SOUNW
SoundHound AI, Inc.
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$1.69
-0.03 (-2.03%)
Current Price
| Previous Close | $1.72 |
| Open | $7.86 |
| Day High | $1.79 |
| Day Low | $1.63 |
| Volume | 13,928 |
Stock Information
| Total Debt | $6.23M |
| Cash Equivalents | $215.64M |
| Revenue | $183.99M |
| Net Income | $-168.26M |
| EPS (TTM) | $-6.57 |
| Exchange | NGM |
đ Comprehensive Analysis
Company Data
| Sales | $183.99M |
| Income | $-168.26M |
| Book/sh | $1.08 |
| Employees | 954 |
Financial Ratios
| Quick Ratio | 3.80 |
| Current Ratio | 3.94 |
| Debt/Eq | 1.35 |
Returns & Margins
| ROA | -19.67% |
| ROE | -39.40% |
| Gross Margin | 40.59% |
| Operating Margin | -139.30% |
| Profit Margin | -91.84% |
Ownership
| Insider & Institutional transactions data not available |
Valuation Ratios
| P/B | 1.52 |
Analyst Data
| Recommendation | none |
Technical Indicators
| Shares Float | 393.21M |
| Volatility | 2.81 |
Performance History
| YTD | +0.00% |
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Recent Price History
| Date | Close | Volume |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-17 | $1.64 | 24,342 |
About SoundHound AI, Inc.
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.
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Income Statement (Annual)
| Metric | 2025-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2022-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | ||||
| Reconciled Cost Of Revenue | $76,205,000 | $31,758,000 | $5,648,000 | $2,373,000 |
| Cost Of Revenue | $97,369,000 | $43,309,000 | $11,307,000 | $9,599,000 |
| Total Revenue | $168,920,000 | $84,693,000 | $45,873,000 | $31,129,000 |
| Operating Revenue | $168,920,000 | $84,693,000 | $45,873,000 | $31,129,000 |
| Expenses | ||||
| Interest Expense | $670,000 | $12,168,000 | $16,733,000 | $6,893,000 |
| Total Expenses | $355,319,000 | $203,376,000 | $109,924,000 | $136,801,000 |
| Other Income Expense | $167,996,000 | $-237,447,000 | $-7,105,000 | $-1,649,000 |
| Other Non Operating Income Expenses | $193,000 | $-371,000 | $190,000 | $32,000 |
| Net Non Operating Interest Income Expense | $9,129,000 | $-3,798,000 | $-13,867,000 | $-6,503,000 |
| Interest Expense Non Operating | $670,000 | $12,168,000 | $16,733,000 | $6,893,000 |
| Operating Expense | $257,950,000 | $160,067,000 | $98,617,000 | $127,202,000 |
| Selling And Marketing Expense | $61,640,000 | $29,126,000 | $18,893,000 | $20,367,000 |
| General And Administrative Expense | $82,188,000 | $53,270,000 | $28,285,000 | $30,443,000 |
| Income & Earnings | ||||
| Net Income From Continuing Operation Net Minority Interest | $-14,006,000 | $-350,681,000 | $-88,937,000 | $-116,713,000 |
| Net Interest Income | $9,129,000 | $-3,798,000 | $-13,867,000 | $-6,503,000 |
| Interest Income | $9,799,000 | $8,370,000 | $2,866,000 | $390,000 |
| Normalized Income | $-146,570,370 | $-119,768,976 | $-83,173,950 | $-115,385,010 |
| Net Income From Continuing And Discontinued Operation | $-14,006,000 | $-350,681,000 | $-88,937,000 | $-116,713,000 |
| Total Operating Income As Reported | $-23,272,000 | $-341,353,000 | $-68,608,000 | $-105,672,000 |
| Average Dilution Earnings | $-99,512,000 | - | - | - |
| Net Income Common Stockholders | $-14,006,000 | $-351,097,000 | $-91,711,000 | $-116,713,000 |
| Net Income | $-14,006,000 | $-350,681,000 | $-88,937,000 | $-116,713,000 |
