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Disruption Stories: 2 Stocks That Motley Fool Analysts Think Could Be Most at Risk

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Disruption Stories: 2 Stocks That Motley Fool Analysts Think Could Be Most at Risk In this podcast, Motley Fool analysts Asit Sharma, David Meier, and Tim Beyers discuss: Disruption stories from history…
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  • The Trade Desk is most at risk because it's a marketplace that could be disrupted by someone flying under the radar with better technology

    80% confidence
  • Enterprise customers are unlikely to rip out working systems to replace them with AI-coded alternatives in the very short term

    80% confidence
  • Salesforce has a commoditized business that is fairly easy for businesses with good engineering teams to replicate parts of

    80% confidence
  • There are three signs of disruption: persistently lower gross margin, increasing costs to acquire new revenue, and reduced stickiness with large customers leaving

    80% confidence
  • Three elements of bravery for investors: willingness to go against consensus, willingness to be told you're wrong by market action for extended period, and willingness to not act when others are and to act when others aren't

    80% confidence
  • Salesforce was not one of the 10 best stocks identified by Stock Advisor analyst team

    80% confidence
  • Stock Advisor's total average return is 941% compared to 194% for the S&P 500

    80% confidence
  • Salesforce is looking vulnerable to disruption despite trying to stay ahead with AI agents

    80% confidence
  • Salesforce's legacy business is projected to only grow at 8-10%, which is not enough to protect from disruption

    80% confidence
  • Production-based software is very different from prototypes and requires handling scale, portability, and concurrent users

    80% confidence
  • You are not right or wrong because the market agrees with you. You are right or wrong because your data, analysis, and logic are sound

    80% confidence

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Salesforce · legacy business growth rate8-10 percent
Salesforce · revenue41 billion_USD
Salesforce · ai agent revenue run rate1.4 billion_USD
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