Robinhood Brings The Axe Down On 780 Employees As Shares Plunge 50%
Robinhood Markets announced Tuesday plans to render another 23% of its workforce jobless – just months after the app-based brokerage let go of 9% of its employees. On Tuesday, Robinhood said it was laying off 780 employees and also announced the departure of a key executive. The job cuts were concentrated in marketing, operations and […]
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Robinhood, the app that popularized free one-click stock and crypto trading, revealed on Tuesday that it would lay off roughly 340 full-time employees, or around 9% of the 3,800 workforce. The move, according to Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, is in response to a decline in active users following a period of rapid growth early in […]
Unlike traditional IPOs with a six-month lockup period, Robinhood will allow its employees to sell 15% of its shares immediately after the public debut. Shares of cryptocurrency-friendly trading app Robinhood dropped more than 8% in its public Nasdaq debut on Thursday, marking one of the worst initial public offering (IPO) debuts of its size.Robinhood’s HOOD stock tumbled 8.4% below the IPO price in the company’s first trading session on July 29, dropping from $38 to $34.82. The company went public on Nasdaq at a $32 billion valuation to see its market capitalization fall to $29 billion....
Robinhood posted $51 million worth of transaction-based revenue from crypto in Q3, marking a 78% decrease compared to the previous quarter. Robinhood shares (HOOD) have fallen sharply on the back of the firm’s Q3 results which posted lower than expected crypto trading revenue.The popular retail trading firm published its Q3 report on Oct. 26, with crypto accounting for $51 million (19%) of the total $267 million worth of transaction-based revenue in the quarter. The release of the report on Tuesday coincided with HOOD dropping around 10% to $35.70, however the price has since gained 1.9%....
Ark Investment took the opportunity to buy Robinhood shares at a discount following the trading company's unsatisfactory earnings report. ARK Invest, the investment management firm focused on innovative tech led by Cathie Wood, took advantage of a dip in the price on Wednesday to buy nearly $80 million worth of Robinhood stock.As per daily trading data, Wood’s ARK purchased a total of 2.24 million shares of Robinhood across three of Ark’s ETF funds, with the majority of shares going to the flagship fund ARK Innovation ETF. Robinhood now accounts for 1.33% of the Innovation ETF. On Oct. 27,....
“We determined that making these reductions to Robinhood’s staff is the right decision to improve efficiency,” noted Robinhood CEO and co-founder Vlad Tenev. Popular retail trading platform Robinhood has fired 9% of its workforce amid a firesale of its stock that has seen HOOD plunge to all-time lows. In the past 30 days alone, HOOD has tanked roughly 38% to sit at $9.99 at the time of writing, marking the lowest price since the initial public offering (IPO) launch in mid-2021. The decline is part of a longer-term bearish trend that has seen the price of HOOD continually decrease since its....