NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares of salesforce.com Inc. are up by 0.94% to $62.51 in early afternoon trading on Wednesday, ahead of the company's scheduled 2014 fourth quarter earnings results which will be released after the market close today. Analysts are expecting the cloud computing services solutions provider to post a year-over-year increase in adjusted earnings per share and revenue for the most recent quarter. Salesforce has been forecast to report earnings of 14 cents per share on revenue of $1.44 billion for the quarter ended January 2015. Exclusive Report: Jim Cramer's Best Stocks for 2015 Last year salesforce said its non-GAAP adjusted earnings were 7 cents per share and its total revenue for the 2013 fourth quarter was $1.15 billion, a 37% growth from the prior year. Separately, TheStreet Ratings team rates SALESFORCE.COM INC as a Hold with a ratings score of C. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation: "We rate SALESFORCE.COM INC (CRM) a HOLD. The primary factors that have impacted our rating are mixed some indicating strength, some showing weaknesses, with little evidence to justify the expectation of either a positive or negative performance for this stock relative to most other stocks. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, growth in earnings per share and increase in net income. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including disappointing return on equity, weak operating cash flow and a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself." Highlights from the analysis by TheStreet Ratings Team goes as follows: The revenue growth came in higher than the industry average of 8.0%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues rose by 28.6%. Growth in the company's revenue appears to have helped boost the earnings per share. SALESFORCE.COM INC reported significant earnings per share improvement in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. The company has demonstrated a pattern of positive earnings per share growth over the past year. We feel that this trend should continue. This trend suggests that the performance of the business is improving. During the past fiscal year, SALESFORCE.COM INC continued to lose money by earning -$0.40 versus -$0.48 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($0.52 versus -$0.40). The gross profit margin for SALESFORCE.COM INC is currently very high, coming in at 82.75%. Regardless of CRM's high profit margin, it has managed to decrease from the same period last year. Despite the mixed results of the gross profit margin, CRM's net profit margin of -2.81% significantly underperformed when compared to the industry average. The company's current return on equity has slightly decreased from the same quarter one year prior. This implies a minor weakness in the organization. Compared to other companies in the Software industry and the overall market, SALESFORCE.COM INC's return on equity significantly trails that of both the industry average and the S&P 500. Net operating cash flow has decreased to $122.51 million or 11.13% when compared to the same quarter last year. In conjunction, when comparing current results to the industry average, SALESFORCE.COM INC has marginally lower results. You can view the full analysis from the report here: CRM Ratings Report
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