SoundHound AI Partners with OpenTable, Adding 60,000 Restaurants to Booking System
Written by Emily J. Thompson, Senior Investment Analyst
Updated: Jan 08 2026
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- Stock Volatility: SoundHound AI's shares fell 39.4% in December 2025, reflecting market concerns over its high-risk, unprofitable growth model, despite holding $269 million in debt-free cash reserves.
- Partnership Expansion: The collaboration with Booking Holdings' OpenTable adds over 60,000 restaurant locations to SoundHound AI's booking system, yet this positive news failed to prevent the stock's decline, indicating market indifference towards unprofitable firms.
- Revenue Growth: The company reported a 68% year-over-year revenue increase in its Q3 2025 earnings, showcasing its growth potential, but waning market interest in its hypergrowth strategy has pressured the stock price.
- Market Environment Shift: As market sentiment shifts away from unprofitable growth stocks, SoundHound AI's stock is now trading 50% below its 52-week peak, signaling a transition from a former meme stock to a healthier growth stock narrative.
Analyst Views on SOUN
Wall Street analysts forecast SOUN stock price to rise over the next 12 months. According to Wall Street analysts, the average 1-year price target for SOUN is 17.20 USD with a low forecast of 13.00 USD and a high forecast of 26.00 USD. However, analyst price targets are subjective and often lag stock prices, so investors should focus on the objective reasons behind analyst rating changes, which better reflect the company's fundamentals.
6 Analyst Rating
2 Buy
4 Hold
0 Sell
Moderate Buy
Current: 11.080
Low
13.00
Averages
17.20
High
26.00
Current: 11.080
Low
13.00
Averages
17.20
High
26.00
About SOUN
SoundHound AI, Inc. is engaged in conversational intelligence, offering voice and conversational artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that let businesses offer experiences to their customers. Through its proprietary technology, its voice AI delivers speed and accuracy in numerous languages to product creators and service providers across retail, financial services, healthcare, automotive, smart devices, and restaurants via AI-driven products, such as Smart Answering, Smart Ordering, Dynamic Drive Thru, and Amelia AI Agents. Along with SoundHound Chat AI, a voice assistant with integrated Generative AI, it powers various products and services, and processes billions of interactions each year for businesses. Its developer platform, Houndify, is an open-access platform that allows developers to leverage its Voice AI technology and a library of over 100 content domains, including commonly used domains for points of interest, weather, flight status, sports and more.
About the author
Emily J. Thompson
Emily J. Thompson, a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with 12 years in investment research, graduated with honors from the Wharton School. Specializing in industrial and technology stocks, she provides in-depth analysis for Intellectia’s earnings and market brief reports.
