Salesforce.com Inc is a software - application business with stocks listed in the US. Salesforce shares (CRM) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was US$271.92 – a decrease of 7.61% over the previous week. Here's how to invest if you're based in Australia.
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Salesforce's shares were split on a 4:1 basis on 17 April 2013. So if you had owned 1 share the day before the split, the next day you would own 4 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Salesforce shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 75% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Salesforce shares which in turn could have impacted Salesforce's share price.
| 52-week range | US$190.3214 - US$318.2992 |
|---|---|
| 50-day moving average | US$298.0014 |
| 200-day moving average | US$246.1819 |
| Target price | US$331.82 |
| PE ratio | 66.2076 |
| Dividend yield | US$0 (0.58%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | US$4.19 |
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Historical closes compared with the last close of $271.92
| 1 week (2024-04-12) | -7.61% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2024-03-19) | -9.80% |
| 3 months (2024-01-19) | -3.19% |
| 6 months (2023-10-19) | 30.53% |
| 1 year (2023-04-19) | 36.70% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2022-04-19) | 42.08% |
| 3 years (2021-04-19) | 17.97% |
| 5 years (2019-04-18) | 74.32% |
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Valuing Salesforce stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Salesforce's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Salesforce's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 66x. In other words, Salesforce shares trade at around 66x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
Salesforce's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.5771. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Salesforce's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Salesforce's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is US$9.2 billion (£7.5 billion).
The EBITDA is a measure of a Salesforce's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure stock profitability.
Over the last 12 months, Salesforce's shares have ranged in value from as little as US$190.3214 up to US$318.2992. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta measures a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Salesforce's is 1.279. This would suggest that Salesforce's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
| Revenue TTM | US$34.9 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 19.33% |
| Gross profit TTM | US$23 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 3.77% |
| Return on equity TTM | 7.01% |
| Profit margin | 11.87% |
| Book value | 61.427 |
| Market capitalisation | US$269.1 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 4.87% of net profits
Recently Salesforce has paid out, on average, around 4.87% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0.58% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Salesforce shareholders could enjoy a 0.58% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Salesforce's case, that would currently equate to about $0 per share.
While Salesforce's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that Salesforce is investing more in its future growth.
Salesforce's most recent dividend payout was on 10 April 2024. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 12 March 2024 (the "ex-dividend date").
Environmental, social and governance (known as ESG) criteria are a set of three factors used to measure the sustainability and social impact of companies like Salesforce.
When it comes to ESG scores, lower is better, and lower scores are generally associated with lower risk for would-be investors.
Total ESG risk: 13.24
Socially conscious investors use ESG scores to screen how an investment aligns with their worldview, and Salesforce's overall score of 13.24 (as at 12/31/2018) is excellent – landing it in it in the 6th percentile of companies rated in the same sector.
ESG scores are increasingly used to estimate the level of risk a company like Salesforce is exposed to within the areas of "environmental" (carbon footprint, resource use etc.), "social" (health and safety, human rights etc.), and "governance" (anti-corruption, tax transparency etc.).
Environmental score: 0.97/100
Salesforce's environmental score of 0.97 puts it squarely in the 4th percentile of companies rated in the same sector. This could suggest that Salesforce is a leader in its sector terms of its environmental impact, and exposed to a lower level of risk.
Social score: 5.99/100
Salesforce's social score of 5.99 puts it squarely in the 4th percentile of companies rated in the same sector. This could suggest that Salesforce is a leader in its sector when it comes to taking good care of its workforce and the communities it impacts.
Governance score: 4.28/100
Salesforce's governance score puts it squarely in the 4th percentile of companies rated in the same sector. That could suggest that Salesforce is a leader in its sector when it comes to responsible management and strategy, and exposed to a lower level of risk.
Controversy score: 2/5
ESG scores also evaluate any incidences of controversy that a company has been involved in. Salesforce scored a 2 out of 5 for controversy – the second-highest score possible, reflecting that Salesforce has, for the most part, managed to keep its nose clean.
Salesforce.com Inc was last rated for ESG on: 2019-01-01.
| Total ESG score | 13.24 |
|---|---|
| Total ESG percentile | 5.72 |
| Environmental score | 0.97 |
| Environmental score percentile | 4 |
| Social score | 5.99 |
| Social score percentile | 4 |
| Governance score | 4.28 |
| Governance score percentile | 4 |
| Level of controversy | 2 |
Salesforce, Inc. provides Customer Relationship Management (CRM) technology that brings companies and customers together worldwide. The company's service includes sales to store data, monitor leads and progress, forecast opportunities, gain insights through analytics and artificial intelligence, and deliver quotes, contracts, and invoices; and service that enables companies to deliver trusted and highly personalized customer support at scale. In addition, its platform offering comprise a flexible platform that enables companies of various sizes, locations, and industries to build business workflow and apps with customer; online learning platform that allows anyone to learn in-demand Salesforce skills; and Slack, an intelligent productivity platform. The company's marketing services enables companies to plan, personalize, automate, and optimize customer marketing journey, connecting interaction, and connected products; and commerce services, which empowers shopping experience across various customer touchpoint, such as mobile, web, social, and stores and provides click-to-code tools that offers customers to build and deploy solutions. Further, its analytics offering includes Tableau, an end-to-end analytics solution for range of enterprise use cases and intelligent analytics with AI models, spot trends, predict outcomes, creates summaries, timely recommendations, and take action from any device; and integration service including MuleSoft, which provides building blocks to deliver end-to-end and connected experiences. Additionally, the company provides data cloud, a hyperscale data engine native to Salesforce; vertical services to meet the needs of customers in industries, such as financial services, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing and automotive and government; and offers salesforce starter for small and medium-sized businesses. Salesforce, Inc. was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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