When Salesforce.com Inc. (NYSE: CRM) announced its earnings, investors were excited that it has raised fiscal 2017 guidance. As a result of this earnings report, analysts hiked their price targets for this stock.
24/7 Wall St. has included some highlights from the earnings report, as well as what analysts are saying about Salesforce after the fact.
Revenue rose 27% to $1.92 billion, but this would have been up 28% on a constant currency measure. Deferred revenue, a measure of future orders, was up 31% to $4.01 billion. Thomson Reuters had a consensus revenue estimate of $1.89 billion.
Its second-quarter revenue guidance is $2.005 billion to $2.015 billion, versus a $1.98 billion consensus estimate. On forward guidance, Salesforce sees fiscal year 2017 revenue guidance of $8.16 billion to $8.20 billion, versus a consensus number of $8.12 billion. Unbilled deferred revenue of approximately $7.6 billion, up 27%, is expected.
The revenue breakdown showed additional gains on both key metrics in the first quarter. Subscription and support revenues rose 26% to $1.78 billion, and professional services (and other) revenues were up 33% to $141 million.
Quite a few analysts weighed in on Salesforce after earnings were reported:
- Barclays has an Overweight rating and raised its price target to $89 from $88.
- Brean has a Buy rating and raised its price target to $110 from $100.
- Canaccord Genuity has a Buy rating and raised its target from $88 to $95.
- Evercore ISI has a Buy rating and raised its price target to $100.
- Jefferies has a Hold rating and raised its price target to $80 from $74.
- JMP Securities has an Outperform rating and raised its price target from $90 to $92.
- Mizuho has a Buy rating and raised its price target to $100 from $90.
- Oppenheimer has an Outperform rating and raised its target to $95 from $88.
- Baird has an Outperform rating and raised its price target to $90 from $85.
- BTIG has a Buy rating and raised its price target to $100.
- CLSA raised its price target from $89 to $94.
- Deutsche Bank raised its price target to $95 from $90.
- Deutsche Bank has a Buy rating and raised its price target to $95 from $90.
- FBN raised its price target to $100 from $95.
- Goldman Sachs has a Buy rating and raised its target to $105 from $99.
- Raymond James has a Strong Buy rating and raised its target to $100 from $90.
- RBC has an Outperform rating and raised its price target to $92 from $80.
- SunTrust Robinson lifted its price target to $96 from $89.
- UBS has a Buy rating and raised its price target to $100.
- Wedbush raised its price target from $95 to $98.
- Wunderlich raised its price target to $101 from $93.
Share of Salesforce closed trading at $81.03 on Friday. The consensus analyst price target is $95.74, and the 52-week trading range is $52.60 to $82.90.
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