If You Invested $2,000 in Salesforce in 2004, This Is How Much You Would Have Today

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Salesforce stock has soared more than 11,000% since its public debut. Its growth has slowed down significantly over the past three years. The stock isn't cheap but is gradually aging ...

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The company, founded five years earlier by former Oracle executive Marc Benioff, attracted lots of attention by replacing desktop-based CRM software with cloud-based services.Salesforce listed its shares at a split-adjusted price of $2.75 per share, and a $2,000 investment in that initial public offering (IPO) would be worth more than $111,600 today. Let's see how Salesforce generated those massive gains -- and if it still has room to run.Image source: Getty Images.Two decades of rapid growthFrom fiscal 2004 to fiscal 2024 (which ended this January), Salesforce's annual revenue grew at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 34% as its net income increased at a CAGR of 61%. That growth was driven by the rapid adoption of its CRM services and the expansion of its cloud ecosystem with more marketing, e-commerce, analytics, data visualization, and enterprise collaboration services. To support that expansion, it acquired a long list of companies -- including Slack, Tableau, MuleSoft, Demandware, ExactTarget, ClickSoftware, and Vlocity.According to Gartner, Salesforce controlled 22% of the global cloud-based CRM in 2023. Its four closest competitors -- Microsoft (MSFT -0.29%), Oracle, SAP, and Adobe -- each held low- to mid-single-digit shares.Its high-growth days are endingSalesforce's market-leading position in a growing market made it a popular tech stock over the past two decades but sales cooled off significantly over the past three years. Revenue rose 25% in fiscal 2022 but grew just 18% in fiscal 2023 and 11% in fiscal 2024. The company anticipates just 8%-9% revenue growth in fiscal 2025.Salesforce mainly blamed that slowdown on the macro headwinds that drove many companies to rein in their spending on cloud-based services. But the company also temporarily halted its acquisitions, laid off thousands of employees, and launched its first-ever buyback plan after activist investors besieged its business in early 2023.From fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2024, the company's adjusted operating margin rose from 18.7% to 30.5%, free-cash-flow (FCF) margin grew from 19.9% to 27.2%, and adjusted earnings per share (EPS) increased at a CAGR of 31%. It expects adjusted EPS to climb 18%-19% in fiscal 2025 and recently initiated its first dividend with a forward yield of 0.5%.All of these improvements convinced the activist investors to back off, but Salesforce's business is clearly maturing as it prioritizes earnings over sales.What's next for Salesforce?Salesforce's tighter financial discipline is encouraging, but its stock isn't cheap, relative to its near-term growth at 32 times forward earnings. Microsoft also trades at roughly the same forward multiple, but analysts expect its revenue and adjusted EPS to rise 14% and 15%, respectively, in fiscal 2025 (which starts in July).In its latest quarter, Microsoft's Dynamics CRM -- which competes against Salesforce -- grew revenue 24% year over year in constant-currency terms. Salesforce's Sales Cloud revenue only rose 10% on the same basis last quarter. That could be a bright red flag that suggests Microsoft's investment in OpenAI -- which allowed it to integrate the start-up's AI tools into its cloud-based services -- is giving it an advantage against its enterprise software competitors.Salesforce believes it can counter those threats by expanding its own Einstein AI platform. However, it could be difficult to sharpen Einstein's competitive edge if Salesforce's management focuses too much on cutting costs and buying back shares.Will it replicate its gains from the past 20 years?Salesforce had a great run since its IPO but is gradually aging from a growth play into a mature blue-chip tech stock. 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