NEW YORK, December 29, 2025, 18:19 ET — After-hours
Salesforce, Inc. shares edged higher on Monday and were flat in after-hours trading, holding up better than the broader tech sector as Wall Street entered the final three sessions of 2025. The stock ended up 0.06% at $266.23 and was little changed after 4 p.m. ET, when shares continue to trade outside regular market hours.
The muted move matters now because investors are testing how much of 2025’s technology-led rally can carry into January, with year-end positioning keeping trading choppy.
Salesforce is also a bellwether for enterprise software budgets, and its push to sell “AI agents” — software that can take actions across customer-service and sales workflows — keeps it linked to the market’s AI trade.
U.S. stocks finished lower on Monday as heavyweight technology names retreated from last week’s rally: the Nasdaq fell 118.75 points, or 0.50%, while the S&P 500 slipped 0.35%, a Reuters report said. “This is not the beginning of the end of the tech dominance — it’ll turn out to be a buying opportunity,” said Hank Smith, director and head of investment strategy at Haverford Trust. Investors are watching minutes from the Federal Reserve’s last meeting and weekly jobless claims later this week; some have been looking for a “Santa Claus rally,” the seasonal tendency for stocks to rise at year-end. Reuters
Other enterprise-software names were mixed in late trading, with ServiceNow up about 0.5% and Oracle down about 1.3%. Microsoft slipped about 0.1%.
Salesforce raised its annual outlook earlier this month, leaning on demand for its AI agent platform. It guided to fiscal 2026 revenue of $41.45 billion to $41.55 billion and adjusted earnings per share of $11.75 to $11.77, Reuters reported on Dec. 3.
Salesforce sells cloud-based customer relationship management software, which businesses use to track and manage sales, customer service and marketing. Its Agentforce platform lets companies build and deploy AI agents that can respond to inputs and take actions across business functions, according to a Reuters company profile.
With the stock near $266, investors are looking for evidence that new AI features translate into larger contract volumes without pressuring pricing on existing products.
Any sign that corporate software spending is slowing tends to hit large subscription vendors quickly, even on days with no Salesforce-specific headlines.
Salesforce has not announced the date for its next quarterly report. Data provider estimates compiled by MarketBeat point to late February, with Feb. 25, 2026 flagged as a tentative slot.
The next update will put focus on booking trends and sales pipeline — forward-looking gauges for subscription growth — and on whether AI-driven deals are recurring revenue rather than one-time projects.
In the near term, traders will watch whether shares can push through the $270 area or drift back toward $260, with broader tech sentiment likely to do most of the driving.
