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    Posted: 04 Jul 2021 08:50 AM PDT

    And to this day I still lie awake at night wondering about the soup that got away

    Posted: 04 Jul 2021 10:04 AM PDT

    Most discussed stocks of last week and its performance! What are your moves for next week?

    Posted: 04 Jul 2021 05:23 AM PDT

    Jeff Bezos retires at 57 with $197 billion, more than 730,000 times the median American's retirement wealth

    Posted: 04 Jul 2021 06:37 PM PDT

    Strongly Encourage New Investors to Read This

    Posted: 04 Jul 2021 09:57 AM PDT

    Need more cash

    Posted: 04 Jul 2021 09:55 AM PDT

    When you get a red day -0.1% in the Stock Market but the entire week has been green +10%

    Posted: 04 Jul 2021 01:19 PM PDT

    What was your first investment and when did you start?

    Posted: 04 Jul 2021 07:55 AM PDT

    Due Diligence: $MESA

    Posted: 04 Jul 2021 04:19 PM PDT

    Company Summary

    MESA is a regional passenger air carrier with destinations in 40 states and mexico. Their HQ is in Phoenix AZ. All of their flights are operated under American Airlines or United Express. Hubs in texas, Arizona, and D.C. They have 146 aircraft fleet, and on average have 373 flights per day. 52% of revenue comes from AA, and 48% comes from United. They operate the following aircraft: 54 CRJ-900s, 20 CRJ-700s, 2 737s, and 60 E-175s. Of these, 85 are owned and 61 are leased. Their capacity purchase agreements guarantee revenue from each aircraft on a monthly basis. These capacity purchase agreements are important in sheltering MESA from the volatility of the industry.

    The capacity purchase agreements are very important for their business. This allows MESA to collect a fixed, set amount of revenue per month per aircraft. As said before, this shelters MESA from a number of the risks in the airline industry, but is also a liability in the event that there is low demand for extra aircraft. I have never flown knowingly on a MESA plane, but they state that they lock the cockpit doors so their planes will probably not be used in a terrorist type attack.

    Management overview:

    The CEO has experience in airlines, but also breached ethical standards when he was a trader. I hate to see this and it always brings up the question - if he was willing to cut corners and break rules once, how can we know that he isn't going to or hasn't done it again? Not happy with finding out about this. The CFO has decent experience and has worked closely with the CEO for at least 20 years. Glassdoor shows that only 45% of employees approve of the CEO. There are reviews that state he has acted inappropriately, and implications that he directs those actions towards women. Really not what any company should have as a CEO, but boards are usually pretty terrible at controlling the CEO so this is probably what is happening.

    Company history

    They started in 1980. They used to have a much more diverse customer base than they do now, but it seems like most of their customers went out of business. They made a number of acquisitions over 40 years and were public before going private and then becoming public again in the 2010s.

    Risk

    There is a very clear risk in MESA. They only have two main clients. If one or both of the clients leave MESA, they won't have any business. As a result, they are in turn very vulnerable to unfavorable conditions in the passenger air travel industry. They also carry a lot of debt (2x market cap), which would force them into default if they lose one of their clients. Its credit ratings are below investment grade.

    There is a low supply of pilots in the industry, and pilots are increasing demanding higher wages. Most of their employees are unionized (74.8%).

    Revenue Breakdown / Company segments

    Revenue was 506M in 2020. 276M of this came from AA, and 229M Came from United. All of the revenue generated comes from North America.

    Industry position

    📷

    Compared to other airlines, MESA is very small. Their P/E, PEG, P/S, P/B, P/C, and P/FCF are all much stronger than the average airline. Their DE is around the average at a shoddy 1.4. They have very competitive ROE/ROA/ROI. Their gross margin is far below industry average, but their profit margin and operating margin are the best in the industry. They have no direct competitors, but indirectly compete with all other airlines through their capacity purchase agreements. Their market share is less than 1 percent.

    Company base statistics

    Market Cap: 332 M

    Total Debt: 732 M

    Cash & Liquid assets: 99.4 M

    Goodwill: None

    Equity: 458M

    Total Assets: 1.501 B

    Revenue: 545 M

    Earnings: 34 M

    Operating Cash Flow: 174 M

    Enterprise Value: 971 M

    Shares Outstanding: 35.7 M

    EV/Sales: 1.78

    ROE: 7.42%

    Current Ratio: 0.44

    Employees: ~3200 Employees - 1275 Pilots, 1118 Flight attendants, 52 dispatchers, 466 mechanics, 289 in administrative

    ** Recently had a negative ROA

    Overview/Growth and Developments

    Growth:

    • No real revenue growth. It has always been around 600M
    • Same thing with earnings. They have been consistently low
    • FCF has been growing quite a bit, but was negative in 2017

    Margins:

    • GM, OM and NPM have all stayed quite static. No growth in any of these implying that management either isn't doing much to optimize these or they cannot be increased anymore without side effects.

