C3.ai, Inc. (AI)Technology | Software - Infrastructure | Redwood City, United States | NYSE
11.82 USD
-0.20
(-1.624%) ⇩
(Oct. 14, 2026, 12:32 p.m.
EDT)
|
Hot Take ↕ | Oct. 10, 2026, 4:37 a.m. EDT
The investment case for C3.ai is currently broken by a severe fundamental deterioration. The company is reporting negative revenue growth of 25.5%, dragging earnings deeply into the red, and destroying shareholder value with operating cash flows in the hundreds of millions of dollars negative. This is not a temporary blip; the stock has lost nearly 60% of its value over the last four years, with the last two full years seeing double-digit declines. Despite the founder's recent cash injection, the core business metrics—negative margins, shrinking top line, and eroding equity—are flashing red lights. The market has correctly priced this as a value trap, and the heavy put activity confirms that retail investors are fleeing rather than buying the dip. There is no catalyst here to justify a turnaround story yet; the fundamentals are simply too weak to support a recovery without a complete strategic overhaul. |
| Model | MAE |
|---|---|
| MSTL ✓ | 0.119554 |
| AutoTheta | 0.130451 |
| AutoETS | 0.130527 |
| AutoARIMA | 0.130528 |
Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: MSTL
| Forecast Reliability | |
|---|---|
| Score | 36% |
| H-stat | 4.90 |
| Ljung-Box p | 0.000 |
| Jarque-Bera p | 0.026 |
| Excess Kurtosis | 0.04 |
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Sector | Technology |
| Debt to Equity Ratio | 8.557 |
| Revenue per Share | 1.598 |
| Market Cap | 1,899,613,952 |
| Forward P/E | -25.13 |
| Beta | 2.10 |
| Profit Margins | -192.10% |
| Website | https://www.c3.ai |
As of Oct. 10, 2026, 4:37 a.m. EDT: Speculators are aggressively positioning for downside protection with massive put volume relative to call volume, particularly at strikes significantly below the current price (e.g., 7.5 and 9.5). While there is some call activity near the money and slightly out-of-the-money, the overwhelming open interest in deep out-of-the-money puts suggests a consensus expectation of a significant drop, potentially testing the 5.00 level. Implied volatility is elevated on these protective strikes, indicating fear of a sharp decline.
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| 52 Week Change | -0.37675142 |
| Address1 | 1,400 Seaport Boulevard |
| All Time High | 183.9 |
| All Time Low | 7.675 |
| Ask | 11.78 |
| Ask Size | 600 |
| Audit Risk | 1 |
| Average Analyst Rating | 3.5 - Underperform |
| Average Daily Volume10 Day | 5,475,050 |
| Average Daily Volume3 Month | 5,056,168 |
| Average Volume | 5,056,168 |
| Average Volume10Days | 5,475,050 |
| Beta | 2.095 |
| Bid | 11.77 |
| Bid Size | 1,500 |
| Board Risk | 9 |
| Book Value | 4.348 |
| City | Redwood City |
| Compensation As Of Epoch Date | 1,798,675,200 |
| Compensation Risk | 10 |
| Country | United States |
| Crypto Tradeable | 0 |
| Currency | USD |
| Current Price | 11.815 |
| Current Ratio | 6.155 |
| Custom Price Alert Confidence | HIGH |
| Date Short Interest | 1,790,726,400 |
| Day High | 12.1255 |
| Day Low | 11.56 |
| Debt To Equity | 8.557 |
| Display Name | C3.ai |
| Dividend Yield | 0.0 |
| Earnings Call Timestamp End | 1,788,382,800 |
| Earnings Call Timestamp Start | 1,788,382,800 |
| Earnings Timestamp | 1,788,379,200 |
| Earnings Timestamp End | 1,788,379,200 |
| Earnings Timestamp Start | 1,788,379,200 |
| Ebitda | -447,079,008 |
| Ebitda Margins | -1.9239 |
| Enterprise To Ebitda | -2.996 |
| Enterprise To Revenue | 5.764 |
| Enterprise Value | 1,339,362,048 |
| Eps Current Year | -0.75982 |
| Eps Forward | -0.4702 |
| Eps Trailing Twelve Months | -3.08 |
| Esg Populated | 0 |
| Exchange | NYQ |
| Exchange Data Delayed By | 20 |
| Exchange Timezone Name | America/New_York |
| Exchange Timezone Short Name | EDT |
| Fifty Day Average | 10.5774 |
| Fifty Day Average Change | 1.2375994 |
| Fifty Day Average Change Percent | 0.11700412 |
| Fifty Two Week Change Percent | -37.67514 |
| Fifty Two Week High | 19.8 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change | -7.9849997 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change Percent | -0.40328282 |
| Fifty Two Week Low | 7.675 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change | 4.1399994 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent | 0.5394136 |
| Fifty Two Week Range | 7.675 - 19.8 |
| Financial Currency | USD |
| First Trade Date Milliseconds | 1,607,524,200,000 |
| Float Shares | 144,208,276 |
| Forward Eps | -0.4702 |
| Forward P E | -25.127604 |
| Free Cashflow | 15,887,875 |
| Full Exchange Name | NYSE |
