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Why Are Shares of Salesforce (CRM) Down Today?

Salesforce stock is trading -24.36% below its average target price of $192.23 after dropping -1.4% during today's morning session. Analysts are giving the large-cap Software company an average rating of buy and target prices ranging from $100 to $385 per share.

The stock has a very low short interest at 1.0%, and a short ratio of 0.86. The company's insiders own 3.25% of its outstanding shares, which indicates a strong alignment between management and shareholder interests. Finally, we also note that an average number of institutional investors are invested in the stock, with 79.8% of Salesforce's shares being owned by this investor type.

Institutions Invested in Salesforce

Holder Shares Date Reported Percentage Value
Vanguard Group, Inc. (The) 80,449,523 2022-09-29 8% $11,693,740,071
Blackrock Inc. 68,810,159 2022-09-29 7% $10,001,900,367
State Street Corporation 44,825,733 2022-09-29 4% $6,515,644,228
FMR, LLC 43,002,864 2022-09-29 4% $6,250,681,112
Price (T.Rowe) Associates Inc 30,387,162 2022-09-29 3% $4,416,925,802
Morgan Stanley 18,854,824 2022-09-29 2% $2,740,642,861
Geode Capital Management, LLC 16,966,660 2022-09-29 2% $2,466,188,791
Jennison Associates LLC 13,688,506 2022-09-29 1% $1,989,692,731
Fisher Asset Management, LLC 12,725,963 2022-09-29 1% $1,849,782,297
Wellington Management Group, LLP 12,263,009 2022-09-29 1% $1,782,489,620

Besides an analyst consensus of strong upside potential, other market factors point to there being positive market sentiment on Salesforce.

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