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Snowflake

SNOW
$328.99
+199%since Benson's first pick

Market price data through September 11, 2026.

Performance

Sep 2021Sep 2026

Benson's first pick
$85$199$312$425Sep 2021Dec 2022Mar 2024Jun 2025Sep 2026Benson picked · $110.27
Model signal
Buy
What Benson's model currently says about this stock.
Benson rating
3.3 / 5
Benson's overall conviction in this stock right now.
Risk
Medium risk
How bumpy the ride tends to be with this stock.

Track record

How this pick has done since Benson first called it.

Benson Return
+199%
How much this stock is up since Benson first picked it — measured from the price at the time of that first pick, not from today.
First pick price
~$110
Roughly what one share cost when Benson first picked this stock. This is the starting line for the Benson Return.
Tracking since
September 2024
The month this stock first became a Benson pick.
Tracking duration
24 months
How long Benson has been tracking this pick.

About Snowflake

Snowflake is where the world's biggest companies store, organize, and ask questions of their data. It runs on top of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google's clouds, but customers pay Snowflake based on how much data they crunch, so the more questions they ask, the more Snowflake earns. With 829 of the Forbes Global 2000 on board and AI agents now doing a lot of the asking, Snowflake sits underneath the next wave of business automation.

The case for and against

Both sides of the story, in plain English.

Bull case
  • Growth Accelerating

    Product revenue hit 1.49 billion dollars this quarter, up 37% from a year ago, and that was the third quarter in a row where growth sped up instead of slowing down. Management raised the full year target to 6.07 billion dollars, up from the 5.84 billion dollars they guided to three months ago. Business already under contract sits at 9 billion dollars, up 30%.

  • AI Flywheel

    Snowflake's new AI tools are spreading fast. CoCo is now used in more than 9,100 accounts after adding over 2,000 in a single quarter, and CoWork reached 5,800 accounts. Existing customers spent 26% more than they did a year ago, and the company added 692 net new customers, up 32%, which is exactly the flywheel you want when AI workloads start piling on.

Bear case
  • Still Unprofitable

    Snowflake lost 263 million dollars on an operating basis this quarter, a negative 17% margin on the official accounting, and trailing profit margins sit near negative 24%. The gap is mostly heavy cloud bills and paying employees in stock, which quietly dilutes existing shareholders. Growth is real, but the profit still has not shown up.

  • Thin Cash

    Adjusted free cash flow was only 92 million dollars on 1.55 billion dollars of revenue this quarter, about 6%, so hitting the full year 23% cash target means the back half has to do nearly all the heavy lifting. Meanwhile Amazon and Microsoft keep bundling competing data tools into contracts customers already have, which pressures pricing over time.

How to read this page

This automated research summary uses Financial Modeling Prep market data through 2026-09-11. Model signals, scores, and risk labels can change and may be incomplete or wrong.

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