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Salesforce (Salesforce) Sloan Ratio %

: -4.78% (As of Jan. 2024)
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Richard Sloan from the University of Michigan was first to document what is referred to as the "accrual anomaly". His 1996 paper found that shares of companies with small or negative accruals vastly outperform (+10%) those of companies with large ones.

Salesforce's Sloan Ratio for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was -4.78%.

As of Jan. 2024, Salesforce has a Sloan Ratio of -4.78%, indicating the company is in the safe zone and there is no funny business with accruals.


Salesforce Sloan Ratio % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Salesforce's Sloan Ratio % 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 Annual Data
Trend Jan15 Jan16 Jan17 Jan18 Jan19 Jan20 Jan21 Jan22 Jan23 Jan24
Sloan Ratio %
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -2.22 4.89 10.48 -4.97 -4.78

Salesforce Quarterly Data
Apr19 Jul19 Oct19 Jan20 Apr20 Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23 Jan24
Sloan Ratio % 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -4.97 -8.94 -7.42 -7.12 -4.78

Competitive Comparison

For the Software - Application subindustry, Salesforce's Sloan Ratio %, along with its competitors' market caps and Sloan Ratio % 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 Sloan Ratio % Distribution

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Salesforce's Sloan Ratio % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Salesforce's Sloan Ratio % falls into.



Salesforce Sloan Ratio % Calculation

Earnings contain a lot of non cash earnings which is called accruals. The Sloan ratio is a way to identify firms with low non-cash or accrual-derived earnings relative to their cash flow.

Salesforce's Sloan Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as

Sloan Ratio=(Net Income (A: Jan. 2024 )-Cash Flow from Operations (A: Jan. 2024 )
-Cash Flow from Investing (A: Jan. 2024 ))/Total Assets (A: Jan. 2024 )
=(4136-10234
--1327)/99823
=-4.78%

Salesforce's Sloan Ratio for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as

Sloan Ratio=(Net Income (TTM)-Cash Flow from Operations (TTM))
-Cash Flow from Investing (TTM))/Total Assets (Q: Jan. 2024 )
=(4136-10234
--1327)/99823
=-4.78%

Salesforce's Net Income for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 was 199 (Apr. 2023 ) + 1267 (Jul. 2023 ) + 1224 (Oct. 2023 ) + 1446 (Jan. 2024 ) = $4,136 Mil.
Salesforce's Cash Flow from Operations for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 was 4491 (Apr. 2023 ) + 808 (Jul. 2023 ) + 1532 (Oct. 2023 ) + 3403 (Jan. 2024 ) = $10,234 Mil.
Salesforce's Cash Flow from Investing for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 was 347 (Apr. 2023 ) + -1152 (Jul. 2023 ) + -54 (Oct. 2023 ) + -468 (Jan. 2024 ) = $-1,327 Mil.

* 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.


Salesforce  (NYSE:CRM) Sloan Ratio % Explanation

A former University of Michigan researcher, Richard Sloan's 1996 paper found that shares of companies with small or negative accruals vastly outperform (+10%) those of companies with large ones. In fact, for the 40-year period between 1962 and 2001, buying the lowest accrual companies and shorting the highest accrual companies resulted in an average annual compounded return of 18%, more than double the S&P 500's 7.4% annual return over the same period.

According to How to Beat the Market with the Sloan Ratio:

If the Sloan Ratio is between -10% and 10%, the company is in the safe zone and there is no funny business with accruals.

If the Sloan Ratio is less than between -25% and -10% on the negative side, and between 10% and 25% on the positive side, this is a warning stage of accrual build up.

If the Sloan Ratio is less than -25% or greater than 25%, and this ratio is consistent over several quarters or even years, be careful. Earnings are highly likely to be made up of accruals.

As of Jan. 2024, Salesforce has a Sloan Ratio of -4.78%, indicating the company is in the safe zone and there is no funny business with accruals.


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Salesforce (Salesforce) Business Description

Address
415 Mission Street, 3rd Floor, Salesforce Tower, San Francisco, CA, USA, 94105
Salesforce Inc 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.
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