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Salesforce, Inc.

Technology · Software - Application · United States

$210.79
+0.77% today
Mkt Cap
$172.64B
P/E
24.4×
Fwd P/E
13.58×
Div Yield
0.83%
Beta
1.15×
52W Range
52.5%
Company profileSource: provider

Salesforce, Inc. provides customer relationship management technology services that connect companies and customers together in the United States, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. The company offers Agentforce, which enables customers to build, deploy, and manage enterprise-grade, autonomous AI agents at scale, enabling humans and agents to work together; Agentforce Sales, an integrated platform that brings together the power of humans with AI agents to help sales teams for selling, managing, and automating entire sales processes; Agentforce Service, which enables companies in every industry to bring all of their customer, employee, IT, and field service needs onto one integrated AI-powered platform; Data 360, a data engine that gives AI agents their context and serves as the foundation for how customers unify service offerings, making their data actionable for both humans and agents; Informatica, an AI-powered data management platform that enables customers to discover, integrate, govern, and deliver trusted data at scale across hybrid and multi-cloud environments; and Slack, a conversational interface for the agentic enterprise where people and agents work together, connecting knowledge, actions, and data in real time. It also provides marketing platforms; commerce services, which empower shopping experiences across various customer touchpoints; integration and analytics solutions; Salesforce Starter, a suite for small and medium-sized businesses that brings sales, service, marketing, and commerce together; and a field service solution that enables companies to connect service agents, dispatchers, and mobile employees through one centralized platform to schedule and dispatch work, as well as track and manage jobs. It serves financial services, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, automotive, and government sectors. Salesforce, Inc. was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

www.salesforce.com
By the numbersComputed from live metrics

Shares trade at a moderate 19.2× trailing earnings, easing to 10.7× on forward estimates. Profitability shows a net margin of 18.7% and return on equity of 16.9%. Leverage is elevated at 2.4× net debt/EBITDA. Revenue grew 13.3% year-on-year. It yields 1.1% in dividends. The mean analyst target of USD246.44 sits 48.4% above the current price (Buy, 53 analysts).

AI analysisAI-generated · 04 Jul 2026 · claude-opus (research)

business model

Salesforce is a leading enterprise software company providing cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) and related business applications on a subscription (SaaS) basis. It earns recurring subscription and support revenue from a broad platform spanning sales, service, marketing, commerce, analytics, and integration, increasingly infused with AI.

revenue segments

Revenue is predominantly subscription and support across product clouds including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing & Commerce Cloud, Platform (including Slack), Data Cloud/Tableau/MuleSoft (analytics and integration), and newer AI offerings (Einstein/Agentforce), with a smaller professional-services component.

key dependencies

Salesforce depends on enterprise IT spending, subscription renewals and net retention, cross-selling additional clouds to existing customers, successful integration of large acquisitions (Slack, Tableau, MuleSoft), and adoption of its AI and data products.

competitors

Competitors include Microsoft (Dynamics 365 and its broader stack), Oracle, SAP, Adobe (in marketing/experience), ServiceNow, HubSpot (in the mid-market), and various specialized SaaS vendors.

moat

Its moat arises from high switching costs once CRM is embedded in customer workflows, a large ecosystem of apps, integrations, and developers (AppExchange), broad platform breadth enabling cross-sell, and strong brand leadership in CRM.

risks

Risks include slowing enterprise software spending and elongating sales cycles, intense competition from Microsoft, margin and integration scrutiny after aggressive M&A, the need to prove monetization of AI features, and foreign-currency exposure.

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Financials & metrics

as of 28 Aug 2026
52-week rangeMid-range · 53%
Low $146.32Now $210.79High $269.11

Price is around the middle of its range. Green = nearer the yearly low, red = nearer the high — a position indicator, not a buy/sell signal.

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Profit & loss · annual (USD)latest net margin 18.0%
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Full financial statements

Income statement

Line item20262025202420232022
Total revenue$41.52B$37.90B$34.86B$31.35B
Cost of revenue$9.27B$8.64B$8.54B$8.36B
Gross profit$32.26B$29.25B$26.32B$22.99B
Operating expense$23.34B$21.59B$20.32B$21.13B
R&D$5.99B$5.49B$4.91B$5.05B
Operating income$8.92B$7.67B$6.00B$1.86B
Pretax income$9.52B$7.44B$4.95B$660.00M
Tax provision$2.06B$1.24B$814.00M$452.00M
Net income$7.46B$6.20B$4.14B$208.00M
EBITDA$12.55B$11.14B$9.96B$5.64B
Diluted EPS$7.80$6.36$4.20$0.21

Balance sheet

Line item20262025202420232022
Total assets$112.31B$102.93B$99.82B$98.85B
Current assets$28.22B$29.73B$29.07B$26.39B
Cash & equivalents$7.33B$8.85B$8.47B$7.02B
Total liabilities$53.16B$41.76B$40.18B$40.49B
Current liabilities$37.12B$27.98B$26.63B$25.89B
Total debt$17.18B$11.39B$12.59B$14.09B
Long-term debt$10.44B$8.43B$8.43B$9.42B
Shareholders' equity$59.14B$61.17B$59.65B$58.36B
Retained earnings$22.22B$16.37B$11.72B$7.58B
Working capital-$8.90B$1.75B$2.44B$504.00M

Cash flow

Line item20262025202420232022
Operating cash flow$15.00B$13.09B$10.23B$7.11B
Investing cash flow-$8.59B-$3.16B-$1.33B-$1.99B
Financing cash flow-$8.08B-$9.43B-$7.48B-$3.56B
Capital expenditure-$594.00M-$658.00M-$736.00M-$798.00M
Free cash flow$14.40B$12.43B$9.50B$6.31B
Dividends paid-$1.59B-$1.54B$0.00$0.00
Share buybacks-$12.60B-$7.83B-$7.62B-$4.00B
End cash position$7.33B$8.85B$8.47B$7.02B

Reported figures from public filings via Yahoo Finance. Line coverage varies by company. Not investment advice.

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Dividends

Dividend Yield
0.83%
Annual Rate
$1.76
Payout Ratio
19.6%
Frequency
Quarterly
Latest ex-date
11 Jun 2026
Pay date
02 Jul 2026
Most recent
$0.44
Dividend history · per payment (USD)
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Analyst assessment

as of 28 Aug 2026
Buy54 analysts
Implied to mean target
+15.7%
Low $160.00High $475.00
Now
$210.79
Low
$160.00
Mean
$243.98
High
$475.00
Rating distribution
Strong Buy 6
Buy 32
Hold 13
Sell 0
Strong Sell 2

Aggregate consensus only. Named per-analyst targets require a premium source and are not shown; the data model is ready to hold them if one is added.

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Technicals

as of 28 Aug 2026
CloseSMA 50SMA 200Death cross
SMA 50
$180.65
SMA 200
$200.26
RSI (14)
81.3
MACD
14.72
RSI (14) · overbought > 70 · oversold < 30
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