NYSE: CRM

Salesforce (CRM) Stock Analysis & Forecast

Salesforce, Inc. Technology services sector, packaged software industry. Market cap $194.9B.

$237.92−4.93 (−2.0%)

Close on Sep 18, 2026. Page updated Sep 19, 9:18 pm ET.

Gekko Brief

AI summary

Salesforce closes at $237.92, down 2% on the day but up 15% over the past month and 56% over three months, with the close sitting above both the 50-day average of $206.93 and the 200-day average of $201.57. The GekkoIndex reads 56.3, placing the stock in the Neutral zone, and price sits 1.3% below Gekko Fair Value of $241.17.

This week's news centers on Dreamforce 2026, where Salesforce unveiled AIforce, an AI connectivity layer linking Salesforce data with third-party AI tools, alongside comments from Marc Benioff contrasting it with Microsoft's Copilot. The company also introduced Koa, a homegrown AI model built for CRM reasoning, though coverage notes a gap between its launch and general availability. Separately, six analysts reportedly raised price targets in a cluster, and other coverage points to Agentforce-driven renewal activity as part of a broader AI monetization push. Snap's Specs AR glasses were also noted as integrating with Salesforce Agentforce.

Looking ahead, the next earnings report is scheduled for 2 December, 73 days out and beyond a typical 20-trading-day holding window. Over the last 90 days, Congress recorded 2 buys and 0 sells, while the past 30 days show 4 unusual options signals, with call premium of $56.0 million against put premium of $50.5 million. Seasonally, the next 20 trading days have averaged a 4% return over 5 years, though gains occurred in only 2 of those years. Analyst coverage spans 37 firms, with 27 rated buy, 9 hold, and 1 sell, and a consensus target of $278.93.

Written by AI and checked automatically against the figures on this page. Generated Sep 20, 2026 from the data above.

Price vs fair value

Close $237.92200-day averageGekko Fair Value $241.17

Key stats

Market cap
$194.9B
P/E ratio
22.9
Forward P/E
15
EPS, TTM
$10.59
Revenue, TTM
$43.94B
Profit margin
22%
Dividend yield
0.68%
Beta
1.20
Volume
20.80M avg 15.89M
1-year return
−1.8%
Typical daily move
±3.8%
Typical 20-day move
±7.2%
50-day average
$206.93
200-day average
$201.57
Next earnings
Dec 2 after close
Shares outstanding
823.0M
52-week range
$146.32$269.11

Salesforce swing-trade checklist

Salesforce scores 3 supportive, 3 mixed and 0 headwinds across the 6 checklist items with data.

Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.

3 supportive3 mixed0 headwinds

  • Trendsupportive

    Above 50 and 200-day

    Close $237.92 is above the 50-day ($206.93) and 200-day ($201.57) averages, and the 50-day is above the 200-day.

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  • GekkoIndexmixed

    56.3, Neutral

    Reading 56.3 is in the Neutral zone.

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  • Fair valuemixed

    1.3% below

    Price is within 5% of Gekko Fair Value (1.3% below).

    See fair value
  • Smart moneysupportive

    Leans bullish

    Last 90 days: Congress 2 buys / 0 sales. Last 30 days: 4 unusual options signals.

    See smart money
  • Earnings risksupportive

    Reports in 73 days

    Next report Dec 2, 2026, 73 days away — outside a typical 20-trading-day hold.

    See earnings
  • Seasonalitymixed

    +4.0% on average

    From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged +4% over 5 years, rising in 2 of them.

    See seasonality

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Salesforce stock chart and price history

Salesforce closed at $237.92 on Sep 18, 2026, −1.8% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $146.32 to $269.11.

Close50-day average200-day averageVolume

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Performance Breakdown

1 month
+15.4%
3 months
+56.8%
6 months
+22.0%
1 year
−1.8%
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About Salesforce

Salesforce makes software that helps companies track and manage their relationships with customers, built around a central hub called Customer 360 that ties together sales, support and marketing activity. Its lineup includes tools for handling sales leads and forecasts, resolving customer service requests, building custom apps, and running team communication through Slack. The company also offers products for planning marketing campaigns, selling across web, mobile and in-store channels, analyzing data through Tableau, and linking different software systems together with MuleSoft, along with training courses that certify people in using its products.

Customers reach Salesforce both through its own sales staff and through outside consulting firms, integrators and other partners who resell or implement its products. Beyond the software itself, the company provides consulting and certification programs covering setup, administration and custom development work. It serves organizations across a range of fields, including financial services, healthcare, life sciences and manufacturing.

Salesforce was founded in 1999 and is based in San Francisco, California. Its stock trades on the NYSE under the ticker CRM.

