Robinhood Markets Q3 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

  • Positive Sentiment: Record Q3 results: Revenue rose 12% year over year to $1.4 billion, while adjusted EBITDA reached a record $808 million with a 57% margin. Platform assets approached $400 billion, supported by record activity in equities, options, event contracts and margin.
  • Positive Sentiment: Net deposits totaled $16 billion in Q3 and surpassed $68 billion year to date, already exceeding Robinhood’s annual 20% growth target. October deposits topped $13 billion, although $6 billion came from the Dell family’s contribution to Trump Accounts.
  • Positive Sentiment: Robinhood reported strong adoption of new products, including 5 million Gold subscribers, agentic trading accounts holding more than $250 million, and Robinhood Chain’s first-quarter volume exceeding $100 billion. The company also received authorization to expand into Dubai and reported in-principle approval for Singapore.
  • Neutral Sentiment: Management is broadening the platform through banking, peer-to-peer payments, prediction markets, perpetual futures, 24/7 equity trading, tokenized assets and Robinhood Social. Executives believe cross-selling multiple products can materially increase engagement and customer value, but several offerings remain in limited release or require further regulatory approvals.
  • Negative Sentiment: Q4 equities, options and crypto average daily volumes began about 5% below Q3’s record levels, with tighter spreads expected to pressure take rates. Robinhood is also continuing substantial growth investments—including roughly $100 million for Trump Accounts this year—which could constrain near-term profitability despite lowering the top end of its full-year adjusted operating-expense outlook.
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Operator

Thank you to everyone for joining Robinhood's Q3 2026 earnings call, whether you're tuning into the live stream or here with us in Menlo Park. With us today are Chairman and CEO, Vlad Tenev, CFO, Shiv Verma, and VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations, Chris Koegel. Vlad and Shiv will offer opening remarks and then open the call to Q&A. During the Q&A portion of the call, we'll answer questions from the audience, which includes institutional research analysts, finance content creators who may hold an ownership position in Robinhood, and both institutional and retail shareholders. As a reminder, today's call will contain forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from our current expectations, and we may not provide updates unless legally required.

Operator

Potential risk factors that could cause differences, including regulatory developments that we continue to monitor, are described in the press release we issued today, the earnings presentation, and our SEC filings, all of which can be found at investors.robinhood.com. Today's discussion will also include non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations to the GAAP measures we consider most directly comparable can be found in the earnings presentation. With that, please welcome Vlad.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

All right. Thank you guys for coming. This is awesome, and it's great to see so many people in person. We're back at our headquarters in sunny Menlo Park. Thank you again for being on this journey with us and showing up in person, and to everyone watching remotely. As you probably know, at Robinhood, we have a singular goal. We believe in ownership. We want to make everyone an owner, and we think that broad ownership is actually essential to a free, stable, and prosperous society. In order to execute on this vision, we have our three-part strategy. To recap that, the first part, we want to build the number one active trader platform. We want to allow customers to own any tradable asset. And really, an active trader should feel like they're at a disadvantage trading elsewhere.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

We'll have more about that later. Second strategic arc, number one in wallet share for the next generation. We want to build our customers' financial home, and not just for them, but for their families as well. Then the third, number one global financial ecosystem. So take the ownership that we've been able to deliver and grow in the U.S. and expand it everywhere around the world. Q3, we made a lot of progress. Our product velocity continued across each of these three arcs, and we saw strong business and financial results. For active traders, again, the idea is if you're an active trader, you're at a disadvantage trading elsewhere. What have we done for active traders?

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Last month, we held our third annual HOOD Summit event in Houston, Texas, and we launched not one, not two, but 17 new products and new services to our customers. I will hit a couple highlights. Agentic trading, which is near and dear to my heart. Literally, I am wearing the vest right now. Our agentic offerings have really increased in scope over the course of the year. If you remember, we started with our MCP, which has grown quite well, and now we have agentic trading directly in the app, so you no longer need to use your external tool, like your Claude Code or Codex. You can do it within the app. We have also allowed customers to extend their MCP connectivity to Robinhood Legend. Robinhood Legend is now in scope for our MCP connectors as well.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

We are just continuing to make it easier for anyone to trade on our platform, whether it is you directly or your agent. While we are still very early in the in-app capabilities and the harness tooling, we have been seeing really strong early adoption across the entire suite of agentic products. Customers have over $250 million in agentic accounts. Remember, the account start at zero, so you have to make a choice to move money into them. We look at the adoption curves, both across usage and trading, and they are sort of following an accelerating curve, which gets us very excited about the future of these products. As we continue to add more asset classes, more features, those curves appear to be steepening. Next, perpetual futures. We became the first U.S. broker to offer what we call true perpetual futures.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

These are perpetuals powered by our global derivatives exchange, Bitstamp, and they settle continuously around the day. So 15-minute settlement. We are also working on adding earnings contracts to our prediction markets hub. I think this will be particularly relevant for this audience because it will allow you to trade EPS and revenue on individual companies, as well as KPIs that are company specific. Of course, something I have been very excited about for quite some time, we announced 24/7 equity trading. That will be coming to Robinhood later this year. Again, this is something I think we will be the first to offer this as well. These are just a few of the many items we have shipped. There is a lot more, and I encourage you all to check out the full keynote on YouTube or X if you have not already. Let us move to wallet share.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

A couple of things that I would like to highlight here. Trump Accounts achieved a really important milestone in Q3, auto-enrollment. As we have said before, we have nearly 70 million children in the U.S. under the age of 18 that are eligible for the Trump Account. Now the U.S. Treasury has opened accounts for all of them, for all these children. Because of the generous gift from Michael and Susan Dell through their foundation, 25 million of those children already had $250 invested for them by the Dell Foundation. We are excited about this initiative. It is one of those things where it has just been snowballing, and we are doing more, so there is just a ton of roadmap ahead. One of the things I am particularly excited about is, I think it can become the default vehicle for philanthropic giving in this country, right?

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

And we are already seeing the beginnings of that with the Dells, but also the other donors. We do not really have a great default option. I think Trump Accounts can become that, so we are going to be doing more there in partnership with BNY and the U.S. government.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

We are also continuing to make progress with Robinhood Gold, which today is one of the largest paid membership programs in consumer finance in the U.S. A couple of years ago, we set out to actually completely revamp our Gold product. What we wanted to do is put something in Gold for our mass market customer, so that you did not have to be an active trader to benefit from Gold. I think we have been able to achieve that. So in this quarter, Robinhood Gold reached 5 million subscribers. We see it really paying off. We see it paying off.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

We have got 5 million Gold subscribers, and that is up over 30% year-over-year, and it is a 4x increase from when we began the journey to revamp the Gold program just about four years ago. So that gets us to about an 18% overall Gold adoption rate when you look at our customer base. But 40% if you look at in quarter, so of the customers that joined Robinhood in quarter, much higher adoption. That is really great to see because then we see a path as we continue to grow, Gold will just continue to increase. I think there is actually much more room to grow. Our big bets for growing the Gold value proposition are banking and credit. Those are still, despite getting to large scale, not generally available yet. So there is still limited release.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

We have been really investing in more integration points, so things like easy sign up for banking and Gold Card if you are signing up for Robinhood, contextual upsells so that we detect when banking and credit is going to be appropriate for you, when you are using the Robinhood app and kind of putting it there. We think we have got plenty of room to run. These can become even more meaningful drivers of higher Gold adoption. Finally, let me get to global financial ecosystem. On July 1st, just a few months ago, we launched the Robinhood Chain mainnet, and in its first quarter, it is already a top five chain by volume and revenue. So far, we have seen over $100 billion in DEX volume, so that is $100 billion in decentralized exchange trading volume and over $50 million in chain fees.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

DeFi perpetuals, it is an interesting innovative product, have seen solid growth on the chain as well. So in recent weeks, we have been seeing DeFi perpetual volume of over $1 billion per day on the chain. So it is clear customers have demand for these tokenized assets on chain. We think, we not only believe, we are building Robinhood Chain to be the best place to own and trade all of these tokenized assets. Of course, starting with stock tokens and perpetuals, but expanding much broader from that.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

We are also expanding our brokerage infrastructure globally, and we are excited with that to announce that we received authorization from the Dubai Financial Services Authority to launch Robinhood in the region. This will broaden our international footprint even further. The product velocity that you have been seeing, and the focus on the customer experience, have led to really strong business results.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Market share continues to grow up double digits year-over-year for each of the main assets, equities, options, crypto, and margin as well. Revenues grew 12% year-over-year to a record $1.4 billion. Adjusted EBITDA, that is up 9%, record of over $800 million. Net deposits, $16 billion in quarter. With a strong start to Q4, which Shiv will talk more about, we have already exceeded our annual goal of 20% net deposit growth, and that is with two months left to go. We are pleased with the strong results for our customers and for our business. We are pushing hard to make Robinhood your financial super app. With that, I will ask Shiv to come up. How are you doing, sir?

