Snowflake Inc. (NYSE:SNOW) shares, rose in value on Wednesday, 05/24/23, with the stock price up by 1.13% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $177.14.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $175.16, falling within a range of $172.12 and $178.40. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 0.75. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $205.66, and the low was $110.26. On the whole, SNOW has fluctuated by 30.75% over the past month.
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With the market capitalization of Snowflake Inc. currently standing at about $60.01 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for May 24, 2023. As a result, investors might want to see an improvement in the stock’s price before the company announces its earnings report. Analysts are projecting the company’s earnings per share (EPS) to be $0.05, which is expected to increase to $0.2 for fiscal year $0.61 and then to about $1.02 by fiscal year 2025. Data indicates that the EPS growth is expected to be 144.00% in 2025, while the next year’s EPS growth is forecast to be 67.20%.
Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at $608.36 million, with a low estimate of $602.9 million and a high estimate of $623.32 million. According to the average forecast, sales growth in current quarter could jump up 44.00%, compared to the corresponding quarter of last year. Wall Street analysts also predicted that in 2025, the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach $2.87 billion, representing an increase of 39.00% from the revenues reported in the last year’s results.
Revisions could be a useful indicator to get insight on short-term price movement; so for the company, there were 1 upward and no downward review(s) in last seven days. We see that SNOW’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Buy on average. However, medium term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Buy while long term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Buy.
43 analyst(s) have assigned their ratings of the stock’s forecast evaluation on a scale of 1.00-5.00 to indicate a strong buy to a strong sell recommendation. The stock is rated as a Hold by 12 analyst(s), 25 recommend it as a Buy and 4 called the SNOW stock Overweight. In the meantime, 0 analyst(s) believe the stock as Underweight and 2 think it is a Sell. Thus, investors eager to increase their holdings of the company’s stock will have an opportunity to do so as the average rating for the stock is Overweight.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 0, with the price of SNOW currently trading nearly 8.80% and 17.89% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 63.98, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 4.20% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 3.74%. Furthermore, Snowflake Inc. (SNOW)’s average true range (ATR) is 6.62. The company’s stock has been forecasted to trade at an average price of $187.46 over the course of the next 52 weeks, with a low of $105.00 and a high of $500.00. Based on these price targets, the low is 40.72% off current price, whereas the price has to move -182.26% to reach the yearly target high. Additionally, analysts’ median price of $185.00 is likely to be welcomed by investors because it represents a decrease of -4.44% from the current levels.
Data on historical trading for Snowflake Inc. (NYSE:SNOW) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 5.13 million and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 5.49 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 321.96 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.10% of Snowflake Inc.’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 68.40% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 13.2 million shares as on Apr 27, 2023, resulting in a short ratio of 2.47. According to the data, the short interest in Snowflake Inc. (SNOW) stood at 4.06% of shares outstanding as of Apr 27, 2023; the number of short shares registered in Mar 30, 2023 reached 13.45 million. The stock has risen by 23.41% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the SNOW stock heading into the next quarter.
