C3.ai (NYSE:AI) Posts Earnings Results, Misses Estimates By $0.37 EPS

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

C3.ai Price Performance

Shares of C3.ai stock traded down $0.10 during trading on Friday, hitting $23.78. 2,191,645 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 5,053,017. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $32.65 and its 200 day moving average price is $29.55. C3.ai has a twelve month low of $18.85 and a twelve month high of $45.08. The company has a market cap of $3.07 billion, a PE ratio of -10.74 and a beta of 1.98.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several research analysts have issued reports on the stock. JPMorgan Chase & Co. lowered shares of C3.ai from a “neutral” rating to an “underweight” rating and set a $28.00 price target on the stock. in a research report on Wednesday, December 11th. JMP Securities lifted their price target on shares of C3.ai from $40.00 to $55.00 and gave the stock a “market outperform” rating in a research report on Tuesday, December 10th. Piper Sandler decreased their price objective on shares of C3.ai from $42.00 to $28.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday. KeyCorp decreased their price objective on shares of C3.ai from $29.00 to $21.00 and set an “underweight” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday. Finally, Morgan Stanley decreased their price objective on shares of C3.ai from $32.00 to $30.00 and set an “underweight” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday. Five investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, five have given a hold rating, four have assigned a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, C3.ai presently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $31.33.

Insider Activity

In other C3.ai news, Director Stephen M. Ward, Jr. sold 125,000 shares of the business’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 directly owns 546,495 shares in the company, valued at $22,952,790. The trade was a 18.62 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, CFO Hitesh Lath sold 3,949 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, December 17th. The shares were sold at an average price of $42.36, for a total transaction of $167,279.64. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer now owns 851 shares in the company, valued at approximately $36,048.36. This trade represents a 82.27 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last three months, insiders have sold 1,643,311 shares of company stock worth $59,736,620. Corporate insiders own 33.54% of the company’s stock.

About C3.ai

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.