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Robinhood’s Technical Setup Heading Into Q3 Earnings Tonight

From live coverage: Live: Will Robinhood Smash Q3 Earnings Tonight After a 3% Intraday Climb?
HOOD
Robinhood

Technical setup


Support & resistance · chart through Tue, Oct 27
  • R2$124.37+29.6%
  • R1$112.31+17.0%
  • Now$95.98
  • S1$92.12-4.0%
  • S2$73.72-23.2%
50-day avg
$108.80-11.8% below
200-day avg
$93.04+3.2% above
52-week range
$63.52 – $150.47

Robinhood goes into tonight's report sitting right on its 200-day average at $93.04, with first support at $92.12 just below. That cluster is the line that matters: hold it and the $112.31 resistance, roughly where the 50-day sits at $108.80, becomes the upside target. Lose it and the next shelf is all the way down at $73.72.

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  • Revenue: $1.424 billion vs. $1.43 billion expected
  • Adjusted EPS: $0.51 vs. $0.55 expected

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  • Double Miss: Revenue missed estimates slightly, while EPS fell approximately 7% short of expectations.
  • Growth vs. Profitability: Revenue increased 12% year over year and 9% sequentially, but EPS declined 16% year over year and 18% quarter over quarter.

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Balance sheet · Q3 2024 – Q2 2026

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$17.34BNet debt
Cash $5.36B · Debt $22.71B · Equity $9.48B · Current ratio 1.22×

Robinhood's debt load climbed to $22.7 billion in Q2 2026 from $12.6 billion a year earlier, much of it the funding that supports margin books and customer balances, while equity inched up to $9.5 billion and the current ratio held near 1.22. That makes tonight's earnings report as much about whether balance sheet growth is translating into net interest revenue as it is about crypto softness.

Net cash by quarter

$-1.5B$-10B$-19B

Robinhood's 44% Operating Margin Faces a Major Test Tonight

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Margin story · Q3 2024 – Q2 2026

3:10pm ET

Gross
82.0%+0.2pp YoY
Operating
43.9%-0.5pp YoY
Net
42.9%+3.9pp YoY

Robinhood's operating margin has swung between 38.5% and 50.7% over the past six quarters, tracking the revenue mix: the softest readings (Q1 2026 at 38.5%) came in the quarters with the lightest revenue. With crypto revenue expected to drop sharply this quarter, operating margin is the cleanest indicator of whether prediction markets and Gold are carrying the load tonight.

Operating margin by quarter

57.5%39.3%21.2%

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Tracked 13F positioning

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$1.3Bacross 11 tracked filers
3 added · 5 trimmed · 1 new

  • ARK Investment Management LLC

    $525M-0.1%

  • Marshall Wace LLP

    $344M—

  • Renaissance Technologies LLC

    $220M-0.6%

  • Altimeter Capital Management

    $90M—

  • Brevan Howard

    $27M—

  • Millennium Management LLC

    $14M-0.9%

  • Two Sigma Investments LLC

    $13M-1.0%

  • Balyasny Asset Management LP

    $12M+2.0%

+ 3 more tracked holders

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HOOD
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Prediction markets

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Will Robinhood (HOOD) beat quarterly earnings?
87%Yes
Polymarket · $2k traded · resolves Tue, Oct 27

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Options positioning

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Put/call 0.43Calls dominant
CallsPuts

ATM implied vol
114.7%
Expiry
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A 0.43 put/call ratio into tonight's earnings says traders are leaning heavily toward calls, which reads as confidence, though extremes like this just as often mark the point where positioning gets caught offside. At-the-money implied volatility of 114.7% on the $94 strike expiring October 30 shows how wide the options market is drawing the range around this report.

Open interest near the money · puts / calls
  • $91

    1.5k / 206

  • $92

    2.7k / 299

  • $93

    885 / 532

  • $94

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  • $95

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  • $96

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Last quarter — Q2 2026

2:20pm ET

EPS
$0.62vs $0.43 est +43.7%
Revenue
$1.31Bvs $1.28B est +2.1%
Earnings-day move -3.6%Since report +6.7%

In Q2, Robinhood's revenue met expectations while profit exceeded them, a margin story built on scale. Crypto revenue is expected to shrink sharply this quarter, leaving the Gold, deposits and prediction-markets engine to carry it.

Price since the report

$128$106$84

Reported Wed, Jul 29 · next print Tue, Oct 27

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Shares have fallen 19.22% over the past month, despite record customer deposits, Gold subscribers, and platform assets.

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