Robinhood Markets Inc. · Q2 2026 call
What the CEO argued
Tenev used the five-year anniversary of the IPO to argue that Robinhood is no longer a trading app with adjacent products but three businesses being built at once — being number one with active traders, owning the wallet of the next generation, and assembling a global financial ecosystem — and that the quarter's records fall out of that rather than out of a favourable tape. He leaned hardest on the newest of the three: Robinhood Chain doing more than $12 billion of decentralised-exchange volume and passing 150 million transactions within weeks of launch, stock tokens in more than 120 countries, over a million funded accounts outside the US, and a Gold Card past a million holders and a $17 billion annualised purchase run-rate. He was candid where the story is early, describing agentic trading as something 100,000 accounts have wired up but that still asks too much of the customer, and models that argue back when asked to trade.
What they said
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On the call
- Chris Koegel — VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations, Robinhood
- Vladimir Tenev — Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Robinhood
- Shiv Kumar Verma — Chief Financial Officer, Robinhood
- Zach — Shareholder question via Say Technologies
- John — Shareholder and audience question
- Joe — Shareholder question via Say Technologies
- Dan Dolev — Analyst, Mizuho
- Daniel Fannon — Analyst
- David Smith — Analyst
- Devin Ryan — Analyst, Citizens
- Christian Blue — Analyst, Autonomous
- Ramsey El-Assal — Analyst, Cantor
- James Yaro — Analyst, Goldman Sachs
- Daniel — Analyst, Crossroads
- Craig Maurer — Analyst, FT Partners
- Analyst — Analyst, Button
- Ahmed — Audience question
- Steven Chubak — Analyst, Wolfe Research
- Craig Siegenthaler — Analyst, Bank of America
- Alexander Markgraff — Analyst, KeyBanc
- Brian Bedell — Analyst
- Patrick Moley — Analyst, Piper Sandler
- Benjamin Budish — Analyst, Barclays
- Edward Engel — Analyst, Compass Point
- Andrew Hardy — Analyst, BTIG
- Gav — Audience question
About these quotes
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