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The Real Story in Enterprise Spending and Cash Burn 3/2/23

TechCheck

CNBC

Management, Cnbc, Tech, Faang, Investing, Business, Disruptors, Technology

4.566 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Salesforce was strong, but Snowflake and Box forecasts have the street worried. Plus – speaking of growth, Rivian’s cash burn has us thinking about the biggest burners of all time – think Uber and Netflix and Tesla. Where burn stops burning from here.

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0:00.0

This morning it is really a tale of two stories in enterprise software

0:03.0

their sales force investors rejoicing that Bennyoff seems to have turned the

0:06.4

ohana better results bigger faster changes than maybe even the activists had hoped

0:11.1

counterpoint though snowflake and, they are getting crushed in

0:14.8

today's session and the culprit for those two are weak outlooks. Snowflake

0:18.6

Enterprise Darling of the Peak 2021 hype cycle continues to see that top line grow decelerate even if

0:24.5

profitability is improving. Box CEO Aaron Leby spoke directly to market

0:28.4

worries said customers are pulling back against a less certain macro backdrop.

0:32.2

Salesforce by the way didn't exactly dispel that pulling back against a less certain macro backdrop.

0:32.6

Salesforce, by the way, didn't exactly dispel that notion.

0:35.6

It is expecting sales growth of just 10% this year,

0:38.5

and that only narrowly avoids that single digit territory

0:41.6

of the legacy or mature software companies and neither did

0:44.7

the Cloud Giants earlier this earning season as a group they are one of the best

0:48.0

broad gauges of enterprise spend and these are the latest numbers that you're looking

0:51.8

at but they are all expected to fall

0:53.7

further this year, AWS, and to the teens. So where does that all leave investors

0:58.3

as we approach the end of this earnings season? Well, Wall Street may be changing

1:01.9

its tune a little bit here guys if you look below the surface.

1:04.9

Looking less for cost cutting, more for actual top-line growth.

1:08.6

Bernstein this morning says in a world of decelerating growth in negative revisions, investors are keen on re-acceleration stories.

1:16.4

Bennyoff, he certainly hit that tune spot on, delivering, however, as you guys were just talking

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