Growth Metrics

Salesforce (CRM) FCF Payout Ratio (2010 - 2026)

Salesforce posted quarterly FCF Payout Ratio of 0.07 for Q1 2026, down 27.02% year-on-year from 0.1 in Q1 2025, and down 59.61% on a QoQ basis from 0.18 in Q4 2025.

Salesforce (CRM) has 5 years of FCF Payout Ratio data on file, last reported at 0.07 in Q1 2026.

  • For the quarter ending Q1 2026, FCF Payout Ratio fell 27.02% year-over-year to 0.07; the trailing twelve-month figure through Jan 2026 stood at 0.11 (down 10.54% YoY), and the FY2026 full-year result was 0.11, down 10.86% from the prior year.
  • FCF Payout Ratio for Q1 2026 stood at 0.07, down from 0.18 in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, FCF Payout Ratio topped out at 0.67 in Q3 2025 and bottomed at 0.06 in Q2 2024.
  • The 3-year median for FCF Payout Ratio is 0.14 (2025), against an average of 0.24.
  • The widest annual swing landed in 2025, when FCF Payout Ratio grew 29.94%; it then decreased 27.02% in 2026.
  • A 3-year view of FCF Payout Ratio shows it stood at 0.22 in 2024, then dropped by 15.1% to 0.18 in 2025, then plunged by 59.61% to 0.07 in 2026.
  • The last three FCF Payout Ratio figures came in at 0.07 (Q1 2026), 0.18 (Q4 2025), and 0.67 (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) FCF Cover (Qtr)
1 Sap Se 253.17 Bn 235.20 Bn 8.16 Bn -
2 Salesforce 171.07 Bn 161.50 Bn 8.69 Bn 0.07
3 Uber Technologies 147.39 Bn 146.35 Bn 11.88 Bn -
4 Shopify 134.25 Bn 128.50 Bn 1.55 Bn -
5 ServiceNow 105.72 Bn 100.54 Bn 2.83 Bn -
6 Cadence Design Systems 101.64 Bn 100.23 Bn 1.26 Bn -
7 Adobe 100.35 Bn 93.46 Bn 5.73 Bn -
8 Automatic Data Processing 90.91 Bn 87.68 Bn 2.87 Bn 0.31
9 Intuit 88.30 Bn 81.52 Bn 6.77 Bn 0.06
10 Datadog 78.54 Bn 73.78 Bn 797.20 Mn -

Historic Data

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DateValue
Jan 31, 2026 0.07
Oct 31, 2025 0.18
Jul 31, 2025 0.67
Apr 30, 2025 0.06
Jan 31, 2025 0.10
Oct 31, 2024 0.22
Jul 31, 2024 0.51
Apr 30, 2024 0.06
Jan 31, 2011 0.15
Oct 31, 2010 2.84
Apr 30, 2010 0.01