CommVault Systems (NASDAQ:CVLT) & Airship AI (NASDAQ:AISP) Financial Analysis

CommVault Systems (NASDAQ:CVLT) and Airship AI (NASDAQ:AISP) are both technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk and analyst recommendations.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares CommVault Systems and Airship AI”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CommVault Systems	$1.22 billion	4.96	$70.66 million	$1.57	92.70
Airship AI	$15.32 million	4.09	$29.32 million	$0.67	2.72

CommVault Systems has higher revenue and earnings than Airship AI. Airship AI is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CommVault Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares CommVault Systems and Airship AI’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CommVault Systems	5.62%	88.75%	5.59%
Airship AI	144.60%	-19.13%	18.72%

Risk & Volatility

CommVault Systems has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Airship AI has a beta of 0.61, indicating that its stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for CommVault Systems and Airship AI, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CommVault Systems	0	10	10	1	2.57
Airship AI	1	1	0	0	1.50

CommVault Systems currently has a consensus target price of $152.62, indicating a potential upside of 4.87%. Airship AI has a consensus target price of $6.50, indicating a potential upside of 257.14%. Given Airship AI’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Airship AI is more favorable than CommVault Systems.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

93.5% of CommVault Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.9% of Airship AI shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of CommVault Systems shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 46.8% of Airship AI shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

CommVault Systems beats Airship AI on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About CommVault Systems

Commvault Systems, Inc. provides data protection platform that helps customers to secure, defend, and recover their data in the United States and internationally. The company offers Commvault Backup and Recovery, a backup and recovery solution; Commvault Disaster Recovery, a replication and disaster recovery solution; Commvault Complete Data Protection, a data protection solution; and Metallic Data Protection as-a-service, which delivers enterprise-grade data protection as a service on a cloud platform, with advanced built-in security controls. It also provides Commvault HyperScale X, an easy-to-deploy scale-out solution; and Metallic Recovery Reserve, an easy button to adopt secure and scalable cloud storage in minutes. In addition, the company provides technology consulting, Ransomware recovery, education, and remote managed services. Further, it sells appliances that integrate the software with hardware for use in a range of business needs and use cases; and offers customer support, consulting, assessment and design, and installation services, as well as customer education and as-a-service under the Metallic brand. The company sells its products and services directly through its sales force, and indirectly through its network of distributors, value-added resellers, systems integrators, corporate resellers, and original equipment manufacturers to large enterprises, small or med-sized businesses, and government agencies. It supports customers in a range of industries, including banking, insurance and financial services, government, healthcare, pharmaceuticals and medical services, technology, legal, manufacturing, utilities, and energy. Commvault Systems, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Tinton Falls, New Jersey.

About Airship AI

Airship AI Holdings, Inc. offers AI-driven video, sensor, and data management surveillance platform in the United States. The company provides Airship Acropolis OS, an IP and analog video surveillance; Airship Command, a suite of visualization tools that allows users to view data and evidence ingested from the edge; and Airship Outpost for high-definition recording with user defined low-bit rate video stream encoding. It serves government, public sector, law enforcement, military, and commercial enterprise organizations. The company was formerly known as Super Simple AI, Inc. and changed its name to Airship AI Holdings, Inc. in March 2023. Airship AI Holdings, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.