Block Shares were on schedule for their second day Friday, in which they fell more than 20% while investors showed a cheeky three -month report and a wave of analysts downgrades, aimed at one edition: Cash app.
The win of the first quarter of Miss Ratled Wall Street, which means that several companies, including Wells Fargo, Seort, BMO and Benchmark to down the stock at night. Much marked new concern about stagnating growth of the users of the Cash app, muted demand for consumers and a soft macroom environment that can weigh on generating income.
“Stagnation in the number of active users of the app is even more concerns about the reduced expenditure of Thanrs,” wrote in his note, downgragging block to hold on.
The financial service provider missed turnover, gross profit and payment volume throughout the countries and reduced his guidelines for the entire year, referring to macro-indeed, weekly consumer expenditure and lower than expected intake during the usually a strong tax refunding season.
“I just don’t think we were sufficiently focused and had enough attention on the network and network density, and that is our basis,” said CEO Jack Dorsey about the win call. “Of course we want to deepen the involvement with our customers by banking services and borrowing, and I don’t doubt that we will do that … but at the same time we have to ensure that we grow our network continuously, and that starts with Peer -Peer.”
Cash App generated $ 1.38 billion in gross profit in the first quarter, an increase of 10% compared to a year earlier, but shy the consensus of $ 1.42 billion street account. Monthly activity remained close to 57 million and the inflow rose only 8%, lifted new functions such as AfterPay on the cash card and wider efforts to position cash ACK about the full alternative to banking.
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Wells Fargo Calleed Out “Numberus Cash App Monetization Red Flags”, while they saw to various consecutive neighborhoods of negative GPV growth. Even Morgan Stanley, who repeats his overweight rating, Cash App Miss “Surprising”-although it emphasizes a better than expected momentum in the Square Seller activities, especially in international markets.
BMO Downgrade The shares to the market that performs. Wells Fargo Said it is not willing to “impose on the second dry Mary”, moving to the same weight. Seoport downgrade to neutral and wrote: “Will the real Jack Dorsey please get up?”
Still, sub Mainintad optimism, with Bank of America Reiteating -numbers buy rating, calls the shares undervalued, and Morgan Stanley Saying that it was an attractive access point in the short term.
The turnaround plan of Block depends on loans. The company says that Cash App Borrow-Now approved by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. To create loans through its banking daughter company that will double the number of election users and improve margins by bringing it to his own home.
Marketing Spens is also expected to jump with 50% in Q2, because the block seems to grow growth in the back of the year.
“We do not have sufficient faith in the chance of such a rebound to recommend buying the shares on weakness,” wrote Benchmark.
In the meantime, rival Venmo shows signum signum.
Parent company PayPal 20% reported the turnover jump for the app in Q1, powered by an increased approval from the Venmo bank card, immediate transfers and growing volume in the checkout. Although PayPal has not announced an exact income figure for Venmo, it said that income per user improves the result of a clear push to bed deeper into e-commerce flows.
Two vray different strategies now unfold: Cash app leans deeper in lending and banking, while Venmo has chases the expenditure when paying. But the goal, however, is the same: possessing the consumer’s wallet.
At the moment, Venmo seems to be gaining ground, while Cash App is regrouping.
