Robinhood makes shocking prediction for 2026

Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ: HOOD) ended 2025 connected a precocious note.

But its enactment is tempering expectations for the twelvemonth ahead, acknowledgment to marketplace uncertainties.

In an interview with CNBC, Robinhood main concern serviceman Stephanie Guild said the institution expects maturation to proceed successful 2026, but astatine a slower pace.

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Founded successful 2013, Robinhood became a publically traded institution successful 2021 and joined the S&P 500 scale successful September 2025. It is among the five crypto-exposed stocks existing successful the index, on with Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR), Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN), Block (NYSE: XYZ), and PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL).

As of Dec. 30, Robinhood’s banal has surged 197.74% year-to-date (YTD) successful 2025, marking a standout twelvemonth for the trading platform. The firm’s third-quarter results, released connected Nov. 5, drove overmuch of that momentum.

The company beat expert estimates and reported adjusted net per stock of $0.61, a gross of $1.274 billion, and acceptable a caller all-time precocious for the firm.

The erstwhile grounds of $1.01 cardinal successful gross was acceptable successful precocious 2024.

Revenue for the archetypal and 2nd quarters of 2025 came successful astatine $927 cardinal and $989 million, respectively.

Robinhood’s increasing footprint successful prediction markets has been a cardinal operator of its performance.

In March this year, it launched a prediction markets hub wrong the Robinhood App, wherever customers tin commercialized connected the outcomes of important planetary events.

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CEO Vladimir Tenev announced that the company’s Prediction Markets merchandise surpassed 4 cardinal lawsuit contracts traded all-time, including 2 cardinal successful the 3rd 4th alone.

Prediction markets, which fto users commercialized contracts connected real-world outcomes, person go a strategical absorption for Robinhood arsenic it diversifies beyond accepted banal and crypto trading to seizure a portion of the decentralized prediction marketplace sector.

Robinhood besides made headlines conscionable a fewer days agone for announcing a caller argumentation to contribute $1,000 each to Trump Accounts for eligible children of its employees.

Despite its record-setting performance, immoderate analysts stay cautious. Needham & Company precocious lowered its terms people for Robinhood from $145 to $135. Meanwhile, DBS Bank upgraded the banal to a “moderate buy,” and Piper Sandler reaffirmed its “overweight” rating.