| Full Time Employees | 764 |
| Fullday Change | 0.34000015 |
| Fullday Change Percent | 2.9285114 |
| Fullday Price | 11.815 |
| Gmt Off Set Milliseconds | -14,400,000 |
| Governance Epoch Date | 1,790,812,800 |
| Gross Margins | 0.29093 |
| Gross Profits | 67,607,000 |
| Has Pre Post Market Data | 1 |
| Held Percent Insiders | 0.08108 |
| Held Percent Institutions | 0.62826 |
| Implied Shares Outstanding | 160,779,856 |
| Industry | Software - Infrastructure |
| Industry Disp | Software - Infrastructure |
| Industry Key | software-infrastructure |
| Ipo Expected Date | 2,020-12-09 |
| Is Earnings Date Estimate | 0 |
| Language | en-US |
| Last Fiscal Year End | 1,777,507,200 |
| Long Business Summary | C3.ai, Inc. operates as an enterprise artificial intelligence application software company in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. It offers C3 agentic AI platform, an application development and runtime environment that enables customers to design, develop, and deploy enterprise AI applications; C3 AI Studio, an integrated development environment in the C3 Agentic AI Platform that enables engineers, data scientists, and business analysts to design, build, test, and deploy AI applications; C3 AI Applications, a portfolio of industry-specific enterprise AI applications that enables the digital transformation of organizations globally; and C3 Generative AI, a library of agentic AI applications to retrieve data, analyze information, surface insights, and orchestrate workflows. The company also provides C3 Code, a solution that enables users to build, configure, and deploy a complete and production-grade Enterprise AI applications automatically, including data pipelines, AI models, business logic, security controls, and user interfaces. It has strategic partnerships with Microsoft, AWS, Google Cloud, McKinsey & Company, and Baker Hughes. The company was formerly known as C3 IoT, Inc. and changed its name to C3.ai, Inc. in June 2019. C3.ai, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California. |
| Long Name | C3.ai, Inc. |
| Market | us_market |
| Market Cap | 1,899,613,952 |
| Market State | REGULAR |
| Max Age | 86,400 |
| Message Board Id | finmb_24249083 |
| Most Recent Quarter | 1,785,456,000 |
| Net Income To Common | -446,412,000 |
| Next Fiscal Year End | 1,809,043,200 |
| Non Diluted Market Cap | 1,746,069,236 |
| Number Of Analyst Opinions | 10 |
| Open | 11.9 |
| Operating Cashflow | -154,620,992 |
| Operating Margins | -1.86291 |
| Overall Risk | 10 |
| Phone | 650 503 2200 |
| Previous Close | 12.01 |
| Price Eps Current Year | -15.549735 |
| Price Hint | 2 |
| Price To Book | 2.7173412 |
| Price To Sales Trailing12 Months | 8.174531 |
| Profit Margins | -1.9210299 |
| Quick Ratio | 5.959 |
| Quote Source Name | Nasdaq Real Time Price |
| Quote Type | EQUITY |
| Recommendation Key | underperform |
| Recommendation Mean | 3.53846 |
| Region | US |
| Regular Market Change | -0.19500065 |
| Regular Market Change Percent | -1.6236523 |
| Regular Market Day High | 12.1255 |
| Regular Market Day Low | 11.56 |
| Regular Market Day Range | 11.56 - 12.1255 |
| Regular Market Open | 11.9 |
| Regular Market Previous Close | 12.01 |
| Regular Market Price | 11.815 |
| Regular Market Time | 1,791,995,552 |
| Regular Market Volume | 2,513,893 |
| Return On Assets | -0.31218 |
| Return On Equity | -0.59771997 |
| Revenue Growth | -0.255 |
| Revenue Per Share | 1.598 |
| Sand P52 Week Change | 0.17004645 |
| Sector | Technology |
| Sector Disp | Technology |
| Sector Key | technology |
| Share Holder Rights Risk | 10 |
| Shares Outstanding | 157,279,864 |
| Shares Percent Shares Out | 0.2594 |
| Shares Short | 41,707,686 |
| Shares Short Previous Month Date | 1,788,134,400 |
| Shares Short Prior Month | 46,699,653 |
| Short Name | C3.ai, Inc. |
| Short Percent Of Float | 0.28120002 |
| Short Ratio | 7.94 |
| Source Interval | 15 |
| State | CA |
| Symbol | AI |
| Target High Price | 16.0 |
| Target Low Price | 6.0 |
| Target Mean Price | 8.9 |
| Target Median Price | 7.5 |
| Total Cash | 651,068,992 |
| Total Cash Per Share | 4.049 |
| Total Debt | 59,465,000 |
| Total Revenue | 232,382,000 |
| Tradeable | 0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Rate | 0.0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Yield | 0.0 |
| Trailing Eps | -3.08 |
| Trailing Peg Ratio | None |
| Triggerable | 1 |
| Two Hundred Day Average | 10.1609 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change | 1.6540995 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent | 0.16279064 |
| Type Disp | Equity |
| Volume | 2,513,893 |
| Website | https://www.c3.ai |
| Zip | 94,063 |