Snowflake Q4 Preview: Analyst Sees ‘Outsized Benefit’ From AI Growth, Cloud-Native Data Platform ‘Disrupting A Massive Market’
Snowflake Inc (NYSE:SNOW), will be reporting its fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday, Feb. 28. Wall Street expects 18 cents in EPS and $759.10 million in revenues as the company reports after market hours. Snowflake is known for its cloud-based data warehousing platform, providing scalable and efficient data storage, processing, and analytics solutions for organizations. The SNOW Analyst: Needham analyst Mike Cikos, CFA has a Buy rating on Snowflake stock with a price target of $265 (raised from $225) a share. The SNOW Thesis: Cikos believes Snowflake is poised for a robust performance in FY24, with an expectation to outperform both revenue and margin guidance. To this end, he underscored the pivotal role of Cloud migrations, saying, “Cloud migrations continue to serve as a foundation to growth, especially as the last 18 months’ headwinds dissipate.” “Snowflake is undertaking a meaningful expansion of the number of use-cases to go well beyond a ‘Data Warehouse’ in pursuit of […]