Paid Customers

Gross Profit, Operating Income, and Net Income as a percentage of Revenue

Gross Margin

Operating Margin

Profit Margin

Margins

An operating expense is an expense a business incurs through its normal business operations. Often abbreviated as OPEX.

Operating Expenses

Year over year growth in Revenue and Operating Expenses.

Revenue Y/Y

OpEx Y/Y

Growth

Shares outstanding refer to a company's stock currently held by all its shareholders, including share blocks held by institutional investors and restricted shares owned by the company's officers and insiders.

Outstanding Shares

Market Cap

Also known as Price/Sales Ratio. Calculated using Average market cap for the quarter / Annualized quarterly revenue.

Revenue Multiple

Slack

Slack Technologies, Inc.—acquired by Salesforce ($CRM) for $27.7B in July 2021—is a messaging platform businesses. Per the terms of the deal, Slack shareholders received $26.79 in cash and 0.0776 shares of Salesforce for each share owned. See the $CRM stock page for updates on Slack as a subsidiary of Salesforce.
Slack was founded by Daniel Stewart Butterfield, Bradley J. Horowitz, Eric Costello, Callum James Henderson-Begg, and Serguei Mourachov in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Slack is a cloud-based communication and collaboration platform for teams. It allows users to exchange messages, share files, and integrate with various business tools and services. Slack is commonly used across various industries, from tech startups to large enterprises.

U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday weighed a bid by Salesforce Inc's Slack Technologies to avoid a lawsuit over its 2019 direct listing in a case that could undermine the ability of shareholders to sue companies for alleged misstatements when they go public.

US Supreme Court weighs Slack direct listing class action

Next time you're wondering how to respond to a colleague on Slack, you may be able to ask ChatGPT for help.

ChatGPT is coming to Slack

We've heard a lot about Stewart Butterfield stepping down as Slack CEO, but less about his successor, Lidiane Jones.

Slack's new CEO, Lidiane Jones, brings two decades of product experience to the job

Salesforce

Stewart Butterfield, the chief executive of Slack, which is owned by Salesforce, is the latest to announce an exit from Salesforce in recent weeks.

Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield to Leave Salesforce in January

Workplace messaging platform Slack was acquired by Salesforce.com Inc (NYSE: CRM) in July 2021. One year after the acquisition, the company is announcing its first pricing increase since its launch in 2014.

Slack Raising Prices One Year After Being Acquired By Salesforce.com: Here Are The Details

Proving that there's an appetite for bots, Salesforce today announced that it will acquire Troops.ai, a bot-based service that integrates with Slack to make it easier for sales teams to retrieve and update data across Salesforce's various systems. The terms of the deal weren't disclosed, but Salesforce said that Troops will become a part of […]

Salesforce acquires Troops.ai to make useful Slack bots

This week during its TrailblazerDX 2022 conference, Salesforce announced a new set of low-code developer tools and integrations intended to bring Slack and Salesforce's broader software portfolio closer together. Called Salesforce Platform for Slack, Salesforce says that the new software development toolkit will “empower” Salesforce developers to build custom Slack apps that ostensibly improve the […]

New Salesforce developer tools look to tighten integration with Slack

Several websites including workplace messaging service Slack experienced widespread outages for hours on Tuesday, leaving many customers in the lurch.

Outages at Slack, other websites paralyze businesses

Slack went down for many users Tuesday morning, throwing off companies that rely on the popular workplace communication platform just as workers returned from the extended holiday weekend.

Slack welcomes users back to work with an outage

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Tableau Software will launch new Slack integrations that let users interact with data and graphics inside the popular communication and collaboration platform, trying out their newfound status as Salesforce sister companies.

Salesforce sister companies Slack and Tableau look to bring Marc Benioff's master plan to fruition

Soon you'll be able to read incessant Slack messages without ever having to take your VR headset off. At Facebook's Connect conference, the company showcased a new framework for bringing 2D apps into the Oculus Store so that users will have to duck out of VR less to check notifications on their phone.

Slack is coming to the Oculus Quest

Doist, the company behind Todoist and Twist, has revamped its internal communication product Twist. When I first covered Twist, I said it was like Slack without the annoying distractions.

Doist redesigns Twist, the Slack alternative focused on async work

Microsoft

The European Commission probes Microsoft Corp's (NASDAQ: MSFT) rivals if its Teams app bundled with its Office product gives it more significant clout, hinting at a potential investigation, Reuters reports. The EU sought data regarding the migration of customers to Microsoft, revenue loss, the impact of the bundled products, and the price and quality of the products.

EU Questions Microsoft Peers Following Slack's Complaint

Salesforce.com Inc (NYSE: CRM) launched integrations of Slack across most of its products and its industry clouds and products to facilitate the hybrid work culture. Salesforce also rolled out is a bevy of new Slack functionality to thrive in this new era of digital-first work.

Salesforce Integrates Slack Across Products, Industry Solutions For Hybrid Work

Slack has been talking about expanding beyond text-based messaging for some time. Today at Dreamforce, the Salesforce customer conference taking place this week, it announced Clips, a way to leave short video messages that people can watch at their leisure.

Slack releases Clips video tool, announces 16 Salesforce integrations

At Dreamforce, Salesforce launched new Slack features including a tool that lets users embed media in direct messages and threads.

Slack launches new media sharing features and government tier

While Salesforce has been consistently increasing both sales and profit – including the 23% increase in revenue in its latest quarter — the software company hasn't been able to reward its long-term investors.

Outside the Box: For Salesforce investors, Slack must start supercharging growth — and the stock price

Salesforce's outlook follows the July 21 closing of its $27.7 billion acquisition of workplace messaging platform Slack.

Salesforce rises as the software maker lifts earnings outlook after completing its acquisition of Slack

Salesforce will gain $530 million in revenue in the current fiscal year thanks to a contribution from Slack, an $27.7 billion acquisition that closed in July.

Salesforce raises full-year earnings guidance following Slack acquisition

Salesforce.com Inc's (NYSE: CRM) and Slack Technologies announced a digital headquarters to drive work productivity irrespective of location, marking the debut of Slack-First Customer 360 to connect employees, customers and partners in a single platform. Slack Connect will help companies securely work with external partners, vendors and customers.

Salesforce Announces Slack Initiatives To Drive Work Productivity After $28B Acquisition

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Our theme of Work From Home Stocks- which includes companies that provide software related to connectivity, collaboration, and cybersecurity - has returned 11% year-to-date, compared to the S&P 500 which is up by about 19% over the same period. The underperformance has come on the back of a.

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Salesforce announced new features that more tightly integrate Slack, which it recently acquired, with its core products.

Salesforce introduces new Slack integrations post-acquisition

When Salesforce acquired Slack at the end of last year for almost $28 billion, you had to figure that they had some big plans for the company, and today the CRM giant announced some initial integrations that should prove useful for Salesforce customers. Rob Seaman, SVP for Slack at Salesforce sees Slack as the communications […]

Salesforce announces first integrations with Slack after closing $28B sale

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It's not just you — the amount of people who worked from home doubled from 2019 to 2020 to 42%, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics survey . Commuting times for all demographics fell during the same time period.

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