Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) SVP Sells $2,601,412.44 in Stock

Snowflake Inc. (NYSE:SNOW) SVP Vivek Raghunathan sold 11,801 shares of the stock in a transaction on Wednesday, December 31st. The shares were sold at an average price of $220.44, for a total value of $2,601,412.44. Following the completion of the sale, the senior vice president owned 218,020 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $48,060,328.80. This represents a 5.13% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link.

Snowflake Trading Down 0.5%

Shares of SNOW opened at $233.34 on Thursday. Snowflake Inc. has a 12 month low of $120.10 and a 12 month high of $280.67. The stock’s 50-day moving average is $240.77 and its two-hundred day moving average is $229.06. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.07, a current ratio of 1.37 and a quick ratio of 1.37. The stock has a market cap of $79.85 billion, a PE ratio of -57.76 and a beta of 1.14.

Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) last announced its earnings results on Wednesday, December 3rd. The company reported $0.35 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.31 by $0.04. The business had revenue of $1.21 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.18 billion. Snowflake had a negative return on equity of 45.91% and a negative net margin of 30.76%.The company’s revenue was up 28.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the business posted $0.20 EPS. Equities analysts forecast that Snowflake Inc. will post -2.36 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Snowflake News Roundup

Here are the key news stories impacting Snowflake this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Analyst momentum and relative‑strength recognition are boosting investor optimism — Snowflake earned an 83 RS score and has been highlighted among 2025’s most upgraded names. Read More. Read More.
• Positive Sentiment: Large institutional stakes (Vanguard, Jennison, State Street, Artisan) and recent inflows provide liquidity and longer‑term demand that can support the share price. Read More.
• Neutral Sentiment: Third‑party FinOps activity: DoiT’s acquisition of SELECT targets Snowflake waste/optimization — helpful for customers controlling costs but ambiguous for Snowflake revenue growth. Read More.
• Neutral Sentiment: Partner dynamics: coverage points to a recalibration with Google Gemini integrations — could affect AI strategy messaging, but financial impact depends on final model partnerships. Read More.
• Neutral Sentiment: Unrelated scientific item (“snowflake‑like” nanocrystal discovery) is noise for investors and unlikely to move the stock. Read More.
• Negative Sentiment: Insider selling: multiple senior executives/directors (Christian Kleinerman, Vivek Raghunathan, Michael Speiser) disclosed sizable January stock sales — tends to pressure near‑term sentiment even if for diversification or tax planning. Read More. Read More.
• Negative Sentiment: Bear case voices: a Seeking Alpha piece recommends avoiding SNOW ahead of a potential reset — negative media narratives can amplify short‑term selling. Read More.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in SNOW. Trust Co. of Toledo NA OH bought a new position in Snowflake during the second quarter worth $25,000. Avion Wealth raised its holdings in shares of Snowflake by 76.6% during the second quarter. Avion Wealth now owns 113 shares of the company’s stock worth $25,000 after purchasing an additional 49 shares during the period. Grey Fox Wealth Advisors LLC bought a new position in shares of Snowflake in the 3rd quarter worth about $25,000. Tripletail Wealth Management LLC acquired a new position in shares of Snowflake in the 3rd quarter valued at about $28,000. Finally, Rossby Financial LCC boosted its holdings in shares of Snowflake by 4,233.3% in the 2nd quarter. Rossby Financial LCC now owns 130 shares of the company’s stock valued at $29,000 after buying an additional 127 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 65.10% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of equities research analysts recently weighed in on the stock. Mizuho raised their price target on shares of Snowflake from $260.00 to $285.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Monday, November 17th. Citigroup lowered their target price on Snowflake from $310.00 to $300.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note on Monday, December 8th. Wells Fargo & Company lifted their target price on Snowflake from $275.00 to $290.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Thursday, December 4th. Guggenheim reiterated a “neutral” rating on shares of Snowflake in a research note on Wednesday, November 26th. Finally, Sanford C. Bernstein restated a “market perform” rating and set a $237.00 price objective on shares of Snowflake in a research note on Thursday, December 4th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, thirty-five have assigned a Buy rating, three have given a Hold rating and three have given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Snowflake currently 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.