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The Everything Exchange case, 20 quarters out

Model as of

Each segment is projected from its own operating driver, rolled up into consolidated cash flow, and discounted back to a fair value per share. The assumptions below are editable — change them and every number on this page moves with them.

Every one of the eight verticals is a line Coinbase files in its quarterly revenue disaggregation table, so nothing here is apportioned: the eight sum to filed total revenue to the dollar in all six quarters ($2,034,295K, $1,497,208K, $1,868,693K, $1,781,129K, $1,412,982K and $1,220,068K). Two quarters carry derived figures. Revenue on Coinbase own USDC balances was reclassified out of stablecoin revenue and into corporate interest and other income beginning with the Q1 2026 10-Q, so 2025 Q3 and 2025 Q4 stablecoin revenue is restated down by the deck rounded $30M and $33M and corporate interest absorbs the same amount; the FY2025 10-K is on the old basis. Every quarter of corporate interest is derived as total revenue less transaction revenue less subscription and services revenue, and 2025 Q4 for the other seven lines is the filed full year less the filed nine months. What is assumed is the cost side. Coinbase has one reportable segment and attributes no cost below the consolidated transaction-expense ratio, so all seven revenue-generating verticals carry the same 83.6% contribution margin derived from transaction expense of $189,790K on net revenue of $1,154,301K, and corporate interest carries 100% because transaction expense is charged against net revenue, which excludes it. Cash overhead sits at 65.3% of revenue, the derived 2026 Q2 ratio: adjusted expenses of $1,034.8M less $238.3M of stock compensation is $796.5M. At the basis quarter that produces $234.1M of model EBITDA against $207.8M of reported adjusted EBITDA, the $22M gap being crypto operating losses of $31.7M net of $10.0M of other operating income. The research brief assumed overhead falls to 46% of revenue in the long run, which needs about $7.4B of revenue against $3.4B of cost; this model base path reaches $5.4B, so holding 65.3% keeps overhead at $3.0-3.4B a year, right on the guided FY2026 range, and the operating leverage lives in the scenario margin deltas instead. Buybacks and the convertible repayment are deliberately not modelled as capital programmes: they are financing, not capex, and subtracting them would double-count cash the discounted flows already value. No vertical carries seasonality: six quarters of line detail yield a centred four-quarter moving average for 2025 Q3 and 2025 Q4 only, which leaves Q1 and Q2 with no observation at all and each of the other two with a single window, so no factor can be estimated and the two ratios that exist measure the 2025 cycle upswing and the Deribit consolidation rather than a season.

COIN forward model
Horizon
Fair value per share $196.72 +6% against $186.41
Terminal-year revenue $9.38B last four projected quarters
Enterprise value $49.60B $5.07B explicit + $44.52B terminal

Coinbase stops being a crypto exchange and becomes a multi-asset one. Equity and pre-IPO perpetuals are live for non-US traders, US access to global perpetuals is routed through a CFTC-regulated pathway, and Deribit unifies US and international liquidity. This is the only case in which the take rate rises on a growing volume base rather than a shrinking one, and at $196.72 it is also the only case that clears the $181.78 tape: it is what you have to believe to own the stock here. It does not assume any of those products is monetised today, because none of them is.

COIN REVENUE MODEL

Latest: $2.52B (2031Q2E)

Period Value
2025Q1 $2.03B
2025Q2 $1.50B
2025Q3 $1.87B
2025Q4 $1.78B
2026Q1 $1.41B
2026Q2 $1.22B
2026Q3E $1.22B
2026Q4E $1.23B
2027Q1E $1.25B
2027Q2E $1.28B
2027Q3E $1.32B
2027Q4E $1.36B
2028Q1E $1.40B
2028Q2E $1.46B
2028Q3E $1.51B
2028Q4E $1.57B
2029Q1E $1.64B
2029Q2E $1.72B
2029Q3E $1.80B
2029Q4E $1.88B
2030Q1E $1.97B
2030Q2E $2.07B
2030Q3E $2.17B
2030Q4E $2.28B
2031Q1E $2.40B
2031Q2E $2.52B
Scenarios

Where each case comes from

Bear case — primary sources

The primary sources this case is built from — filings, calls and posts. Where they are claims by an interested party rather than disclosures, every number in the Bear column is what happens if they are taken at face value.

Bull case — primary sources

The primary sources this case is built from — filings, calls and posts. Where they are claims by an interested party rather than disclosures, every number in the Bull column is what happens if they are taken at face value.

Everything Exchange case — primary sources

The primary sources this case is built from — filings, calls and posts. Where they are claims by an interested party rather than disclosures, every number in the Everything Exchange column is what happens if they are taken at face value.

Valuation

From cash flow to fair value

The published model, discounted at 11.0% a year with an exit multiple of 8.0x on revenue. The horizon and sliders above do not change this walk.

