Critical Analysis: Airship AI (NASDAQ:AISP) versus Unity Software (NYSE:U)

Unity Software (NYSE:U) and Airship AI (NASDAQ:AISP) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership and profitability.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for Unity Software and Airship AI, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Unity Software	1	11	9	0	2.38
Airship AI	0	0	0	0	N/A

Unity Software presently has a consensus price target of $37.03, suggesting a potential upside of 53.47%. Given Unity Software’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Unity Software is more favorable than Airship AI.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Unity Software	-37.64%	-10.14%	-4.50%
Airship AI	N/A	-100.73%	78.57%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

73.5% of Unity Software shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.9% of Airship AI shares are held by institutional investors. 9.0% of Unity Software shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 15.2% of Airship AI shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Unity Software and Airship AI’s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Unity Software	$2.19 billion	4.31	-$822.01 million	($2.16)	-11.17
Airship AI	$12.30 million	13.80	$16.37 million	N/A	N/A

Airship AI has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Unity Software.

Risk and Volatility

Unity Software has a beta of 2.42, meaning that its share price is 142% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Airship AI has a beta of 0.51, meaning that its share price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Unity Software beats Airship AI on 6 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Unity Software

Unity Software Inc. operates a real-time 3D development platform. Its platform provides software solutions to create, run, and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices. The company offers its solutions directly through its online store and field sales operations in North America, Denmark, Finland, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, China, Singapore, and South Korea, as well as indirectly through independent distributors and resellers worldwide. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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.