Adobe (NASDAQ:ADBE) & Airship AI (NASDAQ:AISP) Critical Review

Airship AI (NASDAQ:AISP) and Adobe (NASDAQ:ADBE) are both business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and profitability.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings for Airship AI and Adobe, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Airship AI	0	0	1	1	3.50
Adobe	2	7	17	1	2.63

Airship AI presently has a consensus price target of $12.00, indicating a potential upside of 421.74%. Adobe has a consensus price target of $606.40, indicating a potential upside of 17.12%. Given Airship AI’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Airship AI is more favorable than Adobe.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

5.9% of Airship AI shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.8% of Adobe shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.2% of Airship AI shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Adobe shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Airship AI and Adobe”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Airship AI	$23.57 million	2.26	$16.37 million	N/A	N/A
Adobe	$20.95 billion	10.96	$5.43 billion	$11.13	46.52

Adobe has higher revenue and earnings than Airship AI.

Risk and Volatility

Airship AI has a beta of 0.14, indicating that its share price is 86% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Adobe has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Airship AI and Adobe’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Airship AI	N/A	-73.23%	191.92%
Adobe	25.59%	42.82%	22.20%

Summary

Adobe beats Airship AI on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

About Adobe

Adobe Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a diversified software company worldwide. It operates through three segments: Digital Media, Digital Experience, and Publishing and Advertising. The Digital Media segment offers products, services, and solutions that enable individuals, teams, and enterprises to create, publish, and promote content; and Document Cloud, a unified cloud-based document services platform. Its flagship product is Creative Cloud, a subscription service that allows members to access its creative products. This segment serves content creators, students, workers, marketers, educators, enthusiasts, and communicators. The Digital Experience segment provides an integrated platform and set of applications and services that enable brands and businesses to create, manage, execute, measure, monetize, and optimize customer experiences from analytics to commerce. This segment serves marketers, advertisers, agencies, publishers, merchandisers, merchants, web analysts, data scientists, developers, and executives across the C-suite. The Publishing and Advertising segment offers products and services, such as e-learning solutions, technical document publishing, web conferencing, document and forms platform, web application development, and high-end printing, as well as Advertising Cloud offerings. It also provides consulting, technical support, and learning services. The company offers its products and services directly to enterprise customers through its sales force and local field offices, as well as to end users through app stores and through its website at adobe.com. It also distributes products and services through distributors, value-added resellers, systems integrators, software vendors and developers, retailers, and original equipment manufacturers. The company was formerly known as Adobe Systems Incorporated and changed its name to Adobe Inc. in October 2018. Adobe Inc. was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.