    Net reinvestment:

    • They have been purchasing aircrafts, and are expected to continue this trend
    • They received high credit ratings in the past, but I think these are very unjustified. The company is constantly battling high interest debt and after all, they are an airline.

    Dividends:

    • They don't pay any dividends and the prevailing sentiment is that they probably never will. The only way to get a ROI is through stock appreciation.

    Share buybacks:

    • They have been issuing shares. No buybacks since their IPO. This will decrease shareholder value.

    Cost of capital: 4 %

    Costs:

    • They incur costs that are around 35% of revenue related to operating and maintaining aircrafts. Maintenance is the largest cost out of all of these costs.
    • They have to pay around 3.5% interest expenses.
    • They spend an average of 75M on investing activities per year and 80M in financing activities
    • About 800M due in the next 5 years

    Debts & Liabilities:

    • They have managed to decrease LTD. However, they have a number of obligations in 2022 that they may not have suitable ability to cover.
    • Looking long term, they have issues totaling over 400 M due in 2027-2028. If they keep operating the way they are now, this debt has a good chance of forcing MESA into default.
    • There is around 300M upcoming between 2022-2024. Current operating conditions seem able to cover this debt, but it could be damaging overall to the business.
    • Most liabilities are debt, and there are 353M in current liabilities.
    • They have recognized that most of the cash they generate goes towards paying off current liabilities and debt obligations.

    Assets:

    • Their assets are very equipment heavy. They have 1.2B out of 1.5B in equipment. The average age of their aircraft is 9.5 years, and the aircraft lifetime is 25 years. This means that this number is expected to decrease by 4% YoY unless they add new aircraft to the fleet constantly.
    • Current assets are only 155M
    • There are 123M in right of use assets

    WACC: 4.92%

    Long term growth rate: Probably none. A 0% growth rate is generous

    Legal:

    • There are two large class action lawsuits against the airline. Both are related to securities law violations. MESA does not think that monetary penalties will have any impact on the business, however, this is a very reckless thing to do and could be an indicator of what management is like. If they are willing to commit these violations, then they are probably willing to commit other violations.

    Recent/expected developments:

    Valuation

    Their Gordon model valuation is $0 for any expected rate of return. Their DCF intrinsic value is $20/share, giving a margin of safety of over 50%. This is to be taken with a grain of salt because they had recent FCF growth, and FCF is pretty much the only thing that grew. If I were to adjust this, right away I would deduct 80% of the value, which is my estimated probability that they will be forced into bankruptcy in the next 8 years. Adjusted, their intrinsic value is a measly $4/share, about 55% less than the current market price.

    Valuation Market Comparison

    Mesa looks great on the surface. They have good ratios, but the ratios are severely misleading. In reality, they are drowning in long term debt that is concentrated around 2022-2024 and 2027-2028. The airline industry generally offers around a 10-20% margin of safety. Compared to MESAs adjusted margin of safety of -55%, you would be much better off throwing your money into an airline index fund then concentrating capital into MESA.

    Opinion

    I would give MESA a weak sell rating until december 2021, and then downgrade them to a strong sell. Their debt alone has a stench that cannot be ignored even if it is coming from down the road. Would I hold this in my portfolio? Never. No retail investor should touch MESA with a ten foot pole. I admire the transparency in the 10k, but transparency should not make anyone ignore financial cancer.

    Notes and sources

    Notes:

    Note 1. I am not a certified financial analyst. Any opinions expressed in this analysis are solely my own and should not be interpreted as investment advice.

    Note 2. I do not hold MESA in my portfolio. This is early research I have conducted that may or may not result in me adding MESA to my portfolio.

