Salesforce (CRM) stock is on course for its worst one-day loss since 2004, hurting the Dow Jones Industrial Average and a batch of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) with meaningful exposure to the company or to the Dow.
Shares fell Thursday after the customer relationship management company reported fiscal first-quarter revenue that came in lower than analysts’ estimates, and provided management guidance that was also weaker than expected.
The Dow fell more than 400 points before pulling back a little, sending ETFs tracking the Dow trending lower.
The SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA), the largest ETF tracking the 30-stock index with more than $32 billion in assets, fell 0.7% Thursday. Salesforce is the ETF’s seventh-largest holding, comprising about 4.64% of its portfolio.
A big loser Thursday was the iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF (IGV), which has an 8% holding in Salesforce. The ETF has around $6 billion in assets, …