Financial Analysis: Airship AI (AISP) versus Its Competitors

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

Volatility & Risk

Airship AI has a beta of 0.07, meaning that its share price is 93% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Airship AI’s rivals have a beta of 0.43, meaning that their average share price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Airship AI and its rivals top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Airship AI	$23.05 million	$16.37 million	-1.30
Airship AI Competitors	$2.50 billion	$326.31 million	-657.12

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Airship AI and its rivals, 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	2482	16934	32872	953	2.61

Airship AI presently has a consensus price target of $9.00, indicating a potential upside of 157.88%. As a group, “Prepackaged software” companies have a potential upside of 27.80%. Given Airship AI’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Airship AI is more favorable than its rivals.

Profitability

This table compares Airship AI and its rivals’ 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%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

5.9% of Airship AI shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.9% of shares of all “Prepackaged software” companies are owned by institutional investors. 57.9% of Airship AI shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 19.1% of shares of all “Prepackaged software” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

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

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.