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AI vs CRM
Side-by-side comparison of C3.ai Inc. (AI) and Salesforce Inc. (CRM): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- Both AI and CRM operate in Computer Software: Prepackaged Software (Technology), so they compete in similar markets.
- CRM is the larger of the two at $168.46B, about 110.7x AI ($1.52B).
- CRM has been more active in the news (18 items in the past 4 weeks vs 7 for AI).
- Both have 25 recent analyst ratings on file.
- Company
- C3.ai Inc.
- Salesforce Inc.
- Price
- -
- -
- Market cap
- $1.52B
- $168.46B
- 1M return
- -
- -
- 1Y return
- -
- -
- Industry
- Computer Software: Prepackaged Software
- Computer Software: Prepackaged Software
- Exchange
- NYSE
- NYSE
- IPO
- 2020
- 2004
- News (4w)
- 7
- 18
- Recent ratings
- 25
- 25
C3.ai Inc.
C3.ai, Inc. operates as an enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) software company. The company provides software-as-a-service applications for enterprises. Its software solutions include C3 AI Suite, a platform-as-a-service application development and runtime environment that enables customers to design, develop, and deploy enterprise AI applications; and C3 AI Applications, which include industry-specific and application-specific turnkey AI solutions. Its C3 AI applications include C3 AI Inventory Optimization, a solution to optimize raw material, in-process, and finished goods inventory levels; C3 AI Supply Network Risk, which provides visibility into risks of disruption throughout the supply chain operations for enterprise supply chain managers; C3 AI Customer Churn Management, which enables account executives and relationship managers to monitor customer satisfaction using transactional, behavioral, and contextual information, as well as to take action to prevent customer churn with AI-based and human-interpretable predictions and warning; C3 AI Production Schedule Optimization, a solution for scheduling production; C3 AI Predictive Maintenance, which provides insight into asset risk to maintenance planners and equipment operators; C3 AI Fraud Detection solution; and C3 AI Energy Management solution. The company also offers integrated turnkey enterprise AI applications for various market segments, including oil and gas, chemicals, utilities, manufacturing, retail, banking, financial services, intelligence, aerospace and defense, healthcare, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, smart cities, transportation, and others. C3.ai, Inc. serves customers primarily in Europe, Asia, and the United States. It has strategic partnerships with Baker Hughes in the areas of oil and gas market; FIS in the areas of financial services market; Raytheon in the areas of the U.S. defense and intelligence communities; and Microsoft and Adobe in the areas of customer relationship management. The company was formerly known as C3 IoT, Inc. and changed its name to C3.ai, Inc. in June 2019. C3.ai, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.
Salesforce Inc.
salesforce.com, inc. develops enterprise cloud computing solutions with a focus on customer relationship management worldwide. The company offers Sales Cloud to store data, monitor leads and progress, forecast opportunities, and gain insights through analytics and relationship intelligence, as well as deliver quotes, contracts, and invoices. It also provides Service Cloud, which enables companies to deliver personalized customer service and support, as well as a field service solution that enables companies to connect agents, dispatchers, and mobile employees through a centralized platform, which helps to schedule and dispatch work, and track and manage jobs in real-time. In addition, the company offers Marketing Cloud to plan, personalize, and optimize one-to-one customer marketing interactions; and Commerce Cloud, which enables companies to enhance engagement, conversion, revenue, and loyalty from their customers. Further, it provides Customer 360 Platform that offers no-code to pro-code Platform-as-a-Service tools for building, securing, integrating, and managing the business apps; MuleSoft Anypoint Platform enables customers to connect any system, application, data, or device; Quip collaboration platform, which combines documents, spreadsheets, apps, and chat with live CRM data; and Tableau and Einstein Analytics, provides analytical technology to customers. Additionally, the company offers various solutions for financial services, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, consumer goods, government, and philanthropy. The company also provides professional services and education services, including instructor-led and online courses; and support and adoption programs. It provides its services through direct sales; and consulting firms, systems integrators, and other partners. Salesforce and Siemens has a strategic partnership. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Latest AI
- C3 AI to Announce Financial Results for Fiscal First Quarter 2027 on September 2, 2026
- CEO and Chairman of the Board Siebel Thomas M sold $4,764,330 worth of shares (453,314 units at $10.51) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan and exercised 453,314 shares at a strike of $3.90 (SEC Form 4)
- C3 AI Named Leader in AI Platforms
- CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER Lath Hitesh sold $200,000 worth of shares (20,000 units at $10.00) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 5% to 363,106 units (SEC Form 4)
- CEO and Chairman of the Board Siebel Thomas M converted options into 283,334 shares, sold $1,340,595 worth of shares (139,500 units at $9.61), gifted 143,834 shares and received a gift of 143,834 shares (SEC Form 4) to cover withholding tax
- C3 AI Announces New Employee Inducement Grant
- SEC Form 144 filed by C3.ai Inc.
- C3.ai Inc. filed SEC Form 8-K: Other Events
- Director Hyten John E. returned $22,850 worth of shares to the company (2,500 units at $9.14), decreasing direct ownership by 3% to 69,214 units (SEC Form 4)
- CEO and Chairman of the Board Siebel Thomas M exercised 462,565 shares at a strike of $2.58 and sold $4,244,431 worth of shares (462,565 units at $9.18) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan (SEC Form 4)
Latest CRM
- President and COO Milano Miguel converted options into 1,662 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 678 shares, increasing direct ownership by 3% to 38,754 units (SEC Form 4)
- President and CLO Niles Sabastian converted options into 1,662 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 920 shares, increasing direct ownership by 3% to 27,037 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Sachin J. Mehra converted options into 441 shares, increasing direct ownership by 9% to 5,406 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Munoz Oscar converted options into 441 shares, increasing direct ownership by 3% to 13,990 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Kroes Neelie converted options into 441 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 67 shares, increasing direct ownership by 5% to 8,490 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Alber Laura converted options into 441 shares, increasing direct ownership by 4% to 10,413 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Roos John Victor converted options into 441 shares, increasing direct ownership by 3% to 17,289 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Kirk David Blair converted options into 441 shares, increasing direct ownership by 3% to 14,572 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Conway Craig converted options into 441 shares, increasing direct ownership by 5% to 9,937 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Donald Arnold W converted options into 441 shares (SEC Form 4)