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Horizon
Consolidated fair value $81.19 all other verticals held in this portfolio case
Final-quarter revenue $2.13B 25% of company revenue
Explicit segment contribution $26.47B EBITDA less segment capex, before corporate items

The 19 November 2025 outlook priced exactly as published, with no new number invented. Slowing revenue 1.09% a quarter against base puts FY2028 gross profit at $15.80B, the anchor itself, and values the stock at $81.19 - within 3% of the $83.10 close. That is the tension: the $15.8B was set off a 2026 base of $11.98B, and FY2026 is now guided at $12.51B, so holding the anchor implies a 12.4% gross-profit CAGR from here against 21% this year. What this case does NOT achieve is the matching $4.6B of 2028 Adjusted Operating Income: it prints $5.48B, because this model can only express overhead as a flat share of revenue and cannot bend the cost path the way a 29% margin on gross profit would require.

Financial Solutions

Basis quarter$1.38B
Final quarter$2.13B
Implied CAGR+9%
Final revenue mix25%

Lending and money movement: Cash App Borrow, Afterpay Post-Purchase, Square Loans, Instant Deposit, Square Card and interest income. The fastest line in the company at 43% gross-profit growth in Q2 2026, and the one whose real economics live in a loss line that sits outside cost of revenue.

Last four quarters
2025 Q3 $1.09B Reported
2025 Q4 $1.22B Reported
2026 Q1 $1.32B Estimated
2026 Q2 $1.38B Reported
Cash App BorrowAfterpay Post-Purchase and Pay MonthlySquare Loans originated by Square Financial ServicesInstant Deposit and Instant PaySquare Card and the Square credit cardInterest income and brokerage
Units 18900/qtr growing +6.0% per quarter Cash App consumer lending origination volume was $18.9B in Q2 2026, up 59% year over year. One unit is $1M originated.
Price per unit $73142 drifting −2.0% per quarter $1,382.4M of revenue on $18,900M originated is $73,142 per $1M. Q2 2025 was $82,735, Q1 2026 $75,113.
Financial Solutions

Latest: $2.13B (2031Q2E)

Period Value
2025Q1 $875M
2025Q2 $985M
2025Q3 $1.09B
2025Q4 $1.22B
2026Q1 $1.32B
2026Q2 $1.38B
2026Q3E $1.42B
2026Q4E $1.46B
2027Q1E $1.51B
2027Q2E $1.56B
2027Q3E $1.61B
2027Q4E $1.67B
2028Q1E $1.72B
2028Q2E $1.79B
2028Q3E $1.86B
2028Q4E $1.93B
2029Q1E $2.00B
2029Q2E $2.08B
2029Q3E $2.16B
2029Q4E $2.25B
2030Q1E $2.33B
2030Q2E $2.28B
2030Q3E $2.24B
2030Q4E $2.20B
2031Q1E $2.17B
2031Q2E $2.13B

Assumptions & reasoning

  • SEASONALITY: none applied. Ratio-to-centred-four-quarter-moving-average on the six disclosed revenue quarters gives 0.995 for 2025 Q3 and 1.014 for 2025 Q4 and no observation for Q1 or Q2; on the six disclosed origination quarters it gives 0.944 and 1.137. Those two readings of the same line disagree by 12 points on Q4, each rests on a single window, and this line grew 40% over the same six quarters, so the ratios are measuring a ramp rather than a season. Left ASEASONAL. Derived from the actuals and origination history in this vertical.
  • The 93.2% gross margin is BEFORE credit losses. Transaction, loan and consumer receivable losses of $585.5M in Q2 2026 - up 99% year over year - sit in operating expenses and are carried by the corporate overhead line. Read the two together or this vertical reads like a software business.
  • The unit price blends Square's financial solutions revenue ($305M in Q2 2026) into a denominator that counts only Cash App consumer lending originations, because Square Loans origination volume is not disclosed quarterly. It is a reproducible blended rate, not a disclosed take rate, and it moves with Cash App / Square mix as well as with pricing.
  • Originations grew 59% while lending product balances barely moved, from $6,836M at 31 December 2025 to $6,928M at 30 June 2026. That is Borrow's four-to-six week tenor turning over several times a quarter, which is exactly why originations rather than balance is the right volume.
  • Block expects the loss line to behave: 'we continue to expect year-over-year growth in transaction, loan, and consumer receivable losses to moderate through the remainder of 2026'. Square Financial Services began taking high-yield seller deposits and processed its first Square acquiring transaction in June, which over time reduces the external capital this line needs.
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