Salesforce, Inc.
CRM NYSESalesforce looks about 178% undervalued against its cash-flow value. Its growth outlook scores strong; the balance sheet is solid.
At a glance
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the tiles above, in a line each- Value Looks ~178% undervalued against Otto's cash-flow estimate.
- Health 16 of 22 health checks pass.
- Growth Revenue trend ≈ +15%/yr (extended trend, not a forecast).
- Street Analysts lean buy · avg target +25% from here.
- Dividend Pays a dividend — yields 0.91%.
Not investment advice — Otto just crunches numbers.
Price trend
+4848.5% over all saved history · S&P 500 +570.8%
What think
The market's move: +4848.5% over the past year
Trading 38% up its 52-week range. Price is the market's live vote — not advice.
Analyst consensus: Buy · 53 analysts
Average 12-month target $241.72 — +25.3% vs today.
Yahoo Finance's analyst aggregate. Sentiment, not advice.
Insiders: 0 buys · 0 sales in recent filings
Open-market trades from SEC Form 4. Sales are often pre-planned (10b5-1); buys tend to say more. Sentiment, not advice.
InvestRight readers: 0 watching
This site's own activity — not a broad measure. Sentiment, not advice.
The snowflake
checks passed on each axis- Value 2/2 checks
- Future 4/4 checks
- Past 2/4 checks
- Health 4/6 checks
- Dividend 4/6 checks
What does this show?
Five quick health scores — Value, Future, Past, Health and Dividend — each 0–100%. A bigger, more even shape means a stock that scores well across the board; a spiky one is strong on some axes and weak on others.
Learn more on Investopedia →Fair value
our estimate · not analyst forecast178% below our estimate — you'd be paying less than our numbers say it's worth.
How we got there
A 2-stage discounted-cash-flow on free cash flow: grow it at the capped historical trend for five years, fade to a 2.5% long-run rate, discount everything at 9.0%. It's a transparent estimate from past numbers, not a licensed forecast — treat it as one lens, not truth.
What does this show?
Our estimate of what one share is worth based on the cash the business is expected to generate (a discounted-cash-flow model), next to today's price. Below fair value hints undervalued, above hints expensive — it's an estimate, not a guarantee.
Learn more on Investopedia →Health checks
22 checks run on free data- ⚠ Debt is under 40% of equity debt/equity 124%
- ⚠ Growth accelerating vs its average latest 20.3%/yr vs 41.7% average
- ⚠ Return on equity above 20% ROE 16.9%
- ⚠ Short-term assets cover short-term bills 28.2B vs 37.1B
- ⚠ Yield beats the market yield 1.05% vs market ~1.5%
- ⚠ Yield in the top quartile of payers yield 1.05% vs 2.52% cut among the 51 payers Otto tracks
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Value 2/2 passed
- ✓ Trading below our fair-value estimate +178% vs our DCF estimate
- – P/B below industry industry P/B not on the free feed
- – P/E below industry industry P/E not on the free feed
- – P/E below peer average peer P/Es land after the next refresh
- – P/S sane vs its own history needs multi-year P/S (Tier B)
- ✓ More than 20% below fair value +178% margin of safety
Future 4/4 passed
- ✓ Earnings trending up 41.7%/yr over 9yr
- – Growth beats the industry industry growth not on the free feed
- ✓ Earnings growth beats the market 41.7%/yr vs market ~9.0%
- ✓ Revenue trending up 19.4%/yr over 9yr
- ✓ Return on equity improving ROE 12.6% vs 3.9% 9yr ago
Past 2/4 passed
- ✓ Earnings grew over the period 323.0M → 7.5B
- – High-quality earnings (few one-offs) one-off detection deferred — needs statement detail
- ⚠ Growth accelerating vs its average latest 20.3%/yr vs 41.7% average
- ✓ Revenue higher than five years ago 8.4B → 41.5B
- ⚠ Return on equity above 20% ROE 16.9%
Health 4/6 passed
- ✓ Debt/equity falling over time long-term debt/equity 17.7% vs 24.4%
- ⚠ Debt is under 40% of equity debt/equity 124%
- ✓ Debt well covered by cash flow operating cash flow covers 104.0% of debt
- ✓ Interest comfortably covered by profit EBIT covers interest 25.7×
- ✓ Short-term assets cover long-term debt 28.2B vs 16.0B
- ⚠ Short-term assets cover short-term bills 28.2B vs 37.1B
Dividend 4/6 passed
- ✓ Dividend covered by earnings and cash flow covered by both earnings and free cash flow
- ✓ Dividend growing over time over 4yr on record
- ✓ No dividend cut in recent years steady over 4yr on record
- ✓ Payout ratio under 75% payout 19.6% of earnings
- ⚠ Yield beats the market yield 1.05% vs market ~1.5%
- ⚠ Yield in the top quartile of payers yield 1.05% vs 2.52% cut among the 51 payers Otto tracks
What does this show?