    Sources:

    Their 10-K : https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/810332/000156459020057000/mesa-10k_20200930.htm (Contains good information about their operations and risk. It takes a while to be able to spot out important risk sections in 10ks but once you figure it out its very useful)

    Macrotrends (Better than SEC for fast long term data, sometimes inaccurate): https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MESA/mesa-air/stock-price-history

    Glassdoor: https://www.glassdoor.ca/Reviews/Omnicom-Reviews-E1734.htm

    CIO Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chadi-farhat-2b421a76/

    Yahoo finance: https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/quote/MESA?p=MESA

    Finviz: https://finviz.com/screener.ashx?v=121&f=ind_airlines (relative analysis)

    Credit and general info: https://info.creditriskmonitor.com/Report/ReportPreview.aspx?BusinessId=3794

    Fleet data: https://www.planespotters.net/airline/Mesa-Airlines

    CEO wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan\_G.\_Ornstein

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    LOOKING FOR A PERSON TO TALK TO ABOUT STOCKS AND THE FINANCIAL GLOBAL OUTLOOK

    Posted: 04 Jul 2021 05:54 AM PDT

    Hi everybody,

    Let me start off by saying that I'm a beginner ( even though I have a good deal of knowledge when it comes with how the economy and markets work) and I'm an italian guy. I'm really eager to start investing my money instead of letting them decrease in value in the bank and in order to do it effectively I wanted to have a call with a person or more, once a week ( ideally in the weekends, because I work mon to fri) in order to talk about macro trends in the financial markets and how to structure our portfolios according to that. I think doing that would be really helpful 'cause we can exchange our opinions and ideas and improve our understanding as well as the efficacy of our investment strategy.

    We can talk on Discord if you want to, if you are interested in it you can either hit me up in the private messages here on Reddit or directly on Discord, my account name there is Albus#9298

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    With the debt-limit stalemate looming, Treasury dealers are bracing for turbulence. Brace yourself.

    Posted: 04 Jul 2021 08:14 AM PDT

    Happy 4TH FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE DAY !

    Posted: 04 Jul 2021 09:27 AM PDT

    Weekly Market Commentary - July 3, 2021

    Posted: 04 Jul 2021 06:17 PM PDT

    Can anyone say double bottom? 7/16 calls thru the roof, meeting 7/7, Schumer expected to release Bill, MORE act just got 47 new sponsors on Thursday.. shall I continue? SNDL

    Posted: 04 Jul 2021 05:58 PM PDT

    AMC STOCK ALL THE GOOD THATS COME FROM THE MOVEMENT SO FAR

    Posted: 04 Jul 2021 05:30 PM PDT

    many people arent looking at the great things we've already accomplished... from this we KNOW NOW WHICH NEWS AND MEDIA are corrupted just to do 1 thing.. simply take your money when it comes to the market.. The other good thing this is teaching you if you have done dd and are completely sound in the "fundamentals" of a company guess what when it drops down you average down and buy the dip, after amc you will definitely be tempted but then you will remember... "no my investment is solid and this is just the dip before the rip" and ultimately you will be a better investor due to it.. also you will remember persistence and dedication are the true winners of a trade, (tell me who says that haha) in which he is true.. because in the end this will be skyrocketed so.... slot of good things have come from this movement so far and if you think they havent you havent stepped back and looked at the whole positivity part of this.. I have other good dd regarding amc on reddit.. (darkboring) is my uname.. thanks and every have a safe fourth of july, amc 2 500k yeah naked shorts yeahI need karma and awards to post on here all my other great posts are at apestogether and amcstocks.. thanks

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    $OMC-Due Diligence for a massive advertising firm

    Posted: 04 Jul 2021 04:28 PM PDT

    Company Summary

    Omnicom is an advertising agency that specializes in advertising, marketing and business communications services. In a world of increasingly fragmented information streams (Different social media platforms, more and more places to list ads ...), OMC may find difficulty in growing their business and competing with large content providers for diversified revenue. Since they are solely an advertising agency, they are not a direct competitor with facebook / twitter, but they will have to, and have been changing their approach to how they carry out their operations. OMC can act as a middleman in advertising. A business looking to carry out an advertising campaign would go to OMC and OMC would spread marketing content across many content providers.

