Unity Software (NYSE:U) and Airship AI (NASDAQ:AISP) Financial Survey

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Airship AI and Unity Software, as reported by MarketBeat.

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

Unity Software has a consensus price target of $37.03, indicating a potential upside of 50.84%. Given Unity Software’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Unity Software is more favorable than Airship AI.

Earnings & Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Airship AI	$12.30 million	12.67	$16.37 million	N/A	N/A
Unity Software	$2.19 billion	4.39	-$822.01 million	($2.16)	-11.37

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

Institutional and Insider Ownership

5.9% of Airship AI shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.5% of Unity Software shares are held by institutional investors. 15.2% of Airship AI shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.3% of Unity Software shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk & Volatility

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

Profitability

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

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

Summary

Unity Software beats Airship AI on 6 of the 11 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 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.