According to LSEG, Salesforce is expected to report an annual revenue of $58.37 billion in 2030. This news caused the cloud firm’s shares to rise 4% in aftermarket trading, although its stock has declined 29% over the past year.
According to Wall Street predictions, cloud software company Salesforce is expected to earn over $60 billion in revenue in 2030. This record has been attributed to the company’s rapid introduction of AI features for its cloud services.
Cloud firms are under pressure from investors to prove that the billions that have been poured into AI will fetch returns. However, due to unstable macroeconomic conditions and inconsistent consumer expenditure, growth margins are becoming narrower.
According to LSEG, Salesforce is expected to report an annual revenue of $58.37 billion in 2030. This news caused the cloud firm’s shares to rise 4% in aftermarket trading, although its stock has declined 29% over the past year.
This forecast does not include the impact of its recent agreement to acquire Informatica. In May, Salesforce announced that it would buy the data management platform in an $8 billion deal to improve its market competitiveness in the AI sector.
This merger promises to boost Salesforce’s AI capabilities as it will be supported by the data management, integration and governance tools Informatica provides. This big-budget M&A was prompted after investors began pressing Salesforce, which has been on the sidelines in recent years, for better RoI.
This deal was finalised after several rounds of negotiations, including one breakdown of talks last year after both parties failed to agree on certain terms. However, negotiations began again in April 2025 when multiple private equity firms approached Informatica around the same time.
This is Salesforce’s biggest acquisition since its 2021 takeover of workplace application Slack for $27.7 billion. Through its merger with Informatica, the company can also tighten its control over not only business data management but also its usage, in its race to incorporate AI into all its products and services.
Earlier this week, the company announced that its AI platform was capable of automating tasks and streamlining operations. This AI platform, known as Agentforce 360, would soon be made available across the globe, supporting its cloud-based tools.
In an industry-wide phenomenon, software companies are working overtime to enhance their products since clients already prefer to use AI, which can take action on behalf of customers and is helping reduce costs. Marc Benioff, CEO, Salesforce, said that through Agentforce 360, humans, agents and data are all integrated onto “one trusted platform.”
Some of the AI platform’s 12,000 customers include the popular social media site Reddit, employment services company Adecco and OpenTable, a platform used to make restaurant reservations. Salesforce has also confirmed that Slack will soon have conversational AI features, which would allow employees to gather data and complete tasks. However, these services will be subject to strict enterprise controls and security monitoring.
In September, Salesforce estimated its Q3 revenue to fall below Wall Street estimates, underscoring a monetisation lag for its Agentforce 360 platform, as macroeconomic uncertainties were compelling customers to tighten their purses. The cloud software provider has also pledged to increase its existing share buyback program by $20 billion, but this did little to assuage investors’ concerns, resulting in share prices falling over 5%.
As investor worries mounted, with many publicly pushing the company to make changes to its operations and strategies and even going as far as to slash their stake in Salesforce, the company remained steadfast in going through with its strategy of acquisitions to expand its cloud offerings, despite the risk of eliciting investors’ criticism.
This has paid off for the company as it predicts a third-quarter revenue between $10.24 billion and $10.29 billion, compared with analysts’ estimates of $10.29 billion. Salesforce also outperformed analysts’ expectations during the second quarter, recording a revenue of $10.24 billion, as opposed to the forecast $10.14 billion.
