10 Best Stocks to Invest in for the Next 3 Years

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6. Snowflake Inc. (NYSE:SNOW)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 102

EPS Fwd Long Term Growth (3-5Y CAGR): ~45.7%

Snowflake Inc. (NYSE:SNOW) is one of the Best Stocks to Invest in for the Next 3 Years. On December 15, Raymond James assumed coverage of the company’s stock with an “Outperform” rating and with a price objective of $250, down from the prior target of $274. Analyst Adam Tindle believes that the company is at an inflection point, evolving from a cloud data warehouse into the broader data and AI platform, while long-term growth and margin durability remain under scrutiny.

Snowflake Inc. (NYSE:SNOW) has been pushing to unify structured, semi-structured, unstructured, and transactional workloads. It is also enabling application development via Snowpark and container services. Since Snowflake Inc. (NYSE:SNOW) runs on the usage-based model, its growth is sensitive to customer optimization cycles, added the analyst. While the company has invested in automation and cost-governance tools, there are questions about visibility into durable usage growth.

In a different update, Snowflake Inc. (NYSE:SNOW) announced a significant milestone in the strategic collaboration with AWS, doubling the transaction growth in AWS Marketplace YoY to surpass $2 billion in sales in a calendar year. The seamless integration between the company’s fully managed data and AI platform and AWS services continues to accelerate growth and empower customers to transform businesses in the age of AI.

Snowflake Inc. (NYSE:SNOW) offers a cloud-based data platform for organizations.

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