| Net Income Including Noncontrolling Interests | $-14,006,000 | $-350,681,000 | $-88,937,000 | $-116,713,000 |
| Net Income Continuous Operations | $-14,006,000 | $-350,681,000 | $-88,937,000 | $-116,713,000 |
| Pretax Income | $-9,274,000 | $-359,928,000 | $-85,023,000 | $-113,824,000 |
| Special Income Charges | $163,127,000 | $-237,076,000 | $-5,394,000 | $0 |
| Interest Income Non Operating | $9,799,000 | $8,370,000 | $2,866,000 | $390,000 |
| Operating Income | $-186,399,000 | $-118,683,000 | $-64,051,000 | $-105,672,000 |
| Depreciation Amortization Depletion Income Statement | $15,872,000 | $7,116,000 | $0 | $0 |
| Depreciation And Amortization In Income Statement | $15,872,000 | $7,116,000 | $0 | $0 |
| Amortization Of Intangibles Income Statement | $15,872,000 | $7,116,000 | $0 | $0 |
| Gross Profit | $71,551,000 | $41,384,000 | $34,566,000 | $21,530,000 |
| Other | ||||
| Tax Effect Of Unusual Items | $35,238,630 | $-6,163,976 | $-1,531,950 | $-353,010 |
| Tax Rate For Calcs | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Normalized EBITDA (Bullshit earnings) | $-139,371,000 | $-92,017,000 | $-55,336,000 | $-98,024,000 |
| Total Unusual Items | $167,803,000 | $-237,076,000 | $-7,295,000 | $-1,681,000 |
| Total Unusual Items Excluding Goodwill | $167,803,000 | $-237,076,000 | $-7,295,000 | $-1,681,000 |
| Reconciled Depreciation | $37,036,000 | $18,667,000 | $5,659,000 | $7,226,000 |
| EBITDA (Bullshit earnings) | $28,432,000 | $-329,093,000 | $-62,631,000 | $-99,705,000 |
| EBIT | $-8,604,000 | $-347,760,000 | $-68,290,000 | $-106,931,000 |
| Diluted NI Availto Com Stockholders | $-113,518,000 | $-351,097,000 | $-91,711,000 | $-116,713,000 |
| Tax Provision | $4,732,000 | $-9,247,000 | $3,914,000 | $2,889,000 |
| Restructuring And Mergern Acquisition | $-163,127,000 | $221,447,000 | $4,557,000 | $0 |
| Gain On Sale Of Security | $4,676,000 | - | $-1,901,000 | $-1,681,000 |
| Amortization | $15,872,000 | $7,116,000 | $0 | $0 |
| Research And Development | $98,250,000 | $70,555,000 | $51,439,000 | $76,392,000 |
| Selling General And Administration | $143,828,000 | $82,396,000 | $47,178,000 | $50,810,000 |
| Other Gand A | $82,188,000 | $53,270,000 | $28,285,000 | $30,443,000 |
| Preferred Stock Dividends | - | $416,000 | $2,774,000 | - |
| Other Special Charges | - | $15,629,000 | $837,000 | - |
Fetched: 2026-07-16
Balance Sheet (Annual)
| Metric | 2025-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2022-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assets | ||||
| Net Tangible Assets | $160,114,000 | $-93,994,000 | $28,168,000 | $-36,565,000 |
| Total Assets | $688,173,000 | $553,953,000 | $151,122,000 | $37,986,000 |
| Total Non Current Assets | $359,043,000 | $298,434,000 | $37,580,000 | $20,283,000 |
| Other Non Current Assets | $18,718,000 | $2,972,000 | $14,352,000 | $1,621,000 |
| Non Current Deferred Assets | $29,000 | $4,000 | $11,000 | $55,000 |
| Non Current Deferred Taxes Assets | $29,000 | $4,000 | $11,000 | $55,000 |
| Non Current Accounts Receivable | $29,906,000 | $12,879,000 | $16,492,000 | $7,041,000 |
| Goodwill And Other Intangible Assets | $303,672,000 | $276,647,000 | $0 | - |
| Other Intangible Assets | $181,395,000 | $174,943,000 | - | - |
| Current Assets | $329,129,000 | $255,520,000 | $113,542,000 | $17,703,000 |
| Other Current Assets | $10,114,000 | $7,476,000 | $2,452,000 | $859,000 |
