Insider buying last 90 days
No open-market insider purchases were filed for AI in the last 90 days.
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Gekko Brief
AI summaryOct 12 closeC3.ai shares gap higher this week after Northland Capital upgraded the stock to Outperform from Market Perform and raised its price target to $16 from $10, with shares last trading near $12.18 after opening at $12.30 following a prior close of $11.53. Coverage notes the move stands apart from peers, with SoundHound AI sliding to fresh lows the same session. Other commentary includes a separate forecast citing a "SELL" rating with a $9.49 target, and general ETF-holdings writeups referencing C3.ai among AI-themed funds.
The stock closes at $11.61, up 0.7%, sitting above both its 50-day average of $10.53 and 200-day average of $10.17, with the shorter average above the longer one. The GekkoIndex reads 43.8, placing it in the Distribution zone, down 7.4 over five days. Price sits 20.8% above Gekko Fair Value of $9.61. Analyst coverage from 7 firms shows 1 buy, 3 hold and 3 sell ratings, with a consensus target of $8.30.
Earnings are scheduled for 2 December 2026, 50 days out and beyond a typical 20-trading-day hold; the prior report on 2 September showed an EPS beat with a 5.4% reaction, part of a record of 7 beats in 8 quarters and an average absolute reaction of 8.9%. No insider, Congress, or unusual options activity appears in the respective 90-day and 30-day windows. Seasonality from this point in the calendar shows a 1.9% average return over the next 20 trading days across 5 years, positive in 4 of them.
Written by AI from the Oct 12, 2026 close and checked automatically against the figures on this page.
C3.ai price vs fair value
Close $11.61200-day averageGekko Fair Value $9.61
C3.ai quick facts
- Market cap
- $1.76B
- P/E ratio
- —
- Forward P/E
- —
- EPS, TTM
- −$3.08
- Revenue, TTM
- $232.4M
- Profit margin
- -192.1%
- Dividend yield
- —
- Beta
- 2.10
- Volume
- 11.64M avg 4.72M
- 1-year return
- −38.6%
- Typical daily move
- ±4.4%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±11.5%
- 50-day average
- $10.53
- 200-day average
- $10.17
- Next earnings
- Dec 2 after close
- Shares outstanding
- 157.3M
C3.ai swing-trade checklist
C3.ai scores 3 supportive, 0 mixed and 2 headwinds across the 5 checklist items with data.
Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.
3 supportive0 mixed2 headwinds
- Trendsupportive
Above 50 and 200-day
Close $11.61 is above the 50-day ($10.53) and 200-day ($10.17) averages, and the 50-day is above the 200-day.
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43.8, Distribution
Reading 43.8 is in the Distribution zone.
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20.8% above
Price is 20.8% above Gekko Fair Value (more than 5% above).
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No data
No insider, Congress or unusual options activity in the window.
See smart money - Earnings risksupportive
Reports in 51 days
Next report Dec 2, 2026, 51 days away — outside a typical 20-trading-day hold.
See earnings - Seasonalitysupportive
+1.9% on average
From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged +1.9% over 5 years, rising in 4 of them.
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C3.ai stock chart and price history
C3.ai closed at $11.61 on Oct 12, 2026, −38.6% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $7.68 to $19.80.
Close50-day average200-day averageVolume
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Performance Breakdown
- 1 month
- +10.2%
- 3 months
- +26.9%
- 6 months
- +37.1%
- 1 year
- −38.6%
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About C3.ai
C3.ai builds software that lets large organizations create and run artificial intelligence applications across their operations. Its platform gives technical teams the tools to design, launch, and manage AI projects at scale, supported by add-on tools for preparing data, visualizing relationships within it, and handling customer relationship tasks in specific industries. Alongside this, the company offers a set of ready-made AI applications aimed at common operational problems, such as managing inventory, spotting supply chain risks, reducing customer loss, scheduling production, predicting equipment breakdowns, catching fraud, and managing energy use.
These applications are used across a range of fields, including oil and gas, chemicals, utilities, manufacturing, finance, defense, intelligence, aerospace, healthcare, and telecommunications, with customers spread across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific. C3.ai also works with outside partners on its offerings, including Baker Hughes in oil and gas, FIS in financial services, Raytheon, and technology companies such as AWS, Intel, Google, and Microsoft.
The company was originally incorporated in 2009 under the name C3 IoT, Inc. and took on its present name in June 2019. It is based in Redwood City, California, and its shares are listed on the NYSE under the ticker AI.
