AIC3.ai, Inc. — stock analysis & sentiment
C3.ai, Inc. (AI) last closed at $9.93, in the lower half of its 52-week range of $7.68–$20.22. Composite market sentiment across 1 analysis is negative (-19 on a −100 to +100 scale), as of Aug 16, 2026.
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C3.ai closed at $9.93, sitting in the lower half of a 52-week range that runs from $7.68 to $20.22. The high is more than double the low, and the current price is closer to the bottom of that span than the top — a band that wide over twelve months describes a stock that has moved in large swings rather than drifting.
The pricing picture is shaped by the fact that the company is not profitable. Forward P/E comes in at ‑22.0, a figure that only appears when expected earnings are negative, so the usual read of "expensive or cheap versus earnings" doesn't apply here; the market is instead valuing the business at about 2.2 times book value. The profit margin of ‑188% means the company is currently spending far more than it collects in revenue, and revenue itself is down 52.5% year over year, so the top line is contracting alongside the losses. Beta of 2.07 says the stock has historically moved roughly twice as much as the broad market in either direction, which is consistent with the width of the 52-week range.
Recent coverage is a mix of company-specific and sector-level items. The company-specific pieces cluster around insider activity — reports on the CEO selling $4.2 million in shares in July and the CFO selling over 34,000 shares in June — and around the Q4 earnings report in early June, after which the stock rose. The rest is wider-sector commentary: comparisons against other AI-focused software names, roundups of AI stocks, and pieces on the repricing of AI software as a group, which places a share of the recent news flow on how the market is treating the AI software category overall rather than on developments at this company alone.
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Market sentiment
A composite of the public market data in this analysis, from −100 (bearish) to +100 (bullish).
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Valuation & size
- Enterprise value
- $1.03B
- Forward P/E
- -22.04
- Price / book
- 2.25
Profitability & growth
- Net margin
- -1.88%
- Revenue growth
- -52.50%
Price & risk
- Beta
- 2.07
- Average volume
- 6.26M
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About C3.ai, Inc.
C3.ai builds enterprise artificial intelligence software. Its core offering is a platform for developing, deploying, and running AI applications, along with tools such as an integrated development environment for engineers, data scientists, and analysts; a portfolio of prebuilt applications aimed at specific industries; and a set of generative and agentic applications that retrieve data, surface insights, and coordinate workflows. More recent tooling extends this toward automatically generating the components of a production application, including data pipelines, models, business logic, security controls, and user interfaces. The company sells to customers in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and the Asia-Pacific region, and works through partnerships with cloud providers including Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud, as well as with McKinsey & Company and Baker Hughes. Incorporated in 2009 and originally named C3 IoT, it adopted the C3.ai name in 2019 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.
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AI — frequently asked questions
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What is the current market sentiment for AI?
As of Aug 16, 2026, C3.ai, Inc. (AI) carries negative (-19 on a −100 to +100 scale) composite sentiment. The score fuses recent news tone, analyst recommendations, technical posture, insider and congressional activity, and market attention into a single figure. The full breakdown of each component is in the report.
How has AI stock been performing?
C3.ai, Inc. last closed at $9.93, in the lower half of its 52-week range of $7.68–$20.22.
What sector is AI in, and who are its competitors?
C3.ai, Inc. operates in the Technology sector, specifically Software - Infrastructure. Comparable companies include AMPL, CXM, APPS, VYX, PLTR.
Where can I find a full analysis of AI?
The full AI report covers the bull and bear cases, technical signals with entry, stop and target levels, complete financial statements, earnings history, insider and congressional trades, and the conditions that would invalidate the thesis. It requires a free account.
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