$SNOW stock is currently at $165 after hitting $400 in November 2021, is this a good time to add this stock to your portfolio?
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Snowflake is a cloud based data storage and management platform. Commonly confused with a SaaS business (software as a service) this is a pay per use data storage and management product. Clients buy credits and use these credits on the platform. The more you use the more you pay. Itโs a B2B model and itโs based on a vast volume of low ticket items at scale. Currently about 8,000 business use this platform and their net dollar retention is 150% which is very impressive.
The stock is up 7% over the past 6 months so it isnโt part of the AI hype, although there is a case to be made that it should be included due to their recent purchase of Neeva, a search startup from two former Google employees, which works on natural language voice activated AI based search engine which anowflake will integrate into their data management platform.
The good:
Short activity is under 3% - ๐
Institutions hold 67% - ๐
Revenue Growth 70% - ๐
Assets to liabilities is 3.5 to 1 - ๐
Cash to debt is 4 to 1 - ๐
Clearly the company is well managed as you can see by the above numbers. Very impressed with this.
The Bad:
Negative net income of -800 million ๐
Price to sales of 24 is very high ๐
Price to book is 10 ๐
Overall:
Snowflake stock is a buy for me since itโs a great business with an excellent management and exposure to AI at a reasonable price at $165 as of May 30, 2023.