10 AI Stocks Investors Are Watching Closely Right Now

3. Salesforce, Inc. (NYSE:CRM)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 162

Salesforce Inc (NYSE:CRM) is a cloud-based CRM company that has gained popularity after it unveiled its AI-powered platform called Agentforce. On March 7, Kash Rangan from Goldman Sachs maintained a “Buy” rating on the stock with a price target of $400.00. Rangan is bullish on the company’s execution of its generative artificial intelligence product roadmap with the release of Agentforce 2dx following the TrailblazerDX conference.

According to the analyst, these enhancements, coupled with Salesforce’s unique static and dynamic data within Data Cloud and Zero Copy architecture, can accelerate customer time-to-value and expand the range of use cases beyond traditional Salesforce. Rangan said that even though Agentforce adoption may take time, there is a clear path for growth as customers adopt these tools.

He is further optimistic that AI monetization could happen sooner than Salesforce’s projected timeline of calendar 2026 and fiscal 2027. This is supported by data cloud and AI reaching $900 million in scale, 3,000 paying Agentforce deals in Q4 2025, and deal wins.