McLain Capital recently released its Q3 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download here. The fund posted a return of -6.3% for the quarter (net of fees), underperforming its benchmark, the S&P 500 Index which returned 8.93% in the same quarter. However, you should check out McLain Capital’s top 5 stock picks for investors to buy right now, which could be the biggest winners this year.
In the said letter, McLain Capital highlighted a few stocks and Snowflake Inc. (NYSE:SNOW) is one of them. Snowflake Inc. (NYSE:SNOW) is a cloud-based data-warehousing company. Snowflake Inc. (NYSE:SNOW) stock lost 1.4% in the last five trading days and on October 13th it had a closing price of $249.61. Here is what McLain Capital said:
“The recent IPO of Snowflake (SNOW) provides a great example of the market’s current state of euphoria and suspension of sanity. Snowflake’s core business is a promising cloud-based data storage and analytics service termed “data warehouse-as-a-service”. Having IPO’d last month at vastly oversubscribed level of $120/share, its share price more than doubled the first day of trading and has since settled at ~$240/share. However, with an $85bln fully diluted market capitalization on a mere $400mm in trailing twelve month sales, Snowflake is valued at an astronomical 212x revenue. Assuming Snowflake will, in 10 years, trade at a generous 30x earnings and earn 15% net margins, revenues would have to grow by a factor of 122x for investors to earn just a 10% annual rate of return. Notably, these assumptions would require that Snowflake grow revenues significantly faster than any non-biotech public company has in history – calling that a heroic assumption would be an understatement. We have no current position in Snowflake.”
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Our calculations showed that Snowflake Inc. (NYSE:SNOW) isn’t ranked among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
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