The following is a summary of the Snowflake Inc. (SNOW) Q1 2025 Earnings Call Transcript:
Financial Performance:
- Snowflake reported Q1 product revenue of $790 million, up 34% year-over-year.
- Remaining Performance Obligations grew 46% year-over-year to $5 billion.
- Non-GAAP adjusted free cash flow margin stood at 44%.
- Snowflake expects Q2 product revenue between $805 million to $810 million and full year product revenue of approximately $3.3 billion, a 24% increase year-on-year.
- Storage mix as a percent of revenue remained at 11%.
Business Progress:
- Growth was primarily driven by data product and increased layer of AI applications.
- Over 750 customers are using new AI capabilities, with significant upgrades in acquisition team in commercial space and business development.
- AI product, Cortex, became generally available and features such as Iceberg, Snowpark Container Services, and Hybrid Tables are expected to be released by year-end.
- Snowflake began migrating several large Global 2,000 customers to Snowpark in Q1, with more than 50% customers now using it.
- Acquisition of certain technology assets and key staff from TruEra is ongoing to enhance AI capabilities.
- Snowflake is noticing a trend towards long-term commitments from customers – exemplified by a $100M deal in Q1 with potential for another in Q2.
- Ongoing efforts to expand the range of applications run on Snowflake through product innovations like Container Services and Hybrid Tables.
- Partnerships formed with several companies to strengthen AI capabilities and grow the data on the platform.
- Snowflake is focusing on AI solutions like Cortex and Arctic, using vector embedding and the Cortex index.
- Plans are afoot to automate complex tasks with Snowflake and enable direct access to data, aligning with their vision of a ‘single box’ enterprise solution.
- All sectors posted growth, with notable improvements in technology and healthcare.