SNOW vs. PLTR, SHOP, APP, INFY, CRWD, TEAM, NTES, TTD, DDOG, and NET
Should you be buying Snowflake stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Snowflake include Palantir Technologies (PLTR), Shopify (SHOP), AppLovin (APP), Infosys (INFY), CrowdStrike (CRWD), Atlassian (TEAM), NetEase (NTES), Trade Desk (TTD), Datadog (DDOG), and Cloudflare (NET). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
Snowflake vs.
Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR) and Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, earnings, dividends, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Palantir Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $42.12, suggesting a potential downside of 35.18%. Snowflake has a consensus price target of $187.69, suggesting a potential upside of 15.60%. Given Snowflake's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Snowflake is more favorable than Palantir Technologies.
In the previous week, Palantir Technologies had 19 more articles in the media than Snowflake. MarketBeat recorded 73 mentions for Palantir Technologies and 54 mentions for Snowflake. Snowflake's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Palantir Technologies' score of 0.59 indicating that Snowflake is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Palantir Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Snowflake. Snowflake is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Palantir Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Palantir Technologies has a net margin of 18.01% compared to Snowflake's net margin of -33.02%. Palantir Technologies' return on equity of 9.94% beat Snowflake's return on equity.
45.7% of Palantir Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.1% of Snowflake shares are held by institutional investors. 12.9% of Palantir Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.8% of Snowflake shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Palantir Technologies has a beta of 2.82, indicating that its share price is 182% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Snowflake has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Snowflake received 154 more outperform votes than Palantir Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 50.11% of users gave Snowflake an outperform vote while only 41.58% of users gave Palantir Technologies an outperform vote.
Summary
Palantir Technologies beats Snowflake on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:SNOW) was last updated on 1/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
