SOUN
SoundHound AI Inc.
Is SOUN Halal?
Voice-AI software is generally permissible, but the latest liquidity screen is just above the examined limits.
What You Should Know
SoundHound AI's March 31, 2026 filing reports 0.04% finance-lease debt/assets, 33.44% identifiable liquidity/assets and 48.46% receivables-plus-cash/assets. Interest income is 1.657 million, or 3.75% of quarterly revenue. Automotive, restaurant and enterprise workflows remain qualitative.
⚠️ Concerns
- •Liquidity/assets is 33.44%, just above the examined 33% limits
- •Restaurant and food-ordering workflows can involve non-halal merchants
- •Customer end use is not contract-level disclosed
- •Pre-profitability and acquisition integration risk
Current quantitative Sharia screen
Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-14.
0.289 / 644.951
215.642 / 644.951
312.529 / 644.951
1.657 / 44.195
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt/assets is 0.04%, liquidity/assets is 33.44% and receivables plus cash/assets is 48.46%; liquidity is just above the examined 33.333% limit, while disclosed interest income/revenue is 3.75%.
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Liquidity/assets is 33.44%, above the examined MSCI 33.33% total-assets limit; debt/assets is 0.04% and receivables plus cash/assets is 48.46%. This is not an index-membership claim.
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Identifiable liquidity/assets is 33.44%, above the examined Malaysia SAC 33% financial limit; debt/assets is 0.04%. This is a calculation against SAC ratios, not an official classification.
- Financial
- Not calculated
- Overall
- Not calculated
A properly licensed reproducible 24- or 36-month market-cap history is not stored; a spot estimate is not substituted.
Business-activity disclosure
SoundHound develops voice-AI software, subscriptions and royalties for automotive, restaurant, consumer-electronics and enterprise customers. General-purpose AI software is generally permissible, while customer end use, advertising and restaurant workflows require qualitative review.
Limitation: The filing does not classify every customer workflow or monetization stream under a universal Sharia taxonomy.
Purification
Interest income of 1.657 million is disclosed, but ZakatInvest does not prescribe a fixed scholar-approved purification percentage.
Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
- Amounts are USD millions from SoundHound AI's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q.
- Interest-bearing debt is the 0.289 finance-lease liability; the filing says prior convertible notes and term debt were repaid.
- Cash and cash equivalents are 215.642; no separate marketable-securities line is reported.
- Accounts receivable includes accounts receivable plus current and non-current contract assets and unbilled receivables (96.887).
- Quarterly revenue is 44.195 and interest income is 1.657; customer categories and monetization revenue are not allocated to a universal prohibited-revenue numerator.
This is a reproducible financial screen, not a fatwa. A failed total-assets screen can coexist with a pass under a market-cap methodology. ZakatInvest keeps the qualitative assessment separate so numerical thresholds do not erase material context.
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