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Snowflake’s stock is now available to purchase on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Here’s how you can buy in from New Zealand.
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Snowflake raised US$450 million in its Series F funding round in 2018 and another US$479 million in its Series G earlier this year. Its most recent valuation sat at a sizable US$12.5 billion.
So, what does the company’s balance sheet look like following the influx of capital?
Snowflake reported US$96.6 million in revenue for fiscal 2019 followed by US$264.7 million in revenue for fiscal 2020. Snowflake is growing, that much is clear. But whether it’s profitable is a different story. Snowflake reported net losses of US$178 million in 2019 and US$348.5 million in 2020.
But here’s the good news: Snowflake’s losses are falling. In Q2 2019, the company reported a net loss of US$177.2 million, while in Q2 2020, net losses sat at US$171.2 million. And the company reported 121% year-over-year growth for Q2 — a promising figure for interested investors.
Snowflake competes with the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. And complicating this already competitive landscape is the fact that Snowflake actually relies on its competitors for storage and computing power.
US news network CNBC reports that 85% of Snowflake’s workloads are housed on Amazon Web Services, with the other 15% split between Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. It’s not easy to undercut and outperform a competitor when you rely on them to keep you in business.
The bottom line is that Snowflake isn’t the only company trying to capitalize on the shift from traditional data storage to the cloud. There are some big-name players on the field and competition in the tech sector is notoriously fierce.
Snowflake is a cloud-based platform that helps businesses securely house and analyze their data. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California. It has over 3,000 customers — 56 of which are accounts worth over US$1 million, including Cisco and Capital One. The platform facilitates over 500 million queries daily.
Snowflake is not an accredited business with the North American Better Business Bureau (BBB) from which it receives an F rating for failing to respond to a complaint.
Snowflake is frequently compared to Apple, Amazon and Google, but these companies do much more than cloud-based data storage. Companies that exclusively focus on the type of service Snowflake offers include Cloudera, Teradata and MongoDB, but these companies haven’t been performing as well. Examining these competitor stocks can help you gauge how the market is doing but aren’t a direct indicator of how Snowflake will perform.
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