We performed the first-principles band-structure calculations for a pure and a Cd-doped AgInO 2 delafossite compound. The results are carefully analyzed and compared with the results obtained for a pure and a Cddoped CuAlO 2 compound, calculated previously by our group. The electronic structures of both systems are found to be similar in many details, being characterized by the same hybridization scheme that occurs at both Cu and Ag positions. Introduction of Cd impurity into the Cu site produces a shallow band within the CuAlO 2 gap, while the Cd presence at the Ag site creates a wide band pinned at the Fermi level in the AgInO 2 spectrum. In both cases, however, the n-type conductivities are predicted.