In today’s recent session, 1.35 million shares of the Salesforce Inc. (NYSE:CRM) have been traded, and its beta is 1.23. Most recently the company’s share price was $207.24, and it changed around $0.6 or 0.29% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $205.15B. CRM at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $213.88, offering almost -3.2% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $126.34, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 39.04% since then. We note from Salesforce Inc.’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 5.08 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 6.79 million.

Salesforce Inc. stock received a consensus recommendation rating of an Overweight, based on a mean score of 2.10. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 49 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 2 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 12 recommended CRM as a Hold, whereas 34 deemed it a Buy, and 1 rated it as Underweight. Salesforce Inc. is expected to report earnings per share of $1.49 for the current quarter.

Salesforce Inc. (NYSE:CRM) trade information

Instantly CRM has been showing a green trend so far today with a performance of 0.29% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the red territory. The rise to weekly highs of 213.88 on Tuesday, 05/23/23 increased the stock’s daily price by 3.1%. The company’s shares are currently up 56.30% year-to-date, but still down -1.02% over the last five days. On the other hand, Salesforce Inc. (NYSE:CRM) is 8.69% down in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 8.53 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 1.69 day(s).

The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $227.83, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 9.04% from its current value. Analyst projections state that CRM is forecast to be at a low of $145.00 and a high of $325.00. In order for the stock price to hit the forecast high, the stock would need to plunge -56.82% from its current level, while the stock would need to crash 30.03% from its current level to reach the projected low.

Salesforce Inc. (CRM) estimates and forecasts

Salesforce Inc. share prices are performing particularly well compared to other companies within the same industry. As is evident from the statistics, the company’s shares have risen 43.07 percent over the past six months and at a 35.69% annual growth rate that is well above the industry average of 13.90%. Moreover, analysts have decided to roll up on their fiscal year 2023 revenue estimates. The rating firms predict that it will gain 52.00% in revenue this quarter, and will report an increase of 31.90% in the next quarter. The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be 2.20%, up from the previous year.

Consensus estimates provided by 36 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of $7.56 billion in revenue for the current quarter. 34 analysts expect Salesforce Inc. to make $7.85 billion in revenue for the quarter ending Jul 2023. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were $7.41 billion and $7.72 billion respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will jump, forecast at 2.10%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at 1.70%.

Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a negative earnings growth rate of -20.60%. Salesforce Inc. earnings are expected to increase by -85.90% in 2023, but the outlook is positive 19.56% per year for the next five years.

CRM Dividends

Salesforce Inc.’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released around May 29 and June 02.

Salesforce Inc. (NYSE:CRM)’s Major holders

Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 3.22% of Salesforce Inc. shares, and 78.07% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 80.67%. Salesforce Inc. stock is held by 2,875 institutions, with Vanguard Group, Inc. (The) being the largest institutional investor. By Mar 30, 2023, it held 8.43% of the shares, which is about 82.72 million shares worth $16.52 billion.

Blackrock Inc., with 7.19% or 70.54 million shares worth $14.09 billion as of Mar 30, 2023, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.

Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard 500 Index Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Dec 30, 2022. The former held 28.88 million shares worth $3.83 billion, making up 2.89% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard 500 Index Fund held roughly 23.12 million shares worth around $3.07 billion, which represents about 2.31% of the total shares outstanding.