Airship AI (NASDAQ:AISP) vs. Definitive Healthcare (NASDAQ:DH) Head-To-Head Review

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Airship AI and Definitive Healthcare, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Airship AI	0	0	2	1	3.33
Definitive Healthcare	2	7	3	0	2.08

Airship AI currently has a consensus price target of $9.00, indicating a potential upside of 147.25%. Definitive Healthcare has a consensus price target of $5.35, indicating a potential upside of 111.46%. Given Airship AI’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Airship AI is more favorable than Definitive Healthcare.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Airship AI and Definitive Healthcare”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Airship AI	$23.05 million	5.01	$16.37 million	($2.68)	-1.36
Definitive Healthcare	$252.20 million	1.13	-$202.39 million	($3.52)	-0.72

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

Volatility & Risk

Airship AI has a beta of 0.16, meaning that its stock price is 84% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Definitive Healthcare has a beta of 1.48, meaning that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

5.9% of Airship AI shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.7% of Definitive Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. 57.9% of Airship AI shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.8% of Definitive Healthcare shares are held by company 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.

Profitability

This table compares Airship AI and Definitive Healthcare’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%
Definitive Healthcare	-142.38%	1.76%	1.12%

Summary

Airship AI beats Definitive Healthcare on 9 of the 15 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 Definitive Healthcare

Definitive Healthcare Corp., together with its subsidiaries, provides software as a service (SaaS) healthcare commercial intelligence platform in the United States and internationally. Its SaaS platform provides information on healthcare providers and their activities to help its customers from product development to go-to-market planning, and sales and marketing execution. The company's platform consists of various functional areas, such as sales, marketing, clinical research and product development, strategy, talent acquisition, and physician network management. It serves biopharmaceutical and medical device companies, healthcare information technology companies, and healthcare providers; and other diversified companies comprising staffing and commercial real estate firms, financial institutions, and other organizations in the healthcare ecosystem. Definitive Healthcare Corp. was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts.