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The Zacks Consensus Estimate for the top line is pegged at $786.95 million, suggesting year-over-year growth of 26.19%.
The consensus mark for the bottom line is pegged at 17 cents per share, up by a penny over the past 30 days, indicating 13.33% year-over-year growth.
The company’s earnings beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate in the trailing four quarters, the average surprise being 129.25%.
Snowflake shares have declined 29.7% since the fourth-quarter earnings release (Feb 28, 2024) against the broader Zacks Computer & Technology sector’s return of 7.1%.
Nevertheless, we believe that Snowflake shares are attractive at the current level due to an innovative portfolio, a strong partner base and an expanding clientele.
Strong Portfolio Aids Prospects Amid Challenging Conditions
SNOW has been suffering from challenging macroeconomic conditions, including persistent inflation, which have hurt its customer spending patterns. Although bookings grew meaningfully in the fiscal fourth quarter, reflecting an improved macroeconomic environment, the consumption trend is expected to have been sluggish.
However, Snowflake has been riding on an expanding portfolio. Snowpark is expected to contribute 3% to product revenues in fiscal 2025. Product revenues are expected to be $3.25 billion, indicating 22% year-over-year growth for fiscal 2025.
The growing adoption of Snowpark by data scientists and engineers is expected to have aided the company’s top-line growth in the to-be-reported quarter. For first-quarter 2025, Snowflake expects revenues between $745 million and $750 million, implying year-over-year growth between 26% and 27%.
Newly introduced solutions, including Cortex, a new fully-managed service making AI simple and secure, Streamlit in Snowflake, Snowpark ML Modeling API, and Cortex ML functions, are expected to have benefited top-line growth. SNOW has an innovative portfolio that includes Document AI and Cortex, which are expected to be in public preview soon, strengthens growth prospects.
An expanding partner base, which includes the likes of Mistral AI, NVIDIA (NVDA - Free Report) , Microsoft (MSFT - Free Report) , Amazon (AMZN - Free Report) , ServiceNow, Cognizant and Dell Technologies, has been driving Snowflake’s growth trajectory.
Snowflake’s partnership with Microsoft enabled product integrations across AI, low code/no code application development, data governance and more. Snowflake-Microsoft integration is empowering data scientists and developers with industry-leading AI solutions, building integrations between the Data Cloud and Azure ML, and leveraging integrations with Azure OpenAI and Microsoft Cognitive Services.
Snowflake-NVIDIA partnered to help businesses harness their data for Generative AI based on the NVIDIA NeMo platform for developing large language models and NVIDIA GPU-accelerated computing.
Moreover, this March, Snowflake inked an expanded collaboration with NVIDIA that brings together the full-stack NVIDIA accelerated platform with the trusted data foundation and secure AI of Snowflake’s Data Cloud.
Additionally, Snowflake’s achievement of FedRAMP high authorization on the AWS GovCloud now enables it to handle sensitive and classified data for the Federal Government. This accomplishment enhances Snowflake’s credibility in serving government entities.
In fourth-quarter fiscal 2024, Snowflake added 83 customers, with product revenues exceeding $5 million in the trailing 12 months, increasing from 75 customers in the third quarter. The trend is expected to have continued in the fiscal first quarter.
However, higher investments in AI-related initiatives are expected to drive the cost of revenues. Increased consumption-based commissions worth roughly $30 million are expected to hurt profits in fiscal 2025.
Conclusion
Snowflake’s strong portfolio, with the growing adoption of solutions like Snowpark, significantly boosts its prospects. Despite macroeconomic headwinds, we believe that an expanding partner base enhances its attractiveness to investors.
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Should You Buy Snowflake (SNOW) Stock Ahead of Q1 Earnings?
Snowflake (SNOW - Free Report) is set to report its first-quarter fiscal 2025 results on May 22.
The Zacks Consensus Estimate for the top line is pegged at $786.95 million, suggesting year-over-year growth of 26.19%.
