Airship AI (AISP) & The Competition Financial Review

Airship AI (NASDAQ:AISP) is one of 461 publicly-traded companies in the “Prepackaged software” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its competitors? We will compare Airship AI to related businesses based on the strength of its institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations and risk.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Airship AI and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Airship AI	0	0	2	1	3.33
Airship AI Competitors	2499	17050	33030	962	2.61

Airship AI currently has a consensus price target of $9.00, indicating a potential upside of 122.22%. As a group, “Prepackaged software” companies have a potential upside of 27.36%. Given Airship AI’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Airship AI is more favorable than its competitors.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

5.9% of Airship AI shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.9% of shares of all “Prepackaged software” companies are held by institutional investors. 57.9% of Airship AI shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.1% of shares of all “Prepackaged software” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Risk & Volatility

Airship AI has a beta of 0.07, suggesting that its share price is 93% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Airship AI’s competitors have a beta of 0.44, suggesting that their average share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Airship AI and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Airship AI	$23.05 million	$16.37 million	-1.51
Airship AI Competitors	$2.51 billion	$326.31 million	-708.01

Airship AI’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Airship AI. Airship AI is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares Airship AI and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Airship AI	64.71%	-76.44%	309.71%
Airship AI Competitors	-71.61%	-38.00%	-6.78%

Summary

Airship AI beats its competitors on 8 of the 13 factors compared.

Airship AI Company Profile

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.