What Happened?
A number of stocks jumped in the afternoon session after software equities broadly gained momentum following a pullback in treasury yields and second-quarter financial results from Snowflake.
Lower Treasury yields supported the move after Fed Governor Christopher Waller signaled support for keeping rates steady. The 10-year yield fell to 4.756%, while the 2-year yield declined to 4.328%, according to CNBC. Because software valuations are heavily based on cash flows expected years into the future, lower yields reduce the discount rate applied to those earnings and can increase the value investors assign to the group today.
Snowflake surged after reporting earnings and increasing its forward outlook, sparking widespread optimism across the enterprise software industry. Taking a closer look at the quarter, SNOW’s revenue reached $1.55 billion, up 35% year on year, driven by product revenue of $1.48 billion, which grew 37%, the company reported in an official press release. The upbeat report bolstered investor sentiment regarding enterprise tech demand and software spending.
The stock market overreacts to news, and big price drops can present good opportunities to buy high-quality stocks.
Among others, the following stocks were impacted:
- Cloud Monitoring company Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) jumped 2.7%. Is now the time to buy Datadog? Access our full analysis report here, it’s free.
- Data Analytics company Amplitude (NASDAQ: AMPL) jumped 2.6%. Is now the time to buy Amplitude? Access our full analysis report here, it’s free.
- Network Security company Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) jumped 2.4%. Is now the time to buy Zscaler? Access our full analysis report here, it’s free.
- Document Management company DocuSign (NASDAQ: DOCU) jumped 2%. Is now the time to buy DocuSign? Access our full analysis report here, it’s free.
- Sales Software company Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) jumped 3.5%. Is now the time to buy Salesforce? Access our full analysis report here, it’s free.
Zooming In On Salesforce (CRM)
Salesforce’s shares are somewhat volatile and have had 14 moves greater than 5% over the last year. In that context, today’s move indicates the market considers this news meaningful but not something that would fundamentally change its perception of the business.
The previous big move we wrote about was 7 days ago when the stock gained 18.9% on the news that the company reported second-quarter financial results that exceeded expectations and raised its full-year earnings guidance, buoyed by rapid growth in its artificial intelligence business.
Salesforce is up 4.9% since the beginning of the year, and at $266.01 per share, it is trading close to its 52-week high of $266.23 from December 2025. Despite the year-to-date gain, investors who bought $1,000 worth of Salesforce’s shares 5 years ago would now be looking at only $995.96.
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