Reviewing Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) and Maquia Capital Acquisition (NASDAQ:MAQC)

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

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%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

12.4% of Maquia Capital Acquisition shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.1% of Snowflake shares are owned by institutional investors. 79.6% of Maquia Capital Acquisition shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.8% of Snowflake shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Maquia Capital Acquisition and Snowflake”s gross 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	$3.41 billion	16.58	-$836.10 million	($3.39)	-50.60

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

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Maquia Capital Acquisition and Snowflake, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	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 price target of $183.89, suggesting a potential upside of 7.20%. Given Snowflake’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Snowflake is more favorable than Maquia Capital Acquisition.

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.