Financial Comparison: Xperi (NYSE:XPER) vs. Airship AI (NASDAQ:AISP)

Xperi (NYSE:XPER) and Airship AI (NASDAQ:AISP) are both small-cap technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends and institutional ownership.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Xperi	-7.12%	4.04%	2.72%
Airship AI	144.60%	-19.13%	18.72%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings for Xperi and Airship AI, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Xperi	1	1	2	0	2.25
Airship AI	1	1	0	0	1.50

Xperi currently has a consensus price target of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 101.28%. Airship AI has a consensus price target of $6.50, suggesting a potential upside of 261.11%. Given Airship AI’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Airship AI is more favorable than Xperi.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

94.3% of Xperi shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.9% of Airship AI shares are held by institutional investors. 3.2% of Xperi shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 46.8% of Airship AI shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Xperi and Airship AI”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Xperi	$448.11 million	0.59	-$56.34 million	($0.70)	-7.81
Airship AI	$15.32 million	4.05	$29.32 million	$0.67	2.69

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

Risk & Volatility

Xperi has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Airship AI has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Airship AI beats Xperi on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Xperi

Xperi Holding Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a consumer and entertainment product/solutions licensing company worldwide. It operates through two segments, Product, and Intellectual Property Licensing. The company invents, develops, and delivers various technologies. It licenses audio, digital radio, imaging, edge-based machine learning, and multi-channel video user experience solutions to consumer electronics customers, automotive manufacturers, or supply chain partners. The company also provides licensing to multichannel video programming distributors, OTT video service providers, consumer electronics manufacturers, social media, and other new media companies in media industry; and memory, sensors, RF component, and foundry companies in semiconductor industry. It provides its technologies under the DTS, HD Radio, IMAX Enhanced, Invensas, TiVo, and Perceive brands. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California.

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.