C3.ai Inc (NYSE:AI): Buy, Sell Or Hold At $29.05?

In recent trading session, C3.ai Inc (NYSE:AI) saw 1.48 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 1.72. Company’s recent per share price level of $29.05 trading at $0.4 or 1.40% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $3.55B. That most recent trading price of AI’s stock is at a discount of -68.23% from its 52-week high price of $48.87 and is indicating a premium of 42.2% from its 52-week low price of $16.79. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 5.39 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 8.52 million if we extend that period to 3-months.

C3.ai Inc (NYSE:AI) trade information

Upright in the green today for gaining 1.40%, in the last five days AI remained trading in the red while hitting it’s week-highest on Thursday, 03/21/24 when the stock touched $29.05 price level, adding 1.36% to its value on the day. C3.ai Inc’s shares saw a change of 1.18% in year-to-date performance and have moved -0.17% in past 5-day. C3.ai Inc (NYSE:AI) showed a performance of 10.96% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 34.33 million shares which calculate 3.43 days to cover the short interests.

C3.ai Inc (AI) estimates and forecasts

Statistics highlight that C3.ai Inc is scoring comparatively lower than the scores of other players of the relevant industry. The company added 10.04% of value to its shares in past 6 months, showing an annual growth rate of -59.52% while that of industry is 6.20. Apart from that, the company came lowering its revenue forecast for fiscal year 2024. The company is estimating its revenue growth to decrease by -130.80% in the current quarter and calculating -66.70% decrease in the next quarter. This year revenue growth is estimated to rise 15.60% from the last financial year’s standing.

13 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of $84.39 million for the same. And 10 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of $85.88 million in the next quarter that will end on Jul 2024.

Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of -62.57% during past 5 years.

AI Dividends

C3.ai Inc is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report between May 29 and June 03 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt.

C3.ai Inc (NYSE:AI)’s Major holders

Insiders are in possession of 9.55% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 46.75 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 51.69%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 46.75% institutions for C3.ai Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. Vanguard Group Inc is the top institutional holder at AI for having 10.33 million shares of worth $300.09 million. And as of Dec 30, 2023, it was holding 8.71% of the company’s outstanding shares.

The second largest institutional holder is Blackrock Inc., which was holding about 6.75 million shares on Dec 30, 2023. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 5.69% of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $196.1 million.

On the other hand, Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard Small-Cap Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Dec 30, 2023, the former fund manager was holding 3.24 million shares of worth $94.13 million or 2.73% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 2.63 million shares on Dec 30, 2023, making its stake of worth around $76.35 million in the company or a holder of 2.22% of company’s stock.