$HOOD
ROBINHOOD WORLD IS FLAT EVENT ANNOUNCEMENTS:
- 1M+ funded customers outside the US
- Launching Robinhood Crypto in the UK
- Maker orders for Crypto launching for US customers
- Robinhood Crypto officially launching in Canada with 0% trading fees for 90 days
- Granted license to expand brokerage services in Singapore
- Launching Agentic Trading for Crypto
- Robinhood Chain officially launches with AI native features to swap tokens, find liquidity pools, and adapt to tokenized real world assets
- New perpetual futures for commodities, ETFs, and FX with up to 10x leverage rolling out in the EU
- Robinhood Cortex with advanced reasoning launching to Gold Subscribers
- Robinhood Earn is rolling out to eligible US customers which allows users to lend USDG onchain through a self-custody wallet and earn an estimated 7% APY
Multiple events per year with multiple products/launches per event.
Robinhood. Does. Not. Stop.
$HOOD
Let's talk about the Robinhood selloff.
So, this is confusing on multiple levels but I will try to breakdown what I think is happening.
- First, I discussed this in my end of year substack but I had hedged a majority of my position with deep ITM calls. The reasoning behind this was seeing the lack of crypto volatility and realizing that could unjustifiably hurt $HOOD but also because the position had become too big for me to go to sleep easily at night without hedging it. That decision ended up helping out through this volatility.
- The core reason for this drawdown seems to be, in my opinion, two things: 1) crypto meltdown as $HOOD is associated with crypto and 2) the street potentially thinking that trading volumes have topped for the cycle. Let's discuss both of these things. In terms of crypto, yes...it's ugly. Robinhood make a good chunk of crypto being traded and it is very high margin. Now, prediction markets have also been strong but I don't think they can compensate for all of the crypto momentum slowing down, especially if sports tend to slow down in Q2, but it is still a positive tailwind. More broadly, what helped HOOD gain momentum back in 2023/2024 was $BTC also gaining strength. Unfortunately, the downside volatility on Bitcoin seems to be applying to HOOD as well. In terms of trading volumes drying up, I don't know if thats true...we will find out when we get more data, but the market is acting if that is true which is weird given how much volatility we have had.
- Now, it is weird to see HOOD get hit the hardest when names like COIN aren't down as hard even though they are more correlated to crypto. Multiple analysts have come out to say that this feels unjustified and unwarranted but I guess this is how the market is interpreting it.
- The other weird thing about the sell off is that high-beta stocks have had a massive move...HOOD is a high beta name and more importantly the home for all of the high beta names being traded but STILL the market does not care. It's weird. There is a disconnect but the stock has not been treated as a name that benefits from this.
- Valuation. HOOD has an aggressive multiple, part of the reason for that is because of growth, innovation, product velocity, etc. But, like many names that did amazing last year, it's almost like the street does not care. This is weird considering the street is giving random names 200 times sales multiples because they are in the right theme, but that is not happening with many favorites of last year and as a result, if the valuation normalizes and we see multiple compression, that could be the streets way of taking profits and rotating. I don't think Robinhood has given any reason to, but that may be the issue here.
- I believe this company is generational and is building out multiple elements to the business that aren't contingent on just trading volumes, however, the street may disagree. If they see it only as a crypto trading app then if crypto volumes go down, HOOD goes down. Vlad is building a company for the next 20 years and I know how hard he and the team works to put out incredible products, it's just the effect of those products being outside of trading volumes may not be what the street is seeing in the short term (again very weird because thats not what the issue was just 2 months ago) but in the long term that will continue to make HOOD a generational compounding machine.
Maybe earnings will change sentiment but as of now it is confusing why the stock is getting hit so hard. Bought a little bit of the dip but if crypto keeps going down, it might take HOOD down with it. Earnings should be very strong, just a very weird way for the street to interpret what's happening with HOOD this year.
I sat down with the incoming Chief Financial Officer at Robinhood, Shiv Verma, to discuss his trajectory at the company, the journey from going public to joining the S&P 500, how operating leverage has been key to the company's success, and what the future holds for Robinhood.
Thank you to Shiv @shiv_verma1 for taking the time!
Timestamps:
00:00 - Why did Shiv Join Robinhood
04:40 - Shiv's Relationship with Vlad
08:35 - Challenges After Going Public
13:37 - Growth vs Profitability
16:19 - Robinhood's Operating Leverage
25:42 - Navigating Market Cycles
29:20 - Rapid Fire
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Details:
- OpenAI committed to purchasing 6 gigawatts of AMD chips, expected to generate tens of billions in revenue for AMD over the next five years, with each gigawatt costing tens of billions.
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$AMD has broke $200 and is +24% in the premarkets.
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You have until 3pm EST today…
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Robinhood is a $1,000 stock in the making.
30% of my portfolio is $HOOD because this isn’t just another fintech…
It’s quietly becoming the most unstoppable force in finance.
In the next 25 years, $124 TRILLION will move from Baby Boomers to their heirs.
Millennials will capture $46 trillion…more than any other generation.
And Robinhood?
It already has more millennial users than every traditional brokerage combined.
The timing couldn’t be more perfect.
Robinhood killed commissions.
Now it’s building the financial super-app of the 21st century.
- Brokerage
- Banking
- Credit Card
- Crypto
- Tokenization
- Social
- AI
- Prediction Markets
One app.
One ecosystem.
One unstoppable force.
And behind it all…Vlad Tenev & team.
Visionary. Ruthless execution. Obsessed with their customers.
$HOOD is a generational bet.
Here’s why Robinhood is different 👇
1. Seamless Brokerage ⚡
• Commission-free stocks, options, ETFs, crypto.
• Fractional shares = Wall Street for everyone.
• Viral user growth → instant deposits, best UX, rewards.
The fastest, most frictionless brokerage on earth.
2. One-Stop Banking 🏦 (Coming Soon)
• Checking, savings, instant transfers/wires.
• Tax, budgeting, estate planning tools that rival private banks.
All inside the Robinhood app.
3. Gold Card 💳
• 3% back on everything, 5% back on travel.
• No annual/foreign fees. Stainless steel, 24k karat gold, or solid gold flex.
• Family plan for up to 5 users.
• Cash back auto-invested → effortless compounding.
Not just a card…a wealth-building machine.
4. Crypto + Staking 🔗
• 40+ coins, secure wallet, true 24/7 trading.
• Tokenized U.S. stocks → trade globally, instant blockchain settlement.
• Staking ETH, SOL & more…weekly payouts, pooled yields.
This is how crypto finally goes mainstream.
5. Advanced Trading + Tokenization 🌍
• Short selling, futures, overnight options.
• Layer-2 blockchain settlement for tokenized stocks → cheaper, safer, borderless.
Not just a broker. An on-chain global exchange.
6. Robinhood Social 🔥 (Coming Soon)
• Verified investor profiles. No fake screenshots, just facts.
• Copy hedge funds, politicians, or become the mentor.
• Trade directly from chat → debate, learn, execute live.
Finance meets social. Wall Street meets X.
7. Cortex (AI + Insights) 🤖
• Build custom indicators & alerts…no code.
• AI explains every stock move in plain English.
• Track/copy elite traders across any asset.
Your AI research desk + community, in one tap.
8. Prediction Markets 🎯
• Trade events, not just assets.
• Already eating into DraftKings/FanDuel market share.
A massive TAM nobody’s pricing in yet.
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I’ve never been more confident in a company’s potential.
Robinhood is breaking every wall between you and your money.
This is bigger than a brokerage.
This is the future of finance.
$HOOD isn’t just stock.
It’s a bloodline bet.