SOUN Stock Rises Premarket: Deutsche Bank Boosts Stake By 7% Ahead Of Q1 Earnings

• Wall Street expects Q1 revenue of $42.56 million, up 40% from a year ago, while losses are projected to narrow to $0.01 per share from $0.09 a year earlier.
• Major shareholders in SoundHound include Vanguard, BlackRock, Morgan Stanley, State Street Global Advisors, and UBS.
• SOUN shares drew investor attention this week after launching Oasys, a self-learning “model-agnostic” AI-agent platform.

Shares of SoundHound AI (SOUN) rose 1% in premarket trading on Thursday after Deutsche Bank quietly boosted its stake in the AI voice company ahead of its earnings report and a fresh push into agentic AI.

SOUN stock jumped nearly 3% on Wednesday to end at $9.37, snapping two straight sessions of losses. 

Deutsche Bank Boosts SOUN Stake Ahead Of Earnings 

The German lender disclosed holdings of 683,420 SOUN shares valued at $4.7 million as of March 31, up 7% from the previous quarter. The filing comes as investors pile into SoundHound’s expansion beyond voice assistants into broader enterprise AI automation and autonomous AI agents.

Wall Street expects SoundHound to report first-quarter (Q1) revenue of $42.56 million when the company reports earnings on May 7, up 40% from the previous year, according to Fiscal.ai data. Analysts also expect losses to narrow to $0.01 per share from a loss of $0.09 during the same period last year. Meanwhile, Koyfin data shows that analysts maintain an average 12-month price target of $14.63 on SOUN shares, implying a 56% upside from current levels.

The company has emerged as one of the more heavily watched mid-cap AI trades outside the mega-cap tech sector. Top institutional shareholders in SOUN include Vanguard, BlackRock, Morgan Stanley, State Street Global Advisors, and UBS. Vanguard alone held over 45 million shares valued at $452 million as of late 2025, while BlackRock owned over 31 million shares worth more than $313 million.

SOUN Expands Into Agentic AI Market

Investor attention around SoundHound intensified this week after the company launched Oasys, a self-learning agentic AI platform that helps businesses deploy AI agents across phone systems, websites, social media, televisions and in-vehicle systems.

CEO Keyvan Mohajer told Stocktwits that the platform was specifically designed to avoid dependence on a single AI ecosystem from companies such as Microsoft, Google or Amazon. “Customers who bet on going all in with a big tech model risk missing out on innovations that come from elsewhere,” Mohajer said. “In a space moving this quickly, that flexibility is critical.”

Mohajer also called Oasys “model-agnostic,” meaning it can switch between different AI models depending on which performs best for a given task or workflow.

SOUN Pushes Deeper Into Enterprise AI

SoundHound has simultaneously increased its enterprise strategy through acquisitions and partnerships. Earlier this month, the company agreed to acquire LivePerson for $43 million in a bid to drive annual revenue toward $350 million to $400 million by 2027. At least $100 million of the revenue will come from LivePerson’s existing customer relationships.

The acquisition expands SoundHound’s reach across over 30 countries and deepen relationships with major banks, airlines, automakers and telecom companies. Wedbush called the deal a step that could strengthen the company’s customer portfolio and long-term data advantages.

More recently, on Wednesday, Richtech Robotics announced a prospective partnership with SoundHound to integrate conversational voice AI into hospitality-service robots. The first demonstration will feature Richtech’s Scorpion beverage-service robot powered by SoundHound’s AI system, aimed at enabling more natural real-time interactions between humans and robots in hospitality environments.

How Do Retail Traders Feel About SOUN?

On Stocktwits, retail sentiment for SOUN was ‘extremely bullish’ amid ‘extremely high’ message volume.

One user said, “Even though it’s severely undervalued, once ER and guidance is announced, the volume and adjustments should occur with this bull market. Tomorrow’s ER will be monumental, IMHO.”

Another user said, “The Hound might be in a mood to run to new highs tomorrow.”

SOUN stock has risen 3% over the past year and declined 6% since January.

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