Salesforce Delivers Record Second Quarter Fiscal 2027 Results

Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), the world’s #1 AI CRM, today announced results for its second quarter fiscal 2027 ended July 31, 2026.

Second Quarter Financial Highlights

• Current remaining performance obligation (“cRPO”) of $33.5 billion, up 14% year-over-year (“Y/Y”) and in constant currency (“CC”)

• Remaining performance obligation of $66.3 billion, up 11% Y/Y

• Subscription and support revenue of $10.8 billion, up 12% Y/Y and 11% in CC, including $440 million Informatica contribution

• Revenue of $11.3 billion, up 11% Y/Y and in CC, including $456 million Informatica contribution

• GAAP operating margin of 20.5% and non-GAAP operating margin of 34.1%

• GAAP diluted net income per share of $4.29, up 119% Y/Y and non-GAAP diluted net income per share of $5.90, up 103% Y/Y

• Operating cash flow of $1.3 billion, up 71% Y/Y, and free cash flow of $1.1 billion, up 81% Y/Y

• Returned $364 million in dividends to shareholders and continued to execute against $25 billion accelerated share repurchase (“ASR”)

“We just delivered one of our best quarters ever, outperforming across every key metric,” said Marc Benioff, Chair and CEO, Salesforce. “AI is delivering value across every layer of our platform. We’re seeing incredible demand for our AI and data products, with ARR about to cross $4 billion. And with AIforce, our trusted enterprise harness, we’re unlocking the data, workflows, business logic, actions, and governance inside Salesforce and making it available to every agent, model, and interface. This is how we are turning AI into customer success at unprecedented scale.”

“AI is amplifying the power, reach, and value of our platform,” said Robin Washington, President and Chief Financial and Operating Officer, Salesforce. “NNAOV growth is the strongest it’s been in four years, keeping us on track for second-half organic revenue reacceleration.”

Salesforce Company Highlights

• Agentforce and Data 360 annual recurring revenue (“ARR”) reached nearly $3.9 billion, up over 210% Y/Y

• Agentforce ARR exceeded $1.5 billion, up over 240% Y/Y. Effective Q2 FY27, Agentforce ARR includes our AI offerings, Slackbot and Headless 360

• 7.0 billion Agentic Work Units (“AWUs”) delivered to date across Agentforce and Slack, with 3.2 billion in Q2, growing 97% quarter-over-quarter (“Q/Q”)

• Slack delivered its fastest quarterly Net New Annual Order Value (“NNAOV”) growth since acquisition as Slackbot users grew over 150% Q/Q

• Bookings from Agentforce One Edition and Agentforce for Apps, premium SKUs anchored in Sales and Service including the value from Agentic capabilities, more than doubled Q/Q

• In Q2, Data 360 ingested 104 trillion records, up 355% Y/Y, including 82 trillion via Zero Copy, up 731% Y/Y, and processed 22 terabytes of unstructured data

Guidance

Salesforce raises full year FY27 revenue guidance to $46.1 billion to $46.4 billion, up 11% – 12% Y/Y and 11% Y/Y in CC. In June, Salesforce announced separate definitive agreements to acquire Contentful and Fin. The Company now expects both transactions to close independently in the coming weeks, during the third quarter of Salesforce’s fiscal year 2027. These acquisitions have been incorporated into all metrics within the Company’s updated guidance, with the exception of cRPO; the guidance is conditional upon the closing of these transactions.

With the U.S. dollar strengthening in Q2, Salesforce now expects a reduced currency tailwind for the business relative to prior guidance. This currency movement has been incorporated into the Company’s updated guidance.

• Initiates third quarter FY27 revenue guidance of $11.42 billion to $11.5 billion, up 11% – 12% Y/Y and in CC, including slightly above 4pts Informatica contribution

• Initiates third quarter FY27 cRPO growth guidance of approximately 14% Y/Y and in CC, which does not include any contribution from the pending acquisitions of Contentful and Fin

• Raises full year FY27 revenue guidance, now expects full year FY27 revenue of $46.1 billion to $46.4 billion, up 11% – 12% Y/Y and 11% in CC, including slightly above 3pts Informatica contribution. The $200M raise, $300 million CC, reflects $100 million of organic growth, $200 million from the pending Contentful and Fin acquisitions, and $100M FX headwind

• Raises full year FY27 subscription and support revenue growth guidance to slightly above 12% Y/Y and slightly under 12% in CC, including slightly above 3pts Informatica contribution

• Updates full year FY27 GAAP operating margin guidance to 20.1%, and maintains non-GAAP operating margin guidance of 34.3%

• Maintains full year FY27 operating cash flow growth guidance and free cash flow growth guidance of approximately 4% – 5% Y/Y

• Final settlement of the company’s $25 billion ASR is expected in October 2026.

