Is SOUNDHOUND AI, INC. (SOUNW) Halal?
Shariah Screening — 5 Standards
Based on financial data from December 2025
| Standard | Debt Ratio | Cash Ratio | Receivables | Income | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AAOIFI | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ? INSUFFICIENT DATA |
| DJIM | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ? INSUFFICIENT DATA |
| MSCI | 0.6% / 33% | 36.1% / 33% | 10.2% / 33% | 5.8% / 5% | ✗ NOT HALAL |
| S&P | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ? INSUFFICIENT DATA |
| FTSE | 0.6% / 33% | 36.1% / 33% | 10.2% / 50% | 5.8% / 5% | ✗ NOT HALAL |
Financial Highlights
Profitability
| Gross Margin | 42.4% | |
| Operating Margin | -74.2% | |
| Net Margin | -8.3% | |
| Return on Equity (ROE) | -4.3% | |
| Return on Assets (ROA) | -18.2% |
Cash Flow & Balance Sheet
| Operating Cash Flow | -$98M |
| Free Cash Flow | -$103M |
| Total Debt | $4M |
| Debt-to-Equity | 0.9 |
| Current Ratio | 4.6 |
| Total Assets | $688M |
Price & Trading
| Last Close | $2.01 |
| Beta | 2.9 |
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52-Week Range
$1.96
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About SOUNDHOUND AI, INC. (SOUNW)
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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Frequently Asked Questions
Is SOUNDHOUND AI, INC. (SOUNW) halal to invest in?
Based on our screening using AAOIFI Standard 21 (the strictest methodology), SOUNDHOUND AI, INC. is Not Halal. The company fails one or more screening criteria. We screen against all 5 major standards: AAOIFI, DJIM, MSCI, S&P, and FTSE.
What is SOUNDHOUND AI, INC.'s debt ratio?
SOUNDHOUND AI, INC.'s debt ratio is not available under the AAOIFI standard (which uses market capitalization as the denominator). The AAOIFI threshold is 30%. Under MSCI and FTSE (which use total assets as the denominator), the debt ratio is 0.6%.
What are SOUNDHOUND AI, INC.'s key financial metrics?
SOUNDHOUND AI, INC. has a market capitalization of N/A, and revenue of $169M. The company maintains a gross margin of 42.4% and a net margin of -8.3%. Return on equity stands at -4.3%.
How often is the screening data updated?
Our screening data is updated regularly using the latest available financial statements and market data. Stock prices and market caps are refreshed frequently, while financial statements are updated quarterly when companies report earnings.
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