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Investing.com — Robinhood (NASDAQ:) reported third-quarter revenue that fell short of Wall Street estimates amid a decline in users, sending shares in the online brokerage lower in premarket U.S. trading on Wednesday.
The company, which was at the center of a frenzy of retail trading in so-called “meme stocks” in 2021, a loss of $0.09 per diluted share on revenue of $467 million in the three months ended on Sept. 30. Analysts were expecting a loss of $0.10 per share on revenue of $480.06M.
The miss on the top line was driven by weakness in equities and cryptocurrency revenue, which declined 13% and 55% from a year earlier, respectively. Monthly active users fell by 16% year-on-year to 10.3M, in a sign of the fading boom in retail trading as Americans face an uptick in living costs and elevated interest rates.
Looking ahead, total operating expenses for full-year 2023 are now expected be in the range of $2.399B to $2.439B, up from a prior forecast of $2.330B to $2.410B. Executives also flagged that trading volumes are typically lower around the holiday season in November and December, Reuters reported.
Meanwhile, Chief Financial Officer Jason Warnick warned that net interest revenue, which nearly doubled to $251M in the prior three-month period thanks to the Federal Reserve’s unprecedented series of interest rate hikes, will decline on a sequential basis in the current quarter.
Eligible users can borrow from Robinhood and then use the loan to make investments, while the firm subsequently collects interest on the debt. The practice that has helped Robinhood offset recently slipping trading volumes.
“[The third quarter] ended on a softer note with trends continuing into early [fourth quarter], which could weigh a bit on the near term,” analysts at JMP said in a note to clients.
Yasin Ebrahim contributed to this report.
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