RBC Capital Markets Software Equity Analyst Rishi Jaluria joins Yahoo Finance to discuss his positive outlook on upcoming Salesforce (CRM) earnings. Jaluria tells Julie Hyman and Josh Lipton that he is "breathing a sigh of relief as a Salesforce bull" after hearing the potential acquisition of Informatica (INFA) has reportedly fallen through. He points to better opportunities for Salesforce to use that money, like stock buybacks or increased dividends. He also has high expectations for the company's data cloud earnings, calling it a "new muscle" for Salesforce with increasing growth opportunities. For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode. This post was written by Melanie Riehl
The heavy selling pressure might have exhausted for Informatica Inc. (INFA) as it is technically in oversold territory now. In addition to this technical measure, strong agreement among Wall Street analysts in revising earnings estimates higher indicates that the stock is ripe for a trend reversal.
Informatica (INFA) reported its first quarter earnings, beating Wall Street estimates on the top and bottom line. The company also issued second quarter guidance that topped Wall Street estimates. Informatica CEO Amit Walia joins Market Domination to give insight into the company's performance and generative AI products, which are fueling confidence for a strong second quarter. "There's a lot of talk of gen AI but what I'm excited about is what customers are actually trying to do, and look, we have two use cases. One is our products being used for gen AI and then gen AI from us, our GPT version. What we are seeing is customers using our IDMC platform to actually, an example I gave is a loan approval mortgage company bringing data from all places putting quality on top of governance to actually make smarter, faster decisions, much more intelligent decisions of loan approvals, reducing their risk," Walia tells Yahoo Finance. For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Market Domination. This post was written by Nicholas Jacobino