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Salesforce (LIM:CRM) Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio : 8.65 (As of May. 21, 2024)


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What is Salesforce Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio?

As of today (2024-05-21), Salesforce's current share price is $285.50. Salesforce's Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was $33.01. Salesforce's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio for today is 8.65.

The historical rank and industry rank for Salesforce's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:

LIM:CRM' s Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 4.95   Med: 20.26   Max: 33.63
Current: 8.49

During the past years, Salesforce's highest Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio was 33.63. The lowest was 4.95. And the median was 20.26.

LIM:CRM's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio is ranked worse than
86.57% of 1348 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 2.605 vs LIM:CRM: 8.49

The Shiller PE Ratio was first used by professor Robert Shiller. He uses E10 for his Shiller PE Ratio calculation. E10 is the average of the inflation adjusted earnings per share of a company over the past 10 years. The similar calculation is applied by GuruFocus to calculate the Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio. The Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share is the average of the inflation adjusted book value per share of a company over the past 10 years.

Salesforce's adjusted book value per share data for the three months ended in Jan. 2024 was $61.427. Add all the adjusted book value per share for the past 10 years together and divide the count will get our Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share, which is $33.01 for the trailing ten years ended in Jan. 2024.

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Salesforce Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for Salesforce's Cyclically Adjusted PB 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 Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Chart

Salesforce Annual Data
Trend Jan15 Jan16 Jan17 Jan18 Jan19 Jan20 Jan21 Jan22 Jan23 Jan24
Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 18.21 15.93 11.35 6.13 8.35

Salesforce Quarterly Data
Apr19 Jul19 Oct19 Jan20 Apr20 Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23 Jan24
Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio 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 6.13 6.82 7.34 6.24 8.35

Competitive Comparison of Salesforce's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio

For the Software - Application subindustry, Salesforce's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and Cyclically Adjusted PB 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's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Salesforce's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Salesforce's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio falls into.



Salesforce Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Calculation

Like the Shiller PE Ratio, the Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio takes the Book Value per Share from the past 10 years, adjusts it for inflation, and then calculates the average. This average is then used for the P/B calculation. Because it considers this 10-year average, it's often referred to as the CAPB Ratio.

The Shiller PE Ratio was first used by professor Robert Shiller to measure the valuation of the overall market. The similar calculation is applied by GuruFocus to calculate the Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio.

Salesforce's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio for today is calculated as

Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio=Share Price/ Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share
=285.50/33.01
=8.65

* 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's Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as:

For example, Salesforce's adjusted Book Value per Share data for the three months ended in Jan. 2024 was:

Adj_Book=Book Value per Share/CPI of Jan. 2024 (Change)*Current CPI (Jan. 2024)
=61.427/130.1244*130.1244
=61.427

Current CPI (Jan. 2024) = 130.1244.

Salesforce Quarterly Data

Book Value per Share CPI Adj_Book
201404 5.117 100.023 6.657
201407 5.342 100.520 6.915
201410 6.010 100.176 7.807
201501 6.110 98.604 8.063
201504 6.456 99.824 8.416
201507 6.872 100.691 8.881
201510 7.154 100.346 9.277
201601 7.457 99.957 9.708
201604 8.242 100.947 10.624
201607 8.953 101.524 11.475
201610 9.769 101.988 12.464
201701 10.601 102.456 13.464
201704 11.141 103.167 14.052
201707 11.783 103.278 14.846
201710 12.239 104.070 15.303
201801 14.217 104.578 17.690
201804 15.070 105.708 18.551
201807 17.878 106.324 21.880
201810 19.207 106.695 23.425
201901 20.266 106.200 24.831
201904 21.221 107.818 25.611
201907 22.008 108.250 26.455
201910 37.561 108.577 45.015
202001 37.945 108.841 45.365
202004 38.448 108.173 46.250
202007 42.335 109.318 50.393
202010 44.103 109.861 52.238
202101 45.150 110.364 53.234
202104 46.018 112.673 53.146
202107 56.769 115.183 64.133
202110 57.982 116.696 64.654
202201 58.778 118.619 64.479
202204 59.231 121.978 63.187
202207 60.158 125.002 62.623
202210 59.890 125.734 61.981
202301 59.489 126.223 61.328
202304 58.764 127.992 59.743
202307 59.571 128.974 60.102
202310 59.948 129.810 60.093
202401 61.427 130.124 61.427

Add all the adjusted book value per share together and divide the count will get our Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share.

Please note that we use the CPI data of the country/region where the company is headquartered. If the CPI data for that country/region is not available, then we will use the CPI data of the United States as default.


Salesforce  (LIM:CRM) Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Explanation

Compared with the regular PB Ratio, which works poorly for cyclical businesses, the Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio smoothed out the fluctuations of book value during business cycles. Therefore it is more accurate in reflecting the valuation of the company.

If a company has consistent business performance, the Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio should give similar results to regular PB Ratio.


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Salesforce (LIM:CRM) Business Description

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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.