On July 21, Salesforce declined 3.04% in pre-market trading to $169.41 per share, with turnover of $2.46 million, as the broader SaaS sector continued to weaken.

The decline extends a wave of selling pressure that originated when IBM reported preliminary Q2 results that missed expectations, sending its stock down over 25% in a record single-day drop. IBM management noted that clients redirected capital spending toward hardware infrastructure in the final weeks of June, leaving multiple large software contracts unsigned. The event triggered systematic selling across enterprise software names, with ServiceNow falling over 7%, Workday over 6%, and Salesforce initially dropping more than 5%.

Adding to the headwinds, Bernstein downgraded Salesforce to Market Perform, KeyBanc cut its rating to Sector Weight, and Evercore ISI reduced its price target from $260 to $250 while maintaining an Outperform rating. Market disagreements over the near-term monetization pace of Salesforce's AI product Agentforce continue to suppress valuation recovery, even as the stock briefly rebounded mid-week on supportive factors including a $13.5 billion U.S. Air Force contract and deepened AI collaboration with Anthropic.

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