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

Doing all right. All right. Thank you, Vlad. Before we get into results, I just wanted to share three big takeaways from Q3. First, as Vlad said, the core business is firing on all cylinders. This led to our highest quarter ever for both revenue and adjusted EBITDA, and really great to see platform assets were nearly $400 billion. On top of that, we set new records for equities, options, event contracts, and margins. Going well all around. Second, our product is driving a more diversified business. We are now up to 14 cylinders that have reached $100 million or more of annualized revenue. Rothera, our prediction markets exchange, hit this number in just its first full quarter of operation. Really nice to see Rothera scaling well. Finally, we drove another quarter of strong growth, profitability, and scale.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

We are a Rule of 80 company, but at our scale of over $5.5 billion of annualized revenue. We remain disciplined on expenses even while investing for growth, which is fantastic to see. Let us get to our Q3 results, and all of these will be compared to a year ago. Revenues were up 12% to a record $1.4 billion, and this was driven by strong growth in both new products and existing products as well. Transaction revenues were a record as trading volumes were new highs across equities, options, and margin. Each of these was up around 50% year-over-year, and this is on market share gains. Event contracts continued to scale really nicely. This was up 7x year-over-year. Additionally, the Robinhood Chain in its first quarter of adoption, saw really strong usage, as Vlad mentioned before.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

That was another driver of transaction revenue in the quarter. On NIM or net interest revenues, really strong growth in margin, credit card book, and Robinhood Banking, and these grew to new record balances. Our total interest-earning assets on the platform also hit new highs. Really nice to see both transaction revenue and the interest-earning assets do well. Finally, in other revenues, as Vlad Tenev shared before, Gold subscribers reached a new all-time high of over 4 million subs, which is great to see. Additionally, as we continue to build and expand the Trump Accounts for customers, that should generate some additional revenue as well. Revenues grew to a quarterly record. We also stayed disciplined on costs. Adjusted OpEx, SBC was managed to $664 million. This was managed within our prior outlook range.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

As we are investing for growth, we are still being really disciplined on our expenses. Our productivity also continued to do really well. In this quarter, we hit revenue per employee of nearly $2 million, which would be a new record. We are shipping for customers, but we are also doing it in our lean and disciplined way. Finally, as we look ahead to Q4, while we plan to continue making growth investments, in particular on the Trump Accounts, we are also controlling our expenses and have driven more efficiencies across our business. As we do that, we are going to lower the top end of our prior outlook range by $25 million. We now expect full year adjusted OpEx SBC to be between $2.675 billion and $2.75 billion.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

This is $13 million lower at the midpoint versus our prior outlook. You put them together, really strong top-line growth, expense discipline, and this led to a strong quarter of profitability. Adjusted EBITDA was a record $808 million. This is up 9% year-over-year. Adjusted EBITDA margin continued to be strong at 57% in Q3. EPS for the quarter was $0.51. This includes a -$0.07 of mark-to-market impact on investments that we hold. As we talk about EPS, we are continuing to expand our business into investments. One of them is such as Robinhood Ventures, and as we launch more and more of these products, we are now seeing some non-operating movements done on these investments.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

We are introducing adjusted EPS, and this is to just better reflect our core operating profitability before any gains or losses on investments or some of these other non-operating items. At the same time, we are going to remain accountable for all of our regular ongoing costs. We are still including normal course SBC in our adjusted EPS. As I have said before many times, share count in the denominator matters. You put it all together, in Q3, adjusted EPS was $0.60. Moving forward, we hope that investors find this a useful measure of our core profitability in the business. Another area I wanted to touch upon is prediction markets. We believe it is really early innings for the asset class, and we are investing to be a leader in the space. We are constantly improving the in-app experience.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

We now have a vertically integrated exchange with Rothera, and as I mentioned before, it is off to a great start. Additionally, we also announced a recent partnership with Crypto.com and OG.com. This is really exciting for both our customers but also for our business and shareholders. It is really important for us that customers have a best-in-class selection with consistent pricing across exchanges and with these partnerships, it now allows us to do that. Additionally, with no cash outlay, we received an initial 1% equity ownership stake in Crypto.com and OG.com, and we have the ability to earn up to 10% ownership depending on how much we partner together in the years to come. Before we move to Q&A, I just wanted to give a little bit about how Q4 looks to start following a record Q3.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

October net deposits are over $13 billion in the month, great to see, and that includes $6 billion of the Dell family gift to Trump Accounts, as Vlad mentioned earlier. This brings our total year-to-date net deposits to over $68 billion. This is already a new annual record and north of our 20% growth target, with still a few months to go left in the year. Compared to Q3, average daily volumes for equities, options, and cryptos are off to a good start and are about 5% lighter relative to the really strong Q3. Event contract ADVs are already up about 10% to start the quarter. Stepping back, it was great to see another strong quarter in Q3, and we're really excited about our momentum entering Q4.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

As we've shared before, our financial North Star remains the same: maximize earnings per share and free cash flow per share for shareholders over time. All right, Chris, Vlad, should we take some questions?

Chris Koegel
Chris Koegel
VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Robinhood Markets

All right. Thank you, Shiv.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Let's do it.

Chris Koegel
Chris Koegel
VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Robinhood Markets

For the Q&A session, we will start by answering shareholder questions from Say Technologies, and after the Say questions, we will turn to live questions from our audience and then go to the analyst Q&A. I will kick it off with our first question from Say, which comes from Bo Shen.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Bo Shen, how you doing?

Chris Koegel
Chris Koegel
VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Robinhood Markets

Okay, I think we have lost Bo.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

We lost him.

Chris Koegel
Chris Koegel
VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Robinhood Markets

Bo asked, how is the expansion into banking going, and when will features such as the Zelle replacement arrive?

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

It's a great question. I thought, rather than talking about it, I will actually just show you. I try not to launch new products during earnings, but I thought since we have a crowd here, I might as well give you a little bit more. By the way, before I get into it, I do want to say one thing about banking as it pertains to our super app vision. One of the things we have been tracking for a really long time is what the top bank withdrawal destinations for our brokerage business have been. This is the top institutions that people actually move money from brokerage into banking. For the longest time, it has been the expected big banks, not a huge surprise there. But as we have started to roll out Robinhood Banking, we have actually seen Robinhood Banking climbing up the list.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

This quarter, for the first time, Robinhood Banking became the number one withdrawal destination for Robinhood brokerage customers. This is actually even before it is generally available. It is the number one bank that customers withdraw money to by dollars, which I think is quite amazing. And obviously, we love this because that money is not leaving the Robinhood ecosystem. It just stays in people's accounts. And I think it is one major proof point that customers are choosing Robinhood for their totality of their financial needs.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

They are coming in, they are direct depositing their paycheck. They have their checking and savings account. Of course, they move money to invest in trade. They do their spending with Gold and now Platinum. So increasingly, you do not really have to leave Robinhood because we offer best-in-class services across the board. Now, one thing that people have been asking about is peer-to-peer payments.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

And of course, we did not want to just do a regular add-on, bolt-on peer-to-peer payments feature. We wanted to make it really, really nice. If you guys are ready, I can share my screen. This is Robinhood Banking. So I have blurred out my balances. This is the new design, by the way. We have updated it to have the Liquid Glass UI. So there is this button on the bottom right, which is your overall transaction action button. And if you open that, you see there is this new Send Money feature. Matt, would you accept a few dollars from me?

