Robinhood (HOOD) Q2 Revenue Jumps 45%
Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ:HOOD) reported GAAP earnings and revenue for Q2 2025 well ahead of analyst expectations, driven by strong transaction-based and net interest revenues.
Active customer metrics and platform assets both reached record highs, with 26.5 million funded customers and $279 billion in platform assets.
Operating expenses rose with acquisition integration, while management updated full-year 2025 guidance for higher costs due to scaling investments.
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Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ:HOOD), a leading commission-free retail investing platform, reported its second quarter fiscal 2025 earnings on July 30, 2025. The company posted a substantial beat on both GAAP earnings and revenue, fueled by robust growth across transaction-based and net interest income. Earnings per share (GAAP) came in at $0.42, surpassing the consensus estimate of $0.31. Revenue (GAAP) reached $989 million, topping analyst expectations by $74.4 million. Compared to the prior year period, GAAP revenue rose 45% and net income increased 105%. Management described the quarter as one marked by accelerated innovation, stronger customer engagement, and continued expansion, although it did face higher expenses related to recent acquisitions and product rollouts.
Metric Q2 2025 Q2 2025 Estimate Q2 2024 Y/Y Change
EPS (GAAP) $0.42 $0.31 $0.21 100%
Revenue (GAAP) $989 million $914.6 million $682 million 45%
Net Income (GAAP) $386 million $188 million 105%
Adjusted EBITDA (Non-GAAP) $549 million $301 million 82.4%
Adjusted Operating Expenses and SBC (Non-GAAP) $522 million $493 million 5.9%
Source: Analyst estimates for the quarter provided by FactSet.
Business Overview and Recent Focus
Robinhood Markets is best known for its mobile-first investing app, offering users commission-free trading in stocks, options, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and cryptocurrencies. Its platform is built for new and experienced investors alike, aiming to simplify access to financial markets through technology and an easy-to-use interface.
Recently, the company has prioritized innovation and product expansion as critical factors for growth. Key areas include the launch of new trading tools like Legend (a customizable desktop platform for active traders), rolling out enhanced features in its retirement and Gold subscription services, and accelerating its push into international markets such as the UK and Europe. Maintaining a strong regulatory compliance framework, integrating recent acquisitions, and providing quality user experience have become increasingly important as Robinhood grows its product lineup and global reach.
Quarter Highlights: Financial and Strategic Drivers
Transaction-based revenues jumped 65% year over year to $539 million, driven by increased trading activity across options, cryptocurrencies, and equities. Options trading revenue hit $265 million, up 46%. Cryptocurrency trading revenue nearly doubled, reaching $160 million, while equities revenue rose to $66 million. The company's net interest revenues climbed 25%, reaching $357 million, reflecting higher interest-earning asset levels and growth in its securities lending program, partly offset by the impact of lower short-term rates.
Robinhood continued to show momentum in expanding its customer base. Funded customer accounts reached 26.5 million, up by 2.3 million or 10% year over year. Investment accounts totaled 27.4 million. The company's average revenue per user (ARPU), a key metric for measuring customer monetization, reached $151, a 34% increase from a year ago. Total platform assets increased 99% year-over-year to $279 billion, driven by continued net deposits, acquired assets, and higher equity and cryptocurrency valuations. Net deposits were $13.8 billion, and over the trailing twelve months totaled $57.9 billion, up 41% from the prior year amount.
Product innovation was a major feature of the quarter. The Robinhood Gold subscription service, which provides customers with premium features like enhanced interest rates, research access, and the new Gold credit card, reached 3.5 million subscribers, a 76% year-over-year jump. Adoption of the Gold Card crossed 300,000 cardholders. Robinhood launched tokenization features and rolled out Stock Tokens for over 200 U.S. stocks and ETFs in Europe. The new Robinhood Strategies digital advisory service attracted more than 100,000 clients, with assets under management (AUM) reaching over $500 million within four months of launch. On the technology front, the company introduced detailed analytics tools to enhance the trading experience for active users.
International and crypto expansion accelerated. The company made its Legend trading platform available to all UK customers and brought its crypto services to 30 European countries. The closed acquisition of Bitstamp, a large crypto exchange, and a pending deal for WonderFi, support an expanding global crypto and trading footprint. Notable customer and trading metrics include $517 billion in equity trading volume (up 112% year-over-year), 515 million options contracts traded (up 32% year-over-year), and $28 billion in crypto trading through the main app (up 32% year-over-year). Bitstamp added $7 billion in crypto trading volume in June 2025, its first post-acquisition month. Retirement products also saw strong inflows, with assets under custody (AUC) for retirement rising to $19.0 billion, up 118% year-over-year.
