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    CRM
    Earnings call· Jan 2025(Q4 FY25)

    Salesforce, Inc. CRM

    Feb 26, 2025 Source

    Executive summary

    Salesforce Q4 FY25 — Record Cash Flow and Agentforce Momentum

    Salesforce delivered a strong Q4 FY25, marked by record cash flow generation and significant momentum in its Agentforce AI product line, which is now a multi-billion dollar product. The company is driving a digital labor revolution through its unified platform of apps, data, and agents, leading to substantial customer productivity gains. Despite some FX headwinds and softness in professional services, Salesforce is committed to continued profitable growth and margin expansion in FY26, alongside a significant management transition.

    Highlights

    5

    • Operating cash flow reached a record $13.1 billion for FY25, up 28% year-over-year.

    • Q4 revenue was $10 billion, up 8% year-over-year (9% in constant currency).

    • Non-GAAP operating margin for FY25 expanded to 33%, an increase of 250 basis points year-over-year.

    • Data Cloud and AI annual recurring revenue (ARR) ended FY25 at $900 million, growing nearly 120% year-over-year.

    • Remaining Performance Obligation (RPO) surpassed $60 billion for the first time, reaching $63.4 billion, up 11% year-over-year.

    Concerns

    3

    • Professional services business is expected to be a headwind to growth in FY26.

    • Marketing and Commerce Cloud experienced weakness, partially offsetting subscription and support growth.

    • Q4 revenue was impacted by an incremental $75 million in FX headwinds.

    Guidance & targets

    15
    CategoryTargetConfidence
    Full-year FY26 Revenue
    $40.5 billion to $40.9 billion
    high materiality
    High
    Full-year FY26 Subscription and Support Revenue Growth
    approximately 9%
    high materiality
    High
    Full-year FY26 Non-GAAP Operating Margin
    34%
    high materiality
    High
    Full-year FY26 GAAP Operating Margin
    21.6%
    medium materiality
    High
    Full-year FY26 GAAP Diluted EPS
    $6.95 to $7.03
    medium materiality
    High
    Full-year FY26 Non-GAAP Diluted EPS
    $11.09 to $11.17
    high materiality
    High
    Full-year FY26 Operating Cash Flow Growth
    approximately 10% to 11%
    high materiality
    High
    Full-year FY26 Free Cash Flow Growth
    approximately 9% to 10%
    high materiality
    High
    Full-year FY26 CapEx as % of Revenue
    approximately 2%
    medium materiality
    High
    Q1 FY26 Revenue
    $9.71 billion to $9.76 billion
    high materiality
    High
    Q1 FY26 Current RPO (cRPO) Growth
    approximately 10%
    high materiality
    High
    Q1 FY26 GAAP EPS
    $1.49 to $1.51
    medium materiality
    High
    Q1 FY26 Non-GAAP EPS
    $2.53 to $2.55
    high materiality
    High
    Agentforce Revenue Contribution
    modest contribution
    medium materiality
    Medium
    Attrition
    consistent at slightly above 8%
    low materiality
    High

    Segment performance

    7
    SegmentRevenueYoYQoQMargin
    Americas
    Revenue grew 8% in both nominal and constant currency.
    		—8%——
    EMEA
    Revenue grew 6% in nominal and 7% in constant currency. Parts of EMEA remained constrained.
    		—6%——
    APAC
    Revenue grew 10% in nominal and 14% in constant currency. Strong new business growth in Lat Am, Japan, and Canada.
    		—10%——
    Industry Business (Public Sector & .org)
    Finished the year at an incredible $5.7 billion in ARR, up 20% year-over-year. Nearly 75% of top 100 deals included the industry cloud.
    ARR: $5.7 billion
    		—20%——
    Sales Cloud
    Achieved double-digit new bookings growth in Q4.
    New bookings growth: double-digit
    		————
    Service Cloud
    Achieved double-digit new bookings growth in Q4.
    New bookings growth: double-digit
    		————
    Slack
    Included in over one-third of deals over $1 million, with its contribution to overall deal size increasing double digits year-over-year.
    Inclusion in >$1M deals: >1/3Contribution to deal size: increased double digits YoYMessages sent weekly: ~5 billion
    		————

    Operational metrics

    27
    Non-GAAP operating margin
    33.1%up 170 bps YoY
    Q4 FY25

    Driven by top line outperformance and disciplined expense management.

    Non-GAAP operating margin
    33%up 250 bps YoY
    FY25

    50 basis points higher than initial guidance.

