Salesforce, Inc.
CRMHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYSalesforce, Inc. reads as an High Velocity (composite 78/100); Transformational Buyer deploying $12B across 7 disclosed transactions, down 27% vs the prior cycle · primary market Software & IT, ranked #3 on disclosed spend.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
$12.1B
vs $16.6B in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
7
3/3 active fiscal years in window
Buyer archetype
Transformational Buyer
Episodic but very large disclosed transactions drive the profile.
Composite score
78
High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity
Behavioral posture, nine reads.
Each index scores the issuer 0–100 against an EDGAR-anchored definition. Scores ≥ threshold elevate the issuer into the index's constituent set; the dominant index drives the masthead label.
Active Acquirer
Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A
- $41.6B disclosed buyer spend
- Filed within 21d
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 21d
- 64 acquisition-history signals
- 287 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- 1 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 1 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 1 activism filings
- Latest activism 13y ago; heavily discounted
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 10-Q 173d stale
- 1 activism filings
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 287 8-Ks
- Filed within 21d
- 5 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $182.6B
- 10-Q 173d ago
- 2 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($MM); ticks show recorded transaction count. Disclosure tier annotated where v6 audited corpus carries an entry.
Disclosed spend $MM Disclosed transactions (right axis)Peak spend year: $14,876M · Peak count: 8
| FY | Disclosed buys | Disclosed spend | Avg ticket | Audited tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | $9.3B | $2.3B | N/A |
| 2024 | 3 | $2.7B | $911M | N/A |
| 2023 | N/A | $82M | N/A | N/A |
| 2022 | 1 | $439M | $439M | N/A |
| 2021 | 2 | $14.9B | $7.4B | N/A |
| 2020 | 3 | $1.3B | $427M | N/A |
Strategy posture.
The buyer's playbook in terms of strategic archetype: what each disclosed move says about how they're deploying capital.
Archetype mix
- Bolt On20%
- Platform20%
- Technology Acquisition20%
- Horizontal Consolidation20%
- Geographic Expansion20%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- technology_acquisition
- bolt_on
- platform
- geographic_expansion
- horizontal_consolidation
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“As part of our business strategy, we periodically make investments in, or acquisitions of, complementary businesses, joint ventures, services and technologies and intellectual property rights.”
“We acquired Buddy for the assembled workforce, expected synergies and expanded market opportunities when integrating Buddy’s social media marketing platform with our current offerings.”
“With the acquisition of ExactTarget, we have created a world-class marketing platform that enables companies to deliver personalized marketing campaigns across the digital channels”
“The success of our strategy of acquiring or making investments in complementary businesses, joint ventures, services, technologies and intellectual property rights”
“the costs associated with acquiring new businesses and technologies and the follow-on costs of integration and consolidating the results of acquired businesses;”
Market context.
Where this issuer sits inside its SE-Cluster rollup wedge, with disclosed-spend rank plus trading comparables against the public peer set.
Primary market
Software & IT
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $217.7B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $197.1B
- Recent vs prior
- +10%
- Issuer rank in market
- #3 of 379
- Share of market capital
- 5.7%
Valuation positioning
CRM trades at a -5.1-turn discount to the Software & IT peer median of 19.5×.
- EV / Revenue
- 4.4×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.6×
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 19.5×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23.8× | 6.8× | 0.9× | $59.1B | $26.6B | |
| 23.4× | 10.7× | 0.2× | $64.1B | $27.7B | |
| 15.5× | 9.8× | 0.0× | $318.3B | $75.4B | |
Salesforce, Inc.CRM | 14.3× | 4.4× | 0.6× | $41.5B | $12.1B |
Adobe Inc.ADBE | 10.4× | 4.2× | -0.1× | $24.5B | N/A |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Software & IT. Bars scaled to the highest EV/EBITDA in the set.
Target landscape.
Public-issuer targets that fit this buyer's archetype and target categories from filing-derived signal. Scores reflect cross-signal fit; reasons cite the EDGAR-anchored facts that drove the match.
No qualifying public-issuer targets surfaced from the current signal mix.
Stated target categories
No target categories enumerated in the audited corpus for this issuer.
Filing activity & signal stream.
Filing cadence and event-driven signals visible on EDGAR. The signal stream below is curated from restatement / spin-carve / activism categories, providing context for any near-term call.
Filing cadence
- 10-K (annual)232026-03-02
- 10-Q (quarterly)652025-12-04
- 8-K (event)2872026-03-16
- Proxy / DEF 14A502026-05-05
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)12013-06-10
Signals on file
- elevated
Activism on file
2013-06-101 activist filing on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).
- info
Signal
Disclosed acquisition spend
- info
Signal
10-K strategy themes
Audited corpus.
No audited record on file for this CIK in the current v6 corpus.
This issuer has not been extracted into the v6 audited acquirer corpus yet. The brief above pulls from ranking-level aggregates and issuer-index signal only.