The consensus mark for the bottom line is pegged at 17 cents per share, up by a penny over the past 30 days, indicating 13.33% year-over-year growth.
The company’s earnings beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate in the trailing four quarters, the average surprise being 129.25%.
Snowflake shares have declined 29.7% since the fourth-quarter earnings release (Feb 28, 2024) against the broader Zacks Computer & Technology sector’s return of 7.1%.
Snowflake Inc. Price and EPS Surprise
Snowflake Inc. price-eps-surprise | Snowflake Inc. Quote
Nevertheless, we believe that Snowflake shares are attractive at the current level due to an innovative portfolio, a strong partner base and an expanding clientele.
Snowflake currently has a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) with a Growth Score of A, a combination that offers a good investment opportunity, per the Zacks proprietary methodology. A Momentum Score of B makes SNOW further attractive to investors. You can find the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.
Strong Portfolio Aids Prospects Amid Challenging Conditions
SNOW has been suffering from challenging macroeconomic conditions, including persistent inflation, which have hurt its customer spending patterns. Although bookings grew meaningfully in the fiscal fourth quarter, reflecting an improved macroeconomic environment, the consumption trend is expected to have been sluggish.
However, Snowflake has been riding on an expanding portfolio. Snowpark is expected to contribute 3% to product revenues in fiscal 2025. Product revenues are expected to be $3.25 billion, indicating 22% year-over-year growth for fiscal 2025.
The growing adoption of Snowpark by data scientists and engineers is expected to have aided the company’s top-line growth in the to-be-reported quarter. For first-quarter 2025, Snowflake expects revenues between $745 million and $750 million, implying year-over-year growth between 26% and 27%.
Newly introduced solutions, including Cortex, a new fully-managed service making AI simple and secure, Streamlit in Snowflake, Snowpark ML Modeling API, and Cortex ML functions, are expected to have benefited top-line growth. SNOW has an innovative portfolio that includes Document AI and Cortex, which are expected to be in public preview soon, strengthens growth prospects.
An expanding partner base, which includes the likes of Mistral AI, NVIDIA (NVDA - Free Report) , Microsoft (MSFT - Free Report) , Amazon (AMZN - Free Report) , ServiceNow, Cognizant and Dell Technologies, has been driving Snowflake’s growth trajectory.
Snowflake’s partnership with Microsoft enabled product integrations across AI, low code/no code application development, data governance and more. Snowflake-Microsoft integration is empowering data scientists and developers with industry-leading AI solutions, building integrations between the Data Cloud and Azure ML, and leveraging integrations with Azure OpenAI and Microsoft Cognitive Services.
Snowflake-NVIDIA partnered to help businesses harness their data for Generative AI based on the NVIDIA NeMo platform for developing large language models and NVIDIA GPU-accelerated computing.
Moreover, this March, Snowflake inked an expanded collaboration with NVIDIA that brings together the full-stack NVIDIA accelerated platform with the trusted data foundation and secure AI of Snowflake’s Data Cloud.
Additionally, Snowflake’s achievement of FedRAMP high authorization on the AWS GovCloud now enables it to handle sensitive and classified data for the Federal Government. This accomplishment enhances Snowflake’s credibility in serving government entities.
In fourth-quarter fiscal 2024, Snowflake added 83 customers, with product revenues exceeding $5 million in the trailing 12 months, increasing from 75 customers in the third quarter. The trend is expected to have continued in the fiscal first quarter.
However, higher investments in AI-related initiatives are expected to drive the cost of revenues. Increased consumption-based commissions worth roughly $30 million are expected to hurt profits in fiscal 2025.
Conclusion
Snowflake’s strong portfolio, with the growing adoption of solutions like Snowpark, significantly boosts its prospects. Despite macroeconomic headwinds, we believe that an expanding partner base enhances its attractiveness to investors.
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