SOUNSoundHound AI, Inc.

$4.42-79% 1Y
Latest close: a new 52-week lowOct 23, 2026what changed →

Is it safe?

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Mixed picture: quality weak, heavy debt (CCC), and big price swings.

3 to watch, 2 neutral, 1 without data
Honest booksGrey zone

In the flagged range only because sales grew fast; the other indices are not Beneish M-score, a forensic model that detects earnings-manipulation patterns (receivables outrunning sales, margins slipping, accrual-heavy profit).

Quality3 / 9

Weak, deteriorating fundamentals Piotroski F-score, nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year financial health across profitability, balance sheet and efficiency. 7 to 9 is strong, 0 to 3 weak.

Insider conviction-$1.8M

Insiders were net sellers (-$1.8M, 90 days to Oct 22, 2026), selling is often routine.

Credit gradeCCCderived · Jun 30, 2026

Debt against weak or negative operating profit. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.

Drawdown risk98% volderived · Oct 23, 2026

Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -94% · now 77% below its 52-week high.

Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Dec 31, 2025.

Against the whole market›

Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.

Volatilitybottom 5% of the market
Max drawdownbottom 7% of the market

Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.

Can SOUN take a bad year?

The deepest fall in SOUN's price history on file is −94%; it is 77% below its high today.

−94%

Worst drawdown on file · −77% today

Cash runway
1.8 years

Cash runway · burning $29M a quarter at the current rate

Annualised volatility
98%

Annualised volatility · S&P 500 16% · about 6 times the market's own swing

Details›
Cash and short-term investments
$203M
EBITDA, trailing twelve months
−$134M
Operating profit, trailing twelve months
−$139M
Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
98%
Worst drawdown on file
−94%
Below its 52-week high
77%

Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.

How far can it fall?

How much the price moves, how deep and how long its falls have run, and what each unit of risk has paid.

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