    Their operations can be generalized into three categories: Advertising, Public relations, healthcare, and CRM stuff. Here is the list of the distinct different services that they offer:

    advertising, investor relations, branding, graphic arts/digital imaging,

    marketing research, content marketing, media planning and buying,

    corporate social responsibility consulting, merchandising and point of sale,

    crisis communications, mobile marketing, custom publishing , non-profit marketing,

    multi-cultural marketing, data analytics, database management, organizational communications,

    package design, digital transformation, product placement, digital/direct marketing ,

    entertainment marketing, promotional marketing, experiential marketing,

    public affairs, field marketing, public relations, sales support,

    financial/corporate business-to-business advertising, retail marketing,

    healthcare marketing and communications, search engine marketing, instore design,

    shopper marketing, interactive marketing, social media marketing, sports and event marketing

    Management overview:

    From glassdoor, 95% of employees approve of the CEO. Most reviews say that management encourages discussion and recommendations, but there are a few bad reviews related to the personal relationships between management and employees. The CEO seems average. CFO and CEO do not have much info about them online. The CIO seems like he knows what he's doing, and has a lot of experience.

    Company history

    OMC was created from a three way merger in 1986. The current CEO has been in his position since 1999. The three way merger involved BBDO, DDB, and NHW. BBDO was rated the world's most creative agency, DDB was one of the largest advertising networks in the world, and TBWA was ranked in the top ten agencies that utilize disruption to develop business changing ideas. These companies all exist under OMC as subsidies where OMC acts as the holding company. The three subsidies act independently of each other.

    BBDO was formed in 1919 in NYC. Bruice Barton (the BB) was a philosopher and eventually a congressman and then almost a senator. He has admitted that he was not a good match for the advertising industry. Roy Durstine (the D) was more involved in the actual business. He eventually became a workaholic, lost his wife, became an alcoholic and got fired in 1939. Alex Osbor (the O) is a mystery. BBDOs business then started to boom and they picked up some large clients in the early 40s. There was a lot of turmoil in the company in the 50s and 60s as the old guys were replaced, and new clients were slowly being acquired as old ones were lost or went out of business. They became very involved in advertising for the republicans during this time. They did not do well in the 70s during the recession, which should not be forgotten today, but they managed to get by much better than other companies. In 1976, a CEO started an 8 year tenure and managed to keep the company stable by employing special cost management measures so as not to waste the spoils of growth. At the time of the merger, BBDO was the only of the three that was not experiencing financial difficulties. BBDO agreed to the merger because the other companies had consistent international growth, which was apparently lacking in BBDO.

    DDB was formed in 1949 by three men all of whom had previous industry experience. They had tremendous success early on, focusing on hiring the most creative people they could find and taking the road not traveled. At the time, Polaroid was an unknown company. They were one of the first four to be clients of DDB In the 60s they did work for Avis rentals and Volkswagen. At the time, nobody wanted Volkswagens in America. DDB was instrumental in changing this with their campaigns for the VW beetle, making the vehicle a major success in America. Following this success they won over many major clients such as Heinz, American Airlines, Mobil oil, and Gillette to name a few. In 1982, William Bernbach (the B) died. This caused earnings to plummet, and financial difficulty closely followed. By 1986, they had lost some of their most important clients, including polaroid, which was probably their biggest success. The merger was a no-brainer for them with the resources of BBDO.

    TBWA started in 1924. They had a strong presence in the middle east. They provided a lot of services to smaller companies that otherwise felt neglected by larger advertising agencies. I cannot find anything interesting about them between 1924 and 1970. In the 70s, they found it difficult to find investment interest, so they decided to become private. They had by now acquired many blue chip clients such as xerox, mcdonalds, honda, and sears on top of their many smaller clients. They lost mcdonalds and xerox leading up to the 198 6 merger, and there were some conflicts in the merger such as campbells soup threatening to leave TBWA because Heinz would be a client of the parent OMC after the merger.

    Profits for OMC after the merger were low. In the 90s, OMC grew revenues, and at the end of the decade, a new CEO was put in place and the company had begun to diversify into digital marketing. In 1997, they were fortune's most respected advertising group. In 1997, they won back McDonalds. All throughout this period, they have been acquiring companies worldwide.

    In the 2000s, OMC lost its position as the world's largest advertiser to WPP. OMC bought 19 companies in 2000. OMC was hurt by 9/11, but managed to rebuild with the rest of the country. OMC aggressively pursued goals in hollywood. When the Enron scandal happened, 7 of OMCs board members were ousted and OMC decided to commit to better corporate governance. By 2002, OMC was in good shape while rivals were restructuring and laying off employees.

    Growth afterwards was much more predictable. OMC took on many blue chip companies as clients, and saw great client retention for the next two decades.

    Revenue Breakdown / Company segments

    Their 100 largest clients represent 54% of revenue, and their largest client represents 3.4%. They lost 11.7% of revenue in the past year, but given that the events last year are not typical, this is not expected to be a long term trend.

