Signal Says Target This Struggling Dow Stock Right Now

Salesforce Inc (NYSE:CRM) was one of the worst Dow stocks in 2025, ending the year with a 20.7% deficit. The upside for contrarian traders is the software giant is currently working through a historically bullish month.

Schaeffer's Senior Quantitative Analyst Rocky White compiled a list of the 25 best stocks on the S&P 500 Index (SPX) in December, going back 10 years, and CRM is the fourth best performer on the list. The stock averaged a 7.9% return over the last decade, with a 80% monthly win rate. That's the best-performing return of the five software stocks on the list.  

CRM is up 1.4% to trade at $266.58. A move of similar magnitude would put the stock at its highest level since May, breaking past a ceiling at $270 that's been tested and retested four times since July. 

Options traders have been betting more bearishly than usual. Salesforce's 10-day put/call volume ratio of 1.04 at the International Securities Exchange (ISE), Cboe Options Exchange (CBOE), and NASDAQ OMX PHLX (PHLX) sits at the 100th percentile of its annual range. An unwinding of this pessimism could provide tailwinds to CRM's seasonal rally.

Options are looking extremely affordable, per CRM's ' Schaeffer's Volatility Index (SVI) of 27% ranks in the 9th percentile of the last 12 months.