In the latest trading session, 1.02 million C3.ai Inc (NYSE:AI) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.99. With the company’s most recent per share price at $35.61 changing hands around $0.15 or 0.42% at last look, the market valuation stands at $4.60B. AI’s current price is a discount, trading about -26.59% off its 52-week high of $45.08. The share price had its 52-week low at $18.85, which suggests the last value was 47.07% up since then. When we look at C3.ai Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 16.12 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 6.75 million.

Analysts gave the C3.ai Inc (AI) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 3.20. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 2 out of 11 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 4 recommended AI as a Hold, 5 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. C3.ai Inc’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be -0.25.

C3.ai Inc (NYSE:AI) trade information

Instantly AI is in green as seen in intraday trades today. With action -16.92%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 24.03%, with the 5-day performance at -16.92% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, C3.ai Inc (NYSE:AI) is -4.84% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 22.77 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 7.99 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 29.5, meaning bulls need a downside of -20.71% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, AI’s forecast low is 24 with 35 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a 1.71% surge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 32.6% for it to hit the projected low.

C3.ai Inc (AI) estimates and forecasts

Data shows that the C3.ai Inc share is performing relatively much not better than most of its peers within the same industry. As can be gleaned from the statistics, the company’s share value shot 28.84% over the past 6 months, a -34.04% in annual growth rate that is considerably lower than the industry average of 14.80%. Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 24.97% up from the last financial year.

Consensus estimates given by 13 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 98.05M. 13 analysts are of the opinion that C3.ai Inc’s revenue for the current quarter will be 108.47M. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 78.4M and 86.59M respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at 25.06%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 25.27%.

Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of -46.24%. The 2024 estimates are for C3.ai Inc earnings to decrease by -32.86%.

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C3.ai Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in January.

C3.ai Inc (NYSE:AI)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 9.00% of C3.ai Inc shares while 49.93% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 54.86%. There are 49.93% institutions holding the C3.ai Inc stock share, with VANGUARD GROUP INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 9.6544% of the shares, roughly 11.52 million AI shares worth $333.73 million.

BLACKROCK INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 6.2607% or 7.47 million shares worth $216.42 million as of 2024-06-30.