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CRM (Salesforce) Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow : 21.05 (As of Apr. 25, 2025)


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What is Salesforce Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow?

As of today (2025-04-25), Salesforce's share price is $267.85. Salesforce's Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2025 was $12.73. Hence, Salesforce's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Ratio for today is 21.05.

The historical rank and industry rank for Salesforce's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow or its related term are showing as below:

CRM' s Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 18.92   Med: 37.17   Max: 81.71
Current: 21.06

During the past 13 years, Salesforce's highest Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Ratio was 81.71. The lowest was 18.92. And the median was 37.17.

CRM's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow is ranked worse than
50.26% of 1532 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 20.61 vs CRM: 21.06

Salesforce's Free Cash Flow per Share for the three months ended in Jan. 2025 was $3.93. Its Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in was $12.73.

During the past 12 months, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate of Salesforce was 32.30% per year. During the past 3 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 33.00% per year. During the past 5 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 25.40% per year. During the past 10 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 23.90% per year.

During the past 13 years, Salesforce's highest 3-Year average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 80.10% per year. The lowest was -20.50% per year. And the median was 31.95% per year.


Salesforce Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Historical Data

The historical data trend for Salesforce's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Salesforce Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Chart

Salesforce Annual Data
Trend Jan16 Jan17 Jan18 Jan19 Jan20 Jan21 Jan22 Jan23 Jan24 Jan25
Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 51.28 42.89 26.53 29.12 26.77

Salesforce Quarterly Data
Apr20 Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23 Jan24 Apr24 Jul24 Oct24 Jan25
Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 29.12 23.34 22.19 24.05 26.77

Competitive Comparison of Salesforce's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow

For the Software - Application subindustry, Salesforce's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow, along with its competitors' market caps and Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Salesforce's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Salesforce's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Salesforce's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow falls into.


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Salesforce Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Calculation

Salesforce's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow ratio for today is calculated as

Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Ratio=Share Price/ Free Cash Flow per Share (TTM)
=267.85/12.727
=21.05

Salesforce's Share Price of today is $267.85.
Salesforce's Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2025 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $12.73.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

It can also be calculated from the numbers for the whole company:

Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Ratio=Market Cap/Free Cash Flow

Salesforce  (NYSE:CRM) Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Explanation

Free Cash Flow is considered more important than earnings by value investors. The reason is because, in principle, only the net cash that can be taken from the business belongs to shareholders. This Free Cash Flow can be used to grow the business, reduce debt or return to shareholders in dividends or share buybacks.

In a DCF Calculation Free Cash Flow is used to determine the intrinsic value of companies.


Be Aware

In real business, Free Cash Flow can be affected by the change in accounts receivable, accounts payable, management's decision on expansion, etc. Therefore, investors should look at the Free Cash Flow over the longer term. Long-term average of Free Cash Flow is a more reliable indicator for real free cash flow.


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Salesforce Business Description

Industry
Address
415 Mission Street, 3rd Floor, Salesforce Tower, San Francisco, CA, USA, 94105
Salesforce provides enterprise cloud computing solutions. The company offers customer relationship management technology that brings companies and customers together. Its Customer 360 platform helps the group to deliver a single source of truth, connecting customer data across systems, apps, and devices to help companies sell, service, market, and conduct commerce. It also offers Service Cloud for customer support, Marketing Cloud for digital marketing campaigns, Commerce Cloud as an e-commerce engine, the Salesforce Platform, which allows enterprises to build applications, and other solutions, such as MuleSoft for data integration.
Executives
Parker Harris director, officer: Co-Founder and CTO THE LANDMARK @ ONE MARKET, SUITE 300, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Sundeep G. Reddy officer: EVP & Chief Accounting Officer 6555 NORTH STATE HWY 161, IRVING TX 75039
Srinivas Tallapragada officer: President, Technology THE LANDMARK AT ONE MARKET STREET, #300, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Oscar Munoz director
Sabastian Niles officer: President and CLO 415 MISSION ST, 3RD FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Miguel Milano officer: President and CRO 415 MISSION ST, 3RD FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Brian Millham officer: President and COO 415 MISSION STREET, 3RD FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 90403
Amy E Weaver officer: EVP, General Counsel THE LANDMARK @ ONE MARKET STREET #300, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Robin L Washington director 333 LAKESIDE DRIVE, FOSTER CITY CA 94404
G Mason Morfit director, other: See Remarks ONE LETTERMAN DRIVE, BUILDING D, 4TH FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94129
Marc Benioff director, officer: Chairman of the Board & CEO 50 FREMONT STREET, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Webb Maynard G Jr director 16541 CYPRESS WAY, LOS GATOS CA 95030
Craig Conway director SALESFORCE TOWER, 415 MISSION STREET, 3RD FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Brent Hyder officer: President/Chief People Officer 415 MISSION STREET, 3RD FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Neelie Kroes director VAN BRONCKHORSTLAAN, 2242 PZ WASSENAAR, NETHERLANDS P8 99999