Earnings call

Snowflake Inc. Snowflake Inc. · Q2 FY2027 call

Call heldSep 2, 2026
Time2:00 p.m. Pacific
CEOSridhar Ramaswamy

What the CEO argued

Ramaswamy's argument was that Snowflake has stopped being a data warehouse that added AI and become the control plane enterprises run agents on — and that the financial evidence is acceleration, which is the rare shape at this size. Product revenue grew 37%, a third consecutive quarter of acceleration and seven points added in two quarters from the 30% Snowflake exited last fiscal year at. He gave the customer count the release withholds, 14,554, and the number that shows depth rather than breadth: 65 customers now past $10 million of trailing-12-month product revenue. The AI products carried the story — CoCo past 9,100 accounts having added more than 2,000 in the quarter, CoWork at 5,800 and up nearly 11% sequentially — and he spent an unusual amount of time on Snowflake running them against its own cost base, from $400,000 of agency spend removed in marketing to a three-person planning team replaced by one analyst. That is the same argument as the margin line: the company raised its full-year product revenue guide to $6.07 billion and its operating margin guide to 14.5% while adding 334 employees year to date against 935 a year ago, 173 of this year's coming from the Observe acquisition. He reaffirmed GAAP profitability in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2028.

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What they said

The acceleration, and how fast it arrived
Product revenue came in at $1.49 billion, with growth accelerating to 37% year-over-year, marking our second consecutive quarter of record sequential dollar growth. After exiting Q4 of last fiscal year at 30% year-over-year growth, we have now added 7 points of acceleration in just 2 quarters.
Sridhar Ramaswamy · CEO, Snowflake
The three dynamics he says compound
First, AI is bringing new workloads onto the platform. […] Second, our first-party AI products, CoCo and CoWork, continue to see rapid adoption. As customers build and deploy agents on Snowflake, we are expanding our role into the agentic control plane and creating new opportunities for growth. Third, AI activation continues to lift overall platform consumption. Customers using AI on Snowflake consume more across the data platform, creating a structural multiplier for our business.
Sridhar Ramaswamy · CEO, Snowflake
The customer count the release does not print
Snowflake now provides the data and AI foundation for 14,554 customers around the world.
Sridhar Ramaswamy · CEO, Snowflake
How deep the largest accounts now go
In fact, 65 customers have now crossed $10 million in trailing 12-month product revenue, demonstrating how our largest customers continue to go all in on Snowflake.
Sridhar Ramaswamy · CEO, Snowflake
Adoption of the two AI products, with a sequential rate
CoWork expanded to 5,800 accounts, up nearly 11% quarter-over-quarter. Meanwhile, CoCo continues to see rapid adoption, surpassing 9,100 accounts and adding more than 2,000 net new accounts in this quarter alone.
Sridhar Ramaswamy · CEO, Snowflake
Snowflake running its own products against its own cost base
For example, in our marketing organization, CoCo has helped bring search optimization in-house, eliminating $400,000 in annual agency spend, reducing keyword research from approximately 10 hours to 20 minutes, and content production from an estimated 24 hours down to just two. In finance, our long-range planning used to require a three-person team and more than 50 spreadsheets. It now runs with one analyst and a series of models that reflect our pricing structure and consumption dynamics.
Sridhar Ramaswamy · CEO, Snowflake
Two productivity metrics that are not in the release
The number of use cases, individual customer projects deployed on Snowflake increased 89% year over year as customers moved more workloads into production. At the same time, use cases won per account executive increased 43% year over year, demonstrating both growing customer demand and strong sales productivity.
Sridhar Ramaswamy · CEO, Snowflake
The date he is still holding to
We remain on track for GAAP profitability in Q4 fiscal 2028, and the operating leverage we build along the way strengthens the durability of that outcome.
Sridhar Ramaswamy · CEO, Snowflake
Third straight quarter of acceleration, and what drove it
In Q2, product revenue once again accelerated to reach 37% year-over-year growth. This marks our third straight quarter of acceleration. Q2 benefited from continued strength in our core data platform business and a meaningful step-up in AI revenue.
Brian Robins · CFO, Snowflake
The RPO duration split the release omits
Remaining performance obligations grew 30% year over year, totaling $9 billion. As a reminder, we continue to see customers favor Q4 renewals. As a result, we expect bookings to be increasingly weighted towards the fourth quarter. Of the $9 billion RPO, we expect approximately 54% to be recognized as revenue in the next 12 months.
Brian Robins · CFO, Snowflake
Where the margin expansion came from
In Q2, non-GAAP operating margin expanded over 400 basis points year over year to reach 15%. Our outperformance was driven by strong revenue growth and disciplined headcount management.
Brian Robins · CFO, Snowflake
Hiring, against the year-ago pace
Year to date, we have added 334 employees, which includes 173 from our Observe acquisition. This compares to 935 added in the year-ago period.
Brian Robins · CFO, Snowflake
How much of the raised guide is acquired
For FY 2027, we now expect product revenue of $6.07 billion, representing 36% year-over-year growth. This includes approximately one percentage point of growth from Observe, consistent with our previous outlook.
Brian Robins · CFO, Snowflake
The margin cost of the AI mix
This revised outlook includes a higher revenue mix from fast-growing AI workloads, which carry a lower contribution margin today. We are delivering continued operating margin expansion as we offset growing cloud costs with slowing headcount expense.
Brian Robins · CFO, Snowflake

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On the call

  • Katherine McCracken — Investor Relations, Snowflake
  • Sridhar Ramaswamy — CEO, Snowflake
  • Brian Robins — CFO, Snowflake

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