Salesforce’s guidance includes GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures. The following tables summarize Salesforce’s guidance for the third quarter fiscal 2027 and full-year fiscal 2027:

The following is a reconciliation of GAAP operating margin guidance to non-GAAP operating margin guidance for the full year:

The following is a per share reconciliation of GAAP diluted net income per share to non-GAAP diluted net income per share guidance for the next quarter and the full year:

For additional information regarding non-GAAP financial measures see the reconciliation of results and related explanations below.

Management will provide further commentary around these guidance assumptions on its earnings call.

Product Releases and Enhancements

Salesforce releases major updates for our core platform and apps three times a year, with additional updates happening regularly across our portfolio. These releases are a result of significant research and development investments made over multiple years, and are designed to help customers drive cost savings, boost efficiency, and build trust.

Salesforce leaders will participate in a Q2 FY27 Product Adoption & Momentum webinar on Tuesday, September 1, 2026, at 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET. A live webcast and replay details of the event will be available on the Salesforce Investor Relations website at www.salesforce.com/investor.

To learn more about our newest innovations and product release highlights, including our latest Summer 2026 Product Release, see FY27 Q2 Product Releases and Announcements at https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/fy27-q2-highlights/ and see our latest major release at www.salesforce.com/releases.

Investor Day

Salesforce will hold its Investor Day in conjunction with Dreamforce on Wednesday, September 16, 2026, at 1:00 PM PT / 4:00 PM ET at the St. Regis in San Francisco, CA. A live webcast, accompanying presentation, and replay details of the event will be available on the Salesforce Investor Relations website at www.salesforce.com/investor.

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Strategy

To learn more about our latest initiatives and priorities, review our Stakeholder Impact Report at https://salesforce.com/stakeholder-impact-report.

Quarterly Earnings Webcast

Salesforce plans to host a live earnings webcast broadcast at 2:00 p.m. (PT) / 5:00 p.m. (ET) to discuss its financial results with the investment community. A live webcast and replay details of the event will be available on the Salesforce Investor Relations website at www.salesforce.com/investor.

About Salesforce

Salesforce helps organizations of any size become agentic enterprises – integrating humans, agents, apps, and data on a trusted, unified platform to unlock unprecedented growth and innovation. Visit www.salesforce.com for more information.

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The risks and uncertainties referred to above include — but are not limited to — risks associated with:

• the effect of the acquisition of Informatica on our operating results, the market price of our common stock our ability to retain and hire key personnel;

• our ability to maintain sufficient security levels and service performance, avoid downtime and prevent, detect and remediate performance degradation and security breaches;

• our ability to secure sufficient data center capacity;

• our reliance on third-party infrastructure providers, including hardware, software, energy and platform providers and the organizations responsible for the development and maintenance of Internet infrastructure;

• uncertainties regarding AI technologies and their integration into our product offerings;

• the evolving landscape related to environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) matters;

• the effect of evolving government regulations, including those related to our industry and providing services on or accessing the Internet, and those addressing ESG matters, data privacy, cybersecurity, cross-border data transfers, government contracting and procurement, and import and export controls;

• current and potential litigation and regulatory investigations involving us or our industry;

• our ability to successfully expand or introduce new services and product features, including related to AI and Agentforce;

• our ability to successfully complete, integrate and realize the benefits from acquisitions or other strategic transactions;

• uncertainties regarding the pace of change and innovation and our ability to compete in the markets in which we participate;

• our ability to successfully execute our business strategy and our business plans, including efforts to expand internationally and related risks;

• our ability to meet our long-term revenue target and profitable growth framework;

• our ability to predict and meet expectations regarding our operating results and cash flows, including revenue and remaining performance obligation, including as a result of the seasonal nature of our sales cycle and the variability in our results arising from the accounting for term license revenue products and some complex transactions;

• our ability to predict and limit customer attrition and costs related to those efforts;

• the demands on our personnel and infrastructure resulting from significant growth in our customer base and operations, including as a result of acquisitions;

• our real estate and office facilities strategy and related costs and uncertainties;

• the performance of our strategic investment portfolio, including fluctuations in the fair value of our investments;

• our ability to protect our intellectual property rights;

• our ability to maintain and enhance our brands;

• uncertainties regarding the realizability, valuation and potential availability of certain tax assets;

• the impact of new accounting pronouncements and tax rules;

• uncertainties affecting our ability to estimate our tax rate;

• uncertainties regarding the effect of geopolitical events, inflationary pressures, market and macroeconomic volatility, financial institution instability, changes in monetary policy, foreign currency exchange rate and interest rate fluctuations, uncertainty regarding changes in trade policies, including trade wars, the threat or imposition of tariffs or other trade restrictions as well as any retaliatory actions, and climate change, natural disasters and actual or threatened public health emergencies on our workforce, business, and operating results;

• uncertainties regarding the impact of expensing stock options and other equity awards;

• the sufficiency of our capital resources, including our ability to execute our share repurchase program and declare future cash dividends;

• our ability to comply with our debt covenants and lease obligations; and

• uncertainties regarding impacts to our workforce and workplace culture, such as those arising from our current and future office environments or remote work policies or our ability to realize the expected benefits of the Company’s restructuring initiatives.

