Zeta Global (NYSE:ZETA) vs. Airship AI (NASDAQ:AISP) Head-To-Head Analysis

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

Risk and Volatility

Airship AI has a beta of 0.17, meaning that its stock price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zeta Global has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Airship AI	64.71%	-76.44%	309.71%
Zeta Global	-13.35%	-45.22%	-18.84%

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Airship AI and Zeta Global, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Airship AI	0	0	1	0	3.00
Zeta Global	0	4	11	0	2.73

Airship AI presently has a consensus target price of $6.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.78%. Zeta Global has a consensus target price of $30.36, indicating a potential upside of 131.70%. Given Zeta Global’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Zeta Global is more favorable than Airship AI.

Earnings & Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Airship AI	$17.98 million	9.42	$16.37 million	($0.67)	-7.94
Zeta Global	$1.08 billion	2.87	-$187.48 million	($0.29)	-45.18

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

Insider & Institutional Ownership

5.9% of Airship AI shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.8% of Zeta Global shares are held by institutional investors. 57.9% of Airship AI shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.0% of Zeta Global shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

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 Zeta Global

Zeta Global Holdings Corp. operates an omnichannel data-driven cloud platform that provides enterprises with consumer intelligence and marketing automation software in the United States and internationally. The company’s Zeta Marketing Platform analyzes billions of structured and unstructured data points to predict consumer intent by leveraging sophisticated machine learning algorithms and the industry’s opted-in data set for omnichannel marketing; and Consumer Data platform ingests, analyzes, and distills disparate data points to generate a single view of a consumer, encompassing identity, profile characteristics, behaviors, and purchase intent. It also offers various types of product suites, such as agile intelligence suite, which synthesizes Zeta’s data and data generated by its customers to uncover consumer insights that are translated into marketing programs; and CDP, which helps in consolidating multiple databases and internal and external data feeds and organize data based on needs and performance metrics. Zeta Global Holdings Corp. was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, New York.