Agora (NASDAQ:API – Get Free Report) and C3.ai (NYSE:AI – Get Free Report) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, risk, valuation, institutional ownership and profitability.
Risk & Volatility
Agora has a beta of 0.13, meaning that its share price is 87% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, C3.ai has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Agora and C3.ai, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Agora | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| C3.ai | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2.00 |
Profitability
This table compares Agora and C3.ai’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Agora | -82.36% | -17.59% | -16.16% |
| C3.ai | -99.42% | -27.70% | -23.76% |
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Agora and C3.ai’s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Agora | $151.59 million | 1.76 | -$120.38 million | ($1.18) | -2.10 |
| C3.ai | $266.80 million | 12.22 | -$268.84 million | ($2.34) | -12.06 |
Agora has higher earnings, but lower revenue than C3.ai. C3.ai is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Agora, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
27.7% of Agora shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.0% of C3.ai shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.6% of Agora shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 34.0% of C3.ai shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Agora beats C3.ai on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Agora
Agora, Inc. provides real-time engagement platform-as-a-service (RTE-PaaS) in the People's Republic of China, the United States, and internationally. The company's RTE-PaaS offers developers with software tools to embed real-time voice, video, interactive live-streaming, chat, whiteboard, and artificial intelligence functionalities. Its products include video calling, voice calling, interactive live streaming, chat, and signaling; and extensions, which comprise interactive whiteboard, recording, 3D spatial audio, AI noise suppression, analytics, and extensions marketplace products to enable developers to launch RTE in specific use cases. The company also provides Flexible Classroom that offers a low-code application platform as a service; and App Builder, a no-code application platform. Its real-time engagement products are delivered through its software-defined real-time network, which is a virtual network overlay on top of the public internet. The company serves social, entertainment, gaming, education, enterprise solutions, e-commerce, financial services, healthcare, and IoT industries. Agora, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Shanghai, the People's Republic of China.
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.
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