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Investors with a lot of money to spend have taken a bearish stance on Salesforce (NYSE:CRM).
And retail traders should know.
We noticed this today when the trades showed up on publicly available options history that we track here at Benzinga.
Whether these are institutions or just wealthy individuals, we don't know. But when something this big happens with CRM, it often means somebody knows something is about to happen.
So how do we know what these investors just did?
Today, Benzinga's options scanner spotted 8 uncommon options trades for Salesforce.
This isn't normal.
The overall sentiment of these big-money traders is split between 25% bullish and 75%, bearish.
Out of all of the special options we uncovered, 4 are puts, for a total amount of $704,325, and 4 are calls, for a total amount of $161,240.
After evaluating the trading volumes and Open Interest, it's evident that the major market movers are focusing on a price band between $200.0 and $290.0 for Salesforce, spanning the last three months.
Looking at the volume and open interest is an insightful way to conduct due diligence on a stock.
This data can help you track the liquidity and interest for Salesforce's options for a given strike price.
Below, we can observe the evolution of the volume and open interest of calls and puts, respectively, for all of Salesforce's whale activity within a strike price range from $200.0 to $290.0 in the last 30 days.
Symbol | PUT/CALL | Trade Type | Sentiment | Exp. Date | Ask | Bid | Price | Strike Price | Total Trade Price | Open Interest | Volume |
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CRM | PUT | TRADE | BEARISH | 03/21/25 | $22.95 | $22.6 | $22.9 | $250.00 | $320.6K | 693 | 140 |
CRM | PUT | TRADE | BEARISH | 12/20/24 | $17.75 | $17.55 | $17.75 | $250.00 | $177.5K | 1.3K | 101 |
CRM | PUT | SWEEP | BEARISH | 06/18/26 | $18.55 | $18.05 | $18.05 | $200.00 | $110.1K | 580 | 20 |
CRM | PUT | TRADE | BEARISH | 08/15/25 | $53.4 | $53.35 | $53.4 | $290.00 | $96.1K | 19 | 18 |
CRM | CALL | SWEEP | BULLISH | 06/20/25 | $14.15 | $13.8 | $14.15 | $290.00 | $49.5K | 802 | 35 |
Salesforce provides enterprise cloud computing solutions. The company offers customer relationship management technology that brings companies and customers together. Its Customer 360 platform helps the group to deliver a single source of truth, connecting customer data across systems, apps, and devices to help companies sell, service, market, and conduct commerce. It also offers Service Cloud for customer support, Marketing Cloud for digital marketing campaigns, Commerce Cloud as an e-commerce engine, the Salesforce Platform, which allows enterprises to build applications, and other solutions, such as MuleSoft for data integration.
Following our analysis of the options activities associated with Salesforce, we pivot to a closer look at the company's own performance.
5 market experts have recently issued ratings for this stock, with a consensus target price of $290.8.
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