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Technology / Software - InfrastructureUpdated 2026-05-10 22:07 UTC

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C3.ai is a pre-profit enterprise AI software provider facing a severe near-term revenue contraction. Despite a massive market opportunity in AI, the company's financial model is burdened by exorbitant SBC and negative operating margins. The valuation depends heavily on stabilizing revenue and executing a successful pivot to consumption-based pricing.

Fair value midpoint
$13.1
$9.80 - $17.4
Upside to midpoint
+33.1%
Based on latest report
Confidence
65/100
Data quality and model convergence
Market cap
$1.4B
NYSE
Our take
Research highlights

What our analysis says

Pulled from the latest published report. The full reasoning lives under /analysis.

Biggest opportunity
Bull case
Bull: Enterprise AI adoption explodes, validating C3.ai's consumption pivot and driving revenue growth acceleration, while operating leverage begins to manifest.
Biggest risk
Hyperscaler Commoditization
12-24 months
Recommended action
Strong Buy
Strong Buy based on an EV/Revenue stabilization scenario, though constrained by low confidence and weak accounting quality.
Market data

Live price

Current market quote for this ticker.

Current price
AI
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Bull, base, and bear cases with expected-return framing.
Valuation
Models
Fair-value bridge, DCF, owner earnings, and peer multiples.
Sensitivity
Grid
Cost-of-equity and terminal-growth stress table.
Risks
Bear case
Kill scenarios, soft-pass flags, and downside catalysts.
Earnings
Decision tree
Next earnings setup and beat / inline / miss thresholds.
Position sizing
Checkpoints
Entry, exit, conviction, and quarterly monitoring rules.
Financials
History
Revenue, margins, cash flow, and balance-sheet context.
Peers
Comps
Relative valuation and profitability against the cohort.
Moat
Durability
Economic-profit evidence and competitive advantage risk.
Industry cycle
Context
Sector phase, capital cycle, and secular tailwinds.
Scorecard
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Six-factor overlay and 9-category weighted scorecard.
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Verdict
Final action, action steps, opportunity, and biggest risk.
Perspectives
Lenses
Growth, value, and income investor reads.
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History
Prior monthly reports and rating changes.
Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E0
P25 12.5P50 22.3P75 38.6
Trailing P/E0
P25 16.3P50 33.5P75 65.6
ROE-55
P25 -30.7P50 1.5P75 14.4
ROIC-35.4
P25 -18.6P50 1.9P75 13.7
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Indicator catalog

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A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

Available fields
212
Groups with data
11
Currency
USD
Showing 212 of 212 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

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MetricValue
Cik
0001577526
Company name
C3.ai, Inc.
Country
United States
Country code
US
Cusip
12468P104
Employees
1,181
Employees Change
290%
Employees Change Percent
32.55
Enterprise value
$872.4M
Exchange
NYSE
Financial currency
USD
First seen
2026-05-09
Industry
Software - Infrastructure
IPO Date
2020-12-09
Isin
US12468P1049
Last refreshed
2026-05-10
Market cap
$1.4B
Market cap category
Small-Cap
Price
$9.87
Price currency
USD
Rev Per Employee
260,280.27x
Sector
Technology
Sic
7372
Symbol
AI
Tags
artificial-intelligence
Website
https://www.c3.ai

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

7
MetricValue
Earnings Yield
-30.3%
EV Sales Forward
3.99x
EV/Sales
2.84x
FCF yield
-8.86%
P/B ratio
1.98x
P/S ratio
4.67x
PS Forward
6.56x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

19
MetricValue
EBIT Margin
-151.7%
EBITDA Margin
-147.4%
Gross margin
43.45%
Gross Profit
$133.6M
Gross Profit Growth
-39.28%
Gross Profit Growth Q
-84.17%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y
-10.75%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y
0.51%
Net Income
$-434.5M
Net Income Growth Years
0%
Pretax Margin
-141.08%
Profit Margin
-141.35%
Profit Per Employee
$-367,910
ROA
-29.88
Roa5y
-13.91
ROCE
-60.03
ROE
-55.01
Roe5y
-24.05
ROIC
-35.45

