The company reported second quarter earnings of 56 cents a share on revenue of $6.34 billion, up 23% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings were $1.48 a share. For Salesforce, the quarter marked the first one topping $6 billion in revenue. Wall Street was expecting Salesforce to report fiscal second quarter revenue of $6.24 billion with non-GAAP earnings of 92 cents a share. By product line, Salesforce’s “other” category that includes MuleSoft and Tableau was its biggest revenue line. That fact highlights how Salesforce has been able to sell its products more as an integrated stack.
Sales Cloud revenue was up 15% from a year ago to $1.5 billion in the second quarter.Service Cloud second quarter revenue was $1.6 billion, up 23% from a year ago.Platform and other including MuleSoft and Tableau had second quarter sales of $1.9 billion, up 24%.And marketing and commerce revenue of $1 billion was up 28% from the second quarter a year ago.
Developments this quarter include:
Salesforce starts Slack integrations with Slack-First Customer 360 with more on deckSalesforce updates Health Cloud, highlights surround electronic health record strategy’Digital HQ’ emerges from Salesforce’s $27.7 billion Slack acquisitionTableau’s latest update aims for AI enhanced augmented analytics, broader access to dataSalesforce, AWS expand partnership with pre-built apps, multiple native integrations for developersSalesforce announces more tools for low-code development
As for the outlook, Salesforce projected third quarter revenue of $6.78 billion to $6.79 billion, up 25% from a year ago, and non-GAAP earnings between 91 cents a share and 92 cents a share. CEO Marc Benioff said the company continues to benefit from digital transformation spending and the ability to sell across its clouds, Tableau, MuleSoft and the newly acquired Slack. On a conference call with analysts, Salesforce co-president Bret Taylor said Tableau was in 9 of the company’s top 10 deals in the second quarter and MuleSoft was in 8 of the top 10. Taylor said: Taylor added that Slack can show similar bundling power. He said: “Slack comes up in every single one of my customer conversations.” For fiscal 2022, Salesforce is projecting revenue of $26.2 billion to $26.3 billion with non-GAAP earnings of $4.36 a share to $4.38 a share. Wall Street was expecting fiscal 2022 earnings of $3.82 a share. The company is projecting operating margins of 1.8% for fiscal 2022 and 18.5% on a non-GAAP basis. The guidance was above previous projections.
