SnowflakeSNOWHOLDMay 24, 2024Stock price when the opinion was issued
As of Jun 05, 2026. Market Open.
Key player within cloud and data centres. Cloud-based data storage with analytic solutions on top. Like a DDOG, but allows companies to manoeuvre more efficiently through the cloud. Owns it, but it's rich. His price target is ~$260-270.
He'd buy in around $246 and definitely just in front of $231-233. Your final third would be ~$215-220, at which point he'd absolutely recommend.
12-month price target of $225.41. Amazing turnaround. New CEO is an engineering guy, who really understands what SNOW is all about. Leading cloud-based data platform provider; helps data move seamlessly, faster, and with less energy. February earnings blew it out of the park, then got tangled up in tariff rhetoric.
If you own it, absolutely hold. If you don't, sell some puts (and you want to get taken anyway).
EPS of 14c missed estimates of 19c; sales of $828M beat estimates of $786M. Snowflake's product-sales growth of 34% was above consensus, yet its full-year view appears conservative. Top-line acceleration in 2H hinges on the successful deployment of its own large language model, Arctic, which is much smaller than other foundational models. Competition from hyperscale-cloud providers that bundled their LLM-based analytics offerings could pressure Snowflake's pricing in the near term. The product gross-margin view downgrade by about 100 bps to 75% for the full year was driven by higher GPU-related costs. A net expansion rate of 128% in fiscal 1Q25 reflects a slowdown in the consumption of credits by its existing customer base. Remaining-performance obligation gains improved slightly to 46% as Snowflake continues to do well with renewals at large enterprise customers. Yesterday was a very strange market day, and we would not take cues from the trading on Thursday.
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