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

9
MetricValue
Cagr1y
-55.74%
Cagr3y
-19.18%
Cagr5y
-29.42%
EPS Growth Years
2
Revenue Growth
-16.23x
Revenue Growth Q
-46.08x
Revenue Growth Years
6x
Revenue Growth3 Y
4.85x
Revenue Growth5 Y
12.24x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

18
MetricValue
Asset Turnover
$0.32
Assets
$895.8M
Cash
$621.9M
Current Assets
$782.7M
Current Liabilities
$118.9M
Debt
$60.3M
Debt Equity
$0.08
Equity
$719.5M
Liabilities
$176.3M
Long Term Assets
$113.1M
Long Term Liabilities
$57.4M
Net Cash
$561.7M
Net Cash By Market Cap
$39.17
Net Cash Growth
-21.97%
Net Debt Equity
$-0.78
Tangible Book Value
$718.8M
Tangible Book Value Per Share
$4.99
WACC
14.57

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

5
MetricValue
Current ratio
6.58
Net Working Capital
$47.2M
Quick ratio
6.27
Working Capital
$663.8M
Working Capital Turnover
$0.42

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

1
MetricValue
Buyback Yield
-8.54%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

39
MetricValue
1Y total return
-55.72%
200-day SMA
14.11
3Y total return
-47.22%
50-day SMA
8.85
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA
50under200
5Y total return
-82.48%
All Time High
183.9
All Time High Change
-94.63%
All Time High Date
2020-12-23
All Time Low
7.68
All Time Low Change
28.6%
All Time Low Date
2026-03-30
ATR
0.48
Beta
1.99
Beta1y
1.93
Beta2y
1.94
Ch YTD
-26.78
High
9.88
High52
30.24
High52 Date
2025-05-29
High52ch
-67.36%
Low
9.2
Low52
7.68
Low52 Date
2026-03-30
Low52ch
28.6%
Ma50ch
11.55%
Premarket Change Percent
-0.94
Premarket Price
$9.49
Premarket Volume
46,566
Price vs 200-day SMA
-30.04%
RSI
63.46
RSI Monthly
35.55
RSI Weekly
40.72
Sharpe ratio
-0.92x
Sortino ratio
-1.14
Tr YTD
-26.78
Tr1m
13.06%
Tr1w
7.75%
Tr3m
-15.28%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

13
MetricValue
Analyst Count
14
Analyst Count Top
2
Analyst Price Target Top
$15
Analyst Ratings
Hold
Analyst Ratings Top
Buy
Earnings EPS Estimate
$-0.45
Earnings Revenue Estimate
50,052,368x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth
-53.95x
Operating Income
$-466.3M
Operating margin
-151.7
Price target
$14
Price Target Change
$41.84
Price Target Change Top
$51.98

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

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MetricValue
Float
135,192,979%
Float Percent
93.05%
Shares Insiders
6.31%
Shares Institutions
54.75%
Shares Out
145,291,222
Shares Qo Q
2.38%
Shares Yo Y
8.54%
Short Float
32.55%
Short Ratio
9.24
Short Shares
30.28

