# C3.ai share price today (C3.ai, Inc., AI)

> C3.ai, Inc.'s share price, valuation and earnings point in different directions. The next one or two quarters should make it clearer. AI · Technology · Software - Infrastructure · data as of 4 November 2026. Page: https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/ai

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## Key numbers

- Price: $11.96 (−22.9% in a year)
- Revenue (Jul 2026): $52.4 M (−25.5% on a year ago)
- Profit (Jul 2026), incl. one-off: −$92.8 M (one-off item, see below)
- Operating margin: −186.3% (−8.6 points on a year ago)
- ROE: −72%, FY26
- ROIC: −35.6%, against a 15.5% cost of capital: −51.1 points

Biggest thing to watch: the price is not yet in a clear uptrend, so timing is the risk more than the business. ## What is the C3.ai share price today? C3.ai, Inc.'s share price was $11.96 at the close on 4 November 2026. That is 19.4% above its average price over the last 200 trading days. In the last 52 weeks it traded between $8 and $16, and at that close it sat 54% of the way up from that low. Over the past 13 weeks it has done better than the S&P 500, and it has stayed ahead for 7 weeks in a row. Over the last 1 year the share price moved −55% while the S&P 500 moved +23%, so it is behind the index over that whole period. The chart above shows the 13-week comparison for every week. This page treats a rise as over when the price closes below its 200-day average on two Fridays in a row. ## What dividend does C3.ai pay? C3.ai, Inc. pays no dividend. In the last 12 reported quarters it declared no dividend per share, so there is no payout history to chart and no yield to show. Companies like this usually keep their earnings in the business, so the cash-flow sections show where that cash goes. ## Which stock lists is C3.ai on? C3.ai is on one of our US lists: US tech stocks. [US tech stocks](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us-tech-stocks)

## Is C3.ai profitable? C3.ai, Inc. posted a net loss of $92.8 M in the Jul 2026 quarter. That quarter includes a one-off gain bigger than its revenue, so the comparison with last year does not reflect normal business. The full FY26 year was a loss of $470 M. That loss is 177.2% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier lost $117 M. 12 of the last 12 reported quarters were loss-making. Read this profit with care: at −$92.8 M it is bigger than the quarter's whole revenue of $52.4 M. No business earns more than it takes in from sales, so this is a one-off item (for example a debt settlement, a tax write-back or an asset sale), not money the business earned. The underlying business is running at a −186.3% operating margin. The jump on last year, and any P/E built on this profit, come from the one-off, not from a real turn in earnings. ## How much revenue does C3.ai make, and is it growing? C3.ai, Inc. reported $52.4 M of revenue in the Jul 2026 quarter, −25.5% on the same quarter a year earlier. Over 4 years it has grown −0.2% a year on average. The last full year, FY26, came in at $250 M. The last four reported quarters add to $232 M. FY26 revenue was $250 M, −35.7% on the year before. Recent pace: the last four quarters grew −36.1% on average, against −0.2% a year over the longer run, so this year is growing slower than its own long-run rate. Is growth speeding up? Revenue over the last 12 months grew −37.5%, against −15.5% a year over the last 8 quarters (rolling over). ## How much of every $100 of sales does C3.ai keep? C3.ai, Inc.'s operating margin was −186.3% in the Jul 2026 quarter, 8.6 percentage points lower than the same quarter a year ago. Across 5 years it has been between −194.9% and −77.6%. The latest quarter is within that range. Why the margin moved: operating margin changed −8.6 percentage points on the year while gross margin changed −5.8 points. So the drop came mostly from the gross margin, which means input costs and prices charged. ## Is C3.ai's profit turning into cash? C3.ai, Inc.'s cash-flow history is too short to judge how much of its profit turns into cash. In FY26 its operations used $190 M of cash, against −$470 M of profit. After $1.9 M of spending on assets, free cash was −$192 M: it spent more than its operations brought in. Cash-flow figures here are yearly, because quarterly cash statements are not published, so this section changes once a year. What to look at next: the main use of cash is spending on assets. The next section checks what that spending is building. ## Where does C3.ai's cash go? C3.ai, Inc. does not report the customer, stock and supplier day counts a cash cycle needs, so this section looks at its spending on assets instead. It spent $30.2 M on assets over the last 3 years. Averaged over those years that is 4.0% of FY26 revenue a year. Nothing is estimated in place of the missing day counts, so no cash-cycle chart is drawn. Spending on assets: $30.2 M over the last 3 years. In short: most of the cash goes on covering the loss, not on new assets; spending on assets is small next to it. ## What is C3.ai's P/E ratio, and how does it compare with its own history? C3.ai, Inc. has no P/E right now, because its earnings are negative. The revenue and margin sections are where a turn would show first. Measured against sales instead, the market values C3.ai, Inc. at 7.7× its FY26 revenue of $250 M. The P/E comes back here once profit turns positive. ## Is the C3.ai business getting better or worse? C3.ai, Inc.'s business trend cannot be read yet. There are fewer than eight usable quarters of growth figures, so there is not enough history to read the trend. This is based on 12 quarters of 2 measures, with some gaps. Why it matters: with too little history, we say so rather than guess a direction. The latest quarter’s profit includes a one-off item bigger than the normal business, so the profit line is shown but does not count in this reading. There are fewer than eight usable quarters, so this page does not guess a direction from so little history. ## How much does C3.ai earn on its capital? C3.ai, Inc. earned a ROE of −72% in FY26. Its return on capital used (ROIC) is 51.1 percentage points below its cost of capital, so growth here does not yet pay for the capital it uses. It comes from a −187.9% net margin and 0.31× asset turnover (sales divided by assets). Why the return is what it is (FY26): a −187.9% net margin × 0.31× asset turnover × 1.25× leverage (assets divided by equity) ≈ −72.8% on equity. The margin does its share; borrowing plays a small part, so this return is earned, not borrowed. The key test, return on capital used minus the cost of capital: −35.6% − 15.5% = −51.1 percentage points. The 15.5% is an estimate of this company's own cost of capital. Read the sign and size of the gap, not the decimals. Negative: growth at these returns loses value until returns improve. ## Does C3.ai have too much debt? C3.ai, Inc. has total debt of $59.5 M against shareholder equity of $695 M as of Jul 2026, so its debt is 0.09× its equity, which is very little. Year by year, that ratio went from 0.03 in FY22 to 0.09 in FY26. So the returns on this page come from the business, not from borrowed money. ## What is the C3.ai shareholding pattern? 29.2% of C3.ai, Inc.'s tradable shares are in short positions, which are bets that the price will fall, so a large group of traders is betting against it. At normal trading volumes, closing those positions would take about 8.6 days. US companies do not publish a quarter-by-quarter list of owners, so this page uses short interest instead. It is a single reading at one point in time; we do not have its history. Why it is at this level: the figure does not say who holds the short positions or why, so we show the level without guessing the story. ## How far is C3.ai from balance-sheet trouble? For C3.ai, Inc., the Z-score is 2.33. A Z-score above about 3 is safe and below about 1.8 signals danger, so this is in the grey area between the two. It estimates how far the balance sheet is from trouble; it is not a forecast of failure. Why it matters: a Z-score of 2.33 is in the grey area, neither clearly safe nor clearly in trouble. ## How does C3.ai rank in its industry? There is no score against its industry: C3.ai, Inc. is not among the largest members shown in this industry comparison for Software - Infrastructure. The score ranks a company within its industry: each measure is scored against the other members. Without that group there is no score, so none is shown. ## Which companies is C3.ai compared with? No sector comparison is shown here, not among the largest members shown in this industry comparison. ## Which companies are close to C3.ai in size? C3.ai is the 69th largest of 117 Software - Infrastructure companies on Sector Alpha by market value (scores of 4 November 2026). Just above it: EVERTEC, Inc., Marqeta, Inc. and Infleqtion, Inc. Just below it: Nayax, Progress Software Corporation and StoneCo. ### Software - Infrastructure companies close in size

