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Q1 2026 · NASDAQ · Aug 14, 2026

SOFI Record Profit, Record Revenue - So Why Did the Stock Halve From Its November High?

SoFi's first quarter of 2026 delivered records across nearly every headline metric - net revenue of $1.1 billion (+43% YoY), net income of $166.7 million (+134% YoY), Adjusted EBITDA of $339.9 million (+62% YoY), and $12.2 billion in loan originations - while the stock closed the quarter at $15.88, down 39% over the quarter alone and 46% below its November 2025 high. The Loan Platform Business, SoFi's capital-light fee model for originating loans on behalf of third parties, is now big enough to meaningfully move the numbers, even as Technology Platform keeps shrinking and crypto's headline growth nets out to almost nothing after costs.

Q1 2026 · NASDAQ · Aug 14, 2026

HOOD Why Did The Stock Crash 53% While Revenue Kept Growing?

Robinhood's Q1 2026 numbers were genuinely good - total net revenue up 15% to $1,067M and Adjusted EBITDA up 14% to $534M - but the stock is down 53% from its October 2025 peak, because the growth engine quietly swapped from crypto to prediction markets and Total Platform Assets shrank sequentially on $32.5 billion of net market losses. The gap between a still-growing income statement and a cratering share price is this quarter's actual story.

Q2 2026 · NASDAQ · Aug 6, 2026

GRAB Four Records on the Income Statement. Free Cash Flow Fell Anyway.

Grab's second quarter hit records across revenue, Adjusted EBITDA<sup>[»](/glossary/#adjusted-ebitda)</sup>, and profit, and management raised full-year guidance and authorized a fourth straight buyback. But $307 million of the $215 million YoY profit jump came from a one-time accounting gain on consolidating Superbank, and trailing-twelve-month free cash flow actually fell for the first time in this blog's two-year coverage window.

NASDAQ · Aug 2, 2026

MELI Whose Fintech Side-Business Is Actually the Better Business: MELI's, SE's, GOTO's, or GRAB's?

Mercado Pago, Monee, GoTo Financial, and Grab's Financial Services segment are the fintech arms bolted onto four very different e-commerce and super-app parents, and only two of them have genuinely flipped from subsidizing the group to carrying it. Quarter by quarter over the last two years, GoTo Financial's turnaround is the sharpest, Monee's is the steadiest compounder, Mercado Pago's is the largest but the least transparent about what it actually earns, and Grab's is still the one segment-loss-making arm of the four, though closing the gap fastest of any of them.

IDX · Aug 1, 2026

GOTO GoTo vs Grab: Which Southeast Asian Super-App Has the Stronger Path to Profits?

GoTo and Grab are no longer competing to prove that Southeast Asian super-apps can reach Adjusted EBITDA. Both have already crossed that line. The sharper question is whose profit path is stronger: Grab's regional, repeatable operating leverage, or GoTo's Indonesia-focused fintech handoff after two straight profitable quarters.

Q2 2026 · IDX · Aug 1, 2026

ARTO Profit Grew 49% This Half - So Why Did the Stock Just Hit a New Two-Year Low?

Bank Jago's H1 2026 net income rose 48.8% YoY to Rp189,070 million, a sixth straight quarter of QoQ standalone profit growth. The stock closed the half at Rp965, down 26.9% QoQ to a fresh two-year-window low and a new series-low ~1.48x book value, even as CAR kept falling (28.38%, a sixth straight quarterly decline) and the Sharia Business Unit's financing book quadrupled almost entirely on the back of one related-party loan.

Q2 2026 · IDX · Jul 31, 2026

SUPA Superbank's Stock Has Lost Almost Half Its Value Since Its IPO. Insiders Are Still Buying.

Superbank's second quarter as a public company shows profit still compounding - net income up 415.5% quarter-on-quarter to Rp104.4 billion, NPL falling, and the loan book scaling faster than deposits. None of that stopped the stock from closing June at Rp535, down 42.8% from its December close and below its own Rp635 IPO price - even as Grab, Emtek, and other large shareholders kept buying more shares on the open market through the decline.

Q2 2026 · IDX · Jul 30, 2026

BFIN Cost of Credit Was Cut Nearly in Half This Quarter - So Why Did New Bookings Keep Shrinking?

For the six months ended 30 June 2026, BFI Finance's net income grew 8.7% year-over-year to Rp828,909M, but the real story is the second quarter alone: Cost of Credit collapsed to 3.0% from Q1 2026's 5.7% high, and profit before tax jumped 34.3% quarter-over-quarter to Rp586bn. That recovery came even as new bookings fell both year-over-year (-1.8% to Rp10,698bn for the half) and quarter-over-quarter (-6.5%), and the Others segment's profit kept falling - down 40.1% year-over-year for the half, a fourth straight period of standalone deterioration in that segment specifically. The related-party PT United Tractors facility's drawn balance rose for the first time since this backlog began tracking it in 2020, breaking a five-year amortization trend. Shares closed the half at Rp735, up 3.5% quarter-over-quarter, holding the stock just below its own book value for a third consecutive quarter.

Q2 2026 · IDX · Jul 30, 2026

GOTO GoTo's Profit Nearly Tripled and Adjusted EBITDA Topped Rp1 Trillion - So Why Did the Buyback Slow 60%?

GoTo posted a second straight quarterly net profit (Rp252 billion, up from Rp171 billion) and crossed Rp1 trillion in Adjusted EBITDA for the first time, with CEO Hans Patuwo highlighting Fintech's Adjusted EBITDA overtaking On-Demand Services for the first time. But buyback spending fell roughly 60% quarter-on-quarter even as GoTo announced a much larger treasury-share cancellation, Bank Jago's disclosed fair value nearly halved in two quarters, and GoRide's two-wheel unit economics turned negative per management's own admission on the earnings call.

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