    GAAP operating margin
    18.2%up 70 bps YoY
    Q4 FY25
    GAAP operating margin
    19%up 460 bps YoY
    FY25

    Inclusive of incremental restructuring charges incurred in Q4.

    Share repurchases executed
    $7.8 billion
    FY25

    More than fully offset dilution from FY25 stock-based compensation.

    Dividends issued
    $1.5 billion
    FY25
    Total capital returned to shareholders
    >$21 billion
    since inception

    Since the inception of the capital return program.

    Data Cloud and AI ARR
    $900 millionnearly 120% YoY growth
    end FY25

    Multibillion-dollar product line.

    Data Cloud records
    >50 trilliondoubling YoY
    FY25

    Critical and essential part of the solution, fueling Agentforce.

    Agentforce paid deals
    >3,000
    Q4 FY25

    Customers experiencing unprecedented levels of productivity, efficiency, and cost savings.

    Agentforce service requests handled
    380,000
    since October

    Demonstrates internal efficiency as Customer Zero for Agentforce.

    Agentforce quoting cycle acceleration
    >75%
    Q4 FY25

    Internal use of Agentforce for quoting.

    AE productivity
    7%up YoY
    Q4 FY25

    Achieved while increasing AE capacity.

    Agentforce leads engaged
    >50
    Q4 FY25

    With personalized outreach and timely follow-ups, freeing up teams for high-value conversations.

    Sales coaching training sessions
    thousands
    monthly

    Reps participating each month.

    Partners involved in Agentforce wins
    50%
    Q4 FY25

    Leaning into the ecosystem for Agentforce adoption.

    Partners involved in Agentforce activations
    70%
    Q4 FY25

    Leaning into the ecosystem for Agentforce adoption.

    System integrated employees completed Agentforce training
    >127,000
    Q4 FY25
    ISVs and technology partners building and selling agents
    >1,000
    Q4 FY25
    Deals over $1 million
    >400
    Q4 FY25

    All top 10 wins included Data and AI.

    Top 100 deals average clouds
    6
    Q4 FY25

    All top 10 wins included AI, Data Cloud, service platform, and industry clouds.

    AWS transactions over $1 million
    25
    Q4 FY25

    AWS is a huge growth engine.

    Attrition
    slightly above 8%
    Q4 FY25

    In line with recent quarters.

    FX headwind to FY26 revenue
    0.5 pointYoY
    FY26

    Incremental $200 million headwind since last earnings call due to strengthening U.S. dollar.

    Cash tax headwind
    10 points
    FY25

    Predicted impact on operating cash flow.

    Engineering productivity increase
    30%
    FY26

    Expected, leading to no new engineer hires this year.

    Stock-based compensation as % of revenue
    relatively flatYoY
    FY26

    Industry KPIs

    10
    MetricValueDetails
    Capacity CAPEX2%% of revenue
    Revenue growth$37.9 billionUSD
    Arr net new arr$900 millionUSD
    Rpo current rpo$63.4 billionUSD
    Customer account count>3,000customers
    Large deal new logo metrics>400deals
    Gross retention renewal rateslightly above 8%%
    Multi product platform attach6clouds
    Operating FCF margin rule of 4033%%
    Ai product adoption monetization>3,000paid deals

    Orderbook & backlog

    2
    Remaining Performance Obligation (RPO)$63.4 billionQ4 FY25

    up 11% YoY

    Represents all future revenue under contract. First time surpassing $60 billion.

    Current Remaining Performance Obligation (cRPO)$30.2 billionQ4 FY25

    up 9% YoY nominal, 11% YoY constant currency

    Includes a $300 million FX headwind. Benefited significantly from strong early renewals. Driven by strong performance in Data Cloud and AI and Slack.

    Product announcements

    3
    ProductTypeDetails
    Tableau Nextlaunch
    New Slack, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Commerce Cloud, Platform, Agentforce, Field Serviceupdate
    ITSM productroadmap

    Deals & partnerships

    2
    GoogleExpanded partnership to empower customers to use Agentforce with Gemini and deploy Salesforce on Google Cloud.

    Expanded partnership announced earlier this week.

    AWSStrategic partnership driving large deals, including 25 transactions over $1 million in Q4, with 3 exceeding $10 million.

    AWS is a huge growth engine for Salesforce, helping close a number of large deals.

    Risks & headwinds

    5
    Incremental FX headwindsQ4 FY25, FY26

    $75 million in Q4 FY25 revenue; incremental $200 million headwind to FY26 revenue guidance, resulting in ~0.5 point YoY headwind

    Professional services business headwindFY26

    expected to be a headwind to growth

    Mitigation: Leaning more on partner ecosystem for overall implementation strategy.

