We’re making four trades Monday morning. Shortly after the opening bell, we will be selling 100 shares of Danaher at roughly $274.13. Following the trade, Jim Cramer’s Charitable Trust will own 475 shares of Danaher, decreasing its weighting in the portfolio to 4% from 4.84%. In addition, we will be selling 20 shares of Salesforce at … Read more
Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan attends The Asian American Foundation Annual AAPI CEO Dinner at The Pool in New York City, Sept. 26, 2023. JP Yim | Getty Images Activist Elliott Management and Starbucks‘ board of directors are in settlement talks, according to people familiar with the matter. Elliott and Starbucks’ directors met last week to … Read more
When I look at Thursday’s rally, I am beginning to realize that we have become so binary and so up close that we have lost our ability to think about what matters. The big fish data got caught among the minnow minutiae and we ended up with ridiculous rallies that are, therefore, based on nothing. … Read more
Despite a late-session surge Friday, all three major U.S. stock indexes ended the holiday-shortened trading week in the red, putting an end to the Nasdaq Composite and S & P 500 ‘s five-week winning streaks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell for the second straight week. The declines came as first-quarter earnings season inched closer … Read more
Salesforce executives told investors that deals are shrinking or getting delayed. Dell said its margin is getting smaller. Okta highlighted macroeconomic challenges. And Veeva’s CEO said on his company’s earnings call that generative artificial intelligence has been “a competing priority” for customers. Add it all up and it was a brutal week for software and … Read more
MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria. Scott Mlyn | CNBC MongoDB stock sank as much as 26% in extended trading on Thursday after the database software maker issued light guidance for the quarter and reduced its forecast for the full fiscal year. Here is how the company did, compared to the LSEG consensus: Earnings per share: 51 … Read more
An Exxon gas station sign is seen in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, on Oct. 6, 2023. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Four years ago, Exxon Mobil’s reign as the longest-serving component in the Dow Jones Industrial Average abruptly ended when the oil major was replaced by Salesforce in August 2020 in … Read more
Marc Benioff, co-chief executive officer of Salesforce.com Inc., speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview at the 2022 Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. Benioff shared his excitement over data indicating a decrease in San Francisco’s total homeless population. Photographer: David Odisho/Bloomberg via Getty Images David Odisho | Bloomberg | Getty … Read more
After Salesforce posted its first revenue miss since 2006, CEO Marc Benioff told CNBC’s Jim Cramer how the market for enterprise software companies has changed since the pandemic. “You can’t control the buying environment. The reality is, you’re going to have heterogeneous buying environments, it’s going to happen,” Benioff said. “And we’re in this post-pandemic … Read more
The logo for Salesforce is displayed on the Salesforce Tower in New York City on March 7, 2019. Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in extended trading: Salesforce — Shares plunged more than 14% after first-quarter revenue of $9.13 billion missed consensus estimates of $9.17 billion, according to LSEG. Adjusted earnings … Read more