Earnings Sentiment

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Bullish Statements during Earnings call

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Now, while we're not giving fiscal year '25 guidance yet, we will continue to expect positive free cash flow for the full year of fiscal year '25
Third quarter revenue was up over 100% year-over-year, and bookings were up 85%
We have a very unique high performance corporate culture that I think is going to serve as a real strong competitive advantage in the long run
In conclusion, business is good, prospects look bright, and C3AI has returned to accelerating growth
That being said, we continue to expect that we will operate a positive free cash flow business in Q4 in the next quarter
The general health of our accounts receivable remains strong
All these numbers exceeded our guidance and exceeded analysts' consensus
We're getting strong traction with partners in this federal space, not the least of which is AWS
We have a really substantial growth opportunity in federal and we're laying the groundwork to seize it
Total revenue of $78.4 million grew 18% year-over-year, exceeding the high end of our guidance range
NVIDIA's data center GPU sales grew by 409% year-over-year
So that thanks for the question and we're seeing you know very positive news there
And the, I'm pleased to report that those changes have been quite positive and we're seeing the levels of sales activity and customer engagement increasing dramatically in the EMEA theater and interesting enough the South American theater too
The C3 generative, by combining 15 years' worth of platform architecture with the large language model, we're able to solve the generative AI equation in a highly differentiated manner
You've had such great success both with federal and state and local
So this model has been and continues to be very successful in driving engagement
I commend you for the great Q3 and really strong momentum in the business
We continue to drive innovation in the generative AI market with our highly differentiated C3 generative AI solution
We continue to be really impressed by the broad range of applications to which this generative AI technology is applicable
And we're seeing a groundswell of interest in all of our generative AI offerings and our remarkable uptake of the C3 generative AI suite
C3 AI had a great third quarter
We are leveraging our first-to-market advantage in scalable trusted enterprise AI to bring secure, deterministic, hallucination-free, traceable, domain-specific generative AI solutions and generative AI augmented applications to market
Our US federal business continues to show significant strength
Bottom line, our go to market transition is working, as evident from the growth of our opportunity pipeline, the increase in our customer engagements, and increased revenue
Now the good news is that our customers are making significant commitments to C3 AI and our multi-year subscription agreements are a positive indicator of the depth of their commitment
So it's -- our solution here is really quite unique and it's getting a lot of traction and we are installed today in some of the most secure installations on the planet Earth
We're also pleased to share that the pricing on the converted pilots is pretty much in line with our expectations
And our contract volume has grown as we expected
It's unlocking new use cases and it's breaking, and it's creating kind of breakthrough opportunities for nonobvious applications in new industries and enterprises that we would not have expected and we're just in the earliest days of this
Earlier this year, I'd actually asked when we announced in last quarter's conference call, we made a well-considered decision to accelerate our investments in generative AI to seize market share in this large and rapidly growing market opportunity
       

Bearish Statements during earnings call

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We anticipated and announced that this transition would have a short to medium term negative effect upon revenue growth and RPO as the average sales price was significantly reduced and the contracts often lacked a time certain multi-period commitment
Also, as we discussed last quarter, We expect short-term pressure on an operating margin due to the investments we're making in generative AI and upgrading customers to our platform version 8.3
Free cash flow for the quarter was negative 45.1 million
Unbounded liability is a problem at Cargill
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Reflecting our transition to a more consumption-based contract, we reported third quarter GAAP RPO of 186.9 million, which is down 28.8% from last year and current GAAP RPO of 172 million, which is down 2.4% from last year
As a reminder, we continue to expect short-term pressure on our gross margins due to higher mix of pilots which carry a greater cost of revenue during the pilot phase of the customer lifecycle
Operating loss for the quarter was negative 25.8 million compared to our guidance range of negative 40 million to negative 46 million
The enterprise AI market is on fire
For Gartner, organizations, this is a quote that do not consistently manage AI risks are exponentially inclined to experience adverse outcomes such as security failures, financial and reputational loss, loss and social harm
It's a problem at any responsible organization, even Morgan Stanley
Our GAAP operating loss was $82.5 million
Thomas Siebel Let's see, I'm trying to find a headwind in either of these stories
Total allowance for bad debt remains low at 400,000, and we have no concerns regarding collections
But it did come as a surprise
Our non-GAAP operating loss was $25.8 million
Yeah, let's not get ahead of ourselves
Okay, the hard part is we can't get power
So I think this GPU constraint is ephemeral as soon as it's going to be power
And most large language models will not do that
   

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