Operator

Sure. Yeah. I'll know how much you like me based on how much you send.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Okay, good. You'll know I like you a moderate amount.

Operator

Awesome.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

It's just as simple as that. I'll send Matt, who's been doing a great job from our investor relations team, $5 from my joint checking account. Okay. You can put a little message here. Of course, this is my favorite one. Check this out. I'm going to send it via text. One of the really annoying things about peer-to-peer payments, I don't know if you guys have experienced this, but you want to use an app, and the person you send money to doesn't have it, which creates this moment of friction. I don't want them to have to install anything. Then they'll ask you, can you send it this way? Can you do it with one of the competitors? Then you have to install it. Anyway, we've gotten rid of all of that. Matt, did you get it?

Operator

I got the text.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Okay. If you want to show. So there it is. He just taps on it, and you can accept money with Apple Pay or Google Pay without even having a Robinhood Banking account, which is pretty awesome if you think about it. Of course, it gives us an opportunity to upsell Robinhood Banking, which is just a really clean experience for those of you that have tried it. But you don't have to have it. You can just get it right into your Apple Pay. So you don't have to worry about that friction of the recipient of the funds. Right now, it's still in limited release. If Matt sends money to someone, they'll get it. But, yeah, you should expect to see us rolling this out much more broadly in the coming weeks.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

And just another reason why everything we think can be better on Robinhood if you run more of your financial life through us.

Operator

Who needs Zelle, right?

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah. I mean, legacy technology, I think we can do better if we build everything in an integrated fashion.

Chris Koegel
Chris Koegel
VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Robinhood Markets

All right. Great demo. All right, the next question is from Marcus M., who asks, how is global expansion going, and what countries are next?

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah. I will field that one. When Shiv and I were coming up with our plan and we thought, well, what can Robinhood be in 10 years? We called our third arc global financial ecosystem. Our vision, and I think this is backed up by how big these markets are and also wealth accumulation, people outside the U.S. keep getting wealthier. Our vision is that, over the long run, more than half of our business should be outside the U.S. Cut another way, more than half should be institutional. What we didn't anticipate is products like Robinhood Chain. We said Robinhood Chain already in quarter got out of the gate really quick with $100 billion in DEX volume and $50 million of chain fees.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

You think about how much. We are actually continuing to invest, frankly, the growth of the chain and associated ecosystem and the wallet surprised, and was higher than our expectations. Now we are spending a lot of time investing in how to make that even bigger, how to support the community. We know we have been hearing from a lot of builders that we could be doing more to support the community, and I think you should expect to see us really ramp that up because we want to make it the best developer ecosystem as well as the best global on-chain community. Yeah, you should expect to see us ramping the investment because you just don't see growth of a new ecosystem like this. It is an uncommon thing.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

I mean, a lot of chains have launched over the past few months that have just had not nearly like an incomparably small level of traction compared to this. So we are doubling down on that. Of course, as I mentioned earlier, we are expanding into MENA with our Dubai license, and we did get in-principle approval from MAS to expand into Singapore, and that will be our Southeast Asia, APAC hub, which we are very excited about. By the way, we are continuing to get deeper in our more established markets of EU and U.K. U.K. now has crypto and brokerage in the same offering, so it is getting to parity. You have seen us actually increasing our download share and getting more traction there. So I would say, Shiv, I do not know if you would disagree.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

I think for a while, our international business was sort of like a very far off into the future when we expected to see meaningful contributions. But we are starting to see that accelerate and I am seeing the most traction I have, so I feel probably the best that I have ever felt, and we are kind of accelerating so much in momentum there.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

No, I agree. If we built a 10-year plan, it is nice to see the seeds coming. And also Canada, you forgot to mention that as well. We are now live in Canada.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah. Canada with the crypto business through the WonderFi acquisition there for sure. So pretty soon we will have Robinhood all over the world.

Chris Koegel
Chris Koegel
VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Robinhood Markets

All right. Our next question comes from a special guest. You may have seen him driving the Robinhood neon car during the last two NASCAR seasons, three-time Cup Series race winner and driver of the number 23 Toyota for 23XI Racing, Bubba Wallace.

Bubba Wallace
Driver at 23XI Racing

Are there any new major product plans for 2027 that could increase Robinhood's revenue?

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

No easy questions, Bubba. He's just getting right into it. Yeah, and by the way, it was fun watching Bubba compete at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway a couple weeks ago. Hot, but I do not know how he does that for so long. I would say one of the things that I think people find attractive about Robinhood as a business is that it's a financial compounder, right? Even if you look at the core business of equities, options, crypto, margin, we're continuing to gain in market share. We get more customers, those customers get wealthier as they get older. The market appreciation adds to that. All of this is leading to total platform assets this quarter of about $400 billion. I do not think it will be long before we're talking over $500 billion and knock on wood into the trillions, right?

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Just the core brokerage business and the crypto business has been remarkably strong. But we're not just being complacent and seeing we have a strong core business. We're moving at incredible pace, not just adding all the products and features that our competitors have, but also, I think just leading the industry across a couple of major domains. I mentioned agentic trading earlier. I do not think there's really another game in town in terms of financial companies that are really investing in agentic trading and making that a first-class experience. I think we're at the very beginning there, and we're just continuing to invest in making the product experience really, really good. We talked a lot about prediction markets. I will also throw in perpetual futures. I mean, we're super early to that.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

A lot of companies announce plans to offer these new assets, but we announce, and then we ship, and we roll out. We're seeing strong traction. That's another asset class where we expect to be the leader and gain market share. On the wallet share front, you've heard me talk about Trump Accounts. Robinhood Ventures is another one where other companies aren't really doing this, where they're going after the vision of democratizing private markets for retail investors. So we have RVI, RVII shipped, and you should expect even more. We're really investing because we think it's important, and it's a big business opportunity, a new category that I think we can own. And then, of course, long-term in the global financial ecosystem, tokenization and Robinhood Chain and Robinhood Wallet are unique products where it just really feels like we've got the tiger by the tail.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

So those are kind of several areas, not just one, where we think we can surprise to the upside with the product bets that we are making.

Chris Koegel
Chris Koegel
VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Robinhood Markets

All right. Thank you, Vlad. That concludes our Say Technologies questions, and now I would like to go to questions from our live audience. So if you would like to ask a question, please raise your hand.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

To later stages of the pipeline and then answer. Kind of reflective, feel good about—

Chris Koegel
Chris Koegel
VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Robinhood Markets

Can I get a mic over to Hayden? Over here.

Analyst

Hi.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Hey there.

Analyst

I know you've got active trading, and you've got the Strategies side of things. What are you doing to focus on the middle ground of customers who just kind of want to deposit and forget about it?

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah, that's a great question. Actually, that's one thing I forgot to mention. I think Robinhood Strategies, which is our passive digital advice product. So it's over $2 billion in assets. It's been growing really quickly year-over-year. I think it's a bit of a dark horse, just because we launched so many things, and I think the active trading products tend to get a lot more attention and mind share. But we have all these amazing passive products, Strategies being one of them, that provides a best-in-class experience. So we've been continuing to add things to the product suite. We have this tool, Smart Income, which is part of Robinhood Strategies, where you basically just can really easily with a slider, just slide your time horizon and risk tolerance, and it'll tell you what the sort of expected return for your investments would be.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

The idea is you just put money into there, you drop money into that account, and it's a complete set it and forget it product. I think we've got some things, like that team has ambitious plans. There's a bunch of things that we're working on to make that even better. Suffice it to say, Strategies isn't staying still. I think it's a dark horse product. I think it's one that could surprise people in the coming year.

Chris Koegel
Chris Koegel
VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Robinhood Markets

All right. Thank you, Vlad Tenev. Next, I think Hayden, did you have your hand up? Yeah. Can we get a mic to Hayden? Great.

Analyst

Hey, guys. Thanks for doing this. We've been really impressed by the product velocity and traction at Robinhood, the 14 cylinders, over $100 million. Can you speak to how many products your power users engage with versus your average user? What would it mean for your business if you're able to convert the majority of your customers into power users?