| Receivables | $70,525,000 | $49,804,000 | $15,830,000 | $5,085,000 |
| Other Receivables | $38,189,000 | $26,645,000 | $11,780,000 | $1,671,000 |
| Accounts Receivable | $32,336,000 | $23,159,000 | $4,050,000 | $3,414,000 |
| Allowance For Doubtful Accounts Receivable | $-2,254,000 | $-726,000 | $-203,000 | $-109,000 |
| Gross Accounts Receivable | $34,590,000 | $23,885,000 | $4,253,000 | $3,523,000 |
| Cash Cash Equivalents And Short Term Investments | $248,490,000 | $198,240,000 | $95,260,000 | $9,245,000 |
| Cash And Cash Equivalents | $248,490,000 | $198,240,000 | $95,260,000 | $9,245,000 |
| Prepaid Assets | - | - | $924,000 | $2,514,000 |
| Restricted Cash | - | - | - | $0 |
| Debt | ||||
| Total Debt | $4,213,000 | $4,350,000 | $90,159,000 | $44,124,000 |
| Long Term Debt And Capital Lease Obligation | $2,069,000 | $2,403,000 | $87,401,000 | $24,014,000 |
| Current Debt And Capital Lease Obligation | $2,144,000 | $1,947,000 | $2,758,000 | $20,110,000 |
| Long Term Debt | - | - | $84,312,000 | $18,299,000 |
| Net Debt | - | - | - | $25,722,000 |
| Current Debt | - | - | - | $16,668,000 |
| Other Current Borrowings | - | - | - | $16,668,000 |
| Liabilities | ||||
| Total Liabilities Net Minority Interest | $224,387,000 | $371,300,000 | $122,954,000 | $74,551,000 |
| Total Non Current Liabilities Net Minority Interest | $152,648,000 | $303,558,000 | $98,731,000 | $35,980,000 |
| Other Non Current Liabilities | $138,767,000 | $291,218,000 | $3,967,000 | $4,423,000 |
| Tradeand Other Payables Non Current | $2,254,000 | $3,075,000 | $2,453,000 | - |
| Non Current Deferred Liabilities | $9,558,000 | $6,862,000 | $4,910,000 | $7,543,000 |
| Non Current Deferred Taxes Liabilities | $1,363,000 | $0 | - | - |
| Current Liabilities | $71,739,000 | $67,742,000 | $24,223,000 | $38,571,000 |
| Other Current Liabilities | $6,004,000 | $7,318,000 | - | - |
| Current Deferred Liabilities | $24,042,000 | $23,876,000 | $4,310,000 | $5,812,000 |
| Payables And Accrued Expenses | $25,600,000 | $18,751,000 | $10,194,000 | $6,515,000 |
| Payables | $21,906,000 | $16,450,000 | $7,063,000 | $5,114,000 |
| Other Payable | $8,682,000 | $8,141,000 | $3,792,000 | $1,002,000 |
| Total Tax Payable | $2,662,000 | $2,750,000 | $1,618,000 | $1,314,000 |
| Income Tax Payable | $2,662,000 | $2,750,000 | $1,618,000 | $1,314,000 |
| Accounts Payable | $10,562,000 | $5,559,000 | $1,653,000 | $2,798,000 |
| Interest Payable | - | - | $0 | $236,000 |
| Derivative Product Liabilities | - | - | - | - |
| Equity | ||||
| Common Stock Equity | $463,786,000 | $182,653,000 | $13,981,000 | $-36,565,000 |
| Total Equity Gross Minority Interest | $463,786,000 | $182,653,000 | $28,168,000 | $-36,565,000 |
| Stockholders Equity | $463,786,000 | $182,653,000 | $28,168,000 | $-36,565,000 |
| Gains Losses Not Affecting Retained Earnings | $140,000 | $205,000 | $199,000 | $0 |
| Other Equity Adjustments | $140,000 | $205,000 | $199,000 | - |
| Retained Earnings | $-957,066,000 | $-943,060,000 | $-592,379,000 | $-503,442,000 |
| Preferred Stock Equity | - | - | $14,187,000 | - |
| Preferred Securities Outside Stock Equity | - | - | - | $0 |
| Other | ||||
| Ordinary Shares Number | $422,606,099 | $393,631,865 | $254,428,757 | $200,033,072 |
| Share Issued | $422,606,099 | $393,631,865 | $254,428,757 | $200,033,072 |
