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Snowflake SNOW reported first-quarter fiscal 2026 non-GAAP earnings of 24 cents per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 9.09%. The company reported earnings of 14 cents per share in the year-ago quarter.
Revenues of $1.04 billion beat the consensus mark by 3.74% and rallied 25.7% year over year. Americas, EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) and APJ (Asia Pacific and Japan) contributed 78%, 16% and 6% to revenues, respectively.
Snowflake shares gained 10.88% in pre-market trading. Its shares have returned 16% against the Zacks Computer & Technology sector’s decline of 2%.
Top-Line Details
Snowflake’s product revenues contributed 95.7% to total revenues. The figure was $996.8 million, up 26.2% year over year.
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Professional Services and other revenues contributed 4.3% to total revenues. The figure was $45.3 million, up 15.7% year over year.
In the fiscal first quarter, Snowflake witnessed a net revenue retention rate of 124% for existing customers, down from 126% reported in the previous quarter.
The company reported 18.8% year-over-year growth in the number of customers, reaching 11,578 in the reported quarter.
The company now has 606 customers with trailing 12-month product revenues greater than $1 million (up 27% year over year) and 754 Forbes Global 2000 customers (up 4% year over year). In the reported quarter, SNOW added 451 net new customers, representing a 19% increase year over year.
In the first quarter of fiscal 2026, the company expanded AI offerings significantly, with more than 5,200 accounts using AI/ML weekly.
Operating Details
The non-GAAP gross margin contracted 90 basis points (bps) year over year to 72.4%.
The product gross margin continued to expand, driven by product improvements, favourable cloud agreement pricing, improving scale and a growing enterprise customer base.
Research & development expenses, as a percentage of revenues, decreased 160 bps on a year-over-year basis to 22.9%.
General & administrative expenses, as a percentage of revenues, were 6.1%, down 80 bps year over year.
Sales and marketing expenses, as a percentage of revenues, declined 340 bps on a year-over-year basis to 34.3%.
Total operating expenses, as a percentage of revenues, were 63.4% compared with 69.1% reported in the year-ago quarter.
Operating income was $91.7 million in the reported quarter, compared with $36.2 million reported in the year-ago quarter.