Salesforce Beats Estimates as Deferred Revenue Rises 26%
21 November 2017 - 10:56PM
Dow Jones News
By Austen Hufford
Salesforce.com Inc. beat revenue and profit estimates for its
third quarter.
The company said that deferred revenue, a closely watched metric
which consists primarily of billings received in advance for
subscription services, totaled $4.39 billion in the quarter, up 26%
from the same quarter last year. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters
had expected $4.22 billion in deferred revenue.
Since Salesforce relies on subscriptions of its web-based,
on-demand software used by business customers, deferred revenue is
a strong indicator of the company's prospects.
After the company announced third-quarter results Thursday,
shares rose 1% in post-market trading.
Revenue from Sales Cloud, the company's sales-force automation
business, rose 17% to $907 million. The Service Cloud business,
which provides technology to help businesses run customer service
operations, grew 25% to $738 million.
Revenue in the Marketing Cloud, the company's offering to manage
customers' email and advertising campaigns, grew 40% to $346.2
million.
In all for the quarter, Salesforce posted a profit of $51.4
million, or 7 cents a share, compared with a loss of $37.3 million,
or 5 cents a share, a year ago.
Excluding the impact of certain items, adjusted earnings were 39
cents.
Revenue rose 25% to $2.68 billion.
Analysts expected Salesforce to report adjusted earnings of 37
cents a share on revenue of $2.68 billion.
Write to Austen Hufford at Austen.Hufford@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
November 21, 2017 16:41 ET (21:41 GMT)
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