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah, that's a great question. We look at this internally quite a bit, and we sort of see that basically the more products that someone uses, and once you get up to three or four products in the Robinhood ecosystem, the average revenue per user and the engagement just continues to increase with three or four products being really kind of the sweet spot. Also, we can cut it by asset classes. A lot of people come to us to trade equities or crypto first, but then if you look at the customers that trade equities, crypto, options, futures, and prediction markets, the revenue and the engagement with the platform really increases. We've been making a lot of investments. Maybe those of you that use Robinhood have been seeing our work there in just making the app more coherent and more discoverable.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

This is something I mentioned in the last earnings call. We have more work to do because we have all these products. How can we make sure that the app is coherent and that you kind of understand what we're about? Well, I think you're starting to see some of that progress because our shared services, including social, search, home, I think we're doing a much better job in kind of surfacing relevant content to you. I think the focus has been on making sure prediction markets works really well because we're kind of doing a unique thing like combining this new asset class with other tools that are sort of personal finance centered. But I think you'll see us continue to invest in personalization, in making it easy to discover things subject to all the rules and regulations, being able to surface relevant content to customers.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

I think that's another area where we're best in class and continuing to get better.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

If you want to look in terms of how big it could be, I think Gold is the best way to see it. Gold, we don't view it as a subscription product. We view it as a loyalty product. What you see is a customer comes for something. It doesn't matter whether it's an equity, an option, a crypto, an event contract. They discover Gold, they then use more products, they then deposit more, they engage more, they trade more. For how big it could be, it's great. We have 5 million customers. It's only an 18% attach rate. About 40%+ adopt it when they first come in, but there's still a large runway ahead of that.

Chris Koegel
Chris Koegel
VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Robinhood Markets

All right. Thank you. Next question.

Analyst

What is Robinhood's strategy for educating customers about active trading products, like perpetual futures or agentic trading?

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah, I think that what we really try to do is make the products themselves understandable and clear within the app. I think with our various learning modules and tools, we've done a really good job at taking advantage of the limited real estate of the app and giving people the information they need at the time that they onboard without just too much of the fluff and filler. As we expand into the agentic products, and actually one of the reasons I'm excited about agentic trading and our investments there is that a lot of our customers are using that as an education tool because these AI agents are really good if you just ask them, hey, explain this to me. What is a wheel strategy? What are the typical options trades? You can say, hey, I have this plan, this point of view.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Can you break down, give me the top three ways to capitalize on that. So I think there's strong potential, and we're actually seeing a lot of customers doing this, of just explaining things, not even just placing the trade or fully trading autonomously, although we're pushing ahead in that direction too. Just taking some of this complexity and kind of breaking it down for the customer. So yeah, the plan is really each interface has somewhat different affordances. On mobile, it's really about how do you clearly articulate what the functionality is, what it's for, how do you make it so that with as few taps as possible, you can actually do what you want to do as a customer.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Web, I think you have a little bit more of real estate to browse, and I think agentic lends itself to a back and forth, which is difficult with all of the interfaces. We're making a ton of progress on all of these simultaneously. I think the other thing we recognize is we do produce some first-party educational content, video and so forth. We also want to make it easier for you to discover all the great content that's out there. There's just so many content creators and influencers that are making YouTube videos, and they're quite entertaining. So one of the things we've been trying to do is can we make it easier for you to get some of those things in the right way through the experience too.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

You also have Robinhood Social as well, where you can learn from the community and each other. Just another surface for customers to talk to each other.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah, and that's a great point. I think I'm much more bullish on our ability to surface third-party user-generated content to you because we just have many more passionate people that can make it. Some of the content on Robinhood Social that we're seeing is actually very deep investment analysis, and we've been working hard giving people more tools to share charts, share different data sources. Yeah, I think we like what we're seeing there. We're gonna do even more.

Chris Koegel
Chris Koegel
VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Robinhood Markets

All right. Any other questions from the audience? Sure. Yeah.

Analyst

Does Robinhood plan to get into exchange funds like Cache and Titan? There's a lot of money that's locked into other brokerages, which you don't want to sell. So having the ability to trade without selling can be a very big upside for Robinhood.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah. I talked a little bit about Robinhood Strategies, and I think certainly, helping customers with concentrated positions to diversify and handle that in a tax-efficient way is something that we've been looking very carefully into. The other thing is a lot of these products that are offered by the incumbents have really high minimum requirements. Of course, whenever we see that, we ask ourselves, is there an opportunity to create a really nice product and make it available to lots of people?

Chris Koegel
Chris Koegel
VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Robinhood Markets

All right. Any other questions from the audience? Okay. With that, let's move to the Zoom Q&A. I think the first question we have today is from Devin Ryan from Citizens.

Devin Ryan
Devin Ryan
Analyst at Citizens

Hey, Vlad. Hey, Shiv. How are you? Good to see you guys.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

Doing well.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Good to see you, Devin.

Devin Ryan
Devin Ryan
Analyst at Citizens

Question on Robinhood Chain. Obviously, great to see early traction there. Also appreciate it benefited from some congestion in late August and September, which helped gas fees. Maybe seeing some normalization in fees there. But volumes have been still pretty resilient. My question is really just how should we be thinking about the financial opportunity over time and really what we should be looking for to drive maybe that next real inflection in activity? I know you mentioned perpetuals gaining traction, so maybe that is one example. But is it just more products being developed? You have mentioned Robinhood can do things to support the chain. Love to hear about that. Then just bigger picture too, can monetization improve over time without making the chain less competitive? Thanks.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah, I will start. Maybe you can hit your thoughts on monetization. Another thing we look at for the chain that gets us so excited is developer activity. I think last time I checked, we were number one in on-chain developer activity. Developers are actually coming to Robinhood Chain because they see the traction that we have had, and they are making a bet that this is the ecosystem that they want to invest in for their activities. I think at the end of the day, the ecosystem is actually going to be driven by the developer activity. People have not had very much time to build sophisticated on-chain applications yet. That is why I think in the first instance, the applications that you have seen are relatively simple, launch pads and liquidity pools and things of that nature.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

People are working on really interesting things now that are more complex, that connect stock tokens with crypto assets and technology and just imagine if you take a stock token, make it fully programmable, just like software, what can you do?

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Can you have tokenized options contracts, for example? Can you have products that we have not seen before? That is why we want to invest in the developer ecosystem. I think it is interesting, the whole fees and congestion and revenue. When Johann, who is our crypto GM, and I talk about this, basically, we both agree that the most important thing to prioritize is a great experience for our users. I do not really want to be in the business of charging high fees for on-chain usage. What I would rather do is gain the market share, make the developers choose us as the best chain, give them more products.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

I think we have a pretty clear roadmap for what first-party products we need. The idea is anything that you can trade on Robinhood in the U.S., wherever possible, should be made available in on-chain versions for our international customers. So it is more stock tokens, but then expanding to other asset classes and making sure that these things become like Lego building blocks that developers can incorporate into their on-chain applications. Since we offer the primitives, one of the reasons stock tokens have been so successful is people know that Robinhood stands behind them, and that makes it much more likely that they trust them in their applications than just some third party. We are going to continue to execute on that.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

I think the way we are tracking long-term sustainability is we obviously like to see DeFi TVL go up, but we are specifically looking at stock token TVL, making sure that is on a healthy trajectory and we have a path there, because I think our differentiator with the chain and what has been working well for us is real-world assets. We should expect to see real-world assets adoption just continue to increase.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah. On monetization, the only piece I will add is it was about $50 million gross revenue in the quarter. We shared the schedule before. We shared some of it with Arbitrum. It was about 50%. Even on a net basis, about $25 million or $100 million annualized. We did not call it a cylinder just yet. We want to give it more time to bake. You should expect in a normalized environment, it is probably a couple basis points on notional values that we monetize. As Vlad said, the team is not goaled on revenue at this point. It is growing TVL, making developers happy, growing stock tokens. If we do that, a couple basis points can add up to a really large number over time.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah. I know for the developers out there, we have a lot of passionate Robinhood Chain developers that are working on projects. Just be confident that we are talking about what we can do for the community. I think you will see since it caught us by surprise, we have had to staff up a team here. I think you will see a lot more for us supporting builders in the near future.

