$9.50 – Psychological + round number, current bid zone. $9.21 – Pre-market low. $9.00 – Natural whole number support if further selling occurs.
Resistance Levels:
$9.75 – Pre-market high and strong resistance zone. $9.70-$9.72 – Temporary resistance before profit-taking. $9.80+ – Blue-sky breakout if momentum persists.
Notes: Earnings Yesterday: This likely drove the large spike in pre-market price and volume. Friday Effect: Many short-term traders may close positions before the weekend → profit-taking risk is real. Consolidation Zones: Tight zones near $9.50 and $9.60 suggest accumulation/decision areas.
Opening Price Expectation:
Likely between $9.52 – $9.60 range unless pre-market volume sharply increases again.
Closing Price Expectation:
Bullish case (if market holds support at $9.50): Close near or above $9.70. Bearish case (if profit-taking accelerates): Close near $9.35–$9.45. Base case (consolidation): Close around $9.50–$9.55.
⏳ Strategy Thoughts Short-term traders: Watch for a bounce near $9.50; tight stop below $9.45. Breakout traders: Watch for volume surge above $9.75 (Earnings continuation setup). Cautious bulls: Wait for pullback to $9.21 zone if selling intensifies.
After reviewing yesterday's earnings, I’ve never been more confident in a long position than I am with $SOUN. Revenue beat expectations, guidance is solid, and their AI voice tech continues gaining traction across industries. The market might not have fully priced in their potential yet, but I’m not worried a bit — this is a long-term play backed by fundamentals
Do listen from 25min onwards where Q&A's are done by Analyst's. I think they did a very good job in not only answering questions, but making sure no follow-up questions were asked. Very confident
👍 The Good Revenue growth: Revenue increased sharply to $29.1M, up from $11.6M in Q1 2024.
Net income turnaround: Achieved a net profit of $129.9M, compared to a loss of $33.0M last year.
Operating income: Positive $128.1M in income from operations, mainly due to a large $176.1M gain from a change in contingent acquisition liabilities.
Strong cash position: Cash and equivalents rose to $245.8M, up from $198.2M in Dec 2024.
Equity raised: Raised $67.7M from stock sales during the quarter.
👎 The Bad Still cash flow negative from operations: -$19.2M used in operating activities, despite reported net income.
Heavy operating expenses: High costs in R&D ($24.8M), marketing ($12M), and G&A ($18.4M). However, this was due to the acquisition.
Contingent liabilities remain: Although reduced, there’s still $113.1M in contingent acquisition liabilities.
Stock dilution: Increase in shares outstanding (from ~361M to ~369M Class A shares), which may dilute existing shareholders.
✅ Why It's Bullish Strong revenue growth: More than doubled YoY, showing solid business traction.
Net profitability achieved: A $129.9M profit versus a $33M loss the previous year is a major turnaround.
Contingent liability reduction: A $176M drop helped boost operating income — while non-recurring, it significantly improved optics.
Raised capital successfully: $67M in new equity shows market confidence and strengthens the balance sheet.
Improved equity position: Total stockholders' equity jumped from $183M to $397M in one quarter.
⚠️ Bearish Signals to Watch Cash flow still negative: Despite profits on paper, the company burned $19M in actual operations.
Heavy spending: R&D and SG&A expenses remain very high.
Stock dilution: More shares issued = potential EPS pressure.
Non-operational boost: Profit came largely from a one-time accounting adjustment, not core business operations.
📊 Verdict: Mildly Bullish The core business is growing, and the balance sheet is stronger. However, one should be cautious — the path to sustainable profitability (excluding one-time gains) isn't fully proven yet. The company has zero debt !
During the call, becoming profitable and remaining on track towards the revenue was emphasized several times. Also the business is now on several verticals.
After checking their numbers: SoundHound demonstrated strong revenue growth, with revenues more than doubling to $29.1 million in Q1 2025, and reported a significant net income of $129.9 million, coupled with a strengthened balance sheet showing total assets at $587.5 million and stockholders' equity increased to $397.0 million. However, this profitability was largely due to a one-off, non-cash gain of $176.1 million from changes in contingent acquisition liabilities. The company continues to use cash in its operations, with $19.2 million used in Q1 2025, funding this through financing activities that provided $67.0 million, ending the quarter with $246.5 million in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash. The report shows progress but underscores the ongoing journey towards sustainable, cash-generating operational profitability. SoundHound AI's Q1 2025 was a quarter of record revenue growth and significant strategic advancements across multiple sectors. While the headline GAAP profitability is heavily skewed by a large non-cash gain, the non-GAAP metrics suggest the core business is still in an investment phase, incurring operational losses as it scales. The reaffirmed revenue guidance and extensive list of business developments signal management's confidence in continued growth. The key challenge remains converting this top-line growth and strategic progress into sustainable operational profitability in the future. I like it.
SOUN SoundHound’s Amelia 7.0 Platform Delivers Agentic AI With Category Leading Voice Technology
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SoundHound AI, Inc. (Nasdaq: SOUN), a global leader in voice artificial intelligence, today revealed that the latest version of its industry leading Amelia Platform allows businesses to harness the power of full, voice-enabled Agentic AI.
Amelia 7.0 is the only agent platform to equip enterprise-ready autonomous AI agents with category leading voice AI. SoundHound’s advanced speech recognition (ASR) works with low latency, exceptional natural language understanding, and includes enterprise tuning for optimal responses – allowing businesses to deploy voice-enabled AI agents to execute complex tasks as part of natural, humanlike interactions.
The platform is powered by a proprietary multi-process Agentic framework – branded Agentic+. This allows businesses to deploy fleets of goal-oriented AI agents capable of understanding, reasoning, and acting with an intimate knowledge of their enterprise across a variety of channels. The platform can handle complex user queries by orchestrating multiple AI agents — each with specific functions — to answer questions and resolve problems via text or voice without the need for human intervention.
Agents built on Amelia 7.0 use the reasoning and planning skills of large language models (LLMs) but the platform enables businesses to define the specific knowledge and functions needed to execute a task. The platform also provides access to a library of business ready pre-sets that allow users to build AI agents to fully automate familiar tasks, like password resets and reorders. At all times, users can toggle seamlessly between programmed actions, deterministic flows, and third-party integrations to complete even complex, multi-stage processes.
The result is a next generation system that delivers efficient, informed, and intelligible interactions that customers love, that employees can use as a tool to improve their own productivity, and that businesses can use to drive better margins and make cost savings.
AI Agents manage complex queries & execute multiple intent queries within Amelia 7.0. Some examples include:
Patient: “I’d like to reorder my prescription, pay my outstanding bill, and schedule a new appointment about another issue.” Customer: “I want to exchange an item for an order I just received and cancel a subsequent order I made yesterday.” Employee: “Could you please help me with an email issue, and let me know the process for submitting a PTO request?” On a larger scale, Amelia 7.0 can be used to build end-to-end agentic experiences. For example, a hotel that handles guest interactions — from marketing and reservations to on-property concierge services like event information, dining, and in-room requests — across phone, web, text, and messaging apps for a seamless, personalized experience.
SOUN How will the day pan out? My thoughts:
