Head-To-Head Analysis: Auddia (NASDAQ:AUUD) and Airship AI (NASDAQ:AISP)

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

Institutional & Insider Ownership

5.9% of Airship AI shares are held by institutional investors. 5.5% of Auddia shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 46.8% of Airship AI shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Auddia and Airship AI, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Auddia	1	0	0	0	1.00
Airship AI	1	0	0	0	1.00

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Auddia and Airship AI”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Auddia	N/A	N/A	-$8.72 million	($23.37)	-0.04
Airship AI	$23.05 million	5.14	-$57.47 million	($2.02)	-1.84

Auddia has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Airship AI. Airship AI is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Auddia, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Risk & Volatility

Auddia has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Airship AI has a beta of 0.29, suggesting that its share price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Auddia	N/A	-206.92%	-180.29%
Airship AI	-364.06%	N/A	-191.02%

About Auddia

Auddia Inc., a technology company, develops AI Platform for the audio and podcast markets. The company's flagship product is faidr, which enables consumers to listen to various AM/FM radio station with commercial breaks replaced with personalized audio content, including popular and new music, news, and weather. It also provides Vodacast mobile app, an interactive differentiated podcasting that allows podcasters to give their audiences an interactive audio experience; and Podcast Hub, a content management system. The company was formerly known as Clip Interactive, LLC and changed its name to Auddia Inc. in November 2019. Auddia Inc. was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

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.