SNOW vs. PLTR, SHOP, APP, CRWD, INFY, TEAM, NTES, NET, DDOG, and RBLX
Should you be buying Snowflake stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Snowflake include Palantir Technologies (PLTR), Shopify (SHOP), AppLovin (APP), CrowdStrike (CRWD), Infosys (INFY), Atlassian (TEAM), NetEase (NTES), Cloudflare (NET), Datadog (DDOG), and Roblox (RBLX). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
Snowflake vs.
Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) and Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
65.1% of Snowflake shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.7% of Palantir Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 7.8% of Snowflake shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.9% of Palantir Technologies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Snowflake presently has a consensus target price of $202.92, indicating a potential upside of 14.45%. Palantir Technologies has a consensus target price of $74.79, indicating a potential downside of 13.98%. Given Snowflake's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Snowflake is more favorable than Palantir Technologies.
Snowflake received 173 more outperform votes than Palantir Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.57% of users gave Snowflake an outperform vote while only 40.83% of users gave Palantir Technologies an outperform vote.
Snowflake has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Palantir Technologies has a beta of 2.81, meaning that its stock price is 181% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Palantir Technologies has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
In the previous week, Palantir Technologies had 36 more articles in the media than Snowflake. MarketBeat recorded 161 mentions for Palantir Technologies and 125 mentions for Snowflake. Palantir Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Snowflake's score of 0.71 indicating that Palantir Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Palantir Technologies has a net margin of 16.13% compared to Snowflake's net margin of -33.02%. Palantir Technologies' return on equity of 6.85% beat Snowflake's return on equity.
Summary
Palantir Technologies beats Snowflake on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:SNOW) was last updated on 3/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