    Total revenue is 13.171 billion.

    1. The Americas accounted for 8.752B of this. North America had 7.577B and latin America had 0.275 B.
    2. Europe, Middle East, And Asia Accounted for 5.317 Billion. Europe had 3.607B, Middle East/Africa had 0.207B, and Asia had 1.503B

    Because this is an American company, the implications make sense. Revenue is most concentrated in places that the company understands - westernized countries, leaving a lot of room for growth in emerging markets. This growth may not be desired by the company due to the instability and tendency to default on debts in emerging countries.

    Revenue streams:

    Advertising: 7.369 B (56%)

    CRM: 3.308 B (25.1%)

    PR: 1.301 B ( 9.9%)

    Healthcare: 1.191 B (9.0%)

    Industry position

    They are the largest public advertising company, which brings pros and cons for any industry. They will be missing out on a lot of revenue because they will be focusing on larger clients, while letting a lot of smaller ones slip by. At the same time, they will get the largest contracts in the industry, and as a result they have been able to sustain the highest margins in the industry.

    Their payout ratio (57%) is much higher than other dividend paying advertising agencies. This has dual implications. They are not retaining as much earnings, and they are not spending as much on internal investments. It also means that they have reached a point where growth is organic and the company has a stable capital structure so they can and do pay out earnings that are not needed.

    Company base statistics

    Market Cap: 17.42B

    Total Debt: 5.81B

    Cash & Liquid assets: 5.6B

    Enterprise Value: 20.01B

    Equity: 3.084B

    Shares Outstanding: 217M

    EV/Sales: 1.517x

    Earnings: 0.975B

    ROE: 34.4%

    Employees: 64100, 20800 in the US, 27100 in north america, 25800 in europe and 11200 in asia

    Overview/Growth and Developments

    Growth:

    • There has been slow revenue growth over the last 15 years. Recently it has decreased from what it was in 2014-2018. Based on past data, it is likely to stay stable, and in the long term slowly grow.
    • Earnings have been positive for every quarter 15 years straight. Growth is better than revenue with the last year being much lower than proceeding years. This is expected for a large company, where they are slowly finding ways to increase profitability.
    • FCF is constantly at around 10% of the market cap. It has not been growing, but rather fluctuating around 1.5-2 billion for the past 15 years. This implies operational stability, but stunted growth.

    Based on the growth indicators above, OMC is not a growth stock. It does have the characteristics of a classic value stock.

    Margins:

    • Profit margins have been quite low, and show slow growth. Never negative (See earnings).
    • Gross margin is at around 17%. It has been around this since 2013. In 2013, there was a drop from 26% to 17%. Before 2013 GM was above 22% every year.
    • Ebitda margin follows profit margin with +3%.

    Net reinvestment:

    • OMC has very little net reinvestment. The nature of the business does not require much, but it would be something nice to see, especially if they decide to diversify into other industries.

    Share buybacks:

    • OMC has consistently bought back shares every year for 15 years. This and dividends are how they maximize shareholder value. They have consistently bought back under 15 million shares per year, averaging around 10 million per year. This is another indicator of their status as a traditional value stock.
    • They stated that they do not plan on any repurchase in the recent future. This is a very smart move given the economic conditions. This shows that management is willing to temporarily stunt shareholder value in order to preserve it in the long run. This isn't something they have to disclose, so it is meaningful that they elected to do so

    Cost of capital:

    • D/E has steady growth, and is at 1.6. This is not very concerning because the company has capital reserves that can easily cover over 90% of debt, and most debt is long term.
    • Moodys assigned a baa1 credit rating with a stable outlook. Meaning they have adequate ability to meet debt obligations.
    • S&P gave them BBB+ credit ratings on commercial paper.

    Costs:

    • Interest expenses are at 184M
    • Cogs represent almost all expenses
    • No R&D ever - See reinvestment

    Debts:

    • Lots of LTD, covered by cash
    • 1.25B due 2022 - easily covered
    • 750 M due 2024- ^^
    • Next 5y interest payments are 684.1 Million, manageable
    • Lease payments next 5y - 1.2B, manageable.
    • Almost negligible pension plan payments. 309m obligation over time, 164m liability
    • 71.9 M earn out, 31.1M payable in 2021 (Where a company has an obligation to pay out earnings to the seller of a business they acquired - usually a condition of lower purchase price)
    • 101.6M foreign tax transition obligations, 11.6M payable in 2021.
    • Recently issued 600M debt, paid off older debt issues with the new issuance. This is a standard practice.
    • Another issuance of longer term debt provided 600M to general corporate expenses including working capital expenditures, fixed asset expenditures and repayment of debt issues (They used the debt issue to finance general operating activities)
    • The terms of any debt that is issues is not subject to change in the event that credit ratings change

    The capital obligations are manageable, and OCF currently covers and has in the past aptly covered obligations.

