Street View: Salesforce to see margin expansion at a moderate rate
** Salesforce CRM.N beat Wall Street expectations for Q2 revenue and profit on Wednesday, benefiting from higher spending on its enterprise cloud products
** Shares up 5% at $272.80 in premarket trading
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** Goldman Sachs ("buy", PT: $325) sees CRM embracing the evolution from applications to agents that will likely drive rev. re-acceleration in FY25
** Brokerage adds, "our expectations are for margin expansion to continue, albeit at a more moderate rate, when a macro recovery starts to form"
** Barclays ("overweight", PT: $305) says it needs more catalysts for CRM to drive a sustainable rally, which could come with the new AI solutions (Agentforce), which will take center stage at Dreamforce in early September and should go GA (General Availability) in October
** Piper Sandler ("neutral", PT: $268) says macro uncertainty, the planned CFO departure, and the pending multi-year model transition from applications to agents keep the brokerage on the sidelines
** Bernstein ("underperform", PT: $236) says it is concerned about CRM's growth side and believes the margin improvement story is limited
Reporting by Reshma Rockie George in Bengaluru
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