS	$7.8
F Score	6
FCF	$14.4B
FCF EV Yield	9.18x
FCF Per Share	$17.61
Financing CF	-8,079,000,000
Fiscal Year End	January
Founded	1,999
Goodwill	57,941,000,000
Graham Number	105.70091
Graham Upside	-41.87
Income Tax	$2.1B
Investing CF	-8,590,000,000
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-02-25
Last Report Date	2026-01-31
Last Split Date	2013-04-18
Last Split Type	Forward
Last10k Filing Date	2026-03-02
Lynch Fair Value	$100
Lynch Upside	-44.82
Ma150	219.6
Ma150ch	-17.22%
Ma20	181.2
Ma20ch	0.32%
Net CF	-1,521,000,000
Next Earnings Date	2026-05-27
Open	179.7
Optionable	Yes
P FCF Ratio	10.33
P OCF Ratio	9.92
Payment Date	2026-04-23
Position In Range	99
Post Close	181.8
Postmarket Change Percent	-0.29
Postmarket Price	$181
Ppne	5,123,000,000
Pre Close	186.3
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$11.85
Relative Volume	1.25x
Revenue	41,525,000,000x
SBC By Revenue	8.45x
Share Based Comp	3,509,000,000
Tax By Revenue	4.97x
Tax Rate	21.67%
Tr20y	2,062.83%
Tr6m	-23.89%
Us State	California
Views	314
Volume	15,123,890
Z Score	3.63

Fast facts

Decision checkpoints

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Risk gate

Named kill scenarios are reviewed before any bullish rating can stand.

Moat score

9/10

Business quality stays separate from stock attractiveness.

Forward P/E

12.2x

Valuation uses the full report model stack, not a single multiple.

Next action

Strong Buy

Final action steps are kept in the recommendation tab.

Our take

Income

CRM dividend yield, growth & safety

Yield, payout sustainability, and the multi-year growth streak.

Dividend yield

+1.0%

$1.76 annual per share

Payout ratio

+22.6%

Share of earnings returned as dividends. Below 60% is generally sustainable.

5Y dividend CAGR

n/a

2 consecutive years of growth

Total shareholder yield

+2.8%

Next ex-dividend date: 2026-04-09

Performance

CRM stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns CRM?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+94.8%

Float: +96.9% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+3.0%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

CRM momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

48.8

Neutral momentum band

Price vs 200-day MA

-19.8%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

1.14

Moves roughly with the market

Sharpe ratio

-1.14

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Peers

CRM vs. sector cohort

Currency-neutral comparison: P/E, P/S, ROIC, 5Y revenue CAGR, and 1Y total return. Market-cap column appears only when every peer reports in the same currency.

Ticker	Name	Market cap	P/E	P/S	ROIC	5Y rev CAGR	1Y total return	Rating
AAPL	Apple Inc.	4.3T	35.6x	9.5x	104.3%	+6.8%	+50.1%	बेचें
ABNB	Airbnb Inc.	84B	34.7x	6.6x	15.9%	+29.9%	+14.9%	होल्ड
ADBE	Adobe Inc.	102.3B	14.8x	4.2x	63.3%	+12.3%	-34.3%	मज़बूत ख़रीद

Questions

About CRM

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What is the current CRM stock rating?

Salesforce, Inc. is currently shown with Strong Buy in the latest report. The hub links directly to the full analysis surface where the rating, fair-value bridge, risks, and scorecard are documented together.

Where can I read the full CRM analysis?

The full report lives at /stocks/CRM/analysis. The bare ticker page is a product hub that summarizes the latest read and sends readers into the relocated analysis tabs without making the analysis surface depend on the hub.

What fair-value range is used for CRM?

The latest report frames CRM around $172 to $303. Treat that range as the entry point, then check the valuation, sensitivity, and bear-case tabs before making an investment decision.

How often is the CRM page updated?

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