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What has to happen in Lending

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Horizon
Consolidated fair value $28.31 all other verticals held in this portfolio case
Final-quarter revenue $1.55B 51% of company revenue
Explicit segment contribution $9.01B EBITDA less segment capex, before corporate items

The mix shift actually happens. Cross-buy at 51% — up sixteen points in a year — turns into revenue per member rising instead of falling, and the Technology Platform rebuilds the account base it lost, so the two capital-light lines grow faster than the loan book. This is the case that gets fee-based revenue over half of the total, which is the condition SoFi itself attaches to the return target. What it does NOT assume is any improvement in Lending: the loan book and its yield follow base here, and the entire difference is the two lines that are 45% of reportable revenue today.

Lending

Basis quarter$725M
Final quarter$1.55B
Implied CAGR+16%
Final revenue mix51%

Still the company. $724.8M of net revenue in the basis quarter, up 63%, and $399.0M of contribution profit at a 55% margin — 57% of reportable segment revenue and 64% of segment contribution. Personal, student and home loans, earning net interest income on what SoFi keeps and origination and platform fees on what it sells. What caps it is the earning asset: $47.9B of loans funded by a $45.5B deposit base at a 5.98% net interest margin. That makes the loan book the driver and the revenue yield on it the monetisation, which is also where the rate cycle shows up.

Last four quarters
2025 Q3 $493M Reported
2025 Q4 $499M Estimated
2026 Q1 $642M Reported
2026 Q2 $725M Reported
Personal loansStudent loansHome loansLoan Platform Business origination and servicing fees
Capacity energised 47933 $M of loans at the basis quarter Total loans of $47.9B at 30 June 2026, the earning asset the segment's spread and fees are both charged on.
Capacity added 4948 $M of loans/qtr changing −4.0% per quarter $4,948M a quarter, the $9,896M the book grew in the first half of 2026, halved.
Utilisation 100% gliding toward 100% Definitional at 100%: the yield below is derived from this same period-end book.
Revenue per $M of loans $15121/qtr drifting −1.5% per quarter $724.8M of segment revenue over a $47,933M book - about a 6.05% annualised revenue yield, spread plus fees.
Lending

Latest: $1.55B (2031Q2E)

Period Value
2024Q3 $396M
2024Q4 $418M
2025Q1 $413M
2025Q2 $444M
2025Q3 $493M
2025Q4 $499M
2026Q1 $642M
2026Q2 $725M
2026Q3E $788M
2026Q4E $847M
2027Q1E $904M
2027Q2E $957M
2027Q3E $1.01B
2027Q4E $1.06B
2028Q1E $1.10B
2028Q2E $1.15B
2028Q3E $1.19B
2028Q4E $1.23B
2029Q1E $1.27B
2029Q2E $1.31B
2029Q3E $1.34B
2029Q4E $1.38B
2030Q1E $1.41B
2030Q2E $1.44B
2030Q3E $1.47B
2030Q4E $1.50B
2031Q1E $1.53B
2031Q2E $1.55B

Assumptions & reasoning

  • The loan book is the driver because deposits are the funding and the funding is the moat: SoFi paid 156 basis points less on deposits than on warehouse facilities in the basis quarter, which it puts at about $712.6M of annualised interest expense saved.
  • Revenue yield of about 6.05% a year on the book is net interest margin plus fee income. Management says net interest margin stays above 5% for the foreseeable future, which is the ceiling this line's price drift is walking down toward.
  • The Loan Platform Business originates for third parties — $3.1B of the record $10.7B of personal-loan volume in the basis quarter — so some Lending revenue is fee income on loans that never join the book. That makes the yield on the book drift up, not down, and it is a reason the price input is not purely a margin.
  • Credit is the thing that breaks this line. Reported personal-loan annualised charge-offs were 2.62%, but the all-in rate including late-stage delinquent loan sales was about 3.7%. Contribution margin, not revenue, is where a credit turn would show up first.
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