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About SOUN · 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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SELL (score -8) · 12-1 mom -15.3% · RSI 34.9 · below_both · -69.9% from high
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{"symbol":"SOUN","company":"SoundHound AI, Inc.","investigation_summary":"Investigation reveals SOUN has NO insider open-market purchases — the June 17 Form 4 cluster was tax-withholding sales (code D) by COO Michael Zagorsek (64,994 shares at $7.46), and all May/June filings were RSU grants (code A). The LivePerson acquisition ($261M in distressed debt restructuring via Notes Restructuring Agreem
SOUN trades at $6.69 after collapsing ~70% from its October 2025 peak of $21.40 — now sitting 39.7% below the 200DMA ($11.08) and 16.3% below MA50 ($7.99). The stock is deeply oversold on RSI (33.1) with MACD bearish, yet fundamentals are challenged: negative EPS, -$105M operating cash burn annually, forward P/E of -55x, and a pending LivePerson acquisition creating integration uncertainty. Options data reveals CRITICAL liquidity problems — bid/ask spreads show as zero across all strikes on both the July 10 and July 17 chains for both calls and puts, meaning no real market exists despite OI. The wheel-hunter flagged $0.31 premium on a 35DTE CSP at strike $6, but the put IV of ~12.5% reflects compressed vol on a thin contract; annualized yield calculations are unreliable without a functioning bid side. Bearish flow signals dominate ($8.85M notional in OTM puts vs $45K calls), short interest is elevated (~38%), and analyst targets (mean $14, +110%) are aggressive given ongoing cash burn and litigation exposure from governance amendments removing retroactive cure provisions. Earnings on August 6 fall AFTER both viable CSP expiries — good for IV maintenance — but the zero-spread options market makes execution unreliable.
SoundHound AI is a pre-profitability voice/agentic AI company that grew revenue 51.7% YoY to $184M TTM but continues burning ~$105-167M in cash annually. The bull case rests on the OASYS agentic AI platform launch and Richtech Robotics partnership; the bear case centers on a $300M ATM offering announced May 2026 (dilution risk), CFO departure, LivePerson acquisition integration complexity, and deeply negative economics across every profitability metric. No open-market insider buy was found in the last 90 days — all material Form 4 activity is RSU vesting or pre-scheduled sells. Options IV is very high (~55-72% ATM) but this is a risk premium on binary AI narrative rather than mispricing signal.
Investigating SOUN (SoundHound AI) triggered by wheel_hunter signal: IV ~6%, annualized yield ~88.6% on $8P at 34 DTE, OI 4,159. Initial scan flags a critical inconsistency — the stated 6% IV is extremely low and would typically produce minimal premium, contradicting the claimed 88.6% annual yield. This investigation proceeds to verify price history, technicals, fundamentals, earnings dates, options chain mechanics, and flow data to reconcile these inputs before reaching any verdict.
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