Rising operating expenses and acquisition integration costs were key factors. Total operating expenses reached $550 million, up 12% year-over-year, while adjusted operating expenses and share-based compensation (SBC) (non-GAAP) landed at $522 million, an increase of 6% year-over-year. The company pointed to Bitstamp integration as a major contributor to the expense uptick. Adjusted EBITDA, a measure of operating performance that excludes interest, taxes, and certain non-cash costs, jumped 82% to $549 million, with margins expanding to 56%. Net income (GAAP) more than doubled to $386 million, while the net margin (GAAP) reached 39%, rising from 28% a year ago. Share repurchases totaled $124 million, with $703 million bought back over the past twelve months.
Looking Ahead: Guidance and Watch Areas
Management updated its full-year 2025 guidance for adjusted operating expenses and SBC (non-GAAP) to $2.15–2.25 billion, reflecting $65 million in additional costs tied to integrating Bitstamp. There were no specific forecasts given for revenue, EPS, or net interest income. Management noted continued strong trends in July 2025, citing about $6 billion in net deposits and high trading activity at the start of the third quarter.
For investors, areas to watch in the coming quarters include the impact of falling interest rates on net interest revenue, any further increases in operating expenses related to ongoing acquisitions, and continued growth in new products and geographies. Management noted that a 25 basis point drop in interest rates would represent a $50 million revenue headwind on a standalone basis. Internally, the company's ability to balance innovation and scaling costs, while managing regulatory compliance across a larger footprint, will remain critical as it expands globally and enters new asset classes.
Revenue and net income presented using U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) unless otherwise noted.
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Diluted adjusted EPS available to common stockholders eliminates the financial impact of adjusting items from net income available to common stockholders that the Company does not consider to be part of the normal operating results. Article content Adjusted net income available to common stockholders is calculated as net income available to common stockholders, excluding the effects of adjusting items that we do not consider to be part of our normal operating results, such as share- based payments expense, acquisition-related and integration costs, amortization of acquired intangible assets, executive transition costs and certain other items. Article content Net income available to common stockholders is calculated as net income attributable to controlling interests, less cumulative dividends on Series A Senior Preferred Shares and allocated earnings to participating securities. Article content Diluted adjusted EPS available to common stockholders is calculated by dividing adjusted net income available to common stockholders by the weighted average number of dilutive shares outstanding, except that it is computed based upon the lower of the two-class method or the if-converted method, which includes the effects of the assumed conversion of the Series A Senior Preferred Shares and the effect of shares issuable under the Company's stock-based incentive plans, if such effect is dilutive. Article content Three months ended June 30, Six months ended June 30, % Change % Change (in U.S. dollars in millions, except share, per share data, and percentages) 2025 2024 2025 over 2024 2025 2024 2025 over 2024 Net income available to common stockholders $ 99.5 $ 100.7 (1 )% $ 202.4 $ 197.8 2 % Share-based payments expense 25.2 18.1 39 % 39.6 31.4 26 % Acquisition-related and integration costs 2.7 4.1 (34 )% 5.8 16.9 (66 )% Amortization of acquired intangible assets 68.3 69.0 (1 )% 136.6 138.6 (1 )% (Gain) loss on disposition of property, plant and equipment and related costs — 0.4 NM (0.2 ) (1.4 ) (86 )% Prepaid consigned vehicles charges (0.2 ) (1.3 ) (85 )% (0.5 ) (3.4 ) (85 )% Executive transition costs 3.1 2.0 55 % 5.8 3.7 57 % Loss on deconsolidation and related costs 19.7 — NM 19.7 — NM Debt refinancing costs 3.9 — NM 3.9 — NM Remeasurements in connection with business combinations 0.1 — NM 0.1 — NM Other legal, advisory, restructuring and non-income tax expenses 4.3 7.7 (44 )% 8.2 10.0 (18 )% Related tax effects of the above (22.4 ) (24.0 ) (7 )% (49.7 ) (48.8 ) 2 % Related allocation of the above to participating securities (3.7 ) (2.6 ) 42 % (6.0 ) (5.2 ) 15 % Adjusted net income available to common stockholders $ 200.5 $ 174.1 15 % $ 365.7 $ 339.6 8 % Weighted average number of dilutive shares outstanding 186,649,132 184,912,584 1 % 186,502,548 184,746,818 1 % Diluted earnings per share available to common stockholders $ 0.53 $ 0.54 (2 )% $ 1.09 $ 1.07 2 % Diluted adjusted earnings per share available to common stockholders $ 1.07 $ 0.94 14 % $ 1.96 $ 1.84 7 % NM = Not meaningful Article content Adjusted EBITDA Article content The Company believes adjusted EBITDA provides useful information about the growth or decline of its net income when compared between different financial periods. The Company uses adjusted EBITDA as a key performance measure because the Company believes it facilitates operating performance comparisons from period to period and provides management with the ability to monitor its controllable incremental revenues and costs. Article content Adjusted EBITDA is calculated by adding back depreciation and amortization, interest