Snowflake Inc Stock Price, News & Analysis

Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) announced significant advancements to its unified platform at the Snowflake Summit 2024, aimed at boosting interoperability, governance, and performance in the AI Data Cloud. These enhancements include improved support for the open table format Apache Iceberg, enabling full storage interoperability, and the launch of the Polaris Catalog for cross-engine data management.

The introduction of Snowflake Horizon enhances data governance and discovery, featuring an Internal Marketplace for safer data sharing within organizations and AI-powered search tools for better data accessibility.

Performance updates promise reduced query durations and faster data loading, with notable improvements of up to 50% for Parquet files. Snowflake is also expanding its global footprint, with new data residency solutions tailored for the EU and US Department of Defense.

Snowflake announced a new collaboration with NVIDIA at the Snowflake Summit 2024 to enable customers and partners to build AI data applications. This partnership integrates NVIDIA AI Enterprise software into Snowflake Cortex AI, enhancing the functionality of Snowflake's AI services. The integration will allow seamless connection of custom models to business data, providing highly accurate responses and optimized performance. Snowflake Arctic, an enterprise-grade large language model (LLM), is now fully supported by NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM software and available as an NVIDIA NIM inference microservice. The collaboration aims to help enterprises rapidly create bespoke AI solutions to unlock the potential of enterprise AI.

Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) announced the Polaris Catalog at its Snowflake Summit 2024. Polaris is a vendor-neutral, open catalog for Apache Iceberg, designed to offer organizations greater control and flexibility over their data. It will be open sourced in 90 days, ensuring compatibility with major platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Polaris allows centralized access to Iceberg tables using an open REST protocol, eliminating vendor lock-in. Major industry players such as AWS, Confluent, and Dremio have expressed support. This move aligns with Snowflake's commitment to open-source initiatives, enhancing interoperability and data access for enterprises.

Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) reported its fiscal Q1 2025 financial results, showcasing notable growth. The company achieved a product revenue of $789.6 million, marking a 34% year-over-year increase, and a total revenue of $828.7 million, representing a 33% year-over-year growth. Snowflake's net revenue retention rate stood at 128% as of April 30, 2024.

The company's customer base includes 485 customers with trailing 12-month product revenue over $1 million and 709 Forbes Global 2000 customers. Additionally, remaining performance obligations reached $5.0 billion, reflecting a 46% year-over-year growth.

Snowflake announced its intention to acquire technology assets and key personnel from TruEra, an AI observability platform. For fiscal Q1 2025, the company reported a GAAP gross profit of $569.9 million (72% margin) and a non-GAAP gross profit of $607.3 million (77% margin). Operating income (loss) was ($348.6) million (-42%) on a GAAP basis and $36.2 million (4%) on a non-GAAP basis. Net cash provided by operating activities was $355.5 million, with free cash flow at $331.5 million and adjusted free cash flow at $365.7 million.

Snowflake Data Cloud Summit 2024 is the largest user-conference ever, highlighting innovative AI advancements and application development. The event will feature keynotes by industry leaders, over 450 sessions, and 180 partners, showcasing Snowflake's impact on enterprises. The summit will focus on empowering businesses with a governed data foundation to unlock their data potential and accelerate AI adoption.

Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) will announce its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2025 on May 22, 2024. The conference call will be held to discuss the results, starting at 3 p.m. Mountain Time. Investors can join the call by dialing (833) 470-1428 (Access code: 837931). The call will also be live webcasted on the Snowflake Investor Relations website.