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SoundHound AI Inc (SOUN)

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$14.12
Last Close (24-hour delay)
Profit since last BUY-11.64%
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BUY since 23 days
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09/12/2025: SOUN (3-star) is a STRONG-BUY. BUY since 23 days. Simulated Profits (-11.64%). Updated daily EoD!

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Moderate Performance

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Number of Analysts

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8 Analysts rated it

Limited analyst coverage, niche firm, research info may be scarce.

1 Year Target Price $15.44

1 Year Target Price $15.44

Analysts Price Target For last 52 week
$15.44 Target price
52w Low $4.45
Current$14.12
52w High $24.98

Analysis of Past Performance

Type Stock
Historic Profit 0.36%
Avg. Invested days 25
Today’s Advisory Regular Buy
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Key Highlights

Company Size Mid-Cap Stock
Market Capitalization 5.76B USD
Price to earnings Ratio -
1Y Target Price 15.44
Price to earnings Ratio -
1Y Target Price 15.44
Volume (30-day avg) 8
Beta 2.78
52 Weeks Range 4.45 - 24.98
Updated Date 09/14/2025
52 Weeks Range 4.45 - 24.98
Updated Date 09/14/2025
Dividends yield (FY) -
Basic EPS (TTM) -0.68

Analyzing Revenue: Products, Geography and Growth

Revenue by Products

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Profitability

Profit Margin -171.28%
Operating Margin (TTM) -108.59%

Management Effectiveness

Return on Assets (TTM) -23.47%
Return on Equity (TTM) -77.14%

Valuation

Trailing PE -
Forward PE 227.27
Enterprise Value 5530578526
Price to Sales(TTM) 43.79
Enterprise Value 5530578526
Price to Sales(TTM) 43.79
Enterprise Value to Revenue 42.07
Enterprise Value to EBITDA -25.42
Shares Outstanding 375151008
Shares Floating 364850699
Shares Outstanding 375151008
Shares Floating 364850699
Percent Insiders 1.55
Percent Institutions 46.77

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SoundHound AI Inc

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Company Overview

overview logo History and Background

SoundHound AI Inc, founded in 2005, initially focused on music recognition. It evolved into a leader in voice AI, developing independent voice AI platform.

business area logo Core Business Areas

  • Speech Recognition and AI Platform: Develops and licenses voice AI technology to various industries, including automotive, IoT, and customer service. This is the core business segment driving revenue.
  • Houndify: An independent voice AI platform that enables developers to add voice capabilities to their products.
  • SoundHound Product: Consumer application focused on music search and discovery.

leadership logo Leadership and Structure

Key executives include Keyvan Mohajer (CEO) and Nitesh Sharan (CFO). The company has a functional organizational structure focused on engineering, sales, and marketing.

Top Products and Market Share

overview logo Key Offerings

  • SoundHound Voice AI Platform: Provides voice-enabled solutions to businesses across industries like automotive, hospitality, and customer service. While specific market share data is hard to come by due to the fragmented nature of the voice AI market, SoundHound is a major player. Competitors include Amazon (Alexa), Google (Assistant), and Nuance Communications (now part of Microsoft).
  • Houndify: A platform that allows developers to build voice assistants. Market share for development platforms is difficult to quantify, but it competes with Amazon Lex, Google Dialogflow, and Microsoft Bot Framework.
  • Dynamic Interaction: Automated customer service platform that allows businesses to respond to inquiries from their customer bases. Competitors include IBM and AWS.

Market Dynamics

industry overview logo Industry Overview

The voice AI industry is experiencing rapid growth, driven by increasing adoption of voice assistants, smart speakers, and voice-enabled devices. The market is competitive and characterized by technological innovation.

Positioning

SoundHound AI Inc is a technology provider, licensing its voice AI platform. It offers a competitive advantage through its speed and accuracy of voice recognition, combined with its independent, customizable platform.

Total Addressable Market (TAM)

Estimates range from $20 Billion to $30 billion in 2024, with significant growth projected. SoundHound AI Inc is well-positioned to capture a portion of this market with its technology and expanding partnerships.

Upturn SWOT Analysis

Strengths

  • Technology Innovation
  • Speed and Accuracy of Voice Recognition
  • Independent Voice AI Platform
  • Strong Partnerships

Weaknesses

  • Limited Brand Recognition
  • Smaller Scale Compared to Major Competitors
  • Reliance on Strategic Partnerships
  • Limited Financial resources compared to giants

Opportunities

  • Expansion into New Industries and Verticals
  • Growing Adoption of Voice AI
  • Strategic Alliances
  • Increased investment in AI research and development.

Threats

  • Competition from Larger Companies
  • Rapid Technological Changes
  • Economic Downturn
  • Data privacy and security concerns.

Competitors and Market Share

competitor logo Key Competitors

  • GOOGL
  • AMZN
  • MSFT
  • IBM

Competitive Landscape

SoundHound AI Inc offers a technologically advanced voice AI platform and a customizable solution. However, it faces stiff competition from companies such as Google and Amazon that have enormous resources and widespread market presence. SOUN differentiating factors are accuracy and customization of its platform.

Growth Trajectory and Initiatives

Historical Growth: SoundHound AI Inc has demonstrated revenue growth over the past few years, driven by increasing adoption of its voice AI platform.

Future Projections: Analyst estimates project continued revenue growth, driven by expansion into new markets and increasing adoption of voice AI, and profitability may occur within a couple of years.

Recent Initiatives: Strategic partnerships with automotive manufacturers, expansion of customer service applications, and continued investment in R&D.

Summary

SoundHound AI Inc demonstrates technological promise within the expanding voice AI market but faces challenges concerning financial stability and competition from bigger industry players. Its innovation provides a foundation for growth and capturing market share if it can successfully develop strategic partnerships and manage its capital wisely. With its strengths in voice AI speed and accuracy, SoundHound is positioned to capitalize on the growing demand; however, it must overcome its weaknesses in brand recognition and scale. Investors should monitor both revenue growth and balance sheet carefully.

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  • Company Press Releases

Disclaimers:

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About SoundHound AI Inc

Exchange NASDAQ
Headquaters Santa Clara, CA, United States
IPO Launch date 2022-04-28
Co-Founder, CEO, President & Director Dr. Keyvan Mohajer
Sector Technology
Industry Software - Application
Full time employees 842
Full time employees 842

SoundHound AI, Inc. develops independent voice artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that enables businesses across automotive, TV, and IoT, and to customer service industries to deliver high-quality conversational experiences to their customers in the United States, Korea, France, Japan, Germany, and internationally. Its products include Houndify platform that offers a suite of Houndify tools to help brands build conversational voice assistants, such as Application Programming Interfaces (API) for text and voice queries, support for custom commands, extensive library of content domains, inclusive software development kit platforms, collaboration capabilities, diagnostic tools, and built-in analytics; SoundHound Chat AI that integrates with knowledge domains, pulling real-time data like weather, sports, stocks, flight status, and restaurants; and SoundHound Smart Answering is built to offer customer establishments custom AI-powered voice assistant. The company's products also include CaiNET software that uses machine learning to enhance how domains work together to handle queries; CaiLAN software that arbitrates responses, so users get answers from the right domain; Dynamic Interaction a real-time, multimodal customer service interface; Smart Ordering which offers an easy-to-understand voice assistant for restaurants; automatic speech recognition; natural language understanding; wake words; custom domains; text-to-speech; Employee Assist; and embedded voice solutions. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.