11 Worst-Performing Blue Chip Stocks So Far in 2025

6. Salesforce, Inc. (NYSE:CRM)

Year To Date Share Price Return as of April 25: -19.00%

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 162

Salesforce Inc (NYSE:CRM) is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management (CRM) software and related services. Its software applications help customers manage their data, sales processes, marketing efforts, and more. While it exploded amid the artificial intelligence boom, it has come down, tumbling and emerging as one of the worst-performing blue chip stocks in 2025.

Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff has been talking about how the company’s AI-powered platform Agentforce is great and much better than Microsoft’s Copilot. However, the numbers speak for a completely different thing. While data cloud and AI annual recurring revenue was up by 120% in 2024, it still accounted for a small percentage of the total $41 billion. Likewise, Salesforce Inc (NYSE:CRM) expects revenue to increase by between 7% and 8% in 2025, compared to an 8% growth in 2024 to $10 billion, affirming a potential slowdown.

Analysts at D.A Davidson insist that Salesforce Inc’s (NYSE:CRM) increased focus on artificial intelligence has left the core business neglected. Amid the concern, they have cut the price target to $200 from $250 and downgraded it to Underperform from a Neutral.