C3.ai (MEX:AI1) Debt-to-EBITDA : (As of Jul. 2026)

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MEX:AI1 C3.ai Inc MEX:AI1
37 GF Score
Price MXN193.00
GF Value MXN228.87
Valuation Modestly Undervalued
! 8 Warning Signs
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What is C3.ai Debt-to-EBITDA?

Debt-to-EBITDA measures a company's ability to pay off its debt.

C3.ai's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2026 was MXN100 Mil. C3.ai's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2026 was MXN0 Mil. C3.ai's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2026 was MXN-6,206 Mil. C3.ai's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2026 was -0.02.

A high Debt-to-EBITDA ratio generally means that a company may spend more time to paying off its debt. According to Joel Tillinghast's BIG MONEY THINKS SMALL: Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investing, a ratio of Debt-to-EBITDA exceeding four is usually considered scary unless tangible assets cover the debt.

The historical rank and industry rank for C3.ai's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

MEX:AI1' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -0.07   Med: -0.01   Max: -0.01
Current: -0.01

During the past 8 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of C3.ai was -0.01. The lowest was -0.07. And the median was -0.01.

MEX:AI1's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
100% of 1727 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 0.99 vs MEX:AI1: -0.01

C3.ai  (MEX:AI1) Debt-to-EBITDA Explanation

In the calculation of Debt-to-EBITDA, we use the total of Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation and Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation divided by EBITDA. In some calculations, Total Liabilities is used to for calculation.

Be Aware

A high Debt-to-EBITDA ratio generally means that a company may spend more time to paying off its debt.

According to Joel Tillinghast's BIG MONEY THINKS SMALL: Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investing, a ratio of Debt-to-EBITDA exceeding four is usually considered scary unless tangible assets cover the debt.

C3.ai Debt-to-EBITDA Related Terms

C3.ai Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

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The historical data trend for C3.ai's Debt-to-EBITDA can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

C3.ai Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

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MEX:AI1 vs BAND, MQ, EVTC: Debt-to-EBITDA Comparison

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, C3.ai's Debt-to-EBITDA, along with its competitors' market caps and Debt-to-EBITDA data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

C3.ai Debt-to-EBITDA vs Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, C3.ai's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where C3.ai's Debt-to-EBITDA falls into.


MEX:AI1
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C3.ai Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

Debt-to-EBITDA measures a company's ability to pay off its debt.

C3.ai's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Apr. 2026 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(97.664424 + 929.957248) / -8343.3171254305
=-0.12

C3.ai's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2026 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(100.372064 + 0) / -6206.4037475636
=-0.02

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

In the calculation of annual Debt-to-EBITDA, the EBITDA of the last fiscal year is used. In calculating the annualized quarterly data, the EBITDA data used here is four times the quarterly (Jul. 2026) EBITDA data.

Is C3.ai (MEX:AI1) Overvalued in 2026?

Based on GuruFocus' analysis, C3.ai stock appears to be undervalued. The current stock price of MXN193.00 is trading 15.7% below its estimated GF Value™ of MXN228.87. GuruFocus considers C3.ai to be Modestly Undervalued.

Key valuation signals for MEX:AI1:

  • Debt-to-EBITDA:
  • GF Value™: MXN228.87 vs. price of MXN193.00 (15.7% below fair value)
  • GF Score™: 37/100 with 8 warning signs

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C3.ai Business Description

Address 1400 Seaport Boulevard, Redwood City, CA, USA, 94063
C3.ai Inc is an enterprise artificial intelligence company. The company provides software-as-a-service applications that enable customers to rapidly develop, deploy, and operate large-scale Enterprise AI applications across any infrastructure. It provides solutions under three divisions namely, The C3 AI Platform, which is an end-to-end application development and runtime environment for designing, developing, and deploying AI applications: C3 AI Applications, which is a portfolio of pre-built, extensible, industry-specific, and application-specific Enterprise AI applications: and C3 Generative AI, which combines the utility of large language models. Geographically the company derives revenue from North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific, and the Rest of the World.
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