Progress Software (NASDAQ:PRGS – Get Free Report) and SoundHound AI (NASDAQ:SOUN – Get Free Report) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, earnings and profitability.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Progress Software and SoundHound AI”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Progress Software | $753.41 million | 3.30 | $68.44 million | $1.56 | 36.75 |
| SoundHound AI | $45.87 million | 114.06 | -$88.94 million | ($0.36) | -39.31 |
Progress Software has higher revenue and earnings than SoundHound AI. SoundHound AI is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Progress Software, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Risk and Volatility
Profitability
This table compares Progress Software and SoundHound AI’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Progress Software | 9.08% | 41.56% | 9.86% |
| SoundHound AI | -163.58% | -55.58% | -31.70% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent recommendations for Progress Software and SoundHound AI, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Progress Software | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2.71 |
| SoundHound AI | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2.57 |
Progress Software currently has a consensus price target of $72.43, suggesting a potential upside of 26.34%. SoundHound AI has a consensus price target of $12.36, suggesting a potential downside of 12.67%. Given Progress Software’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Progress Software is more favorable than SoundHound AI.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
19.3% of SoundHound AI shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.4% of Progress Software shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.3% of SoundHound AI shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Progress Software beats SoundHound AI on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Progress Software
Progress Software Corporation develops, deploys, and manages business applications in the United States and internationally. The company offers OpenEdge, an application development platform for running business-critical applications; Chef, a DevOps/DevSecOps automation software; Developer Tools that consists of software development tooling collection, including .NET and JavaScript UI components for web, desktop and mobile applications, reporting and report management tools, and automated testing and mocking tools; Kemp LoadMaster, an application delivery and security product offering cloud-native, and virtual and hardware load balancers; and Sitefinity, a digital experience platform foundation delivering intelligent and ROI-driving tools for marketers. It also provides MOVEit, a managed file transfer software for managing and controlling the movement of sensitive files and securing them both at-rest and in-transit; DataDirect, a secure data connectivity tools for Relational, NoSQL, Big Data and SaaS data sources; WhatsUp Gold, a network infrastructure monitoring software providing complete visibility of all network devices, servers, virtual machines, and cloud and wireless environments to find and fix network problems; Flowmon, a network security and visibility product with automated response across hybrid cloud ecosystems; Corticon, a decision automation platform to transform user experiences by streamlining and automating complex business rules; MarkLogic, a data agility platform to connect data and metadata; and Semaphore, a Semantic AI platform. The company offers project management, implementation, custom software development, programming, and other services, as well as web-enable applications; and training services. It sells its products to end users, independent software vendors, original equipment manufacturers, system integrators, value added resellers, and distributors. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.
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.
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