Head-To-Head Survey: Amesite (NASDAQ:AMST) vs. Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW)

Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) and Amesite (NASDAQ:AMST) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Snowflake and Amesite, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Snowflake	2	8	23	0	2.64
Amesite	0	0	0	0	N/A

Snowflake presently has a consensus target price of $202.77, suggesting a potential upside of 30.10%. Given Snowflake’s higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Snowflake is more favorable than Amesite.

Profitability

This table compares Snowflake and Amesite’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Snowflake	-29.79%	-13.79%	-9.39%
Amesite	-850.46%	-64.84%	-62.06%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

65.1% of Snowflake shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.6% of Amesite shares are held by institutional investors. 8.3% of Snowflake shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 32.6% of Amesite shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Snowflake and Amesite’s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Snowflake	$2.81 billion	18.56	-$836.10 million	($2.55)	-61.12
Amesite	$850,000.00	9.92	-$4.15 million	N/A	N/A

Amesite has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Snowflake.

Risk & Volatility

Snowflake has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amesite has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Snowflake beats Amesite on 8 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Snowflake

Snowflake Inc. provides a cloud-based data platform for various organizations in the United States and internationally. Its platform offers Data Cloud, which enables customers to consolidate data into a single source of truth to drive meaningful business insights, build data-driven applications, and share data and data products, as well as applies artificial intelligence (AI) for solving business problems. The company was formerly known as Snowflake Computing, Inc. and changed its name to Snowflake Inc. in April 2019. Snowflake Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Bozeman, Montana.

About Amesite

Amesite Inc., an artificial intelligence driven platform and course designer, that provides online products in the United States. The company uses machine learning to offer a mass customized experience to learners. It serves businesses, universities and colleges, K-12 schools, museums, and non-profit organizations. Amesite Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan.