Shares of Salesforce.com Inc. climbed in Wednesday’s extended session after the cloud software company posted quarterly results ahead of Wall Street’s estimates. Salesforce reported its first-quarter earnings rose to $38.8 million, or 6 cents a share, from $4.1 million, or a penny a share, a year earlier. On an adjusted basis, the company earned 24 cents a share. Revenue grew to $1.78 billion from $1.41 billion. Analysts surveyed by FactSet had forecast earnings of 23 cents a share on revenue of $1.89 billion. Salesforce projected second-quarter adjusted earnings per share of 24 cents to 25 cents and $1 to $1.02 for 2017. It also forecast second-quarter revenue in a range of $2.005 billion to $2.015 billion. Salesforce jumped more than 5% after hours.
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