SoundHound AI (SOUN) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

SoundHound AI, Inc. is a voice AI and conversational intelligence company specializing in speech recognition, natural language understanding and sound identification technologies. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the company initially gained recognition with its music discovery app before pivoting to enterprise-grade voice AI solutions. Over the years, SoundHound AI has built a comprehensive platform that enables developers and businesses to embed conversational intelligence into a wide range of products and services.

The company’s core offering is the Houndify voice AI platform, which provides customizable speech-to-meaning technology, domain-specific natural language understanding and text-to-speech capabilities. Houndify is used across multiple industries, including automotive, consumer electronics, hospitality and IoT, allowing end users to interact with devices and applications through natural, conversational language. In addition to Houndify, SoundHound AI maintains its SoundHound music identification app, which continues to serve millions of users globally by recognizing songs, identifying lyrics and providing contextual information about artists and tracks.

SoundHound AI serves clients and partners worldwide, with strategic relationships in the automotive sector—among them major global OEMs—and deployments in smart speakers, mobile applications and in-car infotainment systems. The company’s technology stack is designed to scale across geographies and languages, supporting developers with comprehensive documentation, SDKs and cloud-based APIs. This global reach has helped SoundHound AI secure collaborations that integrate voice AI into connected vehicles, home appliances and enterprise solutions.

The leadership team is led by co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Keyvan Mohajer, who has steered the company from its early days as a music app developer to its current position as a conversational intelligence provider. Fellow co-founder James Hom serves as Chief Technology Officer, overseeing continued innovation in speech recognition and natural language processing. Together, the executive team aims to expand SoundHound AI’s footprint in voice-enabled applications and accelerate adoption of its Houndify platform across new verticals.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: $6.85 to $7.22
• 50-Day Range: $5.70 to $8.02
• 52-Week Range: $5.65 to $22.17
• Volume: 10.14 million shs
• Average Volume: 28.71 million shs
• Market Capitalization: $3.19 billion
• P/E Ratio: N/A
• Dividend Yield: N/A
• Price Target: $13.60
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy

SoundHound AI Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

SoundHound AI scored higher than 59% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 376th out of 605 stocks in the technology sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 3.9 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Moderate Buy

Consensus Rating

SoundHound AI has received a consensus rating of Moderate Buy. The company's average rating score is 2.56, and is based on 1 strong buy rating, 4 buy ratings, 3 hold ratings, and 1 sell rating.

Upside Potential

SoundHound AI has a consensus price target of $13.60, representing about 88.3% upside from its current price of $7.22.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

SoundHound AI has only been the subject of 3 research reports in the past 90 days.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 0.0 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: Decreasing

Earnings Growth

Earnings for SoundHound AI are expected to decrease in the coming year, from ($0.33) to ($0.34) per share.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of SoundHound AI is -18.95, which means that its earnings are negative and its P/E ratio cannot be compared to companies with positive earnings.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of SoundHound AI is -18.95, which means that its earnings are negative and its P/E ratio cannot be compared to companies with positive earnings.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

SoundHound AI has a P/B Ratio of 6.57. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: 2.0 / 5
• Short Interest Level: Bearish

Percentage of Shares Shorted

41.25% of the float of SoundHound AI has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

SoundHound AI has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 4.18.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in SoundHound AI has recently decreased by 3.81%, indicating that investor sentiment is improving.

Dividend

• Score: 0.0 / 5
• Dividend Strength: N/A

Dividend Yield

SoundHound AI does not currently pay a dividend.

Dividend Growth

SoundHound AI does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

News and Social Media

• Score: 4.3 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.91

News Sentiment

SoundHound AI has a news sentiment score of 0.91. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a higher news sentiment than the 0.68 average news sentiment score of Technology companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 33 news articles for SoundHound AI this week, compared to 9 articles on an average week.

Search Interest

122 people have searched for SOUN on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 26% compared to the previous 30 days.

MarketBeat Follows

90 people have added SoundHound AI to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 221% compared to the previous 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 1.3 / 5
• Insider Trading: Selling Shares

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, SoundHound AI insiders have sold more of their company's stock than they have bought. Specifically, they have bought $0.00 in company stock and sold $1,999,444.00 in company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

8.84% of the stock of SoundHound AI is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

19.28% of the stock of SoundHound AI is held by institutions.

Company Calendar

• Last Earnings: 8/05/2026
• Today: 8/19/2026
• Next Earnings (Estimated): 11/05/2026
• Fiscal Year End: 12/31/2026

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: NASDAQ
• Sector: Technology
• Industry: Software
• Sub-Industry: Application Software
• Current Symbol: NASDAQ:SOUN
• CIK: 1840856
• Web: www.soundhound.com
• Phone: 408-441-3200
• Fax: N/A
• Employees: 200
• Year Founded: 2005

Price Target and Rating

• Average Price Target for SoundHound AI: $13.60
• High Price Target: $20.00
• Low Price Target: $7.00
• Potential Upside/Downside: +89.2%
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.56
• Research Coverage: 9 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): ($0.38)
• Trailing P/E Ratio: N/A
• Forward P/E Ratio: N/A
• P/E Growth: N/A
• Net Income: -$14.01 million
• Net Margins: -67.45%
• Pretax Margin: -64.68%
• Return on Equity: -30.22%
• Return on Assets: -20.28%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: N/A
• Current Ratio: 3.91
• Quick Ratio: 3.91

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: $203.20 million
• Price / Sales: 15.71
• Cash Flow: $0.06 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 127.35
• Book Value: $1.10 per share
• Price / Book: 6.53

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 444,110,000
• Free Float: 404,851,000
• Market Cap: $3.19 billion
• Optionable: Optionable
• Beta: 2.64