Nasdaq Inc vs Snowflake Inc — how do they compare? Nasdaq Inc trades at $90.25 (market cap $51.96B), while Snowflake Inc trades at $271.42 (market cap $95.09B). The key difference: Snowflake Inc is the larger of the two by market cap, and Nasdaq Inc pays a 1.22% dividend while Snowflake Inc pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| NDAQ | SNOW | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $51.96B | $95.09B |
Sector | Financials | Technology |
52-Week High | $100.98 | $280.16 |
52-Week Low | $76.85 | $121.11 |
Enterprise Value | $59.02B | $94.90B |
Dividend Yield | 1.22% | — |
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Founded in 1971, Nasdaq is primarily known for its equity exchange, but in addition to its market-services business (about 35% of sales), the company sells and distributes market data as well as offers Nasdaq-branded indexes to asset managers and investors through its information-services segment (30%). Nasdaq's corporate-services business (20%) offers listing services and related investor relations products to publicly traded companies and through the company's market technology group (15%), Nasdaq facilitates the exchange operations of other exchanges throughout the world and provides financial compliance services.
Read more on NDAQ →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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