Insider Buying Update for Monday, December 8: CRM, PMTS
Written by Emily J. Thompson, Senior Investment Analyst
Updated: Dec 08 2025
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Should l Buy CRM?
Source: NASDAQ.COM
Salesforce Insider Purchase: G. Mason Morfit, Director of Salesforce, purchased 96,000 shares of CRM for $25.02 million at $260.58 each, with Salesforce's stock up about 0.7% on Monday.
CPI Card Group Investment: Director H. Sanford Riley bought 200,000 shares of CPI Card Group for $2.70 million at $13.51 each, marking his fourth purchase of PMTS in the past year, with an average investment of $17.78 per share.
Riley's Profit: Following the latest purchase, Riley is currently up about 18.4% based on CPI Card Group's trading high of $16.00 on Monday.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in the report are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Nasdaq, Inc.
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Analyst Views on CRM
Wall Street analysts forecast CRM stock price to rise
39 Analyst Rating
29 Buy
9 Hold
1 Sell
Moderate Buy
Current: 181.190
Low
223.00
Averages
326.40
High
405.00
Current: 181.190
Low
223.00
Averages
326.40
High
405.00
About CRM
Salesforce, Inc. is a customer relationship management (CRM) technology company. Its artificial intelligence (AI) powered Agentforce 360 Platform offers sales, service, marketing, commerce, collaboration, data management, integration, analytics, and information technology (IT) service solutions. It enables customers to build and deploy digital labor for employees and customers, leveraging autonomous AI agents across business functions. Its service offerings include Agentforce Sales, Agentforce Service, Agentforce 360 Platform, Slack and Others. The Agentforce Sales provides sales capabilities and tools built for organizations across prospecting, sales engagement, team collaboration, sales analytics and AI, sales programs, sales performance, partner management, and revenue and orders. The Agentforce Service provides field service solutions that enable companies to connect service agents, dispatchers and mobile employees through platform to schedule, dispatch and manage jobs.
About the author
Emily J. Thompson
Emily J. Thompson, a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with 12 years in investment research, graduated with honors from the Wharton School. Specializing in industrial and technology stocks, she provides in-depth analysis for Intellectia’s earnings and market brief reports.
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