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

C3.ai (NYSE:AI) posted its earnings results on Wednesday. The company reported ($0.62) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of ($0.25) by ($0.37), Zacks reports. 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 Stock Performance

NYSE AI traded up $0.10 during trading hours on Wednesday, reaching $26.43. The stock had a trading volume of 7,967,059 shares, compared to its average volume of 4,880,479. C3.ai has a 52-week low of $18.85 and a 52-week high of $45.08. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $33.15 and a 200 day moving average of $29.61. The stock has a market cap of $3.41 billion, a P/E ratio of -11.96 and a beta of 1.98.

Insider Buying and Selling at C3.ai

In other news, CFO Hitesh Lath sold 3,949 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, December 17th. The stock was sold at an average price of $42.36, for a total value of $167,279.64. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer now owns 851 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $36,048.36. The trade was a 82.27 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. Also, Director Richard C. Levin sold 12,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, February 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $29.84, for a total value of $358,080.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director now owns 161,664 shares in the company, valued at $4,824,053.76. The trade was a 6.91 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last ninety days, insiders sold 1,643,311 shares of company stock worth $59,736,620. Company insiders own 33.54% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Ratings Changes

AI has been the topic of a number of recent analyst reports. DA Davidson upgraded shares of C3.ai to a “hold” rating in a report on Wednesday, December 18th. StockNews.com raised shares of C3.ai to a “sell” rating in a report on Tuesday, November 26th. Piper Sandler increased their price objective on C3.ai from $24.00 to $42.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Tuesday, December 10th. KeyCorp downgraded C3.ai from a “sector weight” rating to an “underweight” rating and set a $29.00 target price on the stock. in a research note on Thursday, December 19th. Finally, JMP Securities increased their price target on C3.ai from $40.00 to $55.00 and gave the company a “market outperform” rating in a research note on Tuesday, December 10th. Five analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, five have assigned a hold rating, four have assigned a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $35.00.

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.