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<ul><li>Salesforce delivered a strong financial performance for fiscal year 2025, showcasing significant progress in its AI and Data Cloud initiatives.</li><li>The company reported annual revenue of $37.9 billion, reflecting a 9% increase from the prior year, with fourth-quarter revenue reaching $10 billion—its first-ever $10 billion quarter.</li><li>Subscription and support revenue grew by 10% in constant currency, indicating continued demand for its enterprise software solutions.</li></ul>

Salesforce delivered a strong financial performance for fiscal year 2025, showcasing significant progress in its AI and Data Cloud initiatives.The company reported annual revenue of $37.9 billion, reflecting a 9% increase from the prior year, with fourth-quarter revenue reaching $10 billion—its first-ever $10 billion quarter.Subscription and support revenue grew by 10% in constant currency, indicating continued demand for its enterprise software solutions.

Salesforce.Com Inc - Salesforce’s Growth Is Slowing—Can Agentforce Turn Things Around?

<ul><li>Salesforce posted a notable third-quarter performance for fiscal 2025, showcasing both strengths and emerging opportunities, albeit facing certain challenges in its transition to newer markets and technologies.</li><li>Revenue for the quarter reached $9.44 billion, marking an 8% increase year-over-year in both nominal and constant currency terms.</li><li>This growth was primarily propelled by robust performance in core segments like the Sales and Service Clouds, which saw double-digit growth.</li></ul>

Salesforce posted a notable third-quarter performance for fiscal 2025, showcasing both strengths and emerging opportunities, albeit facing certain challenges in its transition to newer markets and technologies.Revenue for the quarter reached $9.44 billion, marking an 8% increase year-over-year in both nominal and constant currency terms.This growth was primarily propelled by robust performance in core segments like the Sales and Service Clouds, which saw double-digit growth.

Salesforce’s Big Moves: What Margin Expansion and Cloud Revenue Growth Mean for Investors! - Major Drivers

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Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

<ul><li>Salesforce announced inline 3QFY25 results: total revenue was up by 8% YoY to US$9.44bn, and non-GAAP net income grew by 12% YoY to US$2.32bn, both in line with Bloomberg consensus estimate.</li><li>cRPO was up by 10% YoY on constant currency basis in 3QFY25 and beat previous guidance (+9% YoY), thanks to the early renewal, solid booking performance and strong momentum of Agentforce.</li><li>For 4QFY25E, the company guided total revenue to grow by 7- 9% YoY to US$9.90-10.10bn, in line with consensus estimate of US$10.05bn. </li></ul><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

Salesforce announced inline 3QFY25 results: total revenue was up by 8% YoY to US$9.44bn, and non-GAAP net income grew by 12% YoY to US$2.32bn, both in line with Bloomberg consensus estimate.cRPO was up by 10% YoY on constant currency basis in 3QFY25 and beat previous guidance (+9% YoY), thanks to the early renewal, solid booking performance and strong momentum of Agentforce.For 4QFY25E, the company guided total revenue to grow by 7- 9% YoY to US$9.90-10.10bn, in line with consensus estimate of US$10.05bn. Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Salesforce (CRM US) - Inline 3QFY25 results; Agentforce as the key catalyst

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Sumeet Singh

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

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We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/avepoint-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:37131:1" rel="noopener">AvePoint (AVPT US)</a> , a global provider of data security, governance, and resilience, aims to raise around US$300m in its Singapore secondary listing.</li>
<li>As of FY24, AP had over 25,000 customers who rely on its Confidence Platform to prepare, secure, and optimize their critical data across environments.</li>
<li>In this note, we look at its past performance and other deal dynamics that might impact the listing.</li>
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AvePoint (AVPT US) , a global provider of data security, governance, and resilience, aims to raise around US$300m in its Singapore secondary listing.
As of FY24, AP had over 25,000 customers who rely on its Confidence Platform to prepare, secure, and optimize their critical data across environments.
In this note, we look at its past performance and other deal dynamics that might impact the listing.


AvePoint SGX Secondary Listing - Strong Growth and Large Client Base but Unclear Metrics

<ul><li>Salesforce, a prominent leader in customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, disclosed its fiscal 2025 second-quarter financial results, articulating significant developments and prospects, particularly in AI (artificial intelligence).</li><li>The earnings call, spearheaded by Salesforce executives including Chair and CEO Marc Benioff, illustrated both promising highlights and some challenges that investors need to consider.</li><li>Positively, Salesforce reported a robust quarter with revenue marking $9.33 billion, representing an 8% increase year-over-year and adjusting for currency fluctuations, a growth of 9%.</li></ul>

Salesforce, a prominent leader in customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, disclosed its fiscal 2025 second-quarter financial results, articulating significant developments and prospects, particularly in AI (artificial intelligence).The earnings call, spearheaded by Salesforce executives including Chair and CEO Marc Benioff, illustrated both promising highlights and some challenges that investors need to consider.Positively, Salesforce reported a robust quarter with revenue marking $9.33 billion, representing an 8% increase year-over-year and adjusting for currency fluctuations, a growth of 9%.

salesforce.com Inc: Enhanced Product Offerings and Vertical Integration Driving Our Optimism!

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salesforce.com, inc. provides software on demand. The Company supplies a customer relationship management service to businesses worldwide providing a technology platform for customers and developers to build and run business applications. Clients use salesforce.com to manage their customer, sales and operational data.

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AvePoint (AVPT US) , a global provider of data security, governance, and resilience, aims to raise around US$300m in its Singapore secondary listing.

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salesforce.com Inc: Enhanced Product Offerings and Vertical Integration Driving Our Optimism!

Salesforce, a prominent leader in customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, disclosed its fiscal 2025 second-quarter financial results,...

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