--- title: "3 AI Automation Stocks Retail Investors May Want To Watch Now" type: "News" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/291141015.md" description: "BAT's plan to cut 9,000 jobs and invest heavily in AI signals a shift toward automation. This trend highlights three stocks for retail investors: Verint Systems (VRNT), providing AI customer engagement tools; CCC Intelligent Solutions (CCC), offering AI-driven insurance claims software with high recurring revenue; and Nuix (NXL), specializing in data analysis and cybersecurity software. Each company faces distinct risks and opportunities within the enterprise automation sector." datetime: "2026-06-29T11:55:05.000Z" locales: - [zh-CN](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/291141015.md) - [en](https://longbridge.com/en/news/291141015.md) - [zh-HK](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/291141015.md) --- # 3 AI Automation Stocks Retail Investors May Want To Watch Now The announcement that BAT plans to cut 9,000 jobs, target £600m in annual cost savings by 2028 and lean harder on AI, automation and digital tools is a clear signal that large enterprises are rethinking how work gets done. When big consumer groups look to outsource, streamline and invest more in technology, attention often shifts to the companies building and running those systems. This article looks at 3 stocks from an AI and automation technology providers screener that appear closely tied to this trend, helping you assess whether they could fit, or not fit, into your own investing watchlist. ## Verint Systems (VRNT) **Overview:** Verint Systems helps large organisations run AI driven customer engagement, using its Verint Open Platform to automate and analyse interactions across contact centres, back offices, branches, websites and mobile apps, including AI powered bots and tools for workforce management and customer feedback. It also provides cloud operations, consulting, managed services, training and support across sectors such as financial services, healthcare, utilities, technology and government. **Operations:** Verint Systems generates essentially all of its US$893.8m revenue from Customer Engagement solutions, with the United States contributing US$595.3m and the rest spread across the United Kingdom, other EMEA regions, Asia Pacific and other Americas. **Market Cap:** US$1.24b Investors looking at how BAT and other large employers might use AI to cut costs may find Verint Systems interesting because it already sits at the heart of that shift, supplying AI powered customer engagement and automation tools to big enterprises that want leaner operations. The company is focused on recurring revenue through AI agents and a hybrid cloud model that aims to slot into existing systems. Analysts currently expect strong improvements in earnings and return on equity over the next few years. At the same time, Verint faces real risks from intense competition, contract timing and reliance on customers scaling up AI projects. This means the potential rewards come with meaningful uncertainty that you need to weigh carefully. Verint Systems sits where AI agents, recurring revenue and large enterprise contracts intersect. Yet the real story may be how expectations stack up against reality in the analyst forecasts for Verint Systems, including one factor that could flip the risk reward balance.analyst forecasts for Verint Systems NasdaqGS:VRNT Earnings & Revenue Growth as at Jun 2026 ## CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings (CCC) **Overview:** CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings provides cloud based software for the property and casualty insurance sector, using AI to connect insurers, repair shops, automakers, parts suppliers, lenders and others so they can handle claims, repairs and payments in a single digital workflow across the United States and China. **Operations:** CCC Intelligent Solutions generates about US$1.09b in revenue, with roughly US$1,079.9m from Domestic operations and US$6.8m from Other, closely mirroring its geographic split of US$1,079.9m from the United States and US$6.8m from China. **Market Cap:** US$2.94b CCC Intelligent Solutions operates within the cost cutting and automation theme that BAT has highlighted, offering AI driven claims automation and repair tools that help insurers and repairers handle complex work with fewer manual steps. The company combines high recurring SaaS revenue, very high customer retention and recently improved profitability with a recent share price pullback and an analyst view that earnings could grow quickly. Many investors see this combination as an interesting setup. On the other side of the ledger, CCC’s rich P/E, reliance on large insurance clients and a balance sheet tilted to higher risk borrowings mean execution and capital allocation are important considerations. The balance between these strengths and risks is what makes CCC a candidate for closer review in this screener. CCC Intelligent Solutions combines high recurring SaaS revenue and strong insurer relationships with a rich P/E that many investors debate, so it is worth seeing how the full analysis weighs these trade offs in the analysis report for CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings NasdaqGS:CCC P/E Ratio as at Jun 2026 ## Nuix (ASX:NXL) **Overview:** Nuix provides software that helps governments, regulators, corporations and professional services firms search, analyse and visualise huge volumes of data for investigations, eDiscovery, data privacy and cybersecurity, turning raw information into usable insights. **Operations:** Nuix generates about A$237.5m in revenue from Software & Programming, with roughly A$121.9m from the Americas, A$70.9m from Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and A$44.7m from Asia Pacific. **Market Cap:** A$381.1m Nuix sits right in the crosshairs of what BAT is trying to achieve, using software and automation to do more work with fewer people, but it tackles the problem for complex investigations, legal cases and cybersecurity rather than consumer products. The focus on the Nuix Neo platform, subscription contracts and higher margin software licenses is aimed at more predictable, recurring revenue, while management is reshaping engineering teams to improve efficiency. At the same time, elevated legal and restructuring costs, reliance on external borrowing and some pressure on customer retention keep the risk profile higher than many pure play software peers. For investors, the real question is how those trade offs stack up once you look at Nuix’s growth expectations, margins and valuation in one place. Nuix’s shift toward subscription contracts and higher margin software licenses could be more than a reshuffle of revenue. It may reshape the whole risk profile, which is why the analysis report for Nuix stops short of the obvious headline and then pivots to one detail many investors are missing ASX:NXL Earnings & Revenue History as at Jun 2026 The three stocks here are just a starting point, and the full screener uncovered 41 more companies in the AI and automation theme with stories that may be just as compelling as the ones already covered in this AI and Automation Technology Providers screener AI and Automation Technology Providers screener. Use Simply Wall St to identify and analyze the specific catalysts, financial traits and narratives that matter to you, so you can focus on the highest conviction ideas in this space. ## Take Control of Your Investment Journey If Verint Systems or any of these companies sound like a great opportunity, register for FREE with Simply Wall St and add your companies to a Watchlist to monitor the share price against the fair value the ideal entry point. 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