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.

Alphabet

Slack shares tanked after Google announced new Gmail features designed to compete with the popular work-messaging app. The search giant announced this week that Gmail for businesses is getting a major upgrade which will see a slew of new features added to the email app.

Slack shares drop after Google announces work-related Gmail upgrades

The tech company's stock has fallen for two days in a row.

Why Slack Technologies Stock Fell on Tuesday

For all of Slack's favorable tailwinds at the current moment, chasing WORK stock is risky because of the stretched valuation. 
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Slack Is on Fire as a Company, but WORK Stock Is Too Richly Valued

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The enterprise messaging platform has $1.5 billion in its war chest.

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Microsoft

The stakes just keep getting higher for these remote work software platforms.

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There is a virtual gold rush among the biggest players in the virtual-meeting workspace.

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Rimeto is at the head of startup news on Wednesday as Slack (WORK) acquires the directory company to bolster its own services.
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Startup News: Slack (WORK) Buys Corporate Directory Company Rimeto

The enterprise messaging platform scoops up a corporate directory startup.

Why Slack Stock Jumped Today

For the second time in less than 24 hours, an enterprise company bought an early stage startup. Yesterday afternoon DocuSign acquired Liveoak, and this morning Slack announced it was buying corporate directory startup Rimeto, which should help employees find people inside the organization who match a specific set of criteria from inside Slack.

Slack snags corporate directory startup Rimeto to up its people search game

Instant messaging platform Slack Technologies Inc. WORK, +1.15% said Wednesday it has acquired Rimeto, a provider of business directory services for an undisclosed sum.

Slack acquires business directory provider Rimeto for undisclosed sum

Slack is acquiring software as a service company Rimeto, the company announced Wednesday. Slack did not disclose the terms of the deal.

Slack acquires SaaS startup Rimeto

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Slack Technologies, Inc., (NYSE: WORK) today is excited to announce that we have acquired Rimeto. Rimeto has reimagined the business directory over the last four years, much in the same way we have reimagined business communication. Rimeto’s advanced profile and directory features will be integrated into Slack directly, but we will also continue to offer Rimeto as a standalone product and support their existing enterprise customers. Rimeto is a powerful cultural

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Datadog

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The communication platform is benefiting from the rise of remote work forces.

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Slack Connect lets up to 20 companies work in shared channels, escalating the war on email in a new way.
Slack is trying to take even more conversations out of email by expanding how many companies can chat together at the same time.

Now Slack is more than an email killer. It’s a social network in disguise

Slack is rolling out a new capability called “Slack Connect” that will let up to 20 companies and organizations connect securely and work together in shared channels, seeking to further position its technology as a replacement for email.

Slack will let up to 20 organizations collaborate, extending reach and escalating Microsoft rivalry

Slack Technologies Inc. on Wednesday announced a set of technologies, called Slack Connect, that enhances its real-time communications collaboration platform across up to 20 businesses.

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