- Listed
- NYSE
- Sector
- Technology services
- Industry
- Packaged software
- Website
- c3.ai
C3.ai GekkoIndex: the smart money zone
C3.ai’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 43.8, in the Distribution zone, down 7.4 points over five sessions.
43.8Distribution
Down 7.4 points over five sessions, from the Neutral zone.
Reading for Oct 12, 2026
What followed past readings in each zone
| Zone | Readings | 5 days | 20 days | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buying | 71 | +0.7% | +3.0% | ||
| Accumulation | 250 | −1.3% | −3.5% | ||
| Neutral | 322 | +0.7% | +0.8% | ||
| Distribution (current zone) | 35 | −1.7% | −8.1% | ||
| Selling | 4 | Too few readings yet | |||
Average AI share-price change over the trading days after each daily reading in its GekkoIndex history. Across every stock Gekko tracks, Distribution readings averaged +1.2% over 20 days. Past behaviour doesn’t guarantee future results.
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Is C3.ai stock overvalued? Gekko Fair Value
C3.ai trades 20.8% above Gekko Fair Value of $9.61, so the shares are overvalued on Gekko’s estimate.
Gekko’s own estimate of what C3.ai shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.
$9.61
Gekko Fair Value, Oct 10, 2026
20.8% Overvalued
At the end of Aug 2026 the price was 19.7% above the estimate.
Gekko Fair ValueShare price, month end
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C3.ai insider and Congress trading
No open-market insider purchases were filed for C3.ai, and no Congress trades were disclosed, in the last 90 days.
Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.
Congress trades last 90 days
No trades in AI were disclosed by members of Congress in the last 90 days.
From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.
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Buybacks
C3.ai has been buying back its own shares.
- Bought back, quarter ended Apr 30, 2025
- $1.58M
- As a share of market cap
- 0.09%
From company filings.
C3.ai earnings: next date and track record
C3.ai reports on Dec 2, 2026, after the close (51 days away), and beat the EPS estimate in 7 of its last 8 reports.
Next earnings report
Dec 2, 2026
Expected after the close, 51 days away
- EPS estimate
- −$0.22
- Revenue estimate
- $53.15M
7 of 8reports beat the EPS estimate
±8.9%average move across the report
4 of 8reports followed by a gain
Share-price move across each report
Last earnings call, Sep 2, 2026 AI summary
- What they said
- C3 AI reported Q1 FY2027 results with revenue above guidance, bookings growth of 73% year-over-year, and federal bookings surging 138% YoY. The company closed 22 enterprise agreements with clients including J&J, Ford, and government agencies. CEO Tom Siebel, who returned 3 months ago to lead a turnaround, restructured sales, products, and services while cutting costs to narrow operating losses and generate positive free cash flow.
- Guidance
- Management signaled the turnaround is on track with refocused strategy around Agentic AI and C3 Code as primary growth drivers. No specific revenue or earnings targets were provided in this excerpt, but cost restructuring and disciplined pipeline development are expected to continue improving financial performance.
| Reported | EPS | Revenue | Move |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 2026 | −$0.20 est −$0.26 | $52.38M est $52.06M | +5.4% |
| Jun 3, 2026 | −$0.33 est −$0.37 | $51.60M est $51.60M | −5.4% |
| Feb 25, 2026 | −$0.40 est −$0.29 | $53.26M est $75.56M | −17.0% |
| Dec 3, 2025 | −$0.25 est −$0.33 | $75.15M est $74.87M | +6.6% |
| Sep 3, 2025 | −$0.37 est −$0.38 | $70.26M est $74.86M | −8.1% |
| May 28, 2025 | −$0.16 est −$0.20 | $108.7M est $107.8M | +16.2% |
| Feb 26, 2025 | −$0.12 est −$0.25 | $98.78M est $108.3M | −9.3% |
| Dec 9, 2024 | −$0.06 est −$0.16 | $94.34M est $91.02M | +3.0% |
“Move” is the close of the first session after the report compared with the close of the last session before it, so it reads the same whether the company reported before the open or after the close.
C3.ai stock forecast and analyst price targets
Analysts’ average 12-month price target for C3.ai is $8.30, −28.5% from the last close, from 7 firms rating the stock in the last 90 days.
$8.30consensus 12-month target, −28.5% from the last close
Now $11.61Avg $8.30
Low $7High $16
Each firm’s latest rating in the last 90 days: 7 firms.