Chris Koegel
Chris Koegel
VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Robinhood Markets

Great. Thank you, Vlad and Shiv. Our next question is from Steven Chubak at Wolfe.

Steven Chubak
Steven Chubak
Analyst at Wolfe

Hi. Good afternoon. Thanks for taking my question.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

[inaudible] Hey Steven.

Steven Chubak
Steven Chubak
Analyst at Wolfe

I wanted to just ask on the net deposit growth, which I know seasonally 3Q tends to be a touch lighter. I am really evaluating this KPI on a core basis. But as the denominator has grown larger, you have been running a little bit below that 20% target. I just wanted to get a better sense as to, as we unpack some of the building blocks, how much of that 20% is expected to come from new account growth or new store growth versus same store growth, and specifically wanted to get a better sense as you continue to expand internationally, how those efforts could potentially help close the gap.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah, I am happy to start on this one.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah, go for it.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

So as we said before, we target 20% annualized, and we gave some October color on the call. We have already surpassed that. So we are just through October. We have already done over the $68 billion last year and have surpassed our growth target. As you mentioned, it will not be linear. There was some higher growth in Q2, and then it came down a little bit in Q3. But we have said over and over again, I do not over-index in any one month, any one week, any one quarter, but on an annualized basis, we are still seeing the business compound. The best driver of net deposit is just new products. As we keep shipping new product velocity, customers come, they adopt us more, and they continue to deposit more. In terms of new store sales versus existing customers, it is both.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

More recently, it has been a little bit more of the existing customers. We got a lot of customers very fast in the prior years. As we ship new products, we are gaining share of wallet and they are starting to trust us more. As we have said before, though, we are starting to turn the dial to try to accelerate net funded accounts again. So Q3 was similar to Q1. Q2, we saw a nice bump up because of some market backdrop, and there was a couple of IPOs in there as well. But big picture, our existing customers are still using us for more, and we think we have some great products next year that should also drive the top of funnel.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah. I'd also add to that, we've been pushing pretty hard on Trump Accounts, making that a great product. You'll see this isn't just an app. It's going to be increasingly an ecosystem. We're plugging in employers. Now, employers will be able to fund Trump Accounts on behalf of their employees. Then we're going to be plugging in donors. Donors are kind of done on a one-off basis now. You can imagine, if you're a corporate donor or a wealthy philanthropic individual, we'll make it really easy and delightful to go into the Trump Accounts. We're already seeing meaningful net deposit impact on that, and I think that it can be much bigger. A lot of people are aligned in having that be a bigger number.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

We think that we have an opportunity, of course, if we continue to serve these customers very well, as we expect to, for those to be compounding assets. What was the number? 70 million, 25 million funded by Michael and Susan Dell alone. I mean, if we serve these customers well, over time, I think a large portion should be Robinhood customers.

Chris Koegel
Chris Koegel
VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Robinhood Markets

All right. Thank you for that, Vlad and Shiv. The next question is from Michael Cyprys at Morgan Stanley.

Michael Cyprys
Michael Cyprys
Analyst at Morgan Stanley

Great. Thanks for taking the question. I just wanted to ask about peer payments that you just launched here on the call here. I was hoping you could expand on your vision for this new offering, how you see this contributing in the coming years, including perhaps a funnel for new client acquisition, maybe even revenue monetization. If you could talk about your expectations there and how you see this ramping. Thank you.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah. Where we started was really just, we had a lot of customers saying that they want to send money to their friends via the question asked about Zelle, but Zelle or other things, can we make that a little bit easier? We thought, what's the most simple, seamless thing we could do, where you don't even have to enter anything? You can just send money via text. I think we deliver that experience. It's just if you want to just text, literally sending money from Robinhood is as easy as texting someone. The first thing we're looking for as we roll this out is, are our existing customers using it? Is it solving their problem? I think once we've got that, by its very nature, the product should be viral, right?

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

As they continue to send money to their friends, if they use it, we have to make a compelling case for that recipient if they don't already have Robinhood to enter that ecosystem. That gives us another opportunity, another potential touchpoint to get them as customers.

Chris Koegel
Chris Koegel
VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Robinhood Markets

All right. Thank you, Vlad. The next question is from Alex Markgraff at KeyBanc.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

No, Alex?

Chris Koegel
Chris Koegel
VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Robinhood Markets

All right. We may have lost Alex. The next question is from Ben Budish at Barclays.

Ben Budish
Ben Budish
Analyst at Barclays

Hey, yeah. Good evening, and thank you for taking my question.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Hey, Ben.

Ben Budish
Ben Budish
Analyst at Barclays

One for Shiv on the expenses. The number for the quarter came in, I think, a bit lower than a lot were expecting. Your full year guide was lower just a little bit. Curious if you could talk about the moving parts. I know there's some timing with Trump expenses that are expected to come in in the back half. And curious what you can share on the run rate into 2027. I know you're not giving guidance there yet. Obviously, the Trump expenses may be non-recurring. And you kind of talked before about sort of like a lower single-digit growth rate for existing businesses. But on top of that, there are new initiatives. Curious if you could talk a bit about the near-term moving pieces and how we should think about the run rate going into next year. Thank you.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah, great question. What I am really excited about is even with all the new products we are shipping, we are still staying lean and disciplined. As you mentioned, we lowered our outlook by $25 million at the top end. in Q4 specifically, there are a couple things that we are rolling out that we are investing in. First, we are doing even more for the Trump Account, so you should expect some more expenses there. Second is the credit card. We are continuing to scale the credit card, both Gold and Platinum, so there will be some investments there. Lastly, we are in the middle of annual planning right now, but there are a couple items we are really excited for, and so we pulled those forward and we started to make a couple investments there.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

For Trump Account specifically that you asked about, for the full year, I shared earlier that we expect it to be about $100 million investment. It is still roughly going to be in that range for the full year. So there were some timing things throughout the quarter, but that is what I would expect. For next year, it is early, and we are going to finish our planning process, and we will come back in January and February and share the full plan. So nothing to share on that yet, but as Vlad said, it is going really well.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

They are asking us to do more, and so I would expect that we will be continuing to invest there. In terms of our overall philosophy, very similar to prior years. As we go through planning, we are asking each of the teams to be more efficient in this core business.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

We take those efficiencies and then we reinvest it. We have so much more to do, as you have seen, and so it will be very similar to our prior years.

Chris Koegel
Chris Koegel
VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Robinhood Markets

All right. Thank you, Shiv. The next question is from Patrick Moley at Piper Sandler.

Patrick Moley
Patrick Moley
Analyst at Piper Sandler

Yeah, thanks, guys. Thanks for taking the question. I do have one on Crypto.com and OG.com. You now own equity in two prediction market venues while running your own exchange with Susquehanna. How do you reconcile the routing decisions between the different venues, and what is the strategic logic of holding stakes in competitors to Rothera? Thanks.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah. Maybe I can start. We want to give our customers the best prediction markets experience. We want them to have choices too. I do not think we can send all of our flow to one venue. We think that the combination of Rothera and Crypto.com positions us well to actually serve our customers well, have great execution quality, and have broad coverage of all of the assets that our customers want to trade. Maybe you can take the financials.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah. As Vlad mentioned, it is good to have a resilient and a second exchange. What you should expect is Rothera will be our primary exchange, and Crypto.com/OG.com will now be our main second exchange, and we will be getting off most of our competitors. By the end of the year into early next year, you should expect the vast majority of our flow go through both of those. From the financial standpoint, what we are doing now is, in addition to sending them flow, we are also becoming owners. Before, we were sending our flow to other exchanges, and we were not getting any financial incentives because of that. There is no conflict, to be clear. A product is listed on a particular exchange, it is depending on where you can get a product experience, so there is no routing. Equities or options are not interchangeable.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

You have to list it on either Rothera or either Crypto.com. But now, in addition to getting a great customer experience, we can also provide a little bit of monetization for shareholders. That is why we are super excited to both build and get a great product experience for customers, but now also having some financial upside for shareholders as well.

Chris Koegel
Chris Koegel
VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Robinhood Markets

All right. Thank you. The next question is from Brian Bedell at Deutsche Bank.

