Needham & Company LLC Raises Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) Price Target to $300.00

Snowflake (NYSE:SNOWGet Free Report) had its price target increased by equities research analysts at Needham & Company LLC from $200.00 to $300.00 in a research note issued on Thursday,Benzinga reports. The brokerage presently has a “buy” rating on the stock. Needham & Company LLC’s target price points to a potential upside of 71.82% from the stock’s previous close.

A number of other brokerages have also recently commented on SNOW. JPMorgan Chase & Co. reduced their target price on shares of Snowflake from $268.00 to $245.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, February 26th. KeyCorp reiterated an “overweight” rating on shares of Snowflake in a research report on Wednesday, May 20th. BTIG Research increased their target price on shares of Snowflake from $235.00 to $280.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday. Wells Fargo & Company reiterated an “overweight” rating on shares of Snowflake in a research report on Thursday. Finally, Piper Sandler reduced their target price on shares of Snowflake from $285.00 to $230.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, February 26th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, thirty-three have given a Buy rating, five have assigned a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Snowflake currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $254.11.

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Snowflake Stock Performance

SNOW opened at $174.60 on Thursday. The company has a quick ratio of 1.30, a current ratio of 1.30 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.18. The company has a market cap of $60.36 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -44.20 and a beta of 1.08. Snowflake has a 52-week low of $118.30 and a 52-week high of $280.67. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is $153.75 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $190.65.

Snowflake (NYSE:SNOWGet Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, May 27th. The company reported $0.39 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.32 by $0.07. The business had revenue of $1.39 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.32 billion. Snowflake had a negative net margin of 28.43% and a negative return on equity of 50.61%. The company’s revenue was up 33.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm posted $0.24 earnings per share. Equities analysts anticipate that Snowflake will post -2.16 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In related news, EVP Christian Kleinerman sold 2,621 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, March 23rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $170.01, for a total transaction of $445,596.21. Following the completion of the sale, the executive vice president directly owned 533,494 shares in the company, valued at approximately $90,699,314.94. This trade represents a 0.49% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this link. Also, SVP Vivek Raghunathan sold 3,876 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, April 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of $152.80, for a total transaction of $592,252.80. Following the sale, the senior vice president owned 273,323 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $41,763,754.40. The trade was a 1.40% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Over the last three months, insiders sold 428,963 shares of company stock valued at $71,996,216. Corporate insiders own 4.80% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Snowflake

Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of SNOW. Brighton Jones LLC increased its position in Snowflake by 90.0% during the fourth quarter. Brighton Jones LLC now owns 61,885 shares of the company’s stock worth $9,556,000 after purchasing an additional 29,320 shares during the last quarter. Intech Investment Management LLC increased its position in Snowflake by 24.0% during the first quarter. Intech Investment Management LLC now owns 11,202 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,637,000 after purchasing an additional 2,167 shares during the last quarter. Geneos Wealth Management Inc. increased its position in Snowflake by 29.7% during the first quarter. Geneos Wealth Management Inc. now owns 319 shares of the company’s stock worth $47,000 after purchasing an additional 73 shares during the last quarter. Flow Traders U.S. LLC acquired a new stake in Snowflake during the second quarter worth about $221,000. Finally, The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company increased its position in Snowflake by 7.2% during the second quarter. The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company now owns 22,603 shares of the company’s stock worth $5,055,000 after purchasing an additional 1,521 shares during the last quarter. 65.10% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

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Snowflake Company Profile

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Snowflake Inc is a cloud-native data platform company that provides a suite of services for storing, processing and analyzing large volumes of data. Its core offering, often described as the Snowflake Data Cloud, combines data warehousing, data lake and data sharing capabilities in a single managed service delivered across major public cloud providers. The platform is designed to support analytics, data engineering, data science and application workloads with a focus on scalability, concurrency and simplified administration.

Key products and capabilities include a multi-cluster, shared-data architecture that separates compute from storage; continuous data ingestion and streaming; support for structured and semi-structured data formats; tools for data governance, security and compliance; and developer frameworks for building data applications.

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