SoundHound AI, Inc. (SOUN)Technology | Software - Application | Santa Clara, United States | NasdaqGM
7.11 USD
-0.11
(-1.524%) ⇩
(Aug. 28, 2026, 4 p.m.
EDT)
After hours: 7.10 -0.01 (-0.015%) ⇩ (Aug. 28, 2026, 7:59 p.m. EDT) |
Hot Take ↕ | Aug. 22, 2026, 5:19 a.m. EDT
The investment case for SoundHound is currently bifurcated between a compelling long-term narrative and a precarious short-term reality. Fundamentally, the company has demonstrated exceptional resilience, delivering a massive 339% cumulative gain over the last three years driven by double-digit revenue growth in 2024 and 2025. However, the business remains in a cash-burning phase with negative operating margins and no dividend support, which caps the long-term rating at neutral despite the impressive price trajectory. The short term presents a distinct opportunity; the stock has recently reclaimed key moving averages, and options flow reveals aggressive speculation targeting a breakout above the $8.00 resistance level. While the statistical forecasting models offer no reliable directional signal due to low confidence, the confluence of technical recovery and heavy call positioning suggests a high-conviction setup for a near-term rally, provided the upcoming earnings report can validate the continued growth story. |
| Model | MAE |
|---|---|
| MSTL ✓ | 0.064549 |
| AutoTheta | 0.066620 |
| AutoETS | 0.068796 |
| AutoARIMA | 0.068796 |
Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: MSTL
| Forecast Reliability | |
|---|---|
| Score | 32% |
| H-stat | 11.25 |
| Ljung-Box p | 0.000 |
| Jarque-Bera p | 0.464 |
| Excess Kurtosis | 0.31 |
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Sector | Technology |
| Debt to Equity Ratio | 1.109 |
| Revenue per Share | 0.484 |
| Market Cap | 3,157,621,248 |
| Forward P/E | -48.20 |
| Beta | 2.83 |
| Profit Margins | -67.45% |
| Website | https://www.soundhound.com |
As of Aug. 22, 2026, 5:19 a.m. EDT: Speculators are positioning for significant volatility rather than a clear directional bet. Call Open Interest is heavily concentrated at the $8.00 strike across multiple expirations, acting as a major resistance wall, while Put Open Interest clusters tightly around the $6.50-$7.00 range, suggesting a floor. The imbalance in volume versus open interest for deep out-of-the-money calls indicates speculative buying of momentum plays, whereas put volume shows active hedging or defensive positioning near current levels. Implied volatility remains elevated relative to historical norms, pricing in uncertainty ahead of earnings.
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| 52 Week Change | -0.47019374 |
| Address1 | 5,400 Betsy Ross Drive |
| All Time High | 24.98 |
| All Time Low | 0.93 |
| Ask | 8.1 |
| Ask Size | 1 |
| Audit Risk | 10 |
| Average Analyst Rating | 1.5 - Strong Buy |
| Average Daily Volume10 Day | 25,443,720 |
| Average Daily Volume3 Month | 30,490,804 |
| Average Volume | 30,490,804 |
| Average Volume10Days | 25,443,720 |
| Beta | 2.825 |
| Bid | 4.68 |
| Bid Size | 2 |
| Board Risk | 10 |
| Book Value | 1.125 |
| City | Santa Clara |
| Compensation As Of Epoch Date | 1,767,139,200 |
| Compensation Risk | 10 |
| Country | United States |
| Crypto Tradeable | 0 |
| Currency | USD |
| Current Price | 7.11 |
| Current Ratio | 3.909 |
| Custom Price Alert Confidence | HIGH |
| Date Short Interest | 1,786,665,600 |
| Day High | 7.28 |
| Day Low | 7.02 |
| Debt To Equity | 1.109 |
| Display Name | SoundHound AI |
| Earnings Call Timestamp End | 1,785,963,600 |
| Earnings Call Timestamp Start | 1,785,963,600 |
| Earnings Timestamp | 1,785,960,000 |
| Earnings Timestamp End | 1,793,908,800 |
| Earnings Timestamp Start | 1,793,908,800 |
| Ebitda | -154,590,000 |
| Ebitda Margins | -0.76078004 |
| Enterprise To Ebitda | -19.149 |
| Enterprise To Revenue | 14.568 |
| Enterprise Value | 2,960,282,880 |
| Eps Current Year | -0.18 |
| Eps Forward | -0.1475 |
| Eps Trailing Twelve Months | -0.61 |
| Esg Populated | 0 |
| Exchange | NGM |
| Exchange Data Delayed By | 0 |
| Exchange Timezone Name | America/New_York |
| Exchange Timezone Short Name | EDT |
| Fifty Day Average | 6.7199 |
| Fifty Day Average Change | 0.3901 |
| Fifty Day Average Change Percent | 0.05805146 |
| Fifty Two Week Change Percent | -47.019375 |
| Fifty Two Week High | 22.17 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change | -15.059999 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change Percent | -0.6792963 |
| Fifty Two Week Low | 5.65 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change | 1.46 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent | 0.2584071 |
| Fifty Two Week Range | 5.65 - 22.17 |
| Financial Currency | USD |
| First Trade Date Milliseconds | 1,651,152,600,000 |
| Float Shares | 400,969,014 |
| Forward Eps | -0.1475 |
| Forward P E | -48.203392 |
| Free Cashflow | -45,495,500 |
