Salesforce, Inc.

Salesforce, Inc. is a leading provider of customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, dedicated to connecting businesses and their clientele on a global scale. At its core, the Customer 360 platform empowers organizations to create seamless, integrated experiences for their customers. The company's extensive suite of services encompasses a wide array of functionalities: Sales: Tools designed to manage sales pipelines, track leads, forecast opportunities, extract data-driven insights through analytics, and streamline the creation of quotes, contracts, and invoices. Service: Capabilities enabling companies to deliver highly personalized, trustworthy, and scalable customer support. Platform: A versatile development environment, featuring intuitive drag-and-drop tools, that allows businesses of diverse sizes, locations, and industries to build tailored applications, thereby strengthening customer relationships. Learning: An online educational platform providing accessible training to acquire sought-after Salesforce skills. Slack: A comprehensive system for team collaboration and engagement. Marketing: Solutions for strategizing, personalizing, and optimizing individual customer marketing journeys. Commerce: Offerings that unify customer interactions across various channels, including mobile, web, social media, and physical retail stores. Tableau: A complete analytics solution addressing a broad spectrum of enterprise data analysis needs. MuleSoft: An integration platform designed to unlock and connect data residing across an organization's various systems. Salesforce's offerings cater to numerous sectors, such as financial services, healthcare, life sciences, and manufacturing, among others. Beyond its core products, the company also provides professional services and conducts both in-person and online courses to certify customers and partners in the architecture, administration, deployment, and development of its services. Its solutions are distributed through direct sales channels, as well as a network of consulting firms, systems integrators, and other strategic partners. Established in 1999, Salesforce, Inc. maintains its headquarters in San Francisco, California.

Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Corporation is a prominent global technology firm that invents, markets, and provides ongoing assistance for a diverse range of software, digital services, computing devices, and comprehensive solutions. Its operations are organized into three primary divisions: Productivity and Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing. The Productivity and Business Processes segment delivers crucial tools for both enterprises and individual users. This includes the extensive Office suite (comprising Exchange, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Office 365 Security and Compliance, Microsoft Viva, and Skype for Business), along with popular consumer offerings like Skype, Outlook.com, OneDrive, and LinkedIn. It also features Dynamics 365, a suite of integrated cloud and on-premises business applications tailored for organizations. The Intelligent Cloud division focuses on sophisticated infrastructure and platform services. Here, Microsoft licenses key products such as SQL Server, Windows Servers, Visual Studio, System Center, and associated Client Access Licenses. It also includes GitHub, a leading platform for developer collaboration and code hosting; Nuance, offering advanced AI solutions for healthcare and businesses; and Azure, its expansive cloud computing platform. This segment further encompasses enterprise support, Microsoft consulting services, and Nuance professional services, assisting clients with the development, deployment, and management of Microsoft's server and desktop technologies, alongside offering product training and certification. Finally, the More Personal Computing segment covers a broad spectrum of consumer and commercial computing experiences. It generates revenue through Windows operating system licensing, including agreements with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), non-volume licensing, and various Windows Commercial offerings (such as volume licensing and cloud services), as well as patent licensing and Windows Internet of Things (IoT). This division also supplies its own hardware, including Surface devices, PC accessories, and gaming/entertainment consoles. Its Gaming portfolio features Xbox hardware, content, and subscription services, in addition to video games and royalties from third-party titles. Furthermore, it manages search services like Bing and Microsoft's advertising platforms. Microsoft distributes its extensive product line via numerous channels, including original equipment manufacturers, wholesale distributors, and various resellers, complementing direct sales through digital marketplaces, its own online storefronts, and physical retail outlets. The company, established in 1975, maintains its headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

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	CRM	MSFT
Basics
Name	Salesforce, Inc.	Microsoft Corporation
Price	$172.68	$401.10
Sector	Technology	Technology
Market cap	large / 141,424,920	large / 2,979,543,273
Beta	1.18	1.13
Dividends
Dividend	$1.71	$3.56
Yield	0.99%	0.89%
Frequency	Quarterly	Quarterly
Payout ratio	12.36%	21.99%
Dividend CAGR (3y)	–	10.20%
Dividend CAGR (5y)
Dividend CAGR (10y)
Dividend safety score
Overall score
Forward payout ratio
Payout ratio/FCF
Dividend CAGR (3y)
Revenue CAGR (3y)
Debt/EBITDA
Debt/Equity
Valuation
P/E	12.47x	24.77x
P/S	4.05x	8.67x
P/B	2.83x	6.78x
P/CF	11.18x	16.52x
P/FCF	11.67x	34.22x
PEG ratio	5.66x	1.62x
EV/EBITDA	12.43x	13.33x
Fundamentals
Gross margin	77.68%	68.59%
Operating margin	21.46%	46.67%
Pretax margin	22.93%	47.97%
Net margin	17.96%	39.04%
Tax rate	21.67%	18.61%
ROE	12.37%	33.61%
ROA	6.64%	17.93%
Interest coverage	44.12x	53.94x

	CRM	MSFT
Basics
Name	Salesforce, Inc.	Microsoft Corporation
Price	$172.68	$401.10
Sector	Technology	Technology
Market cap	large / 141,424,920	large / 2,979,543,273
Beta	1.18	1.13
Dividends
Dividend	$1.71	$3.56
Yield	0.99%	0.89%
Frequency	Quarterly	Quarterly
Payout ratio	12.36%	21.99%
Dividend CAGR (3y)	–	10.20%
Dividend CAGR (5y)
Dividend CAGR (10y)
Dividend safety score
Overall score
Forward payout ratio
Payout ratio/FCF
Dividend CAGR (3y)
Revenue CAGR (3y)
Debt/EBITDA
Debt/Equity
Valuation
P/E	12.47x	24.77x
P/S	4.05x	8.67x
P/B	2.83x	6.78x
P/CF	11.18x	16.52x
P/FCF	11.67x	34.22x
PEG ratio	5.66x	1.62x
EV/EBITDA	12.43x	13.33x
Fundamentals
Gross margin	77.68%	68.59%
Operating margin	21.46%	46.67%
Pretax margin	22.93%	47.97%
Net margin	17.96%	39.04%
Tax rate	21.67%	18.61%
ROE	12.37%	33.61%
ROA	6.64%	17.93%
Interest coverage	44.12x	53.94x

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CRM vs. MSFT Stock Comparison

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