Robinhood files for long-awaited IPO

Dan Primack
·2 min read

Popular trading app Robinhood on Thursday filed for its initial public offering, and disclosed that it will set aside up to 35% of shares for retail investors who rarely get to buy at a company's IPO price.

Driving the news: Earlier this week, Robinhood agreed to pay a record $70 million in fines and restitution, as part of a settlement with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority over providing customers with "false or misleading information."

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  • The deal was viewed as key to letting Robinhood "flip" its IPO filing from confidential to public.

  • It plans to list on the Nasdaq under ticker symbol "HOOD."

Background: Today's move also comes several months after Robinhood came under fire for restricting certain trades, related to a burst of activity on GameStop and other meme stocks.

  • The SEC continues to investigate the trading halt, which also sparked Congressional hearings, and Robinhood remains the defendant in several related class action lawsuits.

  • It also was sued by Massachusetts regulators for alleged securities law violations.

  • The SEC also reportedly slowed down Robinhood's IPO process over questions about its growing crypto-trading business, where assets grew from $481 million in Q1 2020 to $11.6 billion in Q1 2021.

Share set-aside: Robinhood says that between 20% and 35% of its shares will be allocated for sale to company customers, most of whom are retail investors, at the IPO price.

ROI: Robinhood has raised over $5.5 billion since being founded in 2013, including $3.4 billion via a convertible note investment in the aftermath of the trading fiasco.

  • Major VC backers include DST Global, Ribbit Capital, Index Ventures and NEA.

Financials: The Silicon Valley company reports a $1.44 billion net loss on $522 million in revenue for the first three months of 2021, but the entire loss was tied to a fair market value adjustment to the convertible note financing.

  • It reported a $52 million net loss on $128 million in revenue for Q1 2020, and a $7.5 million profit on $959 million in revenue.

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