| Full Exchange Name | NasdaqGM |
| Full Time Employees | 954 |
| Fullday Change | -0.11 |
| Fullday Change Percent | -1.52354 |
| Fullday Price | 7.0954 |
| Gmt Off Set Milliseconds | -14,400,000 |
| Governance Epoch Date | 1,785,542,400 |
| Gross Margins | 0.42294997 |
| Gross Profits | 85,943,000 |
| Has Pre Post Market Data | 1 |
| Held Percent Insiders | 0.01928 |
| Held Percent Institutions | 0.42630002 |
| Implied Shares Outstanding | 444,109,844 |
| Industry | Software - Application |
| Industry Disp | Software - Application |
| Industry Key | software-application |
| Is Earnings Date Estimate | 0 |
| Language | en-US |
| Last Fiscal Year End | 1,767,139,200 |
| Long Business Summary | SoundHound AI, Inc. provides independent voice artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that enables businesses across the automotive, TV, IoT, and customer service industries to deliver conversational experiences to customers in the United States, Korea, France, Japan, Germany, and internationally. The company offers Houndify platform, which provides 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, a voice assistant with integrated generative AI that integrates with knowledge domains, pulling real-time data, such as weather, sports, stocks, flight status, restaurants, and other data; and SoundHound Smart Answering, which offers customer establishments the option to build an easy to use custom AI-powered voice assistant. It also provides CaiNET software that uses machine learning to enhance how domains work together to handle complex 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 edge and cloud connectivity, which includes embedded voice solutions. In addition, the company offers Amelia Platform, which builds AI agents for enterprises; Chat AI for Automotive; Dynamic Drive-Thru for GenAI; Voice Commerce, which connects drivers and merchants with Voice AI; Autonomics Platform; Custom Voice AI Solutions; Voice AI Platform; and SoundHound Music App. SoundHound AI, Inc. was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. |
| Long Name | SoundHound AI, Inc. |
| Market | us_market |
| Market Cap | 3,157,621,248 |
| Market State | CLOSED |
| Max Age | 86,400 |
| Message Board Id | finmb_28748353 |
| Most Recent Quarter | 1,782,777,600 |
| Net Income To Common | -136,762,000 |
| Next Fiscal Year End | 1,798,675,200 |
| Non Diluted Market Cap | 3,206,473,072 |
| Number Of Analyst Opinions | 7 |
| Open | 7.17 |
| Operating Cashflow | -114,509,000 |
| Operating Margins | -0.75925004 |
| Overall Risk | 10 |
| Payout Ratio | 0.0 |
| Phone | 408 441 3200 |
| Post Market Change | -0.014600277 |
| Post Market Change Percent | -0.20534848 |
| Post Market Price | 7.0954 |
| Post Market Time | 1,787,961,591 |
| Previous Close | 7.22 |
| Price Eps Current Year | -39.5 |
| Price Hint | 2 |
| Price To Book | 6.32 |
| Price To Sales Trailing12 Months | 15.5394745 |
| Profit Margins | -0.6745 |
| Quick Ratio | 3.734 |
| Quote Source Name | Nasdaq Real Time Price |
| Quote Type | EQUITY |
| Recommendation Key | strong_buy |
| Recommendation Mean | 1.5 |
| Region | US |
| Regular Market Change | -0.11 |
| Regular Market Change Percent | -1.52354 |
| Regular Market Day High | 7.28 |
| Regular Market Day Low | 7.02 |
| Regular Market Day Range | 7.02 - 7.28 |
| Regular Market Open | 7.17 |
| Regular Market Previous Close | 7.22 |
| Regular Market Price | 7.11 |
| Regular Market Time | 1,787,947,200 |
| Regular Market Volume | 24,519,470 |
| Return On Assets | -0.19466999 |
| Return On Equity | -0.32242 |
| Revenue Growth | 0.45 |
| Revenue Per Share | 0.484 |
| Sand P52 Week Change | 0.20204377 |
| Sector | Technology |
| Sector Disp | Technology |
| Sector Key | technology |
| Share Holder Rights Risk | 10 |
| Shares Outstanding | 411,574,436 |
| Shares Percent Shares Out | 0.3661 |
| Shares Short | 162,586,012 |
| Shares Short Previous Month Date | 1,784,073,600 |
| Shares Short Prior Month | 169,194,715 |
| Short Name | SoundHound AI, Inc. |
| Short Percent Of Float | 0.3986 |
| Short Ratio | 4.39 |
| Source Interval | 15 |
| State | CA |
| Symbol | SOUN |
| Target High Price | 17.0 |
| Target Low Price | 7.0 |
| Target Mean Price | 12.71429 |
| Target Median Price | 12.0 |
| Total Cash | 202,776,000 |
| Total Cash Per Share | 0.457 |
| Total Debt | 5,438,000 |
| Total Revenue | 203,200,000 |
| Tradeable | 0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Rate | 0.0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Yield | 0.0 |
| Trailing Eps | -0.61 |
| Trailing Peg Ratio | None |
| Triggerable | 1 |
| Two Hundred Day Average | 8.4809 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change | -1.3708997 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent | -0.16164555 |
| Type Disp | Equity |
| Volume | 24,519,470 |
| Website | https://www.soundhound.com |
| Zip | 95,054 |