{"id":826336,"date":"2026-05-27T21:27:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T21:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/826336\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T21:27:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T21:27:22","slug":"salesforce-sees-quarterly-revenue-below-estimates-amid-ai-disruption-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/826336\/","title":{"rendered":"Salesforce sees quarterly revenue below estimates amid AI disruption fears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">May 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Salesforce forecast second-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on \u200cWednesday amid ongoing concerns that AI \u200crivals such as Anthropic could rapidly disrupt demand for \u200btraditional software vendors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Like its peers, Salesforce is contending with growing investor concerns that <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:AI tools;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;AI tools&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI tools<\/a> could pull enterprise clients away from \u200ctraditional software \u2060by taking over tasks once done by their products. Its shares \u2060fell 3% in extended trading.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Advanced coding tools by Anthropic and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/organizations\/openai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:OpenAI;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;OpenAI&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenAI<\/a> have contributed to \u200ba recent \u200bselloff in software \u200bstocks, ushering in \u200cwhat Wall Street is calling a &#8220;SaaSpocalypse&#8221; \u2014 a term reflecting the gloom around software-as-a-service companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Salesforce shares have declined nearly 33% so far this year, after falling over 20% in \u200c2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The business software provider \u200bexpects second-quarter revenue to \u200bbe between $11.27 \u200bbillion and $11.35 billion, below analysts&#8217; \u200caverage estimate of $11.36 billion, according \u200bto data \u200bcompiled by LSEG.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Salesforce reported revenue of $11.13 billion for the first quarter ended \u200bApril 30, \u200ccompared with the estimate of $11.05 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting \u200bby Juby Babu in Mexico City; \u200bEditing by Shilpi Majumdar)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Salesforce forecast second-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on \u200cWednesday amid ongoing concerns that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":826337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,738,34744,105851,16264,158,339320,67,132,68,69192],"class_list":["post-826336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-business-software","tag-investor-concerns","tag-salesforce","tag-technology","tag-traditional-software-vendors","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wall-street-estimates"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116648663065110003","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}