Head to Head Comparison: C3.ai (NYSE:AI) and Nvni Group (NASDAQ:NVNI)

C3.ai (NYSE:AI) and Nvni Group (NASDAQ:NVNI) are both small-cap technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

39.0% of C3.ai shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.5% of Nvni Group shares are held by institutional investors. 19.8% of C3.ai shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.0% of Nvni Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk & Volatility

C3.ai has a beta of 2.1, suggesting that its stock price is 110% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nvni Group has a beta of -0.1, suggesting that its stock price is 110% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings for C3.ai and Nvni Group, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
C3.ai	7	4	1	0	1.50
Nvni Group	1	2	0	0	1.67

C3.ai presently has a consensus target price of $8.70, suggesting a potential downside of 16.92%. Given C3.ai’s higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe C3.ai is more favorable than Nvni Group.

Profitability

This table compares C3.ai and Nvni Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
C3.ai	-192.10%	-60.82%	-48.80%
Nvni Group	N/A	N/A	N/A

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares C3.ai and Nvni Group”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
C3.ai	$250.27 million	6.50	-$470.37 million	($3.08)	-3.40
Nvni Group	$35.23 million	0.25	-$20.22 million	$0.40	2.21

Nvni Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than C3.ai. C3.ai is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nvni Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Nvni Group beats C3.ai on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About C3.ai

C3.ai, Inc. operates as an enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) software company in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. The company provides C3 AI platform, an application development and runtime environment that enables customers to design, develop, and deploy enterprise AI applications; C3 AI Ex Machina for analysis-ready data; C3 AI CRM, an industry specific customer relationship management solution; and C3 Generative AI Product Suite that enables to locate, retrieve, and present information. It also offers C3 AI applications, including C3 AI Inventory Optimization, a solution to optimize raw material, in-process, and finished goods inventory levels; C3 AI Supply Network Risk, which identifies emerging inbound and outbound risks across the network; C3 AI Sustainability Suite, which helps to decrease greenhouse gas emission; C3 AI Production Schedule Optimization, a solution for scheduling production; C3 AI Financial Services Suite, which helps to minimize compliance risks; and C3 AI Energy Management solution. In addition, it offers integrated turnkey enterprise AI applications for oil and gas, chemicals, utilities, manufacturing, financial services, defense, intelligence, aerospace, healthcare, and telecommunications market. It has strategic partnerships with Baker Hughes in the areas of oil and gas market; Booz Allen to provide solutions to government, defense, and intelligence sectors; Raytheon; and AWS, Google, and Microsoft. 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.

About Nvni Group

Nvni Group Limited provides a business to business SaaS platform that offers cloud solutions. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.