Snowflake Inc vs United Microelectronics Corp — how do they compare? Snowflake Inc trades at $271.69 (market cap $95.09B), while United Microelectronics Corp trades at $21.13 (market cap $51.00B). The key difference: Snowflake Inc is the larger of the two by market cap, and United Microelectronics Corp pays a 2.03% dividend while Snowflake Inc pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| SNOW | UMC | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $95.09B | $51.00B |
Sector | Technology | Technology |
52-Week High | $280.16 | $28.02 |
52-Week Low | $121.11 | $6.58 |
Enterprise Value | $94.90B | $48.57B |
Dividend Yield | — | 2.03% |
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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.
Read more on SNOW →Founded in 1980, United Microelectronics is the world's third-largest dedicated chip foundry, with 7% market share in 2021, according to Gartner, after TSMC and GlobalFoundries. UMC's headquarters are in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and it operates 12 fabs in Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan and Singapore, with additional sales offices in Europe, the U.S. and South Korea. UMC features a diverse customer base including Texas Instruments, MediaTek, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Xilinx and Realtek, supplying a wide range of products applied in communications, display, memory, automotive and more. UMC employs about 20,000 people.
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