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Is Salesforce or ServiceNow a Better Stock to Buy Right Now?

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Is Salesforce or ServiceNow a Better Stock to Buy Right Now? Software stocks spent the first part of 2026 among the market's weakest names…
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  • After a roughly 30% year-to-date decline, Salesforce now trades at a price-to-earnings ratio of about 22, which represents a reasonable valuation

    60% confidence
  • Investors worried that AI agents would chip away at the per-seat licensing model on which much of enterprise software is built, driving the sector's early-2026 selloff

    60% confidence
  • Salesforce guided full fiscal year 2027 revenue of approximately $45.9 billion to $46.2 billion, representing approximately 11% total growth, of which only about 8 percentage points is organic with Informatica contributing the remainder

    60% confidence
  • Slack was nearly half of Salesforce's million-plus customer wins in Q1 FY2027, up 80% year-over-year

    60% confidence
  • Annual recurring revenue from Agentforce surpassed $1 billion for the first time, up 205% year over year

    60% confidence
  • Salesforce's Q1 FY2027 revenue growth of 13% was an acceleration from the 9% growth reported two quarters earlier, though part of that lift came from the Informatica acquisition

    60% confidence

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Salesforce · margin34.8 percent
Salesforce · margin32.3 percent
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