Brian Bedell
Brian Bedell
Analyst at Deutsche Bank

Hey, guys. Hope all is well. Thanks for taking the question. If I can ask a two-parter, one, just the timing of company KPIs for launching those now that Cboe has final approval for that. Secondly, Shiv, if you could just talk about a little bit more color on the October volumes to date. I think it's down 5% on equities, options, and crypto. If you could just sort of maybe bifurcate between those areas and any comments on take rate in crypto. I know that tends to move around a lot.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

You want to do the KPIs and I'll do the other one?

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Let me take them all.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

Sure. On the KPIs, we were actually just talking with the GMs this morning, Steve Quirk and Johan. They are both coming very soon. The teams are hard at work on them. We are getting the final approvals. We announced them at HOOD Summit. You should expect them in the near term. We are just waiting for all the approvals to come through. But we are ready to go and excited for customers. In terms of the October color, as a reminder, Q3 was a record quarter. Everything was our highest quarter ever for equities, options, and margin. Great to see in October for equities and options and crypto, they are within ±5%.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

I group them all together, but they are all trending to similar levels and early in the quarter, call it within 5% of the high-water mark in Q3. Then I called out event contracts specifically because that was a little bit different and up about 7x year-over-year. Starting to see some more increase there. On take rate, what we are seeing to start the quarter, is that spreads are a little bit tighter, and so we will see where the full quarter shakes out. But for early indications, our spreads are a little bit tighter, and we will see how it plays out for the next two months.

Chris Koegel
Chris Koegel
VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Robinhood Markets

Great. All right. The next question is from Gav Blaxberg from WOLF Financial.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Gav.

Gav Blaxberg
Analyst at WOLF Financial

Hey. How is it going, Vlad and Shiv? Great to see you guys. I am going to go into an area that I do not think has been discussed too much yet, and that is Robinhood Social. Talked with you about this, Vlad. I have been power using the platform, love it, spending probably an hour plus a day on there, and I am talking to more and more people, and people are like, well, what are the plans for this? What are the goals? How does this create revenue? How does this drive things for the platform and create shareholder value? I would just love to hear also how it is being prioritized and balanced with so many other things going on.

Gav Blaxberg
Analyst at WOLF Financial

Building out a social media is no small undertaking. I wanted to hear some of the vision for this and how this is ultimately going to lead to revenue generation and increasing shareholder value.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

How have you been liking it? Any critical feedback to anything we could be doing better?

Gav Blaxberg
Analyst at WOLF Financial

I've been chatting with Anna Tork.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah.

Gav Blaxberg
Analyst at WOLF Financial

I've been chatting with some others on the team and giving a ton of pieces of feedback and also trying to talk to the other power users and connect with them and get pieces of feedback. I think it's continuing to progress really nicely. Listen, if you want a feedback session at some point, I'll give it to you, but I don't know if that's the best use of your time right now.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah. That's good. You don't want to do that. It's too much at earnings. No, he's a tough customer. Yeah, look, I think that the reason we get excited about Robinhood Social is because, frankly, I believe that it's the best way to learn. Which way am I most bullish on Robinhood producing all the content that teaches people how to invest and gives them all the tools? Or am I more bullish on 28 million customers and those customers using our product and bringing the best ideas that they find from everywhere in the world to us. Definitely the latter. And yeah, I think if done well, we can just surface really good content for our customers that they can use to learn new things. And we're already seeing a community form around this. We've got a lot to do.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

We've made it so that people can share things outside of the platform, and we've continued to also increase the type of content that you can share on social. It started out with just trades, but now you can share P&L, you can share charts, you can do your portfolio. We have the creator offering. Also creators, a lot have been asking about creator monetization. That's something we'll obviously want to look into, and I think at that point, yeah, it becomes a business line for us. But as of now, I think we're thinking about it in the context of the broad Robinhood experience. And we think that if we do a really good job, it just gives people one more reason to not just do the execution of the trade on Robinhood, but just stay in Robinhood for getting the idea and the context behind the trade.

Chris Koegel
Chris Koegel
VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Robinhood Markets

All right. Thank you, Vlad. The next question is from James Yaro at Goldman Sachs.

James Yaro
James Yaro
Analyst at Goldman Sachs

Thanks for taking the question. I was hoping you might be able to just update us on your Rothera strategy at this point. How do you plan to generate market share gains? And, maybe you could speak to the pricing strategy at this point. And then maybe finally, maybe just an update on how you're thinking about adding other FCMs to the platform beyond just the HOOD brokerage.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah. That's a great question. Again, we're a significant equity holder in Rothera, us and SIG, but we're not actually operating Rothera ourselves. Of course, hopefully Tom and team do listen to us occasionally on retail, but it's an independent business. I don't want to speak too much about their strategy for getting FCMs, though I know they're highly motivated. I think Rothera could become the default neutral gateway for FCMs because a lot of the other prediction markets venues, they have their first party offerings where they are trying to acquire customers while they're offering a service to others. I think when we talk to a lot of other FCMs, they don't like the idea and the potential conflict of their provider also operating a first party business.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

I think the great thing about Rothera for any FCMs that want to connect to it is that it's purely working with FCMs. You don't have to worry about your provider also competing with you in the marketplace. At least from our standpoint, we have been investing a lot in the non-sports contracts. You saw us announce KPI prediction markets. We've been seeing a lot of growth in the crypto contracts and commodities. I think that over time, we see an opportunity in integrating these financial. I think we can own the financial category, because that's a unique advantage we have.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Rothera can support just a more sophisticated financial contracts and be a leader there because I think we're less excited about doing what everyone else is doing, which is just all sports all the time, because I think that's rapidly going to get commoditized, and is just, frankly, a little bit less differentiated from my standpoint.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

The few things I'll add there. On the non-sports side, if you look in the quarter, it was actually about 30% non-sport, and that was up from 15% the quarter before. As Vlad said, we're starting to see adoption across some of these other asset classes, which is great to see. On the pricing side, we're really excited that our pricing is now official, but we lowered pricing for customers when we bought Rothera. What we did is we made a dynamic pricing model. What we heard from customers was, if you were trading something in the wing relative to the center, you'd actually pay a higher take rate. Instead of just increasing monetization, what we decided to do is redo the pricing model. We made it dynamic.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

We listened to customers, but we didn't impact our take rate because we were able to share some with them and take some of that back. On top of that, we made it even better with Gold. We talked a lot about Gold, but now if you're a Robinhood customer and you're a Gold member, you also get even better pricing as well. A couple different things all going on there at the same time.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah. If you look at the experience, those of you that trade prediction markets on Robinhood, you can see we've really done a nice job just refining the experience, having specific modules for different types of prediction markets. The Midterms Hub in particular, I think just looks amazing. It's not just if you want to trade them, but just as a way to explore and find what's likely to happen through the midterms. I think we've done a really nice job. The 15-minute up and down markets on crypto have been looking good. Yeah, I think you can see the chiseling that's happening on the product to make it even more usable.

Chris Koegel
Chris Koegel
VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Robinhood Markets

All right. Thank you. The next question comes from somebody right off the plane, Dan Dolev from Mizuho.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Dan Dolev.

Dan Dolev
Dan Dolev
Analyst at Mizuho

Hey, Vlad Tenev. Hey, Shiv Verma. How are you?

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

Are you in the airport?

Dan Dolev
Dan Dolev
Analyst at Mizuho

I'm in Munich.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

Oh, nice.

Dan Dolev
Dan Dolev
Analyst at Mizuho

I just got back from Israel en route to New York.

Dan Dolev
Dan Dolev
Analyst at Mizuho

I'm traveling both today. Great results as always. We've done some work. I'm very interested in perpetual futures. Sounds like you guys are headed to something really big there, and I think we're getting a lot of questions on it. I just want to know, how big do you think this one could be? Because it sounds like it's a huge opportunity here. We'd love to get some more color on that. Thank you.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah. I think that if you look at the leaders in perpetual futures, perpetual futures is a huge market by volume, with daily volumes in the billions. In fact, some of the platforms globally have tens of billions in daily perps volume. We saw even on Robinhood Chain, which again, is just a couple of months old, we're seeing over $1 billion notional in on-chain perps. I see no reason why our offering can't get to a similar, if not greater scale than the DeFi offering as time goes on.