Listed
NYSE
Sector
Technology services
Industry
Packaged software
Website
salesforce.com

Salesforce GekkoIndex: the smart money zone

Salesforce’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 56.3, in the Neutral zone, up 4.5 points over five sessions.

010056.3Neutral

Up 4.5 points over five sessions.

Reading for Sep 18, 2026

What followed past readings in each zone

ZoneReadings5 days10 days20 days50 days
Buying58+0.1%−0.7%+0.7%+1.2%
Accumulation233+0.4%+0.8%+0.1%−0.7%
Neutral (current zone)328−0.1%−0.1%−0.8%−4.0%
Distribution29−0.4%−0.7%+2.3%−2.8%
Selling14−0.2%+1.6%+4.3%+6.9%

Average CRM share-price change over the trading days after each daily reading in its GekkoIndex history. Across every stock Gekko tracks, Neutral readings averaged +1.2% over 20 days. Past behaviour doesn’t guarantee future results.

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Is Salesforce stock overvalued? Gekko Fair Value

Salesforce trades 1.3% below Gekko Fair Value of $241.17, so the shares are about fair value on Gekko’s estimate.

Gekko’s own estimate of what Salesforce shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.

$241.17

Gekko Fair Value, Sep 19, 2026

1.3% below fair value · About fair value

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Salesforce insider and Congress trading

No open-market insider purchases were filed for Salesforce, and members of Congress disclosed 2 purchases and 0 sales, in the last 90 days.

Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.

Insider buying last 90 days

No open-market insider purchases were filed for CRM in the last 90 days.

From Form 4 filings, dated to when each was filed.

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Congress trades last 90 days

2trades disclosed: 2 purchases and 0 sales.

MemberTypeAmountDisclosed
Tony Wied
House, WI, purchase
Purchase$15,001 - $50,000Sep 7
traded Aug 14
Ro Khanna
House, CA, purchase
Purchase$1,001 - $15,000Sep 7
traded Aug 10

From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.

Buybacks

Salesforce has been buying back its own shares.

Bought back, quarter ended Jul 31, 2026
$84.00M
As a share of market cap
0.04%
Trailing four quarters
$35.07B

From company filings.

Unusual options activity last 30 days

4signals, 53% of the flagged premium in calls.

Latest: Bearish flow on Sep 3, $11.44M in unusual premium.

Hedge funds and billionaires quarter ended Jun 30

2of the funds Gekko tracks hold CRM.

1added1opened0trimmed2sold out
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Salesforce earnings: next date and track record

Salesforce reports on Dec 2, 2026, after the close (73 days away), and beat the EPS estimate in 7 of its last 8 reports.

7 of 8reports beat the EPS estimate
±7.4%average move across the report
4 of 8reports followed by a gain

Share-price move across each report

+11.1%Dec ’24−3.6%Feb ’25−3.7%May ’25−3.5%Sep ’25+5.4%Dec ’25+7.6%Feb ’26−1.6%May ’26+22.5%Aug ’26

Last earnings call, Aug 26, 2026 AI summary

What they said
Salesforce reported Q2 FY2027 results described as 'one of the best quarters ever,' with net new AOV growth at its strongest in four years. Key metrics included A1E and A4X bookings more than doubling quarter-over-quarter, agentic platform usage surging 6x, and attrition near record lows. The company announced 'Claudeforce,' a strategic partnership product with Anthropic combining Claude AI with Salesforce CRM. AI company customers on Salesforce saw 435% YoY spend growth.
Guidance
Management provided no specific revenue or EPS guidance figures in this excerpt. Leadership expressed strong forward momentum citing improving contract lengths, seat growth across Sales, Service, and Slack, and expanding AI monetization through Agentforce and the new Claudeforce partnership.
ReportedEPSSurpriseRevenueSurpriseMove
Aug 26, 2026$5.90
est $3.27
+80.4%$11.35B
est $11.33B
+0.1%+22.5%
May 27, 2026$3.88
est $3.13
+24.0%$11.13B
est $11.05B
+0.7%−1.6%
Feb 25, 2026$3.81
est $3.05
+24.9%$11.20B
est $11.19B
+0.1%+7.6%
Dec 3, 2025$3.25
est $2.86
+13.6%$10.26B
est $10.27B
−0.1%+5.4%
Sep 3, 2025$2.91
est $2.78
+4.7%$10.24B
est $10.14B
+0.9%−3.5%
May 28, 2025$2.58
est $2.55
+1.2%$9.83B
est $9.76B
+0.7%−3.7%
Feb 26, 2025$2.78
est $2.61
+6.5%$9.99B
est $10.04B
−0.5%−3.6%
Dec 3, 2024$2.41
est $2.44
−1.2%$9.44B
est $9.37B
+0.8%+11.1%

“Move” is the close of the first session after the report compared with the close of the last session before it, so it reads the same whether the company reported before the open or after the close.

