When gross margin slides from 78% to 73% as revenue triples, professional investors stop asking how fast AI is growing and start asking how profitable it can be.
Salesforce’s Q2 FY2027 results show $1.5 billion Agentforce ARR, 14% cRPO growth, and a guidance raise. Dreamforce on September 15 to 17 is where the bull case gets stress-tested.
The real question facing the 21-bank consortium is whether it cannibalizes the correspondent-banking revenue its members depend on far more than anything Circle earns.
HSBC’s 1997 comparison is legitimate, but the fault lines have moved: Korea’s chip cycle and India’s oil bill are the real pressure points, not currency crises.