ServiceNow has margin concerns due to high subscription cost growth relative to revenue; investor prefers Salesforce until margin recovery is proven.
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I think Service Now is a like Salesforce. I like Salesforce a little bit better. Uh, because it, you know, some of the transitions we've seen in their margins compared to Service Now. But I don't think Service Now is bad.
So, Service Now, let's go throw them in here. I've got them at a fair value, although let me see what growth rate I have for them. I've got um average growth rate of 21%. That's reasonable, but I only have Why do I only have um I had a 14 peg.
That's low. Let me see why. That's got to be a margin story.
So, what's going on with the margins? So, 24% growth. Oh, yeah. That's what it is. It was the margin problem. That was my problem with Service Now. 24% growth on revenues while subscription costs are up 64%.
I think that's because of the token costs if I remember correctly. So, that was one of the issues I had with them.
Balance sheet I called. Not great, not terrible. So, kind of a yellow flag. They're still doing cash uh stock buybacks here. See, this is the the change. They're saying margin should get better as hyperscaler costs go down.
And then I wrote, notice they're not saying that we're able to charge more. So that's what what we analyzed uh with course members when we had a preference for uh Salesforce that was the rationale for that right so I always like saying you know I'm not trying to bag on anybody's stock just trying to suggest for me that was still something I wanted to see play out a little better
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