| Tangible Book Value | $160,114,000 | $-93,994,000 | $13,981,000 | $-36,565,000 |
| Invested Capital | $463,786,000 | $182,653,000 | $98,293,000 | $-1,598,000 |
| Working Capital | $257,390,000 | $187,778,000 | $89,319,000 | $-20,868,000 |
| Capital Lease Obligations | $4,213,000 | $4,350,000 | $5,847,000 | $9,157,000 |
| Total Capitalization | $463,786,000 | $182,653,000 | $112,480,000 | $-18,266,000 |
| Additional Paid In Capital | $1,420,672,000 | $1,125,470,000 | $606,135,000 | $466,857,000 |
| Capital Stock | $40,000 | $38,000 | $14,213,000 | $20,000 |
| Common Stock | $40,000 | $38,000 | $26,000 | $20,000 |
| Preferred Stock | $0 | $0 | $14,187,000 | $0 |
| Non Current Deferred Revenue | $8,195,000 | $6,862,000 | $4,910,000 | $7,543,000 |
| Long Term Capital Lease Obligation | $2,069,000 | $2,403,000 | $3,089,000 | $5,715,000 |
| Current Deferred Revenue | $24,042,000 | $23,876,000 | $4,310,000 | $5,812,000 |
| Current Capital Lease Obligation | $2,144,000 | $1,947,000 | $2,758,000 | $3,442,000 |
| Pensionand Other Post Retirement Benefit Plans Current | $13,949,000 | $15,850,000 | $6,961,000 | $6,134,000 |
| Current Accrued Expenses | $3,694,000 | $2,301,000 | $3,131,000 | $1,401,000 |
| Goodwill | $122,277,000 | $101,704,000 | $0 | - |
| Net PPE | $6,718,000 | $5,932,000 | $6,725,000 | $11,566,000 |
| Accumulated Depreciation | $-30,562,000 | $-33,298,000 | $-32,136,000 | $-31,530,000 |
| Gross PPE | $37,280,000 | $39,230,000 | $38,861,000 | $43,096,000 |
| Leases | $4,618,000 | $3,871,000 | $3,882,000 | $3,850,000 |
| Construction In Progress | $15,000 | $0 | - | - |
| Other Properties | $3,791,000 | $4,692,000 | $5,210,000 | $8,119,000 |
| Machinery Furniture Equipment | $28,856,000 | $30,667,000 | $29,769,000 | $31,127,000 |
| Properties | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Treasury Shares Number | - | - | $0 | - |
Fetched: 2026-07-16
Cash Flow Statement (Annual)
| Metric | 2025-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2022-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free Cash Flow | ||||
| Free Cash Flow | $-103,124,000 | $-109,518,000 | $-68,657,000 | $-95,348,000 |
| Operating Activities | ||||
| Operating Cash Flow | $-98,222,000 | $-108,878,000 | $-68,265,000 | $-94,019,000 |
| Cash Flow From Continuing Operating Activities | $-98,222,000 | $-108,878,000 | $-68,265,000 | $-94,019,000 |
| Operating Gains Losses | $-5,581,000 | $15,605,000 | $980,000 | $606,000 |
| Investing Activities | ||||
| Capital Expenditure | $-4,902,000 | $-640,000 | $-392,000 | $-1,329,000 |
| Investing Cash Flow | $-59,504,000 | $-12,372,000 | $-392,000 | $-1,329,000 |
| Cash Flow From Continuing Investing Activities | $-59,504,000 | $-12,372,000 | $-392,000 | $-1,329,000 |
| Capital Expenditure Reported | $-4,000,000 | $0 | $0 | - |
| Financing Activities | ||||
| Issuance Of Capital Stock | $212,357,000 | $436,955,000 | $118,338,000 | $4,160,000 |
| Financing Cash Flow | $208,074,000 | $210,906,000 | $168,237,000 | $82,001,000 |
| Cash Flow From Continuing Financing Activities | $208,074,000 | $210,906,000 | $168,237,000 | $82,001,000 |
| Net Other Financing Charges | $-4,228,000 | $-10,574,000 | - | $90,689,000 |
| Net Preferred Stock Issuance | $0 | $0 | $24,942,000 | $0 |
| Preferred Stock Issuance | $0 | $0 | $24,942,000 | $0 |
| Net Common Stock Issuance | $212,357,000 | $436,955,000 | $93,396,000 | $4,160,000 |
