Salesforce First-Quarter Sales, Profit Rise Amid Agentforce Efforts - WSJ
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Salesforce beat Q1 earnings expectations but issued a Q2 revenue outlook that marginally missed consensus, sparking an after-hours selloff despite Agentforce momentum. The lukewarm guide reignites disruption fears and creates a tension between a strong buy-heavy analyst consensus and a stock that keeps failing to follow through.
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Wrong ifAny upside revision or positive analyst PT raise in the next few sessions, or a broader AI-tape rally that lifts CRM on Agentforce hype, would squeeze this short quickly given the 44 buy-side holders providing a valuation floor.
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