Salesforce stock forecast and analyst price targets

Analysts’ average 12-month price target for Salesforce is $278.93, +17.2% from the last close, from 37 firms rating the stock in the last 90 days.

$278.93consensus 12-month target, +17.2% from the last close
Low $160High $400
Buy27
Hold9
Sell1

Each firm’s latest rating in the last 90 days: 37 firms.

Latest analyst actions

DateFirmRatingTargetvs price
Sep 18CitiHold, maintained$263+10.5%
Sep 18UBSHold, maintained$260+9.3%
Sep 18Wells FargoHold, reiterated$250+5.1%
Sep 17J.P. MorganBuy, maintained$265+11.4%
Sep 17Stifel NicolausBuy, maintained$300+26.1%
−0.8%average 20-day move after past Neutral readings
+4.0%average move over the next 20 trading days in the last 5 years
±3.8%typical daily move, from the 14-day average range

Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions. These are analyst targets and historical base rates, which don’t guarantee future results.

Salesforce seasonality: the next 20 trading days

Over the next 20 trading days from Sep 19, Salesforce averaged +4.0% across the last 5 years, rising in 2 of them.

Next 20 trading days, by year

+13.0%2021−3.7%2022−2.7%2023+9.4%2024−1.6%2025

Average move and hit rate

WindowAverageYears higher
Next 5 trading days+1.0%2 of 5
Next 10 trading days+0.5%2 of 5
Next 15 trading days+1.8%2 of 5
Next 20 trading days+4.0%2 of 5
Next 30 trading days+7.9%4 of 5

For scale, CRM’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 7.2%.

Salesforce market cap and key statistics

Salesforce’s market cap is $194.9B, with a P/E ratio of 22.9 and revenue of $43.94B over the last twelve months.

Valuation

Market cap
$194.9B
P/E ratio
22.9
Forward P/E
15
EPS, TTM
$10.59
Gekko Fair Value
$241.17

Trading

Volume
20.80M
Avg volume, 20 days
15.89M
52-week high
$269.11
52-week low
$146.32
Shares outstanding
823.0M

Financials

Revenue, TTM
$43.94B
Profit margin
22%
Return on equity
19.4%
Quarterly earnings growth, YoY
+118.9%

Risk and income

Beta
1.20
Typical daily move
±3.8%
Typical 20-day move
±7.2%
Dividend yield
0.68%

Salesforce peers

Salesforce’s 6 largest industry peers by market value, with today’s move, GekkoIndex zone and gap to Gekko Fair Value.

StockTodayGekkoIndex zonevs Fair Value
MSFTMicrosoft−0.8%Neutral13.4% above
ORCLOracle−1.9%Neutral17.7% below
PLTRPalantir Technologies+0.3%Neutral11.3% above
PANWPalo Alto Networks−3.1%Neutral8.9% above
CRWDCrowdStrike−3.8%Neutral19.0% above
NOWServiceNow−3.0%Neutral9.7% above

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In the Buying zone today

Reporting earnings this week

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Salesforce stock FAQ

What is Salesforce’s market cap?

Salesforce’s market cap is $194.9B at the Sep 18, 2026 close of $237.92, with 823.0M shares outstanding. The shares trade on a P/E ratio of 22.9.

What is the Salesforce stock forecast?

The consensus analyst 12-month price target for Salesforce is $278.93, +17.2% from the last close. Of the 37 firms that rated the stock in the last 90 days, 27 rate it a buy, 9 a hold and 1 a sell. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.

Is Salesforce stock overvalued or undervalued?

On Gekko’s estimate Salesforce is about fair value: the Sep 18, 2026 close of $237.92 is 1.3% below Gekko Fair Value of $241.17. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.

When does Salesforce report earnings next?

Salesforce is expected to report on Dec 2, 2026, after the market closes (73 days away). Analysts expect earnings of $3.42 per share on revenue of $11.47B. Salesforce beat the earnings estimate in 7 of its last 8 reports, moving 7.4% on average across the report.

What is Salesforce’s 52-week high and low?

Salesforce’s 52-week high is $269.11 and its 52-week low is $146.32; it closed at $237.92 on Sep 18, 2026, −1.8% over the past year.

Is Salesforce stock a buy right now?

Gekko describes the data; it does not make buy or sell recommendations. On the swing-trade checklist, 3 of the 6 items with data read as supportive (trend, smart money and earnings risk), 3 as mixed (gekkoindex, fair value and seasonality). The checklist is a description of current data, not a recommendation.

Is there unusual options activity in Salesforce?

Gekko flagged 4 unusual options signals in Salesforce over the last 30 days, with $56.03M of flagged premium in calls and $50.50M in puts. The latest, bearish flow, was on Sep 3, 2026 with $11.44M in unusual premium. The signal-by-signal table is in Gekko.

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