Pass/fail rules on the company's finances — debt levels, profitability, cash cover and so on. More greens means a sturdier balance sheet; an n/a just means we didn't have that data point.
Learn more on Investopedia →Past performance
10-yr history from SEC EDGAR filingsRevenue
Earnings
Free cash flow
dashed line = what it'd look like growing at our ~9% market-average benchmark, for comparison
What does this show?
How revenue, earnings and free cash flow have grown over the years. Bars rising left-to-right show a growing business; the dashed line is a market-average pace for comparison.
Learn more on Investopedia →Revenue & expenses
FY 2026What does this show?
How a company turns sales into profit. Revenue splits into the direct cost of sales and the gross profit left over; from that gross profit come operating costs (R&D, SG&A), tax and interest — what survives is net income. Every figure is also shown as a share of revenue, so you can compare periods and companies of different sizes.
Learn more on Investopedia →Future
trend, not analyst forecastRevenue · extended at 15.0%/yr
Earnings · extended at 15.0%/yr
Dashed bars just extend the historical trend (capped at ±15%/yr) — the same growth our DCF uses. It's arithmetic on the past, not an analyst forecast; real futures bend.
What does this show?
Solid bars are history; dashed bars simply extend the past growth trend a few years forward — capped so it stays sane. It's a trend line, not an analyst forecast.
Learn more on Investopedia →Dividend
from cash actually paid, not promisesTotal dividends paid · split-proof, unlike per-share history
What does this show?
The share of profit paid back to shareholders as cash. Yield is that cash as a % of the price; the payout gauge shows how much of earnings is paid out (over ~75% can be hard to sustain).
Learn more on Investopedia →Ownership & insiders
from SEC Form 4 filingsNo open-market buys or sells in the recent filings — what's below is mostly awards and option activity.
- Exercise Tallapragada Srinivas · Chief Eng/Cust Success Officer 3,354 sh 2026-06-22
- Tax-withhold Tallapragada Srinivas · Chief Eng/Cust Success Officer 1,664 sh · $249,800 2026-06-22
- Exercise Niles Sabastian · President and CLO 2,033 sh 2026-06-22
- Tax-withhold Niles Sabastian · President and CLO 1,125 sh · $168,885 2026-06-22
- Exercise Washington Robin L · President and COFO 1,831 sh 2026-06-22
- Tax-withhold Washington Robin L · President and COFO 908 sh · $136,309 2026-06-22
- Exercise Harris Parker · Co-Founder and CTO, Slack 2,540 sh 2026-06-22
- Tax-withhold Harris Parker · Co-Founder and CTO, Slack 1,261 sh · $189,301 2026-06-22
- Exercise Milano Miguel · President and CRO 2,541 sh 2026-06-22
- Tax-withhold Milano Miguel · President and CRO 1,001 sh · $150,270 2026-06-22
Insiders must report within two business days. Sales are often pre-planned (10b5-1) rather than a signal — buys tend to say more.
What does this show?
Buys and sells by the company's own directors and officers, from their SEC filings. Insiders sell for many reasons, but clusters of open-market buying can signal confidence.
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What does this show?
A few peers in the same business, each with its own mini snowflake, so you can see how this company stacks up rather than judging it in isolation. Anyone signed in can add a missing competitor — it shows for everyone, marked as user-added.
Learn more on Investopedia →Leadership
Yahoo Finance · photos & bios via Wikidata-
Mr. Parker Harris
Co-Founder, CTO of Slack & Director
- Age
- 58
- Total yearly comp
- $2.29M
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Mr. Miguel Milano
President & Chief Revenue Officer
- Age
- 56
- Total yearly comp
- $4.34M
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Ms. Robin L. Washington CPA
President, Chief Operating & Financial Officer and Director
- Age
- 62
- Total yearly comp
- $11.67M
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Mr. Srinivas Tallapragada
President, Chief Engineering & Customer Success Officer
- Age
- 55
- Total yearly comp
- $3.14M
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Mr. David Schmaier
President & Chief Strategy Officer
- Age
- 61
- Total yearly comp
- $2.30M
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Mr. Stephen D. Fisher
President, CPO, Executive VP and GM of Next Gen CRM & Unified Data
- Age
- 60
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Mr. Sabastian V. Niles
President, Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary
- Age
- 45
- Total yearly comp
- $3.92M
Ranked by title — reporting lines aren't public data. Compensation is the total Yahoo reports; blank means it isn't disclosed there.
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