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Robinhood Shares Clouded By Looming Stock Sale, Crypto Rules

A looming share sale by early Robinhood Markets Inc. investors and a toughening regulatory environment for cryptocurrencies are adding to the headwinds in the stock market for the darling of the U.S. retail trading mania.

Falling interest in stock trading by amateurs as they headed back to the office already has put pressure on the stock, which has slumped 41% from its August peak versus a 1.7% drop for the Nasdaq 100 Index. 

 
 

That’s coinciding with a rise of sports betting app downloads in the U.S., said Mirabaud tech analyst Neil Campling in a note. 

“We can’t help wonder if the combination of the end of benefits, the return to work and the return of live action sports are all conspiring to hurt the ‘3 R’ (retail, Robinhood, Reddit’ brigade)?” he said.

Regulatory intervention in cryptocurrency trading, and in a payment arrangement between brokerages and trading firms, could pose risks to its business, Robinhood said in a regulatory filing late Friday. It’s also seeking to speed up a previously announced shareholder stock sale, the company said. The shares fell 1.9% to $41 at 5:33 a.m. New York time in U.S. premarket trading. 

“Robinhood is facing multiple headwinds and risks as we see it,” Campling added, recommending investors to sell the stock.

Read more: Robinhood Early Holders May Get First Chance to Sell Wednesday

Robinhood’s app downloads, a proxy for account openings, fell 78% in the third quarter compared with the second, JPMorgan Chase & Co. analysts said last month, citing tracking data from Apptopia. That compares with a drop of about 50% for Binance, COINBASE and other crypto apps that also rode the retail trading trend.

 

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 11.10.2021

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