Update: Salesforce Fiscal Q2 Adjusted Earnings, Revenue Rise; Shares Jump After Hours

04:58 PM EDT, 08/26/2026 (MT Newswires) -- (Updates with the latest stock price movement in the headline and first paragraph and details on Claudeforce launch in the last paragraph.) Salesforce (CRM) shares rose more than 13% in Wednesday after-hours trading after the company reported a fiscal Q2 beat and boosted fiscal 2027 guidance. The company reported fiscal Q2 adjusted earnings late Wednesday of $5.90 per diluted share, up from $2.91 a year earlier. Analysts polled by FactSet expected $3.27. Revenue for the quarter ended July 31 was $11.35 billion, up from $10.24 billion a year earlier. Analysts expected $11.33 billion. The company expects fiscal Q3 adjusted EPS of $3.42 to $3.44 on revenue of $11.42 billion to $11.5 billion. Analysts expect $3.37 and $11.42 billion, respectively. For fiscal 2027, the company now expects adjusted EPS of $16.67 to $16.71 on revenue of $46.1 billion to $46.4 billion. Its prior forecast was for adjusted EPS of $14.06 to $14.12 on revenue of $45.9 billion to $46.2 billion. Analysts expect $14.16 and $46.11 billion, respectively. Separately, Salesforce and Anthropic announced Claudeforce, expanding their partnership to bring Claude's intelligence and reasoning together with Salesforce's enterprise platform to deliver secure access to data, workflows, business logic, actions and governance for agentic experiences.