Further information on these and other factors that could affect the Company’s actual results or outcomes is included in the reports on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K and in other filings it makes with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time. These documents are available on the SEC Filings section of the Financials section of the Company’s website at investor.salesforce.com/financials/.

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Supplemental Revenue Analysis

Remaining Performance Obligation

Remaining performance obligation (“RPO”) represents contracted revenue that has not yet been recognized, which includes unearned revenue and unbilled amounts that will be recognized as revenue in future periods. RPO is influenced by several factors, including seasonality, the timing of renewals, the timing of term license deliveries, average contract terms and foreign currency exchange rates. Remaining performance obligation is also impacted by acquisitions. Unbilled portions of RPO denominated in foreign currencies are revalued each period based on the period end exchange rates. The portion of RPO that is unbilled is not recorded on the condensed consolidated balance sheets.

Unearned Revenue

Unearned revenue represents amounts that have been invoiced in advance of revenue recognition and is recognized as revenue when transfer of control to customers has occurred or services have been provided. The change in unearned revenue was as follows (in millions):

Disaggregation of Revenue

Subscription and Support Revenue by the Company’s service offerings ⁽¹⁾

Subscription and support revenues consisted of the following (in millions):

Total Revenue by Geographic Locations

Revenues by geographical region consisted of the following (in millions):

Constant Currency Growth Rates

Subscription and support revenues constant currency growth rates by the Company’s service offerings, excluding the impacts of hedging gains, were as follows:

Revenue constant currency growth rates by geographical region, excluding the impacts of hedging gains, were as follows:

Current remaining performance obligation constant currency growth rates were as follows:

Non-GAAP Financial Measures: This press release includes information about non-GAAP operating margin, non-GAAP net income per share, non-GAAP tax rates, free cash flow, constant currency revenue and revenue growth rate, constant currency subscription and support revenue growth rate and constant currency current remaining performance obligation growth rates (collectively the “non-GAAP financial measures”). These non-GAAP financial measures are measurements of financial performance that are not prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles and computational methods may differ from those used by other companies. Non-GAAP financial measures are not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for comparable GAAP measures and should be read only in conjunction with the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP. Management uses both GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures when planning, monitoring and evaluating the Company’s performance.

The primary purpose of using non-GAAP financial measures is to provide supplemental information that may prove useful to investors and to enable investors to evaluate the Company’s results in the same way management does. Management believes that supplementing GAAP disclosure with non-GAAP disclosure provides investors with a more complete view of the Company’s operational performance and allows for meaningful period-to-period comparisons and analysis of trends in the Company’s business. Further to the extent that other companies use similar methods in calculating non-GAAP financial measures, the provision of supplemental non-GAAP information can allow for a comparison of the Company’s relative performance against other companies that also report non-GAAP operating results.

Non-GAAP operating margin is the proportion of non-GAAP income from operations as a percentage of GAAP revenue. Non-GAAP income from operations excludes the impact of the following items: stock-based compensation expense, amortization of acquisition-related intangibles, and charges associated with the Company’s restructuring initiatives and acquisition-related costs. Non-GAAP net income per share excludes, to the extent applicable, the impact of the following items: stock-based compensation expense, amortization of purchased intangibles, charges associated with the Company’s restructuring initiatives and acquisition-related costs, and income tax adjustments. These items are excluded because the decisions that give rise to them are not made to increase revenue in a particular period, but instead for the Company’s long-term benefit over multiple periods.

As described above, the Company excludes or adjusts for the following in its non-GAAP results and guidance:

• Stock-Based Compensation Expense: The Company’s compensation strategy includes the use of stock-based compensation expense to attract and retain employees and executives. It is principally aimed at aligning their interests with those of our stockholders and at long-term employee retention, rather than to motivate or reward operational performance for any particular period. Thus, stock-based compensation expense varies for reasons that are generally unrelated to operational decisions and performance in any particular period.

• Amortization of Purchased Intangibles: The Company views amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets, such as the amortization of the cost associated with an acquired company’s research and development efforts, trade names, customer lists and customer relationships, and, in some cases, acquired lease intangibles, as items arising from pre-acquisition activities determined at the time of an acquisition. While these intangible assets are continually evaluated for impairment, amortization of the cost of purchased intangibles is a static expense, which is not typically affected by operations during any particular period. Although the Company excludes the amortization of purchased intangibles from these non-GAAP financial measures, management believes that it is important for investors to understand that such intangible assets were recorded as part of purchase accounting and contribute to revenue generation.

