C3.ai (NYSE:AI) Posts Earnings Results

C3.ai (NYSE:AI) issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday. The company reported ($0.62) earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.25) by ($0.37), Zacks reports. C3.ai had a negative return on equity of 31.31% and a negative net margin of 79.17%. The business had revenue of $98.78 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $98.12 million. C3.ai updated its Q4 2025 guidance to EPS and its FY 2025 guidance to EPS.

C3.ai Trading Down 0.4 %

NYSE:AI traded down $0.10 on Friday, reaching $23.78. The stock had a trading volume of 2,191,645 shares, compared to its average volume of 5,053,017. The company has a 50-day moving average of $32.65 and a 200 day moving average of $29.55. The stock has a market cap of $3.07 billion, a P/E ratio of -10.74 and a beta of 1.98. C3.ai has a 12-month low of $18.85 and a 12-month high of $45.08.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of research analysts have weighed in on AI shares. JPMorgan Chase & Co. lowered C3.ai from a “neutral” rating to an “underweight” rating and set a $28.00 price target on the stock. in a research note on Wednesday, December 11th. Morgan Stanley dropped their price objective on C3.ai from $32.00 to $30.00 and set an “underweight” rating for the company in a report on Thursday. StockNews.com upgraded C3.ai to a “sell” rating in a report on Tuesday, November 26th. KeyCorp dropped their price objective on C3.ai from $29.00 to $21.00 and set an “underweight” rating for the company in a report on Thursday. Finally, Northland Securities upped their price objective on C3.ai from $35.00 to $45.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Tuesday, December 10th. Five analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, five have given a hold rating, four have issued a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the company has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $31.33.

Insider Buying and Selling at C3.ai

In other C3.ai news, Director Stephen M. Ward, Jr. sold 125,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, December 9th. The shares were sold at an average price of $42.00, for a total value of $5,250,000.00. Following the transaction, the director now owns 546,495 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $22,952,790. This trade represents a 18.62 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at this link. Also, VP Merel Witteveen sold 11,132 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, December 30th. The stock was sold at an average price of $34.95, for a total transaction of $389,063.40. Following the completion of the transaction, the vice president now directly owns 4,142 shares in the company, valued at $144,762.90. This represents a 72.88 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold a total of 1,643,311 shares of company stock valued at $59,736,620 in the last ninety days. Insiders own 33.54% of the company’s stock.

C3.ai Company Profile

C3.ai, Inc operates as an enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) software company in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. The company provides C3 AI platform, an application development and runtime environment that enables customers to design, develop, and deploy enterprise AI applications; C3 AI Ex Machina for analysis-ready data; C3 AI CRM, an industry specific customer relationship management solution; and C3 Generative AI Product Suite that enables to locate, retrieve, and present information.