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The beat, the buyback, the glow-up
Salesforce showed up with a quarterly earnings beat — EPS of $3.81 versus $3.05 expected — and then tried to sweeten the deal with a $25 billion share repurchase program and a higher quarterly dividend of $0.44. That’s a lot of “we think the stock is cheap” energy for one afternoon.
Why investors are paying attention
Buybacks and dividend hikes are the corporate equivalent of sliding a note across the table that says, “Relax, we’ve got this.” It doesn’t fix everything, but it usually means management thinks the business is stable enough to start handing more cash back to shareholders.
And then there’s the forward view: Salesforce also gave FY27 EPS guidance of 13.110 to 13.190, which gives investors something to anchor to beyond the headline beat. In a market that loves a story, this one has three beats: profit, cash returns, and guidance.
The market’s bigger question
The key question now is whether Salesforce can keep turning the AI and enterprise software hype into actual durable earnings power, not just nice slide decks. If the company can keep posting clean results while shrinking the share count, the bull case gets easier to believe.
Big picture: Salesforce just tried to tell Wall Street, in three different ways, that it thinks the stock still has room to run.