# Snowflake Jumps 23% on $1.55B Quarter, Raises FY27 Outlook to $6.07B

By Marcus Ledger · 2026-09-07 · Data Markets · https://datacommenter.com/snowflake-jumps-23-on-1-55b-quarter-raises-fy27-outlook-to-6-07b/
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> Snowflake shares surged as much as 26% on September 3, 2026 after Q2 revenue rose 35% to $1.55 billion and management raised full-year product-revenue guidance to $6.07 billion from $5.84…

Original reporting: [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/business/snowflake-shares-surge-ai-demand-powers-growth-lifts-outlook-2026-09-03/)
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Was this Snowflake’s earnings, or the market’s mood? Both, unevenly. The underlying report earns the multiple expansion: product revenue hit $1.49 billion, up 37% year-over-year, net revenue retention held at 126%, and management raised its full-year non-GAAP operating-margin target to 14.5% from 13.5% — the kind of guidance beat that actually moves consensus models. But the stock’s 23-26% single-day pop (accounts vary by source and by the minute) landed the same session Bloom Energy, Tesla and Strategy all ripped higher on a dovish signal from Fed Governor Waller, per Bitget’s reporting, which makes isolating the Snowflake-specific alpha from the macro beta trade close to impossible.

> Snowflake’s jump on a 35% revenue beat is as much a referendum on September rate-cut odds as on the AI Data Cloud pitch — Bloom Energy and Tesla don’t sell data warehouses, but they rallied too.

The customer metrics are the more durable story for anyone pricing data infrastructure demand: 692 net new customers, up 32% year-over-year, and 828 accounts now spending more than $1 million on a trailing-12-month basis, up 27%. Remaining performance obligations reached $9 billion, up 30%, which is the line item that tells you what’s actually been contracted rather than what’s been billed. CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy’s claim, cited by Reuters, that AI contributed roughly half the recent acceleration is plausible given CoCo’s reported 9,100 accounts and CoWork’s 5,800 — but Snowflake still books a GAAP net loss of $191.7 million, and heavy stock-based compensation keeps diluting the equity story even as adjusted metrics sing.

For data-market watchers, the more interesting tell is that at least 34 brokerages raised price targets the same day Broadcom’s AI outlook, only marginally ahead of forecasts, got punished 6.8%. That divergence says the market isn’t rewarding AI exposure uniformly anymore — it’s rewarding proof that AI workloads translate into consumption-based revenue growth, which is exactly Snowflake’s business model and exactly what a chipmaker can’t demonstrate quarter to quarter. Watch whether Snowflake’s Q3 print, guided to 37-38% product-revenue growth, holds up against a valuation now priced above 100 times current-year earnings; a stumble here would test how much of Thursday’s move was fundamentals versus a Fed-fueled beta chase.

> Snowflake just delivered the kind of earnings report that can permanently reset expectations for a growth stock, and now investors face a harder question about what comes next after a single-day surge leaves almost no room for error.
> — [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/business/snowflake-shares-surge-ai-demand-powers-growth-lifts-outlook-2026-09-03/)

[Read the full story at Reuters →](https://www.reuters.com/business/snowflake-shares-surge-ai-demand-powers-growth-lifts-outlook-2026-09-03/)

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