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by scylla 5236 days ago
SalesForce is public and has P/E of 9500. http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CRM

The reason they don't miss earnings is that the expectation is so low. It doesn't matter, they're the 'cloud'.

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That number is wonky from today's earnings report.

According to GAAP rules, CRM's EPS was negative, so their P/E is undefined.

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:CRM

http://www.webpronews.com/salesforce-earnings-company-beats-...

Probably not the place for this, but I wouldn't touch CRM with a ten-foot pole. Read through the earnings report and look at all the fancy, non-GAAP accounting tricks they use, like booking deferred revenue. Remember when Zynga played those games? Pretty shady, in my opinion.

But, I'm no expert.