No Stopping Salesforce Inc (NYSE: CRM) These Days

Salesforce Inc (NYSE:CRM) does about 5.77M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 3136897 shares change hands in Monday trading. The company now has a market cap of 292.68B USD. Its current market price is $301.73, marking a decrease of -0.06% compared to the previous close of $301.91. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $318.71 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $187.31.

Salesforce Inc (CRM) has a 20-day trading average at $303.12 and the current price is -5.33% off the 52-week high compared with 61.09% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $297.21 and its 200-day simple moving average is $243.76. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 3.19%, which decreases to 2.16% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 51.01 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $336.32, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 10.28% over the period.

Robert W. Baird upgraded the stock to “Outperform” from Neutral on January 11, 2024 at a price target of $240-$300. Morgan Stanley upgraded its price target at $290-$350.

Salesforce Inc (CRM) stock is down -0.18% over the week and -0.23% over the past month. Its price is 14.67% year-to-date and 54.49% over the past year.

The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 1/30/2024, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of $2.29 above consensus estimates by $0.03. CRM’s earnings per share are forecast to grow by 18.70% this year and 12.70% over next year. Expected sales for next quarter are $9.34 billion, which analysts say will come at $37.98 billion for the current fiscal year and next year at $41.97 billion. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $9.15 billion.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 10.28 percent from here.

Outstanding shares total 971.00M with insiders holding 2.83% of the shares and institutional holders owning 83.16% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of 5.80% and return on equity of 7.01%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 71.75 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 27.11. The beta has a value of 1.28. Price to book ratio is 4.91 and price to sales ratio is 8.40.