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

Snowflake Inc. (NYSE:SNOW) CAO Emily Ho sold 586 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, December 18th. The shares were sold at an average price of $222.91, for a total value of $130,625.26. Following the sale, the chief accounting officer owned 45,975 shares in the company, valued at approximately $10,248,287.25. The trade was a 1.26% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website.

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

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

Snowflake Price Performance

Shares of SNOW opened at $226.53 on Tuesday. The firm has a market cap of $77.52 billion, a PE ratio of -56.07 and a beta of 1.09. Snowflake Inc. has a 52-week low of $120.10 and a 52-week high of $280.67. The business’s 50 day moving average price is $247.32 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $228.04. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.07, a quick ratio of 1.37 and a current ratio of 1.37.

Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) last released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, December 3rd. The company reported $0.35 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.31 by $0.04. Snowflake had a negative net margin of 30.76% and a negative return on equity of 45.91%. The company had revenue of $1.21 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.18 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $0.20 EPS. Snowflake’s revenue for the quarter was up 28.7% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, equities analysts anticipate that Snowflake Inc. will post -2.36 EPS for the current year.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Snowflake

Several institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of SNOW. Trust Co. of Toledo NA OH bought a new position in Snowflake during the 2nd quarter valued at $25,000. Grey Fox Wealth Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Snowflake in the third quarter valued at about $25,000. Avion Wealth lifted its position in shares of Snowflake by 76.6% during the second quarter. Avion Wealth now owns 113 shares of the company’s stock valued at $25,000 after purchasing an additional 49 shares in the last quarter. Tripletail Wealth Management LLC bought a new position in shares of Snowflake during the third quarter valued at about $28,000. Finally, Rossby Financial LCC boosted its holdings in Snowflake by 4,233.3% during the second quarter. Rossby Financial LCC now owns 130 shares of the company’s stock worth $29,000 after purchasing an additional 127 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 65.10% of the company’s stock.

Key Snowflake News

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

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several analysts have recently commented on the company. Robert W. Baird raised their target price on Snowflake from $260.00 to $270.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, December 4th. Citigroup cut their price target on Snowflake from $310.00 to $300.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Monday, December 8th. Mizuho boosted their price objective on Snowflake from $260.00 to $285.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Monday, November 17th. Bank of America upped their target price on Snowflake from $280.00 to $310.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Monday, November 17th. Finally, Royal Bank Of Canada reiterated an “outperform” rating on shares of Snowflake in a report on Thursday, December 4th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, thirty-five have issued a Buy rating, three have issued a Hold rating and three have given a Sell rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $275.32.

About Snowflake

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.