Chris Koegel
Chris Koegel
VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Robinhood Markets

All right. The next question is from David Smith at Truist.

David Smith
David Smith
Analyst at Truist

Good afternoon.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

Hello.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Hey, David.

David Smith
David Smith
Analyst at Truist

Can you flesh out a little bit more about what you are seeing in terms of the drivers on take rates? Because 3Q came in lighter than what a lot of us were expecting. It sounded like the clients continued to start the fourth quarter. I am sure it differs across asset class, but is this a mix issue on the user front or on the sub-asset class front, trade sizes, volumes, other dynamics? What would you point to there?

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

I am happy to take this one. On equities, it is usually a mix shift between single names and ETFs, and it also depends on what the spreads are. Options is also similar. It depends on what the vol is and also the spreads. Are they trading more index options? Are they trading more single names, a bit more indices? That tends to be a bigger driver there. On crypto, the main driver was our Robinhood Earn, our stablecoin product. That product is doing great. Now there is over $500 million of assets there, but because it is stablecoin, we monetize it less than the normal platform. That is what drove it down. If you take out the stablecoin, it was basically similar to the quarter before in the same zip code. That was the main driver there.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

And then ECs, as I mentioned, we updated our pricing, so it will depend on what the customer is trading. Are they trading the money line? Are they trading at the wings? Are they using Robinhood Gold? That is why we saw it moving a little bit. So I would say each of them is a little bit different. What we are seeing in October is, as a start, they are similar to what we saw, maybe a touch lighter, spreads are a little bit tighter. But again, it is about three weeks into the quarter, so we will see what the full quarter shakes out.

Chris Koegel
Chris Koegel
VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Robinhood Markets

Great. Thank you. The next question is from Dr. Crossroads.

Analyst

Hey, guys. Thanks for taking my call. Just wanted to ask, given that you have given us last year some information regarding the impact of rate hikes, and we are in a very different or rate cuts, and we are in a very different situation with rate hikes, I am wondering if it is going to be a similar impact on the ecosystem. I believe you guided for a -$50 million impact for each rate cut on net interest income, especially now that Robinhood Banking is a part of your ecosystem and also credit cards are a meaningful part as well.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

You remember, by the way, was it like a year ago, everyone was like, what is your business going to do? You have done so well in a high rate environment with all this interest income. How will you survive in a low rate environment? Now it is funny, every couple of years it is like the question reverses. Oh, you have been doing so well with these declining rates. How are you— Now rates are going to go up again.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

I am happy to take it. It is great. I mean, first. Good to see you, by the way. Hope you are doing well. The first thing we like, as Vlad said, is the business is diversified. Some products do well in a low rate environment, such as the trading products, and others do better in a higher interest rate environment, such as the NIM products. The actual math is for every 25 basis point hike or decline, it is about a 1.5% change to revenue. All else being equal, if the Fed hikes another 25 basis points, that should be a lift. The really simple math is we have about $80 billion of interest-earning assets. About half of that, $40 billion, is interest-sensitive assets because the sweep program and a few other things are interest sensitive.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

The [inaudible] won $25 million. 25 basis points on $40 billion is about $100 million of a change, and then $100 million on about a $5.5 billion-$6 billion run rate gets you to about that 1.5%. Big picture, though, we like being diversified and a rate hike is a tailwind, but regardless of the rate environment, we have got a business that does well in both of them.

Chris Koegel
Chris Koegel
VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Robinhood Markets

Thank you, Shiv. The next question is from Adam Frisch from Evercore.

Adam Frisch
Adam Frisch
Analyst at Evercore

Hey, guys. Good afternoon, and thanks for taking my question. I wanted to follow up a little bit on net deposit growth and actually monthly actives as a percentage of fully funded. Both were a little weaker this quarter, so would appreciate some color on what drove that in the quarter, if we should be aware of any new or incremental initiatives you're thinking about or enacting already to reverse that, or it's just a 90-day period that isn't necessarily indicative of the overall trends and what you're seeing so far in 4Q, thank you.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah, I would say it's more the latter. We don't over-index on any one month or quarter, and the best way to see it is October. As we mentioned, October was already a record at over $13 billion net deposits, and ADVs were very similar or just a touch lighter than what we saw in a record Q3. Things are going to move around. There's timing of when we launch new products. There's timing of when promos happen. There is some seasonality, there's macro events, there's the IPO market. All of those come together. But if you look at it on an annualized basis, or if you just look at October alone, already seeing really healthy engagement across trading at net deposits.

Chris Koegel
Chris Koegel
VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Robinhood Markets

All right. Thank you, Shiv. The next question is from Ramsey El-Assal at Cantor.

Ramsey El-Assal
Ramsey El-Assal
Analyst at Cantor

Hi. Thanks so much for taking my question tonight. I wanted to ask if you could elaborate a little bit, Vlad, on the rationale for the Ripple partnership. How's that going to benefit you guys? I know there's a few different dimensions there. Internal treasury operations, also external facing benefits for Bitstamp, et cetera. Where do you see the greatest near-term opportunity, and just sort of if you could expand a little bit on the overall strategic rationale. Thanks.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah. I like Brad and the team at Ripple, and I think that we were excited to do more business together. I think that there's a lot of ways in which we offer complementary things. I think more integration, more products, more selection for the Robinhood ecosystem, both in the app and in chain, is just strictly better. I think we bring complementary things to the table, with their institutional business and our more retail-oriented business. Today's another example of this, Ondo integrating into Robinhood Chain. Ondo also has tokenized products, but our thought is, we want our chain to be the best home of tokenized products. They don't need to be our own.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

It's important for us to just make sure everyone has an equal opportunity to list on our chain and on our properties for our customers, because that just leads to the best product. Of course, we would like our own first-party products to always be used, but they also have to be better than the competition.

Chris Koegel
Chris Koegel
VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Robinhood Markets

All right. Thank you, Vlad. The next question is from Ed Engel at Compass Point.

Ed Engel
Ed Engel
Analyst at Compass Point

Hey, thanks for taking my question. How are you thinking about bringing stock tokens onshore the U.S. after the SEC's innovation exemption? Is there anything regulatory-wise on your radar that might unlock private stock tokens that you announced last year?

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah, that's a great question, something we've been very passionate about. For private companies, we basically have two bets, one being Robinhood Ventures, which is in the form of fund products in the U.S., and stock tokens overseas, where we have the ability to tokenize individual companies. In a sense, these two things help each other because with Robinhood Ventures, we have relationships with companies. We've been investing in a lot of companies. We have an active pipeline. A lot of those companies actually inquire about what tokenization is and can they join, and we have the relationships, and we've been a leader in this space. I would say we have a path to doing it overseas. We know how to do it. We've demonstrated the technology and the capability, so it's just a question of getting all the regulatory stuff in place.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

But we do intend to launch these products overseas. When it comes to in the U.S. for private stocks, specifically, there's another layer to it, which is the accreditation requirements. We are working hard to find a path that satisfies the current accreditation requirements and also leads to a great customer experience. I think Robinhood Ventures is an example of this in the construct of funds, but of course, a lot of customers want exposure to individual names as well, and so we're working hard to do that within the constraints. As far as the innovation exemption goes, I think it's a really positive step. We're supportive of it. We think that obviously the U.S. needs to be a leader in this new technology.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

I do think more needs to be done to give people a little bit of certainty, because as we talk to customers, I think the uncertainty of what happens in five years is likely to be an impediment to putting serious assets onto this technology. I still think some rulemaking or legislation is going to be necessary, even though, of course, it's a positive step, and we'll hope to have more to share on our own U.S. tokenization plans in the near future.

Chris Koegel
Chris Koegel
VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Robinhood Markets

All right. Thank you, Vlad. The next question is from John Todaro at Needham.