Latest analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Target | vs price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12 | Northland Securities | $16 | +37.8% |
| Sep 18 | Morgan Stanley | $7 | −39.7% |
| Sep 3 | Needham | — | — |
| Sep 3 | D.A. Davidson | $7 | −39.7% |
| Sep 3 | Morgan Stanley | $7 | −39.7% |
−8.1%average 20-day move after past Distribution readings
+1.9%average move over the next 20 trading days in the last 5 years
±4.4%typical daily move, from the 14-day average range
Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions. These are analyst targets and historical base rates, which don’t guarantee future results.
C3.ai seasonality: the next 20 trading days
Over the next 20 trading days from Oct 10, C3.ai averaged +1.9% across the last 5 years, rising in 4 of them.
Next 20 trading days, by year
Average move and hit rate
| Window | Average | Years higher |
|---|---|---|
| Next 5 trading days | +0.4% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 10 trading days | −0.6% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 15 trading days | −0.5% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 20 trading days | +1.9% | 4 of 5 |
| Next 30 trading days | −1.6% | 3 of 5 |
For scale, AI’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 11.5%.
C3.ai market cap and key statistics
C3.ai’s market cap is $1.76B and revenue of $232.4M over the last twelve months.
Valuation
- Market cap
- $1.76B
- EPS, TTM
- −$3.08
- Gekko Fair Value
- $9.61
Trading
- Volume
- 11.64M
- Avg volume, 20 days
- 4.72M
- 52-week high
- $19.80
- 52-week low
- $7.68
- Shares outstanding
- 157.3M
Financials
- Revenue, TTM
- $232.4M
- Profit margin
- -192.1%
- Return on equity
- -59.8%
- Quarterly earnings growth, YoY
- 0.0%
Risk and income
- Beta
- 2.10
- Typical daily move
- ±4.4%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±11.5%
C3.ai stock news this week
Coverage of C3.ai this week reads positive: 2 positive, 1 neutral and 0 negative headlines.
- Northland analyst says it's time to hop back into C3.ai stockInvezz, Oct 12
- SoundHound AI Slides 5% to Fresh Lows While C3.ai Climbs 4% on Northland Upgrade; UiPath Slips24/7 Wall Street, Oct 12
- C3.ai (NYSE:AI) Shares Gap Up – Should You Buy?Defense World, Oct 12
- C3.Ai Shares Edges Higher Monday: What's Going On?Benzinga, Oct 12
- ETFs Investing in C3.ai, Inc. Class A StocksTradingView, Oct 11
- Precision Trading with C3.ai Inc. Class A (AI) Risk ZonesStock Traders Daily, Oct 10
C3.ai peers
C3.ai’s 6 largest industry peers by market value, with today’s move, GekkoIndex zone and gap to Gekko Fair Value.
| Stock | GekkoIndex zone | vs Fair Value |
|---|---|---|
| MSFTMicrosoft | Neutral | 21.7% above |
| PLTRPalantir Technologies | Distribution | 22.3% above |
| ORCLOracle | Neutral | 24.3% below |
| PANWPalo Alto Networks | Neutral | 21.6% above |
| CRWDCrowdStrike | Neutral | 23.7% above |
| CRMSalesforce | Neutral | 3.6% below |
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C3.ai stock FAQ
What is C3.ai’s market cap?
C3.ai’s market cap is $1.76B at the Oct 12, 2026 close of $11.61, with 157.3M shares outstanding.
What is the C3.ai stock forecast?
The consensus analyst 12-month price target for C3.ai is $8.30, −28.5% from the last close. Of the 7 firms that rated the stock in the last 90 days, 1 rate it a buy, 3 a hold and 3 a sell. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.
Is C3.ai stock overvalued or undervalued?
On Gekko’s estimate C3.ai is overvalued: the Oct 12, 2026 close of $11.61 is 20.8% above Gekko Fair Value of $9.61. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.
When does C3.ai report earnings next?
C3.ai is expected to report on Dec 2, 2026, after the market closes (51 days away). Analysts expect earnings of −$0.22 per share on revenue of $53.15M. C3.ai beat the earnings estimate in 7 of its last 8 reports, moving 8.9% on average across the report.
What is C3.ai’s 52-week high and low?
C3.ai’s 52-week high is $19.80 and its 52-week low is $7.68; it closed at $11.61 on Oct 12, 2026, −38.6% over the past year. Over the last five years the shares peaked at $53.82 on Nov 9, 2021.
Is C3.ai stock a buy right now?
Gekko describes the data; it does not make buy or sell recommendations. On the swing-trade checklist, 3 of the 5 items with data read as supportive (trend, earnings risk and seasonality) and 2 as headwinds (gekkoindex and fair value). The checklist is a description of current data, not a recommendation.
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