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CRM forward model
Horizon
Consolidated fair value $333.79 all other verticals held in this portfolio case
Final-quarter revenue $489M 3% of company revenue
Explicit segment contribution −$809M EBITDA less segment capex, before corporate items

What the company's own stated end-state requires - and this roll-forward is the quarter it stopped quite working. The $63bn FY30 target used to need just 0.25% a quarter of growth above what the disclosed cRPO conversion delivers, and that case reached $63.27bn. On the July basis the same 0.25% delta reaches $62.81bn, $190M short. The delta is deliberately NOT raised to close it: the point of this case is what the published assumption produces, and watching it fall short is the finding. What it still does not reach is a justification for the terminal margin - 41.9% non-GAAP operating margin is well beyond the 34.3% Salesforce continues to guide to and beyond anything it has published a target for, so that four points of margin delta is the model's own assumption, not the company's. And nothing here is an Agentforce line: the $1.5bn of Agentforce ARR is already inside the subscription revenue, so this case raises the growth of a book that already contains it rather than adding a business beside it.

Professional services and other

Basis quarter$525M
Final quarter$489M
Implied CAGR−1%
Final revenue mix3%

Implementation, consulting and training. Under 5% of revenue, shrinking in absolute terms, and reported at a gross loss every quarter - it exists to land and expand the subscription business rather than to earn.

Last four quarters
2025 Q4 $533M Reported
2026 Q1 $526M Reported
2026 Q2 $540M Reported
2026 Q3 $525M Reported
Implementation and consultingTraining
Sequential growth −1.0%/qtr decaying toward −0.3% Revenue fell from $597M to $525M across the thirteen reported quarters, 1.07% a quarter compounded; the trailing four quarters ($546M to $525M) run 0.98%. Moved from 0.7% to 1.0%, the round number between them, because the published 0.7% no longer matched its own rationale text or the arithmetic.
Professional services and other

Latest: $489M (2031Q3E)

Period Value
2023Q3 $597M
2023Q4 $579M
2024Q1 $539M
2024Q2 $548M
2024Q3 $561M
2024Q4 $565M
2025Q1 $542M
2025Q2 $532M
2025Q3 $546M
2025Q4 $533M
2026Q1 $526M
2026Q2 $540M
2026Q3 $525M
2026Q4E $521M
2027Q1E $517M
2027Q2E $514M
2027Q3E $511M
2027Q4E $509M
2028Q1E $506M
2028Q2E $504M
2028Q3E $502M
2028Q4E $501M
2029Q1E $499M
2029Q2E $497M
2029Q3E $496M
2029Q4E $495M
2030Q1E $494M
2030Q2E $493M
2030Q3E $492M
2030Q4E $491M
2031Q1E $490M
2031Q2E $489M
2031Q3E $489M

Assumptions & reasoning

  • This line runs a gross LOSS every quarter and the loss got materially worse: negative 19.6% in the basis quarter against negative 14.3% in April. Cost of revenues of $628M against $525M of revenue - revenue fell 3.8% year on year while the cost of delivering it rose 5.2%. That is REPORTED on both lines, not assumed, and it is why the model carries this business separately rather than folding it into subscription.
  • The terminal margin is left at negative 5.0%, which the print now argues against: the basis quarter is 5.3 points worse than the last one, so the glide has further to travel and starts from a worse place. Nothing in the release says the delivery cost base is being fixed, and one quarter is not a trend, so the terminal is not moved - but if the next print prints another sub-negative-19% quarter, the negative 5.0% terminal is the assumption to re-cut.
  • It is under 5% of revenue and shrinking, so it moves the fair value very little; it is kept because Salesforce reports it and removing it would break the reconciliation to consolidated revenue.
  • Growth is the honest driver: Salesforce publishes no engagement count, utilisation rate or day rate for this business.
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