1. [EVERTEC, Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/evtc) $2.1 billion
2. [Marqeta, Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/mq) $1.9 billion
3. [Infleqtion, Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/infq) $1.9 billion
4. C3.ai, Inc. $1.9 billion
5. [Nayax Ltd.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/nyax) $1.9 billion
6. [Progress Software Corporation](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/prgs) $1.8 billion
7. [StoneCo Ltd.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/stne) $1.8 billion

[All 117 Software - Infrastructure companies, largest first](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/sectors/software-infrastructure#all-companies)

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## What else do people ask about C3.ai? ### What were C3.ai's latest quarterly results? C3.ai, Inc. reported revenue of $52.4 M and a net loss of $92.8 M for the Jul 2026 quarter. Earnings per share were −$0.60. The operating margin was −186.3%, 8.6 percentage points lower than a year earlier (as of 4 November 2026). ### What is C3.ai's market cap? C3.ai, Inc.'s market capitalisation is $1.9 B at a stock price of $11.96. Market cap is the share price times the number of shares, so it changes whenever the price moves (as of 4 November 2026). ### How is C3.ai performing? C3.ai, Inc.'s latest readings are below. Over the past 13 weeks it has done better than the S&P 500, for 7 weeks running. This describes what the data did, not a rating (as of 4 November 2026). ### Will C3.ai's stock price go up? This page does not forecast C3.ai, Inc.'s stock price. What it shows instead: the stock price is $11.96. Nobody can reliably say which way a price will move, and this site does not try (as of 4 November 2026). ### Where is C3.ai in its business cycle? C3.ai, Inc.'s FY26 operating margin was −194.9%, against a 5-year range of −194.9% to −77.6%: the low end of its own range, which is often where recoveries start. The latest quarter was −186.3%. Comparing margins with a company's own long history is a good way to see where it is in its cycle (as of 4 November 2026). ### What could break the C3.ai story? Biggest thing to watch: the price is not yet in a clear uptrend, so timing is the risk more than the business. On price, this page treats a rise as over when the share price closes below its 200-day average on two Fridays in a row (as of 4 November 2026). ### Is C3.ai a stock worth studying right now? What the numbers show: C3.ai, Inc.'s share price, valuation and earnings point in different directions. The next one or two quarters should make it clearer. The main open question: the next one or two quarters of results. Every number on this page is worked out by code from the published figures, with no forecasts and no price opinions (as of 4 November 2026). ## Lists

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