Snowflake banners decorate the New York Stock Exchange to market the debut of the software company’s shares in New York on Sept. 16, 2020.
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Snowflake is set to make its market debut on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, in the largest ever software IPO.
As of 12:29 p.m. ET, shares were indicated to open between $238 to $241. Snowflake on Tuesday priced shares at $120, higher than the $100 to $110 range it estimated on Monday, and a huge bump from the $75 to $85 range it proposed in a filing last week.
The stock will trade under the symbol “SNOW.”
Investors are anticipating a blockbuster opening for the company that’s generating over $500 million in annualized revenue and grew over 130% in the first half of 2020. The stock received a vote of confidence last week, when Snowflake revealed in a filing that Berkshire Hathaway and Salesforce each agreed to buy $250 million of stock at the IPO price in a concurrent private placement. Berkshire Hathaway also agreed to buy 4.04 million shares in a secondary transaction.
Snowflake is growing alongside the major public cloud vendors by providing technology that allows clients to quickly analyze and share vast amounts of data and increase capacity as needed, rather than relying on databases that are tied to hardware. It’s the first of several technology companies to go public this week in one of the busiest stretches of the year, despite the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Snowflake ranked No. 40 on the 2020 CNBC Disruptor 50 list.
—CNBC’s Jordan Novet and Ari Levy contributed to this report.
