Insider Selling: Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) CAO Sells $372,469.77 in Stock

Snowflake Inc. (NYSE:SNOW) CAO Emily Ho sold 2,141 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Monday, March 23rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $173.97, for a total transaction of $372,469.77. Following the completion of the sale, the chief accounting officer directly owned 44,553 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $7,750,885.41. This trade represents a 4.59% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link.

Snowflake Stock Performance

Shares of SNOW stock opened at $152.98 on Friday. The stock’s 50-day moving average is $179.42 and its two-hundred day moving average is $217.21. The firm has a market cap of $52.35 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -38.73 and a beta of 1.16. Snowflake Inc. has a 1 year low of $120.10 and a 1 year high of $280.67. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.18, a quick ratio of 1.37 and a current ratio of 1.30.

Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, February 25th. The company reported $0.32 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.27 by $0.05. The business had revenue of $1.28 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.25 billion. Snowflake had a negative return on equity of 50.61% and a negative net margin of 28.43%.The business’s revenue was up 30.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $0.30 earnings per share. Analysts predict that Snowflake Inc. will post -2.36 earnings per share for the current year.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Snowflake

A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of SNOW. Total Clarity Wealth Management Inc. boosted its position in Snowflake by 2.7% during the 3rd quarter. Total Clarity Wealth Management Inc. now owns 1,508 shares of the company’s stock worth $340,000 after purchasing an additional 40 shares during the period. Diligent Investors LLC raised its position in Snowflake by 0.9% in the third quarter. Diligent Investors LLC now owns 4,594 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,036,000 after purchasing an additional 40 shares during the period. Coastline Trust Co raised its position in Snowflake by 1.0% in the third quarter. Coastline Trust Co now owns 4,183 shares of the company’s stock valued at $943,000 after purchasing an additional 42 shares during the period. CX Institutional lifted its stake in shares of Snowflake by 13.2% during the third quarter. CX Institutional now owns 421 shares of the company’s stock worth $95,000 after purchasing an additional 49 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Hazlett Burt & Watson Inc. lifted its stake in shares of Snowflake by 44.1% during the third quarter. Hazlett Burt & Watson Inc. now owns 160 shares of the company’s stock worth $36,000 after purchasing an additional 49 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 65.10% of the company’s stock.

Snowflake News Summary

Here are the key news stories impacting Snowflake this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Company AI/product momentum: sell‑side and industry pieces highlight Snowflake’s new agentic AI initiatives (Project SnowWork / Cortex) as drivers of longer‑term revenue and product adoption, and at least one broker reiterated bullish views after meetings with management. Snowflake’s AI Bet Stifel/Benzinga Cortex Coverage
• Positive Sentiment: Partnerships and ecosystem updates extend product reach (examples include NINJIO and Denodo collaborations), supporting adoption that can underpin revenue growth over time. NINJIO Partnership Denodo Joins Snowflake
• Neutral Sentiment: Analyst and sector writeups balance Snowflake’s strong revenue/AI tailwinds with intensifying cloud competition and valuation questions — useful context but not an immediate catalyst. Zacks: Cloud Analytics
• Negative Sentiment: Insider selling has triggered headline risk: recent SEC filings and reports show executive sales (including CAO Emily Ho and other insiders), and a summary report put total recent insider sales near ~$11M — investors often view clustered insider selling as a near‑term negative. Yahoo: Insiders Sold $11M InsiderTrades Form 4
• Negative Sentiment: Legal headlines: multiple law firms have filed or solicited plaintiffs in securities class actions and are pushing an April 27, 2026 lead‑plaintiff deadline — ongoing litigation risk can keep shares under pressure. Rosen Law Firm Notice
• Negative Sentiment: Short‑term sector and post‑earnings pressure: coverage noting Snowflake is down since its last report and broader SaaS/AI volatility has exacerbated outflows from high‑multiple cloud names. Yahoo: Why Is SNOW Down Zacks: Down Since Earnings

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of brokerages have weighed in on SNOW. UBS Group reduced their price objective on Snowflake from $265.00 to $235.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, February 26th. Piper Sandler cut their target price on shares of Snowflake from $285.00 to $230.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, February 26th. Royal Bank Of Canada set a $245.00 price target on shares of Snowflake in a research report on Wednesday, February 11th. Zacks Research upgraded shares of Snowflake from a “strong sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Wednesday, March 4th. Finally, Guggenheim reissued a “neutral” rating on shares of Snowflake in a research report on Wednesday, February 18th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, thirty-three have given a Buy rating, five have assigned a Hold rating and two have issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $248.58.

Snowflake Company Profile

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.