Present value of free cash flow, 20 quarters$5.07B
Terminal-year revenue$9.38B
Terminal-year EBITDA$2.48B
Exit multiple, on revenue8.0x
Terminal value$75.02B
Discounted at 11.0% a year, terminal value becomes$44.52B
Share of enterprise value from the terminal90%
Enterprise value$49.60B
Net cash$2.31B
Equity value$51.90B
Shares0.26B
Fair value per share$196.72
Against the deployed price of $186.41, as of +6%

5.5x terminal revenue against about 7.3x trailing revenue at $181.78 today. On this model own terminal EBITDA of $998M that same multiple is 29.9x, which is far above the 18x a mature regulated exchange fetches, and it is deliberate: the revenue multiple is where the operating leverage that this model does not put in the cash flows gets paid for. Value it on 18x terminal EBITDA instead and the base case is about $57 a share rather than $82.50. The multiple, not any operating input, is the biggest single lever on the answer.

Read the other way round: at $186.41 the market is paying 7.5x terminal-year revenue, holding every other assumption on this page fixed. That is the number to argue about.

Quarter by quarter

The projected path

The published model's 20 quarters. The horizon and sliders above do not change this table.

Quarter Consumer transactionInstitutional transactionOther transactionStablecoin revenueBlockchain rewardsInterest and finance fee incomeOther subscription and servicesCorporate interest and other income Revenue YoY EBITDA Capex FCF R40 PV of FCF
2026 Q3E $442M$100M$46M$305M$74M$67M$119M$66M $1.22B −35% $330M $4M $248M −14 $242M
2026 Q4E $438M$101M$45M$319M$68M$68M$125M$66M $1.23B −31% $333M $4M $250M −11 $238M
2027 Q1E $437M$103M$45M$333M$66M$69M$132M$67M $1.25B −11% $338M $4M $254M +9 $235M
2027 Q2E $441M$105M$45M$348M$64M$71M$139M$68M $1.28B +5% $345M $4M $259M +25 $234M
2027 Q3E $447M$108M$45M$364M$64M$72M$146M$69M $1.32B +8% $354M $4M $266M +28 $233M
2027 Q4E $456M$112M$46M$380M$65M$74M$154M$70M $1.36B +10% $364M $4M $274M +30 $234M
2028 Q1E $467M$116M$46M$397M$66M$77M$162M$71M $1.40B +12% $376M $4M $283M +32 $236M
2028 Q2E $481M$121M$48M$415M$68M$79M$170M$73M $1.46B +14% $389M $4M $293M +34 $238M
2028 Q3E $497M$127M$49M$434M$71M$82M$180M$75M $1.51B +15% $404M $4M $304M +35 $240M
2028 Q4E $515M$133M$50M$453M$73M$85M$189M$76M $1.57B +16% $420M $4M $316M +36 $243M
2029 Q1E $534M$139M$52M$473M$76M$89M$199M$78M $1.64B +17% $437M $4M $329M +37 $247M
2029 Q2E $556M$147M$54M$497M$80M$92M$210M$80M $1.72B +18% $456M $5M $343M +38 $251M
2029 Q3E $580M$154M$56M$523M$83M$96M$222M$82M $1.80B +19% $477M $5M $359M +39 $256M
2029 Q4E $605M$163M$59M$551M$87M$100M$234M$84M $1.88B +19% $499M $5M $376M +39 $261M
2030 Q1E $633M$172M$61M$579M$91M$105M$246M$86M $1.97B +20% $523M $5M $393M +40 $266M
2030 Q2E $662M$182M$64M$610M$96M$109M$260M$88M $2.07B +21% $548M $5M $412M +41 $272M
2030 Q3E $694M$192M$66M$642M$100M$114M$274M$91M $2.17B +21% $575M $6M $432M +41 $278M
2030 Q4E $727M$203M$69M$675M$105M$119M$289M$94M $2.28B +21% $603M $6M $454M +41 $284M
2031 Q1E $763M$215M$73M$710M$111M$125M$305M$97M $2.40B +22% $633M $6M $477M +41 $290M
2031 Q2E $801M$228M$76M$748M$116M$131M$322M$101M $2.52B +22% $665M $7M $501M +42 $297M

Every row is projected. A year-over-year change is shown only where the quarter it compares against exists — an em dash means there is no comparable quarter, not a flat year.

Track record

Model revisions

Assumptions are marked to reality as each quarter prints. Every change is appended here, with the fair value the model produced at the time, so the model's own history stays visible.

DateFair value thenNote
2026-08-27 $82.50 First published model, built on the 2026 Q2 10-Q and shareholder deck. Eight filed revenue lines, no invented split, and the corporate USDC reclassification carried through all six quarters of history.