Head to Head Survey: SoundHound AI (NASDAQ:SOUN) and Culture Medium (OTCMKTS:UPIN)

SoundHound AI (NASDAQ:SOUN) and Culture Medium (OTCMKTS:UPIN) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares SoundHound AI and Culture Medium”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
SoundHound AI	$84.69 million	75.24	-$350.68 million	($0.63)	-24.81
Culture Medium	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Culture Medium has lower revenue, but higher earnings than SoundHound AI.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for SoundHound AI and Culture Medium, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
SoundHound AI	0	4	5	1	2.70
Culture Medium	0	0	0	0	0.00

SoundHound AI currently has a consensus price target of $14.36, suggesting a potential downside of 8.14%. Given SoundHound AI’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe SoundHound AI is more favorable than Culture Medium.

Profitability

This table compares SoundHound AI and Culture Medium’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
SoundHound AI	-171.81%	-73.13%	-40.68%
Culture Medium	N/A	N/A	N/A

Insider and Institutional Ownership

19.3% of SoundHound AI shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.2% of SoundHound AI shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk and Volatility

SoundHound AI has a beta of 2.58, meaning that its share price is 158% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Culture Medium has a beta of -1.22, meaning that its share price is 222% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

SoundHound AI beats Culture Medium on 8 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About SoundHound AI

SoundHound AI, Inc. develops independent voice artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that enables businesses across automotive, TV, and IoT, and to customer service industries to deliver high-quality conversational experiences to their customers. Its products include Houndify platform that offers 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 that integrates with knowledge domains, pulling real-time data like weather, sports, stocks, flight status, and restaurants; and SoundHound Smart Answering is built to offer customer establishments custom AI-powered voice assistant. The company's products also include CaiNET software that uses machine learning to enhance how domains work together to handle 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; Employee Assist; automatic speech recognition; natural language understanding; wake words; custom domains; text-to-speech; and embedded voice solutions. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

About Culture Medium

Universal Power Industry Corporation designs, imports, and wholesales apparel under the Indigo People brand. It also identifies and acquires residential land for the development, as well as light income-producing commercial properties; and distributes fire suppression products. The company was formerly known as Code Navy and changed its name to Universal Power Industry Corporation in April 2016. Universal Power Industry Corporation was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Great Neck, New York.