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Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
These High-Growth Stocks Were Down Over 50% This Year. Is It Time to Buy Them?
SoundHound AI is a leading voice technology company that just doubled its revenue over the year-ago quarter. The Trade Desk stock tumbled earlier this year, but its first-quarter results sent the stock sharply higher. 10 stocks we like better than SoundHound AI › For investors that still have many years before retirement, growth stocks are one of the most efficient ways to increase their net worth. But the recent market sell-off is a good reminder that even the most promising companies can see their share prices fall in any given year. But investors should never judge the investment merits of a business by its stock performance, since stocks can rise and fall for all kinds of reasons in the near term. A lot of the day-to-day movement in the markets is driven by traders who have a much shorter time frame for making money than retirement savers do. SoundHound AI (NASDAQ: SOUN) and The Trade Desk (NASDAQ: TTD) are two growth stocks that fell hard this year. These companies just reported their first-quarter financial results. Let's look at what they reported, and whether it justifies at much lower prices than where they started 2025. SoundHound AI has shown promising growth potential over the past few years. It is providing conversational voice technology powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to several leading restaurant brands and car companies. After soaring last year to over $20, the stock has fallen 61% from those highs. But after the business just reported another quarter of strong growth, investors have to wonder if it's due for another rally. Revenue grew 151% year over year in the first quarter. This growth was partly boosted by the acquisition of Amelia last year, which will extend the company's technology to new markets like healthcare and financial services. In the quarter, SoundHound unveiled Amelia 7.0, which will allow customers to use voice-enabled AI agents to automatically complete tasks without further instructions. The company has been investing in voice technology for 20 years, and it has accumulated data from millions of conversations in dozens of languages. This is making its voice AI much smarter, potentially providing the company with a competitive advantage. Its relationship with leading AI chip supplier Nvidia validates its capabilities. SoundHound's voice AI is integrated with Nvidia's AI Enterprise platform, which allows it to deliver faster processing and more responsive voice AI. It's making great progress to grow its customer base. No single customer makes up more than 10% of its total revenue, which removes customer-concentration risk from the business. However, SoundHound will still need to improve its profitability, as it reported a large adjusted net loss of $22 million on $29 million of revenue in the first quarter. The stock is also trading at an expensive valuation of 38 times trailing sales. Overall, the company's growth, strategic acquisitions, and collaboration with Nvidia make it a mid-cap stock worth considering. If you're looking for a fast-growing company with huge upside potential in the AI market, SoundHound AI is an intriguing option. If the company can narrow its losses and continue to report high revenue growth, the stock could be a long-term winner. In a year where there is a lot of uncertainty for the economy, marketers are looking for ways to boost the return on their ad spending, and many are increasingly turning to The Trade Desk, a leading digital ad-buying platform. After the stock was cut in half earlier this year over a rare revenue miss in the fourth quarter, The Trade Desk returned with a strong quarter of growth to start 2025. The stock jumped after it reported revenue grew 25% over the year-ago quarter. It also notched a significant improvement in profits, with earnings per share surging 67% year over year. The Trade Desk has been delivering high growth like this for several years. Its average annual revenue growth over the past 10 years is 49%, yet its platform has captured just 1% of total ad spending. Investors are counting on its Kokai platform to drive more growth. Kokai uses AI to scan millions of ad impressions instantly to help ad buyers improve the effectiveness and return on their advertising investment. Management previously said it expected all clients to be using the platform by the end of this year. Over the long term, The Trade Desk should benefit from people spending more time on platforms not owned by tech giants like Google, which controls a large portion of the digital ad market. Only around half of ad spending is going toward the open internet, while over half of Americans spend their time there. This is a big opportunity for The Trade Desk. Analysts expect the company's earnings to grow at an annualized rate of 31% in the coming years. The stock isn't cheap, trading at 41 times expected earnings this year. But investors interested in the The Trade Desk's opportunity should take advantage of the recent dip, because this is about as fair of a valuation investors can expect for this quality growth stock. Before you buy stock in SoundHound AI, consider this: The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the for investors to buy now… and SoundHound AI wasn't one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. Consider when Netflix made this list on December 17, 2004... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you'd have $614,911!* Or when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you'd have $714,958!* Now, it's worth noting Stock Advisor's total average return is 907% — a market-crushing outperformance compared to 163% for the S&P 500. Don't miss out on the latest top 10 list, available when you join . See the 10 stocks » *Stock Advisor returns as of May 5, 2025 John Ballard has positions in Nvidia. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Nvidia and The Trade Desk. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. These High-Growth Stocks Were Down Over 50% This Year. Is It Time to Buy Them? was originally published by The Motley Fool
Business Wire
08-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
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. 'SoundHound's Amelia 7.0 isn't just a landmark evolution for the Amelia Platform, it's a milestone for the whole category' 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. Amelia 7.0 Features Include: World class voice technology for seamless verbal interactions with AI Agents Enterprise-ready generative AI Agent builder Agentic+: A framework that orchestrates across large language models, deterministic flows, and integrations for exhaustive reasoning and action. Guardrails for enterprise that ensure a safe, reliable deployment in any environment LLM agnostic with an expanded library of 3rd-party integrations User friendly interface for businesses that comes complete with tools including analytics, and an AI companion to answer questions and provide guidance as they build 'Amelia 7.0 isn't just a landmark evolution for the Amelia Platform, it's a milestone for the whole category,' said Michael Anderson, Executive Vice President of Enterprise AI at SoundHound AI. 'While others talk about the promise of agentic AI, SoundHound is delivering this next wave of voice-enabled AI agents for real world enterprises. We believe that businesses that aren't already in active conversations about deploying this technology are already behind.' Learn more about the Amelia AI Agent Platform here: About SoundHound AI SoundHound AI (Nasdaq: SOUN), a global leader in conversational intelligence, builds AI solutions that allow businesses to offer superior experiences to their customers. Built on proprietary technology, SoundHound's voice AI delivers best-in-class speed and accuracy in numerous languages to product creators and service providers across retail, financial services, healthcare, automotive, smart devices, and restaurants. Their various groundbreaking AI-driven products include Smart Answering, Smart Ordering, Dynamic Drive-Thru, and the Amelia Platform, which powers AI Agents for enterprise. In addition, SoundHound Chat AI, a powerful voice assistant with integrated Generative AI, and Autonomics, a category-leading operations platform that automates IT processes, have allowed SoundHound to power millions of products and services, and processes billions of interactions each year for world class businesses.
