Head to Head Review: Zapata Computing (ZPTA) & The Competition

Institutional & Insider Ownership

51.2% of Zapata Computing shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.7% of shares of all “Prepackaged software” companies are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Zapata Computing shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.8% of shares of all “Prepackaged software” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility & Risk

Zapata Computing has a beta of 24.46, suggesting that its share price is 2,346% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zapata Computing’s peers have a beta of 1.46, suggesting that their average share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Zapata Computing and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Zapata Computing	$5.68 million	-$860,000.00	-0.03
Zapata Computing Competitors	$804.50 million	$13.44 million	-5.40

Zapata Computing’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Zapata Computing. Zapata Computing is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares Zapata Computing and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Zapata Computing	N/A	N/A	-60.05%
Zapata Computing Competitors	-42.96%	-34.73%	-5.53%

Summary

Zapata Computing peers beat Zapata Computing on 5 of the 9 factors compared.

About Zapata Computing

Zapata Computing Holdings Inc. operates as an industrial generative artificial intelligence (AI) software company in the United States. The company offers subscription-based solutions that combine software and services to develop generative AI applications, as well as accompanying services to solve complex industrial problems. It also provides Zapata AI Sense, a suite of algorithms and complex mathematical models to enhance analytics and other data-driven applications; Zapata AI Prose, a set of generative AI solutions based on large language models for generic chatbot applications; and Orquestra, an industrial generative AI application development platform, which provides sense and prose. It serves enterprise organizations. Zapata Computing Holdings Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.