Salesforce's stock took a hit after its Q4 fiscal 2026 results showed $11.20 billion in revenue, falling short of fiscal 2027 guidance, causing shares to slip nearly 5%. The pressure from AI agents replicating core workflows has raised concerns over margin compression, with Salesforce's stock down about 24% year-to-date. Despite a brief rally that lifted the Dow, ongoing shifts in enterprise software spending threaten to further erode the company’s pricing power.

“So, if you're getting a cloud enterprise account, let's say you're spending a million dollars on Salesforce, if you roll out enterprise like cloud for enterprise across that entire organization, you lose your pricing power. So, and because all the value in that case is acrewing to, you know, Claude in the agent layer.”