What Just Happened To Snowflake Stock?
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Snowflake (SNOW) stock fell 7.2% on Thursday, November 5, 2026, while the S&P 500 lost 4.4%. The company released no earnings reports or filings around the drop, which occurred in a session when the Nasdaq Composite fell 5.5%. What does Snowflake do, and did the stock fall on its own or with its group?
Management Credits AI For Faster Snowflake Growth
Snowflake is a technology company that operates the AI Data Cloud, a data platform for businesses. Management has tied the company’s recent pickup in growth to AI. Product revenue grew 37% from a year earlier in fiscal Q2 2027, marking the third straight quarter in which growth sped up, management said on the September 2, 2026 call.
Newer products, such as AI functions and the AI gateway, contributed approximately half of that speed-up, management said on the same call. Citing strength in both its core data platform and its AI business, management also raised its product revenue forecast for fiscal 2027 to $6.07 billion. For a holder, the AI tie makes Snowflake partly a bet on businesses using AI on its platform.
Snowflake Fell Along With Technology Stocks
While Snowflake fell more than the S&P 500, its drop was smaller than the 8.0% fall in the SPDR technology sector fund (XLK) that session. Among the peers Trefis tracks for Snowflake, Palantir Technologies fell 9.7%, while Oracle, Microsoft, Amazon.com and Alphabet all fell less than Snowflake. The stock moved with technology stocks as a group, not on its own.
For the market, days like this are rare. After the 21 before November 5, the week ahead was a coin flip.
Where Snowflake Stock Stands Now
Big drops are not rare for Snowflake. Over the past year, the stock had 10 sessions with a fall at least this large. The latest came on October 30, 2026, when it lost 7.3%.
Over the past 12 months, Snowflake stock returned 1.6%, against 9.9% for the S&P 500. The stock swung widely over that year, posting its lowest close of $121.11 on April 10, 2026, and its highest of $368.89 on October 9, 2026. It closed at $269.54 on November 5. Over the past month, the stock lost 19.0%, against a 5.7% fall for the S&P 500.
At its November 5 close, Snowflake was valued at 17.3 times its sales over the past twelve months, against 3.2 times for the S&P 500.
Snowflake is expected to report its fiscal third-quarter 2027 results in December 2026. Product revenue growth, which management guided to 37% to 38% for that quarter, is the measure to watch.
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