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Robinhood shares waver after posting Q1 beat

The brokerage has had a volatile quarter.

4/30/25 4:23PM

Retail brokerage platform Robinhood Markets posted Q1 earnings that beat Wall Street expectations, sending the shares initially up and then down in the after-hours trading session. As of 4:20 p.m. ET, they are down roughly 1.5%.

(Full disclosure: Sherwood Media is an editorially independent subsidiary of Robinhood Markets Inc. I own Robinhood stock as part of my compensation.)

Revenues hit $927 million in a volatile quarter for the company, beating Wall Street expectations for $920 million, according to FactSet estimates.

Q1 earnings per share were $0.37, exceeding the forecast for $0.33 per share.

Transaction revenues rose 77% from Q1 2024 levels, driven largely by increases in cryptocurrency and options trading activity, though such revenues were down from levels seen at the end of 2024.

Robinhood shares have been volatile outperformers in early 2025, rising nearly 30% year to date, while the Nasdaq Composite is down roughly 10% and the S&P 500 is lower by 5%.

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JetBlue surges following report it is exploring potential merger partners

Shares of JetBlue spiked more than 15% midday Wednesday following a Semafor report that the airline is exploring merger partners.

The company has explored Washington’s regulatory temperature around a potential merger with United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and Alaska Air, per the report. When Semafor reached out to JetBlue regarding the exploration, it declined to comment.

JetBlue’s attempt to acquire budget rival Spirit was blocked by the Biden administration in 2024.

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JetBlue’s attempt to acquire budget rival Spirit was blocked by the Biden administration in 2024.

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Sandisk, Micron dive as Google Research unveils AI algorithm to reduce memory demands

This might be an unfortunately memorable day for the memory trade.

Memory stocks Sandisk, Micron, Seagate Technology Holdings, and Western Digital sank Wednesday after Alphabet’s Google Research group published details of a new algorithm known as TurboQuant.

Per Google’s extremely technical release, TurboQuant is an algorithm that allows for a data technique called “vector quantization” to be used while addressing the issue of so-called “memory overhead,” allowing data in AI models to be compressed without reductions in accuracy or requiring retraining, while reducing the memory storage requirements at data centers.

And that outlook seems to be enough for the market to be sending memory stocks down for the day.

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And that outlook seems to be enough for the market to be sending memory stocks down for the day.

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Fundrise’s venture fund extends rally, trading more than 2 dozen times above asset value

Fundrise Innovation Fund, a publicly traded venture fund that owns stakes in private companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX, is continuing to rally as the gap between the value of its stock price and its underlying assets grows.

Shares of the fund, which uses the ticker VCX, closed at $314.99 on Tuesday and rose to $533 by Wednesday morning — a nearly 70% jump for the day and a more than 1,500% increase in the value of its stock since it went public on March 19.

Fundrise’s vertiginous price action underscores just how hungry retail investors are for exposure to high-flying private companies, even at increasingly eye-watering implied valuations.

Fundrise’s venture fund, which owns private tech giants like Anthropic and SpaceX, surges as retail investors pile in

Fundrise’s vertiginous price action underscores just how hungry retail investors are for exposure to high-flying private companies, even at increasingly eye-watering implied valuations.

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