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Horizon
Consolidated fair value $485.40 all other verticals held in this portfolio case
Final-quarter revenue $91M 1% of company revenue
Explicit segment contribution −$615M EBITDA less segment capex, before corporate items

The CEO's stated destination, priced. Snowflake stops being the warehouse that AI products attach to and becomes what Sridhar Ramaswamy calls the control plane for the Agentic Enterprise, so first-party AI pulls core platform consumption behind it: the CFO's version is that Cortex Code 'had the largest driver to the increase in our forecast' and 'encourages faster, more consumption of the data platform'. Net revenue retention holds above 126% for longer than the base allows and the operating margin ladder runs past the guided 13.5% as the AI gross-margin drag is offset by lower bandwidth cost under the new AWS contract. What this case does not reach is any disclosed long-term target, because Snowflake has none in force: no revenue, margin or customer goal beyond fiscal 2027 appears in the FY2026 10-K, the Q1 FY2027 release or the Q1 FY2027 call. It is a thesis, not guidance.

Professional services and other

Basis quarter$55M
Final quarter$91M
Implied CAGR+11%
Final revenue mix1%

Implementation, training and education attached to platform deployments. It is sold to seed consumption rather than for profit: it carried a 37.1% GAAP gross loss and an 8.2% non-GAAP gross loss in the basis quarter and has never been gross-profitable in the nine disclosed quarters. At 4% of revenue it is immaterial to value but it is the second half of the only revenue split Snowflake publishes, so it is carried explicitly rather than folded into the platform line.

Last four quarters
2026 Q3 $55M Reported
2026 Q4 $57M Reported
2027 Q1 $57M Reported
2027 Q2 $55M Reported
Professional servicesTraining and educationOther
Sequential growth −1.0%/qtr decaying toward +2.4% -1.0% into Q3. Professional services was flat year on year at $54.9M and Snowflake does not guide it.
Professional services and other

Latest: $91M (2032Q2E)

Period Value
2025Q1 $39M
2025Q2 $40M
2025Q3 $42M
2025Q4 $43M
2026Q1 $45M
2026Q2 $54M
2026Q3 $55M
2026Q4 $57M
2027Q1 $57M
2027Q2 $55M
2027Q3E $55M
2027Q4E $55M
2028Q1E $56M
2028Q2E $57M
2028Q3E $58M
2028Q4E $59M
2029Q1E $61M
2029Q2E $62M
2029Q3E $64M
2029Q4E $66M
2030Q1E $68M
2030Q2E $70M
2030Q3E $72M
2030Q4E $75M
2031Q1E $77M
2031Q2E $80M
2031Q3E $82M
2031Q4E $85M
2032Q1E $88M
2032Q2E $91M

Assumptions & reasoning

  • Snowflake discloses no headcount, utilisation, billable-hours, day-rate or backlog measure for this line, so a base growth rate is the only honest driver. Any unit or capacity build would be invented.
  • The FY2026 Q2 step from $45.3 million to $54.5 million is a level shift that has held for four quarters, not a season; the base is roughly $55 to $57 million a quarter growing with deployments.
  • Ratio to a centred four-quarter moving average puts the apparent fiscal-quarter factors at 0.946, 1.065, 1.003 and 0.979, an 11.9-point spread - but every quarter index has a single usable window, and the whole shape is that one level shift sitting in the FY2026 Q1 and Q2 slots. A level change cannot be separated from a season on one observation, so this line is modelled as aseasonal.
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