C3.ai, Inc. (AI)Technology | Software - Infrastructure | Redwood City, United States | NYSE
9.16 USD
+0.21
(2.346%)
⇧
(July 13, 2026, 4 p.m.
EDT)
After hours: 9.16 |
Hot Take ↕ | July 11, 2026, 4:54 a.m. EDT
The investment case here is severely compromised by deteriorating fundamentals and a broken price trend. The company is burning cash, with revenue contracting by over half year-over-year and negative operating margins, while the stock has lost more than half its value over the last four years. Crucially, the price has now declined for two consecutive years, confirming a structural deterioration that the market has fully priced in. Despite a recent founder-led cash injection and some short-term trading volume, the lack of a dividend, massive debt relative to equity, and a statistical forecast leaning negative suggest this is a speculative trap rather than a turnaround story. The options market agrees, with traders aggressively buying insurance against further declines. |
| Model | MAE |
|---|---|
| MSTL_126 ✓ | 0.092375 |
| MSTL_66_126 | 0.118107 |
| MSTL | 0.125010 |
| AutoETS | 0.128704 |
| AutoARIMA | 0.128704 |
| AutoTheta | 0.136500 |
| MSTL_66 | 0.191108 |
Forecast horizon: 60 days | Selected: MSTL_126
| Forecast Reliability | |
|---|---|
| Score | 41% |
| H-stat | 0.47 |
| Ljung-Box p | 0.000 |
| Jarque-Bera p | 0.216 |
| Excess Kurtosis | -0.57 |
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Sector | Technology |
| Debt to Equity Ratio | 8.976 |
| Revenue per Share | 1.781 |
| Market Cap | 1,423,915,392 |
| Forward P/E | -20.33 |
| Beta | 2.05 |
| Profit Margins | -187.95% |
| Website | https://www.c3.ai |
As of July 11, 2026, 4:54 a.m. EDT: Speculators are positioning defensively with heavy put volume and open interest concentrated near the money (strikes 8.0–10.0), creating a dense wall of resistance. While there is some call activity at the 10.0 strike, the implied volatility is significantly elevated for deep out-of-the-money strikes, suggesting fear of a sharp drop rather than a rally. The market is pricing in a high probability of staying below current levels, with the bulk of capital flowing into downside protection.
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| 52 Week Change | -0.6660448 |
| Address1 | 1,400 Seaport Boulevard |
| All Time High | 183.9 |
| All Time Low | 7.675 |
| Ask | 9.14 |
| Ask Size | 1,000 |
| Audit Risk | 1 |
| Average Daily Volume10 Day | 5,427,500 |
| Average Daily Volume3 Month | 6,161,736 |
| Average Volume | 6,161,736 |
| Average Volume10Days | 5,427,500 |
| Beta | 2.052 |
| Bid | 9.18 |
| Bid Size | 1,900 |
| Board Risk | 9 |
| Book Value | 4.417 |
| City | Redwood City |
| Compensation As Of Epoch Date | 1,767,139,200 |
| Compensation Risk | 10 |
| Country | United States |
| Crypto Tradeable | 0 |
| Currency | USD |
| Current Price | 9.16 |
| Current Ratio | 6.643 |
| Custom Price Alert Confidence | HIGH |
| Date Short Interest | 1,782,777,600 |
| Day High | 9.2661 |
| Day Low | 8.855 |
| Debt To Equity | 8.976 |
| Display Name | C3.ai |
| Earnings Call Timestamp End | 1,780,520,400 |
| Earnings Call Timestamp Start | 1,780,520,400 |
| Earnings Timestamp | 1,780,516,800 |
| Earnings Timestamp End | 1,780,516,800 |
| Earnings Timestamp Start | 1,780,516,800 |
| Ebitda | -474,316,000 |
| Ebitda Margins | -1.8952299 |
| Enterprise To Ebitda | -1.913 |
| Enterprise To Revenue | 3.625 |
| Enterprise Value | 907,147,392 |
| Eps Current Year | -0.78712 |
| Eps Forward | -0.45064 |
| Eps Trailing Twelve Months | -3.35 |
| Esg Populated | 0 |
| Exchange | NYQ |
| Exchange Data Delayed By | 0 |
| Exchange Timezone Name | America/New_York |
| Exchange Timezone Short Name | EDT |
| Fifty Day Average | 9.6834 |
| Fifty Day Average Change | -0.5234003 |
