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Horizon
Consolidated fair value $36.90 all other verticals held in this portfolio case
Final-quarter revenue $1.89B 51% of company revenue
Explicit segment contribution $10.45B EBITDA less segment capex, before corporate items

The 2028 slide taken literally: adjusted net revenue compounding 30% a year from 2025 to $7.89B, adjusted EPS compounding 38-42% to $1.02-1.12, and return on tangible common equity reaching the 20-30% band. Every line is lifted here, because a 30% company CAGR cannot be carried by the 45% of revenue that is not Lending. Note how little of this case is the revenue target: base already reaches $7.69B in 2028 against the $7.89B on the slide, so the top line is about 3% of the claim. The hard half is everything below it - SoFi's own bridge gets to 25% ROTCE from a 25% adjusted net income margin multiplied by a revenue-to-equity ratio of one, and the basis quarter runs a 13% margin on $9.5B of tangible equity. That is what the margin delta and the exit multiple in this case are paying for, and what the disclosure cannot yet test.

Lending

Basis quarter$725M
Final quarter$1.89B
Implied CAGR+21%
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: $1.89B (2031Q2E)

Period Value
2024Q3 $396M
2024Q4 $418M
2025Q1 $413M
2025Q2 $444M
2025Q3 $493M
2025Q4 $499M
2026Q1 $642M
2026Q2 $725M
2026Q3E $795M
2026Q4E $864M
2027Q1E $931M
2027Q2E $996M
2027Q3E $1.06B
2027Q4E $1.12B
2028Q1E $1.18B
2028Q2E $1.24B
2028Q3E $1.30B
2028Q4E $1.36B
2029Q1E $1.42B
2029Q2E $1.47B
2029Q3E $1.53B
2029Q4E $1.58B
2030Q1E $1.64B
2030Q2E $1.69B
2030Q3E $1.74B
2030Q4E $1.79B
2031Q1E $1.84B
2031Q2E $1.89B

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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