expense, income tax expense, and subtracting interest income from net income, as well as adding back the adjusting items. Article content Adjusted Net Debt and Adjusted Net Debt/Adjusted EBITDA Reconciliation Article content The Company believes that comparing adjusted net debt/adjusted EBITDA on a trailing twelve-month basis for different financial periods provides useful information about the performance of its operations as an indicator of the amount of time it would take to settle both the Company's short and long-term debt. The Company does not consider this to be a measure of its liquidity, which is its ability to settle only short-term obligations, but rather a measure of how well it funds liquidity. Measures of liquidity are noted under 'Liquidity and Capital Resources' in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2025. Article content Adjusted net debt is calculated by subtracting cash and cash equivalents from short and long-term debt and long-term debt in escrow. Adjusted net debt/Adjusted EBITDA is calculated by dividing adjusted net debt by adjusted EBITDA. Article content Article content Article content Article content Article content Contacts Article content Article content Article content
National Post
9 minutes ago
- National Post
Backblaze Talks Drive Stats at DefCon 33
Article content SAN MATEO, Calif. — Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE), the cloud storage innovator providing a modern alternative to traditional cloud providers, today announced that Pat Patterson, Chief Technical Evangelist, and Stephanie Doyle, Writer and Content Strategist, will be speaking at DefCon 33, presenting a talk called, 'Tracking 300k+ Drives: What We've Learned After 13 Years.' Article content Backblaze manages over four exabytes of data stored on over 300,000 hard drives in data centers across the world. This session, the Backblaze Drive Stats Team will cover how we collect and share the Drive Stats dataset and reports, including how we recently improved data processing and failure validations with Iceberg, Snowflake, and Trino, and a live demo of the same. The session will also touch on updated AFR trends by drive model and size, SSD tracking challenges, and share how drive insights have contributed to performance improvements in data centers. Article content 'Drive Stats is a content franchise that has built an incredible community of technical leaders who are passionate about data storage and use,' said Patrick Thomas, Backblaze Vice President of Marketing. 'Sharing our primary source data and our process with the DefCon community is an incredible opportunity to spark new ideas and experiments, while supporting the hard drive manufacturers who quietly power the protection and use of data across the planet.' Article content DefCon 2025 is being held August 7–10 at the Las Vegas Convention Center West Hall. The session is being presented twice at the Data Duplication Village located in LVCC-L2-W225 on August 8, at 1:00 p.m., and August 9, at 1:00 p.m. For more information, please visit: Article content Backblaze is the cloud storage innovator delivering a modern alternative to traditional cloud providers. We offer high-performance, secure cloud object storage that customers use to develop applications, manage media, secure backups, build AI workflows, protect from ransomware, and more. Backblaze helps businesses break free from the walled gardens that traditional providers lock customers into, enabling them to use their data in open cloud workflows with the providers they prefer at a fraction of the cost. Headquartered in San Mateo, CA, Backblaze (NASDAQ: BLZE) was founded in 2007 and serves over 500,000 customers in 175 countries around the world. For more information, please go to Article content Article content Article content Article content Contacts Article content Press Contact: Article content Article content Article content Article content
Globe and Mail
9 minutes ago
- Globe and Mail
American Express to Participate in Barclays Global Financial Services Conference
American Express Company (NYSE: AXP) today announced management participation in the Barclays Global Financial Services Conference on Tuesday, September 9, 2025, beginning at 9:00 a.m. (ET). A live audio webcast of the discussion about the company's business strategy and financial performance will be accessible to the general public through the American Express Investor Relations website at An audio replay of the discussion will be available after the event at the same website address. ABOUT AMERICAN EXPRESS American Express (NYSE: AXP) is a global payments and premium lifestyle brand powered by technology. Our colleagues around the world back our customers with differentiated products, services and experiences that enrich lives and build business success. Founded in 1850 and headquartered in New York, American Express' brand is built on trust, security, and service, and a rich history of delivering innovation and Membership value for our customers. With over a hundred million merchant locations across our global network, we seek to provide the world's best customer experience every day to a broad range of consumers, small and medium-sized businesses, and large corporations. For more information about American Express, visit and The above-referenced discussion may include forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties and speak only as of the date on which they are made. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are set forth in the company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
