Better Buy After the Cloud Stock Sell-Off: Oracle or Salesforce? - Yahoo Finance

Salesforce just hit a 52-week low — down 37% this year. Wall Street is nervous. But if you're an ops or marketing leader, the stock price isn't your problem.

Your problem is that you're still paying enterprise-tier fees for a platform that requires a consultant every time you need to change a pipeline stage or add a custom field that actually reflects how your sales team works.

The sell-off is a reminder that even the biggest CRM vendors are under real pressure right now. AI disruption, slowing growth, questions about whether the core product still justifies the price. That uncertainty flows downstream — to roadmap delays, support deprioritization, and pricing leverage that shifts further in their favor when renewal time comes around.

If you've already been through one expensive CRM transition that left your team more frustrated than before, you know this feeling: the platform wins, you absorb the chaos, and the executive team wonders why it cost so much to end up back where you started.

None of this means you should panic and rip out your current setup. But it does mean this is a reasonable moment to ask whether you're paying for a brand name that's drifting — or for something that actually fits the way your business operates.

Market volatility doesn't fix a CRM that was already fighting you.

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Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), meanwhile, just touched a 52-week low, with shares down about 37% year to date as of this writing amid worries that AI ...