• Restructuring: Restructuring charges are costs associated with a formal restructuring plan and may include employee notice period costs and severance payments, lease or contract termination costs, asset impairments, accelerated depreciation and amortization and other related expenses. The Company excludes these restructuring charges because they are distinct from ongoing operational costs and it does not believe they are reflective of current and expected future business performance and operating results.

• Acquisition-related costs: Acquisition-related expenses include transaction and integration expenses for consummated transactions that are incurred prior to the acquisition closing or within the first year of the acquisition close date, which may include transaction or integration expenses paid to third parties, one-time severance and retention bonuses for acquired and transitional employees, or exit costs associated with an acquired company’s long-lived assets, such as real estate, or other long-term commercial agreements. The Company excludes these acquisition-related expenses because they are distinct from ongoing operational costs and the Company does not believe they are reflective of current and expected future business performance and operating results.

• Gains (Losses) on Strategic Investments, net: The Company records all fair value adjustments to its equity securities held within the strategic investment portfolio through the statement of operations. As it is not possible to forecast future gains and losses, the Company assumes no change to the value of its strategic investment portfolio in its GAAP and non-GAAP estimates for future periods, including its guidance. Gains (Losses) on Strategic Investments, net, are included in its GAAP financial statements.

• Income Tax Effects and Adjustments: The Company utilizes a fixed long-term projected non-GAAP tax rate in order to provide better consistency across the interim reporting periods by eliminating the effects of items such as changes in the tax valuation allowance and tax effects of acquisition-related costs, since each of these can vary in size and frequency. When projecting this long-term rate, the Company evaluated a three-year financial projection that excludes the direct impact of the following non-cash items: stock-based compensation expenses and the amortization of purchased intangibles. The projected rate also considers factors including the Company’s expected tax structure, its tax positions in various jurisdictions and key legislation in major jurisdictions where the Company operates. For fiscal 2026, the Company used a projected non-GAAP tax rate of 22.0%. For fiscal 2027, the Company uses a projected non-GAAP tax rate of 20.5%, which reflects currently available information, as well as other factors and assumptions. The non-GAAP tax rate could be subject to change for a variety of reasons, including the rapidly evolving global tax environment, significant changes in the Company’s geographic earnings mix due to acquisition activity or other changes to the Company’s strategy or business operations. The Company will re-evaluate its long-term rate as appropriate.

The Company presents constant currency information to provide a framework for assessing how the Company’s underlying business performed excluding the effect of foreign currency rate fluctuations and the impact of hedging gains (losses). To present constant currency revenue growth rates, current and comparative prior period results for entities reporting in currencies other than United States dollars are converted into United States dollars at the weighted average exchange rate for the quarter being compared to rather than the actual exchange rates in effect during that period. To present current remaining performance obligation growth rates on a constant currency basis, current remaining performance obligation balances in local currencies in previous comparable periods are converted using the United States dollar currency exchange rate as of the most recent balance sheet date.

The Company defines the non-GAAP measure free cash flow as GAAP net cash provided by operating activities, less capital expenditures. Trailing twelve months free cash flow is calculated as GAAP net cash provided by operating activities for the aggregate four preceding fiscal quarters, less capital expenditures over that same period.

Other Metrics: The Company defines Agentforce and Data 360 annual recurring revenue (“ARR”) as the annualized recurring value of active Data 360 and certain generative artificial intelligence (“AI”) subscription agreements, including those for Agentforce, generative AI products and features, and Headless 360, that were executed at the end of the reporting period. The Company defines Informatica Cloud ARR as the annualized recurring value of active Informatica Cloud subscription agreements that were executed at the end of the reporting period. From time to time, we may update this metric to incorporate new products, feature offerings, or acquired technologies that meet its definition. Beginning in Q2 FY27, Agentforce ARR includes our AI offerings Slackbot and Headless 360.

The Company defines Net New Annual Order Value (“NNAOV”) as the net change in the annual order value of our customer subscription agreements during a given period. NNAOV is calculated as the sum of: (i) the annualized contract value from new and existing customers who enter into subscription agreements during the period; less (ii) the reduction in annualized order value from customer cancellations, non-renewals, or downgrades during the period.

The Company defines an Agentic Work Unit (“AWU”) as a measure of discrete tasks executed by AI agents in production across the Salesforce platform, including Agentforce and Slack. AWUs represent the conversion of generative AI capabilities into measurable business outputs, such as resolving customer cases, updating records or triggering automated workflows.

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