John Todaro
John Todaro
Analyst at Needham

Hey, guys. Good to see you, and thanks for taking my question. I was hoping we could just get some commentary on maybe the health of the retail trader within equities. In particular, AI stocks have come down quite a bit in the last several weeks, and many of those were trafficked in quite a bit by retail. Just wondering if we can get any commentary there on engagement post the sell-off.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah, I am happy to take this one. Engagement continues to be really strong. The best way to see that is through the ADVs and through net deposits, and both of those were incredibly strong in the start of October. As we said before, our customers, they tend to be younger, they tend to be techno-optimists, they tend to be technology-forward. They use sell-off as a buying opportunity. When you saw a sell-off in AI stocks or in chip makers or in semis, our customers leaned in and continued to buy more. On down days, we tend to see some of our strongest net buying. The best metrics I would look at are just net deposits and ADVs, and both of those were really strong the start of October.

Chris Koegel
Chris Koegel
VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Robinhood Markets

All right. Thank you, Shiv. The next question is from Andrew Harte at BTIG.

Andrew Harte
Andrew Harte
Analyst at BTIG

Hey, thanks for taking my question. Shiv, you talked about turning up the dial a bit on top-of-funnel. Just wondering if you can share some details on the strategy there and any traction you have seen. A bit of a follow-up on the MAU question. I realize it is just one period, but in the past year, we have been in that 13 million to 14 million user range on MAUs. Just curious anything you can do there to try to drive that number higher as well. Thanks.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah. Could you repeat what was the first part of the question? Apologies. Before the MAU.

Andrew Harte
Andrew Harte
Analyst at BTIG

Anything on top-of-funnel.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

Oh, yeah.

Andrew Harte
Andrew Harte
Analyst at BTIG

You are doing a similar question, but how to increase the MAU number as well.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah. On the top-of-funnel, there are two things. First is product, and the second is marketing. What we have been focusing on this year is primarily product. We have been testing a tiny bit on marketing, but we have not done it yet. If you look at a lot of the things that Vlad shared, whether it was P2P or Robinhood Banking or other products, we think those can be pretty meaningful drivers. So we are making some investments, and we pulled some of that forward to make them and develop them this year, and you will see them launch in 2027. The big drivers are generally just product and a little bit of marketing. On MAUs, the honest answer is we do not goal on it. The teams are goaled on are customers engaged.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

Are they using the platform? Are they trusting us? Are they depositing? All of those are incredibly healthy.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

MAUs is an output metric. It is going to move around a little bit with the market. As I mentioned before, it could be seasonal, it could be the macro, it is what they are doing. Everything we are seeing is customers are incredibly healthy, and if they are depositing more and they are engaging more, they are using more of our products, we call that a win, and then MAUs are just going to move around.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah. I think longer term, we have some bets that we are working on. I think, obviously, having the opportunity to serve upwards of 70 million children with the Trump Accounts and serving as the broker and the initial trustee of the program with BNY, I think it is a big opportunity for us to just be in front of the next generation there. We have also been thinking about how to invest. We have custodial accounts, which have been a nice addition to the platform, but how can we actually invest in getting customers as they are even younger and build an even better experience? We are starting to see some smoke there. So yeah, I think that in the next year, we are going to be making several bets that I believe will not just increase top-of-funnel net funded account growth, but also MAU growth.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

The two are sort of high level interconnected. You should see those move, and that is outside of marketing and outside of the long-term opportunity of serving as the trustee of the Trump Accounts initiative. You are muted.

Andrew Harte
Andrew Harte
Analyst at BTIG

Oh. Can you hear me?

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Now you're back. Yeah.

Andrew Harte
Andrew Harte
Analyst at BTIG

I told you last quarter, my son was about to be born, and I signed him up, and I can confirm it was a very easy onboarding process for his Trump Account, so well done there.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Oh, thank you. That warms my heart. Hopefully, you'll have many more.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

Also, you can see if your employer will match you now and get a little bit more for your son in there as well.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah.

Andrew Harte
Andrew Harte
Analyst at BTIG

Yeah. Good call.

Chris Koegel
Chris Koegel
VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Robinhood Markets

All right. The next question is from Alex Markgraff at KeyBanc.

Alex Markgraff
Alex Markgraff
Analyst at KeyBanc

Hi, guys. Thanks for taking my question. Sounds like things are going quite well in banking. I certainly appreciate the withdrawal destination data point that you shared. What should we be looking for to determine when the product's in a state that warrants more intentional marketing efforts or when you're ready to pour fuel on the fire, so to say? Thanks.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah. That's a good question. That's going to be tied with the general availability of the product. Right now, you have to be a Robinhood brokerage customer to be eligible for banking, which essentially means there's no independent onboarding. Sorry, my hair makes these pop. No independent onboarding yet in the banking app. Of course, we do intend to roll that out. If once we have independent onboarding, then that unlocks the possibility of performance marketing, which will be a new capability of ours, because now we're marketing multiple things. We're still early, but I think we've got a great team on the marketing side, and we're going to be investing more in the capability. We do believe that banking will actually give growth to brokerage and not just the other way around.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

This is just a greenfield opportunity for us, which will also impact net funded account growth and MAUs.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

Banking is a little different than the credit card. Credit card, we were rolling out more delivery because you have to get the unit economics right, you have to get the credit risk right. Banking is just like any of the other products that we launch. You make sure that customers like it, you fix their pain points, once you find product-market fit. It will be much more akin to a regular software product relative to the credit card, which took a little bit longer to roll out.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah. I'd also add that it's a little bit more of a predictable compounder, because the trading products, there is a dependence on the market and seasonality. Banking, people just receive their paychecks, they spend, they're in the ecosystem, week in, week out, which counterbalances the trading business quite nicely.

Chris Koegel
Chris Koegel
VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Robinhood Markets

All right. And finishing strong here, our next question is from Ken Worthington at JPMorgan.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

All right.

Ken Worthington
Ken Worthington
Analyst at JPMorgan

Hi. Good afternoon. Thanks for the last licks here. Keeping it sort of high picture, ARPU doubled over the last two years to about $1 million. Roadmap of new products and new cross-selling, how do you see ARPU evolving from here? And if I pick an ARPU figure, like $300, do you see this as feasible? And given all that you have going on, what does Robinhood need to get right to get to a figure like that?

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah, I think that is an interesting question. I mean, the reason I am reluctant to just give you our ARPU goal is I think we also think there is a lot of opportunity to grow customers and grow down-market. I mean, if we get more younger customers, you could see, for example, ARPU decreasing, but the total size of the customer base increasing dramatically. I mean, particularly, depending on how you count Robinhood Chain users and international customers as we continue to put our foot on the gas of the international expansion, which I think we are still in the relative early days. I mean, we crossed 1 million international customers, but not hard to imagine that itself growing exponentially on the way to the majority of our customers being international over the long run.

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

It is a complicated optimization of our existing customers continuing to get more valuable, get wealthier, and their ARPU should be continuing to increase. But there is going to be a counterbalancing effect of us just getting plenty of more customers from international markets and/or who are younger.

Shiv Verma
Shiv Verma
CFO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah. A couple of things I will add there. ARPU is an output metric, so we actually do not goal the teams on that. We goal them on market share and then ROI. What we have said before is we believe Robinhood can 10x from here. You can take any metric you want, whether that is revenue, net deposits, et cetera. The highest predictor in correlation to revenue is just net deposits. If we keep gaining net deposits, if customers keep trusting us, whether that is new funded customers, whether that is an existing customer trusting us with more, that is how you grow the business and that is how you grow revenue. ARPU is going to grow wherever it is going to go, but again, that is not what we goal on. We just goal on market share and giving a great customer experience.

Chris Koegel
Chris Koegel
VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Robinhood Markets

All right. Well, that concludes the Q&A portion of the call. Vlad, would you like to make any closing comments?

Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev
Chairman and CEO at Robinhood Markets

Yeah, I just wanted to tell you guys again, thank you for being here, for those of you in person and also those of you watching remotely. We are building a community here, not just of customers, but also shareholders, investors, retail and institutional, have some content creators on the call. You should know that we are far from done, and we are not complacent, and the roadmap just continues to be incredibly full. Rolling out all the things from HOOD Summit and a bunch of other things in the hopper to make this your financial super app and to deliver the power of ownership to people worldwide. So thank you for being with us on the journey, and thank you for listening and bearing the heat.

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      Vlad Tenev
      Chairman and CEO
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      VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations
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