Critical Review: Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) vs. Maquia Capital Acquisition (NASDAQ:MAQC)

Maquia Capital Acquisition (NASDAQ:MAQC) and Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) are both business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership and earnings.

Profitability

This table compares Maquia Capital Acquisition and Snowflake’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Maquia Capital Acquisition	N/A	-10.66%	10.86%
Snowflake	-33.02%	-24.23%	-13.30%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

12.4% of Maquia Capital Acquisition shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.1% of Snowflake shares are held by institutional investors. 79.6% of Maquia Capital Acquisition shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.8% of Snowflake shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Maquia Capital Acquisition and Snowflake, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Maquia Capital Acquisition	0	0	0	0	0.00
Snowflake	1	10	27	0	2.68

Snowflake has a consensus target price of $181.09, suggesting a potential downside of 1.63%. Given Snowflake’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Snowflake is more favorable than Maquia Capital Acquisition.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Maquia Capital Acquisition and Snowflake”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Maquia Capital Acquisition	N/A	N/A	-$960,000.00	N/A	N/A
Snowflake	$2.81 billion	21.99	-$836.10 million	($3.39)	-54.30

Maquia Capital Acquisition has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Snowflake.

About Maquia Capital Acquisition

Maquia Capital Acquisition Corporation does not have significant operations. It focuses on effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities. The company intends to focus its search on technology-focused middle market and emerging growth companies in North America. Maquia Capital Acquisition Corporation was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Miami, Florida.

About Snowflake

Snowflake Inc. provides a cloud-based data platform for various organizations in the United States and internationally. Its platform offers Data Cloud, which enables customers to consolidate data into a single source of truth to drive meaningful business insights, build data-driven applications, and share data and data products, as well as applies artificial intelligence (AI) for solving business problems. The company was formerly known as Snowflake Computing, Inc. and changed its name to Snowflake Inc. in April 2019. Snowflake Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Bozeman, Montana.