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

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MetricValue
Adjusted FCF
$-393.2M
Average Volume
4,468,023.1x
Bv Per Share
4.99
CAPEX
$-2.5M
Ch1m
13.06
Ch1w
7.75
Ch1y
-55.72
Ch3m
-15.28
Ch3y
-47.22
Ch5y
-82.48
Ch6m
-36.4
Change
3.03%
Change From Open
4.56
Close
9.58
Days Gap
-1.46
Depreciation Amortization
13,206,000
Dollar Volume
42,826,463
Earnings Date
2026-05-27
Earnings Time
amc
EBIT
$-466.3M
EBITDA
$-453.1M
EPS
$-3.17
F Score
1
FCF
$-127M
FCF EV Yield
-14.56x
FCF Per Share
$-0.87
Financing CF
14,183,000
Fiscal Year End
April
Founded
2,009
Goodwill
625,000
Income Tax
$822,000
Investing CF
74,094,000
Ipr
-76.5
Iprfo
-90.13
Is Primary Listing
1
Is Spac
No
Last Earnings Date
2026-02-25
Last Report Date
2026-01-31
Last Split Type
Never
Last10k Filing Date
2025-06-23
Ma150
12.55
Ma150ch
-21.34%
Ma20
9.12
Ma20ch
8.22%
Net CF
-36,247,000
Next Earnings Date
2026-05-27
Open
9.44
Optionable
Yes
Position In Range
98.53
Post Close
9.87
Postmarket Change Percent
-0.2
Postmarket Price
$9.85
Ppne
70,798,000
Pre Close
9.58
Price Date
2026-05-08
Ptbv Ratio
1.99
Relative Volume
0.97x
Revenue
307,391,000x
SBC By Revenue
86.58x
Share Based Comp
266,143,000
Tax By Revenue
0.27x
Tr6m
-36.4%
Us State
California
Volume
4,339,054
Z Score
6.12
Fast facts

Decision checkpoints

A compact product layer over the same report payload.

Risk gate
3
Named kill scenarios are reviewed before any bullish rating can stand.
Moat score
3/10
Business quality stays separate from stock attractiveness.
Forward P/E
0.0x
Valuation uses the full report model stack, not a single multiple.
Next action
Strong Buy
Final action steps are kept in the recommendation tab.
Our take
Income

Does AI pay a dividend?

Capital-return profile for this ticker.

Performance

AI stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

1Y total return
-55.7%
S&P 500 1Y: n/a
3Y total return
-47.2%
S&P 500 3Y: n/a
5Y total return
-82.5%
S&P 500 5Y: n/a
10Y total return
n/a
S&P 500 10Y: n/a
Ownership

Who owns AI?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership
+54.7%
Float: +93.0% of shares outstanding
Insider ownership
+6.3%
Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.
Short interest
+32.5%
9.2 days to cover
Y/Y dilution
+8.5%
Negative means the company is buying back shares.
Technical

AI momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)
63.5
Neutral momentum band
Price vs 200-day MA
-30.0%
50/200-day relationship not available
Beta (5Y)
1.99
More volatile than the market
Sharpe ratio
-0.92
Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.
Peers

AI vs. sector cohort

Currency-neutral comparison: P/E, P/S, ROIC, 5Y revenue CAGR, and 1Y total return. Market-cap column appears only when every peer reports in the same currency.

TickerNameMarket capP/EP/SROIC5Y rev CAGR1Y total returnRating
CRWDCrowdStrike Holdings Inc.134.3B—27.9x-358.8%+40.6%+24.9%Vender
INTCIntel Corporation627.8B—11.7x1.5%-7.1%+515.1%Vender
MRNAModerna Inc.21.6B—9.7x-66.2%-4.0%+125.9%Manter
Questions

About AI

Hub-level FAQ points readers to the deeper analysis pages.

What is the current AI stock rating?

C3.ai, Inc. is currently shown with Strong Buy in the latest report. The hub links directly to the full analysis surface where the rating, fair-value bridge, risks, and scorecard are documented together.

Where can I read the full AI analysis?

The full report lives at /stocks/AI/analysis. The bare ticker page is a product hub that summarizes the latest read and sends readers into the relocated analysis tabs without making the analysis surface depend on the hub.

What fair-value range is used for AI?

The latest report frames AI around $10 to $17. Treat that range as the entry point, then check the valuation, sensitivity, and bear-case tabs before making an investment decision.

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