Databricks Secures Nearly $1.8B in Debt Financing, Total Debt Reaches $7.05B
Written by Emily J. Thompson, Senior Investment Analyst
Updated: 1d ago
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Source: seekingalpha
- Expanded Financing: Databricks has engaged with investors to secure nearly $1.8 billion in new debt financing, increasing its term loan from $500 million to $1.15 billion, significantly enhancing liquidity to support future growth.
- Revolving Loan Increase: The company raised its revolving loan capacity from $2.5 billion to $3.65 billion, a move that not only boosts financial flexibility but also provides stronger funding support in its competitive data analytics market.
- Increased Debt Burden: Following this debt increase, Databricks now carries a total debt of $7.05 billion, which may pose pressure on its future financial health, especially in competition with rivals like Snowflake.
- Significant Revenue Growth: In its latest earnings report, Databricks announced a year-over-year revenue growth exceeding 55%, reaching a $4.8 billion annual run rate, demonstrating strong performance in the rapidly growing data analytics sector.
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Wall Street analysts forecast SNOW stock price to rise over the next 12 months. According to Wall Street analysts, the average 1-year price target for SNOW is 285.29 USD with a low forecast of 237.00 USD and a high forecast of 325.00 USD. However, analyst price targets are subjective and often lag stock prices, so investors should focus on the objective reasons behind analyst rating changes, which better reflect the company's fundamentals.
34 Analyst Rating
32 Buy
2 Hold
0 Sell
Strong Buy
Current: 211.130
Low
237.00
Averages
285.29
High
325.00
Current: 211.130
Low
237.00
Averages
285.29
High
325.00
About SNOW
Snowflake Inc. is a data cloud and artificial intelligence company. Its platform is the technology that powers the AI Data Cloud, enabling customers to consolidate data into a single source of truth to drive meaningful insights, apply artificial intelligence (AI) to solve business problems, build data applications, and share data and data products. It provides its platform through a customer-centric, and consumption-based business model. Its cloud-native architecture consists of three independently scalable but logically integrated layers across compute, storage, and cloud services. The compute layer provides dedicated resources to enable users to simultaneously access common data sets for many use cases with minimal latency. The storage layer ingests massive amounts and varieties of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data to create a unified data record. Its ClearQuery platform allows users to rapidly search, explore, and analyze their data using natural language queries.
About the author
Emily J. Thompson
Emily J. Thompson, a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with 12 years in investment research, graduated with honors from the Wharton School. Specializing in industrial and technology stocks, she provides in-depth analysis for Intellectia’s earnings and market brief reports.
