AES Corp vs Snowflake Inc — how do they compare? AES Corp trades at $14.7 (market cap $10.49B), while Snowflake Inc trades at $332.42 (market cap $116.01B). The key difference: Snowflake Inc is far larger — about 11.1× AES Corp's market cap, and AES Corp pays a 4.79% dividend while Snowflake Inc pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| AES | SNOW | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $10.49B | $116.01B |
Sector | Utilities | Technology |
52-Week High | $17.28 | $334.70 |
52-Week Low | $12.51 | $121.11 |
Enterprise Value | $40.75B | $115.82B |
Dividend Yield | 4.79% | — |
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AES is a global power company operating across 14 countries and 4 continents. Its current generation portfolio as of year-end 2021 consists of over 31 gigawatts of generation, with the generation mix composed of renewables (43%), gas (32%), coal (23%), and oil (2%). The company has 3.5 gigawatts of generation under construction. AES has majority ownership and operates six electric utilities distributing power to 2.6 million customers.
Read more on AES →Founded in 2012, Snowflake is a data lake, warehousing, and sharing company that came public in 2020. To date, the company has over 3,000 customers including nearly 30% of the Fortune 500 as its customers. Snowflake's data lake stores unstructured and semistructured data that can then be used in analytics to create insights stored in its data warehouse. Snowflake's data sharing capability allows enterprises to easily buy and ingest data almost instantaneously compared with a traditionally months-long process. Overall, the company is known for the fact that all of its data solutions that can be hosted on various public clouds.
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