Critical Review: Airship AI (AISP) & Its Competitors

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 peers? We will compare Airship AI to related businesses based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, valuation and profitability.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for Airship AI and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Airship AI	0	0	2	1	3.33
Airship AI Competitors	2498	17045	33027	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 probable upside, analysts clearly believe Airship AI is more favorable than its peers.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Airship AI and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share 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	-711.34

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

Profitability

This table compares Airship AI and its peers’ 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 & 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 company insiders. Comparatively, 19.1% of shares of all “Prepackaged software” companies are owned 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.

Volatility and Risk

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

Summary

Airship AI beats its peers 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.