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Salesforce Gives Strong Forecast, Snowflake Falls Postmarket, Microsoft Slips

Dec 04, 20253 min
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Summary

The "Stock Movers Report" dives into key tech stock performances. Salesforce saw gains after beating revenue estimates, driven by AI tool adoption. Snowflake's shares fell due to operating margin outlook concerns surrounding new AI-based tools. Microsoft also experienced a dip amid reports of lowered expectations for AI model marketplace sales. The discussion highlights investor focus on AI spending and profitability.

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On this episode of Stock Movers:

- Salesforce (CRM) gave an outlook for revenue in the current period that topped analysts’ estimates, suggesting the software company is persuading customers to buy its AI tools. Revenue will be $11.1 billion to $11.2 billion in the period ending in January, the company said Wednesday in a statement. Analysts, on average, estimated $10.9 billion. Current remaining performance obligations, a measure of bookings, will increase about 15%, compared with analysts’ estimates of a 10% rise. The shares gained about 5% in extended trading after closing at $238.72 in New York. The stock has dropped 29% this year through Wednesday’s close as investors have grown concerned about AI disrupting incumbent application software makers.

- Snowflake (SNOW) gave an outlook for operating margin that fell short of analysts’ estimates, raising concerns among investors about the profitability of new AI-based tools. Adjusted operating income margin will be about 7% in the period ending in January, the company said Wednesday in a statement. Analysts, on average, projected 8.5%, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Product revenue will be about $1.2 billion, compared with an average estimate of $1.19 billion. The shares fell as much as 7.9% in extended trading after closing at $265 in New York. The stock, which had jumped 72% this year, pared some of its losses after the Anthropic partnership was announced.

- Microsoft (MSFT) shares slid after the Information reported that the software maker has lowered expectations for getting business customers to spend money on the cloud unit’s marketplace for artificial intelligence models and agents. Several divisions at Microsoft have lowered quotas for how much salespeople are supposed to increase sales of certain AI products after many of them missed their targets in the fiscal year that ended in June, the Information reported, citing two salespeople in the Azure cloud division. The unusual shift reflects how Microsoft is compensating for companies’ resistance to pay more for AI, according to the report.

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Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, Radio News.

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The Stock Movers Report, your roundup of companies making moves in the stock market, harnessing the power of Bloomberg Data.

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I'm Jim Standadek along with Carol Masser. Let's take a look at some stocks on the move today. We're joined by Bloomberg News Cross asset reporter Denitza Sokova. Denza, there's some stocks movement in the after hours.

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Some big moves after hours.

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Let's start with Salesforce gave an outlook for revenue in the current prea that topped analysts estimates. We're seeing quite the reaction. The stock is up about five percent now, but it jumped as much as eight percent in after our trainings. The numbers of strong revenue is about eleven point one billion aless for expecting about ten point nine billion. One measure for bookings, we increase about fifteen percent alis

for expecting ten percent. So they're handily rewarding a company that hasn't been doing so well here today it has dropped twenty nine percent. Of course, they are the largest maker of software and they release their AI too Agent Force this year.

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They're saying so.

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Far it's doing well ninety five hundred deals. But T Collan is raising some quotients, saying that this has largely been limited to experimentation and we're yet to see the growth.

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Nevertheless, great reaction after hours, Yeah, totally, Where do you want to go next?

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Opposite reaction in Snowflake after hours shares fail as much as eight percent. The company gave an outlook for operating margin that fell short of analysts estimates. It's all about concerns about AI spending and profitability of new I based too. That's pretty much the story for every company we see reporting. Snowflake make software that helps organize an ally store corporate cloud, and since the appointment of their new CEO, the company

has focused on nothing new tools. It's up seventy two percent here today, so even today it's not bringing too much damage.

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Really quickly twenty seconds. Microsoft is something we've watched today. It's so about profitability.

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We had this report by the information that the software maker has lowered the expectation.

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Microsoft rebuilded this report.

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Nevertheless, the stock was down as much as three percent and it closed down two point five percent. Everyone is watching this AI spending and any sign that the future spending is decreasing is punished very harshly.

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