| Fifty Day Average Change Percent | -0.054051295 |
| Fifty Two Week Change Percent | -66.60448 |
| Fifty Two Week High | 30.11 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change | -20.95 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change Percent | -0.6957821 |
| Fifty Two Week Low | 7.675 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change | 1.4849997 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent | 0.19348529 |
| Fifty Two Week Range | 7.675 - 30.11 |
| Financial Currency | USD |
| First Trade Date Milliseconds | 1,607,524,200,000 |
| Float Shares | 139,058,705 |
| Forward Eps | -0.45064 |
| Forward P E | -20.326647 |
| Free Cashflow | -26,476,750 |
| Full Exchange Name | NYSE |
| Full Time Employees | 764 |
| Gmt Off Set Milliseconds | -14,400,000 |
| Governance Epoch Date | 1,782,864,000 |
| Gross Margins | 0.3092 |
| Gross Profits | 77,382,000 |
| Has Pre Post Market Data | 1 |
| Held Percent Insiders | 0.0482 |
| Held Percent Institutions | 0.58517 |
| Implied Shares Outstanding | 155,449,277 |
| 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 | 1,423,915,392 |
| Market State | POSTPOST |
| Max Age | 86,400 |
| Message Board Id | finmb_24249083 |
| Most Recent Quarter | 1,777,507,200 |
| Net Income To Common | -470,368,992 |
| Next Fiscal Year End | 1,809,043,200 |
| Non Diluted Market Cap | 1,391,271,028 |
| Number Of Analyst Opinions | 11 |
| Open | 8.95 |
| Operating Cashflow | -190,228,000 |
| Operating Margins | -2.13818 |
| Overall Risk | 10 |
| Payout Ratio | 0.0 |
| Phone | 650 503 2200 |
| Post Market Change | 0.0 |
| Post Market Change Percent | 0.0 |
| Post Market Price | 9.16 |
| Post Market Time | 1,783,987,182 |
| Previous Close | 8.95 |
| Price Eps Current Year | -11.637362 |
| Price Hint | 2 |
| Price To Book | 2.0738058 |
| Price To Sales Trailing12 Months | 5.6895623 |
| Profit Margins | -1.87946 |
| Quick Ratio | 6.343 |
| Quote Source Name | Nasdaq Real Time Price |
| Quote Type | EQUITY |
| Recommendation Key | none |
| Region | US |
| Regular Market Change | 0.21 |
| Regular Market Change Percent | 2.34637 |
| Regular Market Day High | 9.2661 |
| Regular Market Day Low | 8.855 |
| Regular Market Day Range | 8.855 - 9.2661 |
| Regular Market Open | 8.95 |
| Regular Market Previous Close | 8.95 |
| Regular Market Price | 9.16 |
| Regular Market Time | 1,783,972,802 |
| Regular Market Volume | 3,485,609 |
| Return On Assets | -0.33091 |
| Return On Equity | -0.6305 |
| Revenue Growth | -0.525 |
| Revenue Per Share | 1.781 |
| Sand P52 Week Change | 0.20847368 |
| Sector | Technology |
| Sector Disp | Technology |
| Sector Key | technology |
| Share Holder Rights Risk | 10 |
| Shares Outstanding | 151,949,285 |
| Shares Percent Shares Out | 0.2873 |
| Shares Short | 44,665,831 |
| Shares Short Previous Month Date | 1,780,012,800 |
| Shares Short Prior Month | 48,994,743 |
| Short Name | C3.ai, Inc. |
| Short Percent Of Float | 0.31239998 |
| Short Ratio | 5.26 |
| Source Interval | 15 |
| State | CA |
| Symbol | AI |
| Target High Price | 15.0 |
| Target Low Price | 6.0 |
| Target Mean Price | 8.81818 |
| Target Median Price | 8.0 |
| Total Cash | 575,449,024 |
| Total Cash Per Share | 3.702 |
| Total Debt | 58,681,000 |
| Total Revenue | 250,268,000 |
| Tradeable | 0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Rate | 0.0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Yield | 0.0 |
| Trailing Eps | -3.35 |
| Trailing Peg Ratio | None |
| Triggerable | 1 |
| Two Hundred Day Average | 12.1647 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change | -3.0046997 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent | -0.24700156 |
| Type Disp | Equity |
| Volume | 3,485,609 |
| Website | https://www.c3.ai |
| Zip | 94,063 |