Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) Given "Outperform" Rating at JMP Securities

Marc Benioff

Marc Benioff

Over the last 90 days, insiders have sold 251,844 shares of company stock worth $27,275,180. Ark Investment Management LLC now owns 111,279 shares of the CRM provider's stock valued at $9,637,000 after buying an additional 30,792 shares in the last quarter. Coca Cola Co now has $187.83B valuation. The stock increased 0.69% or $0.03 during the last trading session, reaching $4.42. Buckingham Asset Mngmt Limited invested in 2,280 shares. Noble Corporation plc (NYSE:NE) has declined 46.66% since February 27, 2017 and is downtrending. It has outperformed by 2.75% the S&P500. On Thursday, February 1 Roos John Victor sold $14,616 worth of Salesforce.com, inc. Following the sale, the insider now owns 58,719 shares in the company, valued at approximately $6,090,334.68. The shares were sold at an average price of $106.69, for a total value of $982,614.90. Revenue came to $2.85 billion, up 24 percent year-over year from $2.29 billion. "Ultimately, through all this investigation into the company's performance the analyst decides whether their stock is a "buy", sell" or hold". Therefore 62% are positive. This is compared to analyst expectations of $10.44 billion. On Monday, November 13 the stock rating was maintained by Mizuho with "Buy". Jefferies maintained Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (NYSE:TEVA) on Tuesday, July 25 with "Hold" rating. The stock has "Outperform" rating by Credit Suisse on Thursday, March 1. The stock has "Overweight" rating by Barclays Capital on Wednesday, August 23. The firm earned "Hold" rating on Tuesday, May 23 by Jefferies. They expect $0.11 EPS, up 450.00% or $0.09 from last year's $0.02 per share. CRM's profit will be $79.45 million for 265.11 P/E if the $0.11 EPS becomes a reality. After $1.30 actual earnings per share reported by AstraZeneca PLC for the previous quarter, Wall Street now forecasts -66.15% negative EPS growth. (NYSE:CRM) by 3.1% in the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd (NASDAQ:NCLH) was raised too.

Programming Note: For more on Salesforce.com, watch "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer's interview with Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff tonight at 6 p.m. The relative volume of the stock is 1.01, while its market cap is $81.62 Billion. The firm offers Sales Cloud to store data, monitor leads and progress, forecast opportunities, gain insights through relationship intelligence, and collaborate around sales on desktop and mobile devices, as well as solutions for partner relationship management. It has a 9720.83 P/E ratio. Service Cloud checked in with sales of $789.3 million. King Luther Capital Management Corp now owns 3,414 shares of the CRM provider's stock worth $319,000 after buying an additional 479 shares during the last quarter. When we divide the last trade volume by the 3-month average volume, we found out a relative volume of 1.28. (NYSE:CRM) opened at $114.96 on Monday. It has underperformed by 8.92% the S&P500. Quantitative Systematic Strategies Ltd Limited Liability Company stated it has 0.21% of its portfolio in Salesforce.com, inc.

Macquarie analyst Sarah Hindlian also expects the Salesforce earnings release to reveal a strong FQ4.

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Cloud computing company specialist Salesforce.com (CRM) is set to report fourth quarter fiscal 2018 earnings results after the closing bell Wednesday. Bessemer Group Inc. now owns 1,150 shares of the CRM provider's stock worth $118,000 after acquiring an additional 762 shares during the period. Therefore 50% are positive. Salesforce.com has $135 highest and $18 lowest target. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, six have issued a hold rating and forty-four have given a buy rating to the company's stock. salesforce.com presently has an average rating of "Buy" and an average target price of $116.14. Guggenheim reissued a "buy" rating and set a $128.00 price objective on shares of salesforce.com in a research report on Thursday, January 11th. The company was maintained on Thursday, May 19 by FBN Securities. Stifel Nicolaus maintained the shares of CRM in report on Thursday, May 19 with "Buy" rating. The firm has "Hold" rating by Zacks given on Monday, August 10. The company was maintained on Thursday, September 1 by Citigroup.

On Friday, January 12th, Joe Allanson sold 22,606 shares of salesforce.com stock.

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