C3.ai Plunges After Short-Seller Alleges Accounting Issues
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C3.ai Plunges After Short-Seller Alleges Accounting Issues
(Bloomberg) -- C3.ai Inc. fell the most ever in a single day after short-seller Kerrisdale Capital alleged “serious accounting and disclosure issues” at the enterprise software developer.
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The company used “highly aggressive accounting to inflate its income statement metrics in order to meet sell-side analyst estimates for revenue and certain profit metrics, and to conceal significant deterioration in its underlying operations,” Kerrisdale Chief Investment Officer Sahm Adrangi wrote in a letter to Deloitte & Touche LLP, C3.ai’s auditor.
Shares of Redwood City, California-based C3.ai fell 26% to $24.95 at the close Tuesday in New York. Before the plunge, the company had benefited from a recent spike in investor interest in artificial intelligence, and its stock has more than doubled this year. Kerrisdale said it is short shares of C3.ai.
The company accounts for costs related to the production of bespoke software as research and development rather than cost-of-revenue in order to boost margins, Kerrisdale wrote in the letter. This is among the accounting practices C3.ai uses to present itself as being in the high-margin, software-as-a-service business rather than one based on lower-margin consulting, according to the letter. Kerrisdale also flagged concerns around a jump in unbilled receivables from one customer, Baker Hughes Co.
In a statement, C3.ai called the letter a “highly creative and transparent attempt” to diminish the stock price. “Their allegation that C3.ai’s financial disclosures regarding Baker Hughes are somehow incorrect manifests a fundamental misunderstanding of US GAAP accounting practices and principles,” a spokesperson said, referring to generally accepted accounting principles. The spokesperson added that the accounting disclosures and financial statements referenced in the letter have been reviewed by C3.ai’s independent audit firm. Baker Hughes and Deloitte didn’t respond to a request for comment.
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Kerrisdale Capital said in a letter to the accountants for C3.ai that the company is overstating revenue and margins. The company denied wrongdoing.
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