    Weakness in Marketing and Commerce CloudFY26

    partially offsetting subscription and support revenue growth

    Slower growth in expiration baseFY26

    impacting subscription and support revenue growth

    Q1 FY26 revenue comparisonQ1 FY26

    lapping 1-point leap year benefit and license revenue timing

    What to watch in Q1 FY26

    5

    Agentforce Revenue Contribution

    FY27
    Currentmodest contribution in FY26
    Targetmeaningful contribution in FY27

    Why it matters

    This indicates the pace of monetization for Salesforce's key AI product line and its impact on future growth.

    As a result, we are assuming a modest contribution to revenue in fiscal '26. We expect the momentum to build throughout the year, driving a more meaningful contribution in fiscal '27.

    Q&A highlights

    5

    How does the shift to a consumption-based pricing model for Agentforce impact overall contract size and value, moving from a seat-based model?

    Marc Benioff explained that Salesforce has always had a mix of per-user (human) and consumption-based products. Agentforce and Data Cloud are consumption-based, and deals will combine both. He cited a large telecommunications deal where Agentforce accounted for $7 million of a $20 million ACV, alongside human-based products. Brian Millham added that customers understand the ROI of digital labor, driving deal velocity, and that pricing will likely evolve to universal credits, which is seen as a significant upside.

    “I don't know any company that's 100% agents. I don't know of any company that doesn't need automation for its humans. I don't know of any company that doesn't need a data cloud where it needs a consistent common data repository for all of its agents to gain their intelligence. And I don't know of any company that's not going to need an agentic layer. And that idea of having apps, data and agents, I think, is going to be the winning combination.”

    asked by Keith Weiss · answered by Marc Benioff

    2 min read6 chapters

    Detailed Narrative

    01

    Agentforce Momentum and AI Monetization

    Salesforce's Agentforce AI product line is rapidly gaining traction, ending FY25 with $900 million in Data Cloud and AI ARR, representing 120% year-over-year growth. The company closed over 3,000 paid Agentforce deals in Q4, with these customers typically leveraging nearly four clouds. Internally, Agentforce has autonomously handled 380,000 service requests on help.salesforce.com since October, achieving an 84% resolution rate and significantly reducing human escalation.

    02

    Unified Platform and Data Cloud as AI Foundation

    Salesforce emphasizes its deeply unified platform, integrating Customer 360 apps, Data Cloud, and Agentforce, as a key differentiator. Data Cloud, serving as the fuel for Agentforce, has surpassed 50 trillion records, doubling year-over-year, with nearly 25% ingested from external sources via the Zero Copy partner network. This integrated approach is enabling customers like Lennar, Pandora, and Pfizer to achieve unprecedented🌐 productivity and efficiency gains.

    03

    Strong Financial Performance and Profitability Focus

    The company delivered a record $13.1 billion in operating cash flow for FY25, up 28% year-over-year, and achieved a non-GAAP operating margin of 33%, exceeding its initial guidance. Salesforce remains committed to further margin expansion, targeting 34% non-GAAP operating margin in FY26, driven by disciplined expense management and strategic investments in high-growth areas like Agentforce and Data Cloud.

    04

    Management Transition and Executive Rebalancing

    The call announced a significant leadership transition with the departure of President and COO Brian Millham and President and CFO Amy Weaver. Robin Washington was introduced as the new Chief Operating and Financial Officer, a combined role aimed at enhancing strategic alignment. Marc Benioff also highlighted other executive promotions and rebalancing, including Miguel Milano as Chief Revenue Officer and Srini as Chief Engineering and Services Officer, expressing confidence in the new leadership team.

    05

    Ecosystem and Partner-Driven Adoption

    Partners are playing a critical role in Agentforce adoption, involved in 50% of wins and 70% of activations in Q4. Salesforce is expanding its ecosystem, including a partnership with Google for Gemini integration and Google Cloud deployment. The company is leveraging its 19 million Trailblazers and over 1,000 ISVs and technology partners who are building and selling agents, further accelerating customer spend and adoption.

    06

    Digital Labor Revolution and Economic Impact

    Marc Benioff articulated a vision of a 'digital labor revolution,' where CEOs will manage humans and agents together to drive productivity and GDP growth in a stagnant human workforce. He cited Salesforce's internal 30% engineering productivity increase without new hires as an example. The company aims to be the #1 provider of digital labor, augmenting its existing product line with AI and leveraging infrastructure investments made by others.

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