Emily Ho Sells 586 Shares of Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) Stock

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Snowflake Inc. (NYSE:SNOWGet Free Report) CAO Emily Ho sold 586 shares of the stock in a transaction on Thursday, December 18th. The shares were sold at an average price of $222.91, for a total transaction of $130,625.26. Following the completion of the sale, the chief accounting officer directly owned 45,975 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $10,248,287.25. This trade represents a 1.26% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink.

Emily Ho also recently made the following trade(s):

  • On Wednesday, September 24th, Emily Ho sold 1,658 shares of Snowflake stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $225.25, for a total transaction of $373,464.50.

Snowflake Price Performance

Shares of SNOW stock traded up $4.07 during trading hours on Monday, hitting $226.53. 2,771,219 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 5,241,403. Snowflake Inc. has a 52 week low of $120.10 and a 52 week high of $280.67. The stock’s 50-day moving average is $247.74 and its 200-day moving average is $227.93. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.07, a current ratio of 1.37 and a quick ratio of 1.37. The stock has a market cap of $77.52 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -56.07 and a beta of 1.09.

Snowflake (NYSE:SNOWGet Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, December 3rd. The company reported $0.35 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.31 by $0.04. The business had revenue of $1.21 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.18 billion. Snowflake had a negative return on equity of 45.91% and a negative net margin of 30.76%.The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 28.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.20 earnings per share. As a group, research analysts forecast that Snowflake Inc. will post -2.36 EPS for the current year.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Snowflake

A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Kingstone Capital Partners Texas LLC purchased a new position in shares of Snowflake during the second quarter valued at approximately $3,900,134,000. Norges Bank bought a new stake in Snowflake during the second quarter worth approximately $944,895,000. Winslow Capital Management LLC purchased a new position in Snowflake during the second quarter worth $725,667,000. AQR Capital Management LLC lifted its position in shares of Snowflake by 346.2% during the first quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC now owns 3,171,635 shares of the company’s stock worth $456,430,000 after purchasing an additional 2,460,769 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Coatue Management LLC bought a new stake in shares of Snowflake during the third quarter valued at approximately $441,277,000. 65.10% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Snowflake News Roundup

Here are the key news stories impacting Snowflake this week:

  • Positive Sentiment: Raymond James initiated coverage with an Outperform rating, providing fresh buy-side institutional interest that can support the stock. Article Title
  • Positive Sentiment: Scotiabank remains bullish and recently raised its price target (noting resilient product revenue and long-term growth), reinforcing sell‑side support despite some near‑term metric misses. Article Title
  • Positive Sentiment: Accenture and Snowflake announced a partnership to drive enterprise reinvention with AI and data, a commercial tie‑up that can help accelerate enterprise adoption and usage-based consumption. Article Title
  • Positive Sentiment: A bullish Seeking Alpha piece highlights a large addressable market (potentially >$350B) and high retention metrics, arguing Snowflake’s usage‑based model and AI tailwinds justify a premium growth multiple. Article Title
  • Neutral Sentiment: Analyst commentary is mixed in tone: several outlets summarize reiterated Buys and varied price targets (TD Cowen, Raymond James items), keeping analyst signals supportive but heterogeneous. Article Title
  • Neutral Sentiment: Two non‑market articles (a CNBC piece on executive social media and a general science feature about literal snowflakes) are being circulated but have limited direct impact on Snowflake’s fundamentals. Article Title Article Title
  • Negative Sentiment: Director Frank Slootman sold 200,000 shares (~$44.4M at ~$221.83), reducing his stake by ~80% — a large, disclosed insider sale that can raise short‑term caution among investors despite normal liquidity or diversification reasons. SEC filing: SEC Filing
  • Negative Sentiment: CAO Emily Ho sold 586 shares (~$130k), a relatively small transaction but another insider sale disclosed the same day. SEC filing: SEC Filing

Analysts Set New Price Targets

SNOW has been the topic of a number of recent analyst reports. Oppenheimer reissued an “outperform” rating on shares of Snowflake in a research report on Friday, November 21st. Monness Crespi & Hardt increased their price target on Snowflake from $260.00 to $275.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, December 4th. Sanford C. Bernstein restated a “market perform” rating and set a $237.00 price objective on shares of Snowflake in a research report on Thursday, December 4th. Raymond James Financial set a $250.00 price target on shares of Snowflake in a report on Monday, December 15th. Finally, Stifel Nicolaus lifted their target price on shares of Snowflake from $260.00 to $280.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, December 4th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, thirty-five have issued a Buy rating, three have assigned a Hold rating and three have given a Sell rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Snowflake presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $275.32.

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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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