| Common Stock Issuance | $212,357,000 | $436,955,000 | $93,396,000 | $4,160,000 |
| Other | ||||
| Repayment Of Debt | $-169,000 | $-215,498,000 | $-35,188,000 | $-12,848,000 |
| Issuance Of Debt | $0 | $0 | $85,087,000 | $0 |
| Interest Paid Supplemental Data | $26,000 | $6,337,000 | $11,984,000 | $4,364,000 |
| Income Tax Paid Supplemental Data | $4,370,000 | $2,717,000 | $2,356,000 | $1,044,000 |
| End Cash Position | $249,166,000 | $198,916,000 | $109,035,000 | $9,475,000 |
| Beginning Cash Position | $198,916,000 | $109,035,000 | $9,475,000 | $22,822,000 |
| Effect Of Exchange Rate Changes | $-98,000 | $225,000 | $-20,000 | $0 |
| Changes In Cash | $50,348,000 | $89,656,000 | $99,580,000 | $-13,347,000 |
| Proceeds From Stock Option Exercised | $114,000 | $23,000 | $0 | $0 |
| Net Issuance Payments Of Debt | $-169,000 | $-215,498,000 | $49,899,000 | $-12,848,000 |
| Net Long Term Debt Issuance | $-169,000 | $-215,498,000 | $49,899,000 | $-12,848,000 |
| Long Term Debt Payments | $-169,000 | $-215,498,000 | $-35,188,000 | $-12,848,000 |
| Long Term Debt Issuance | $0 | $0 | $85,087,000 | $0 |
| Net Business Purchase And Sale | $-54,602,000 | $-11,732,000 | $0 | $0 |
| Purchase Of Business | $-54,602,000 | $-11,732,000 | $0 | $0 |
| Net PPE Purchase And Sale | $-902,000 | $-640,000 | $-392,000 | $-1,329,000 |
| Purchase Of PPE | $-902,000 | $-640,000 | $-392,000 | $-1,329,000 |
| Change In Working Capital | $-38,080,000 | $-37,142,000 | $-21,322,000 | $-19,419,000 |
| Change In Other Working Capital | $-4,956,000 | $-6,186,000 | $-4,135,000 | $-7,646,000 |
| Change In Other Current Liabilities | $42,000 | $-4,271,000 | $-1,526,000 | $-966,000 |
| Change In Other Current Assets | $-7,454,000 | $-3,327,000 | $-150,000 | $25,000 |
| Change In Payables And Accrued Expense | $-1,988,000 | $-5,790,000 | $3,104,000 | $418,000 |
| Change In Accrued Expense | $-3,918,000 | $1,846,000 | $4,266,000 | $116,000 |
| Change In Payable | $1,930,000 | $-7,636,000 | $-1,162,000 | $302,000 |
| Change In Account Payable | $1,930,000 | $-7,636,000 | $-1,162,000 | $302,000 |
| Change In Prepaid Assets | $0 | $0 | $1,590,000 | $-1,238,000 |
| Change In Receivables | $-23,724,000 | $-17,568,000 | $-20,205,000 | $-10,012,000 |
| Changes In Account Receivables | $-1,304,000 | $-10,264,000 | $-627,000 | $-1,354,000 |
| Other Non Cash Items | $-159,549,000 | $223,711,000 | $5,493,000 | $2,287,000 |
| Stock Based Compensation | $80,620,000 | $33,145,000 | $27,931,000 | $28,792,000 |
| Unrealized Gain Loss On Investment Securities | $0 | $0 | $1,901,000 | $1,075,000 |
| Deferred Tax | $1,338,000 | $-12,183,000 | $30,000 | $2,127,000 |
| Deferred Income Tax | $1,338,000 | $-12,183,000 | $30,000 | $2,127,000 |
| Depreciation Amortization Depletion | $37,036,000 | $18,667,000 | $5,659,000 | $7,226,000 |
| Depreciation And Amortization | $37,036,000 | $18,667,000 | $5,659,000 | $7,226,000 |
| Depreciation | $37,036,000 | $18,667,000 | $5,659,000 | $7,226,000 |
| Gain Loss On Investment Securities | $-4,676,000 | - | - | $606,000 |
| Net Foreign Currency Exchange Gain Loss | $-947,000 | $-24,000 | $143,000 | $0 |
| Gain Loss On Sale Of PPE | $42,000 | $0 | $0 | - |
| Net Income From Continuing Operations | $-14,006,000 | $-350,681,000 | $-88,937,000 | $-116,713,000 |
| Net Investment Purchase And Sale | - | - | - | - |
| Sale Of Investment | - | - | - | - |
Fetched: 2026-07-16