    Assets

    • Most cash coming from OCF.
    • Cash is managed daily internally. A company treasury receives excess cash from operations and provides cash to operations when there is a need for it. Great for keeping track of cash and also overseeing operations.
    • Company treasuries invest excess cash they have in short term maturity securities (1-90 day expiry on average)
    • 2.3 out of 5.6 B of cash is held by foreign subsidies.
    • Net debt decreased by 624M (Total debt - total cash)

    WACC: 10.6-.8%

    Long term growth rate: 3%

    Legal: Nothing large worth noting

    Recent/expected developments: Nothing worth noting

    Valuation

    OMCs DCF Valuation is between $120-140. Seeing that the company is experiencing slow growth and is not a well known company, this figure may not be an accurate price prediction but is nonetheless a devent valuation providing an adequate margin of safety.

    Opinion

    Based on this analysis, I would give OMC a weak buy rating. They have some value, but their growth is stunted.

    Note 1. Their use of EBITDA in their analysis is slightly reckless. Not realizing interest expenses is not recommended in the industry. Interest expenses are very real, as are taxes, and so they should be considered by a company when they are performing an internal audit.

    Sources:

    Their 10-K (This is where you really get to understand the capital and debt structure): https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/29989/000002998921000004/omc-20201231.htm

    Macrotrends (Better than SEC for fast long term data, sometimes inaccurate): https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/OMC/omnicom-group/stock-price-history

    Glassdoor: https://www.glassdoor.ca/Reviews/Omnicom-Reviews-E1734.htm

    CIO Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chadi-farhat-2b421a76/

    Yahoo finance: https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/quote/OMC/profile?p=OMC

    Finviz: https://finviz.com/screener.ashx?v=121&f=ind_advertisingagencies

    History: https://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/69/Omnicom-Group-Inc.html

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    IPO Report: The 5 most eye-popping disclosures in Robinhood’s long-awaited IPO filing

    Posted: 04 Jul 2021 07:01 AM PDT

    IPO Report: The 5 most eye-popping disclosures in Robinhood's long-awaited IPO filing

    The 5 most eye-popping disclosures in Robinhood's long-awaited IPO filing - MarketWatch

    Last Updated: July 3, 2021 at 9:57 a.m. ET First Published: July 1, 2021 at 6:25 p.m. ET

    By Thornton McEnery

    Referenced Symbols GME-0.75% AMC-4.17% DOGEUSD+1.83%

    Wall Street is finally getting a peek under the hood of Robinhood ahead of the most anticipated public debut since WeWork, and while the no-fee trading app's offering prospectus is not as much of a shock as the co-working unicorn's was, there were more than a few surprises in Robinhood's Thursday-afternoon filing.

    Like most big, contemporary IPOs, it's being underwritten by all the big banks –Morgan Stanley excluded, in this case — and the numbers are even bigger, profits are theoretical for now, and the company's founders will retain a massive amount of control, thanks to the proposed structuring of share offerings.

    But the $12 billion company that wants to "Democratize finance for all" did have some big items worthy of discussion. Here are five disclosures that really gave our eyeballs a workout:

    Robinhood's recent growth is staggering, especially for a company selling more growth

    The word "growth" is mentioned 217 times in Robinhood's S-1 filing, which makes sense considering that it had almost 18 million users at the end of March, a 107% year-over-year increase, which was mirrored by its ballooning revenue, which grew more than 311% over the same time period.

    Take a look at some of that growth:

    Under the $HOOD: Some Serious Growth

    More on the crypto surge later, but for now just revel in the breadth of what appears to be Robinhood's monetization of the retail trading boom that was sparked by hundreds of millions of people trapped inside during a once-in-a-century global pandemic as the stock market made an unprecedented, parabolic recovery between March 2020 and March 2021.

    And also take into account that what we're looking at includes the January short squeeze on stocks like GameStop GME, -0.75% and AMC Entertainment AMC, -4.17% that saw retail investors become a key player, using apps like Robinhood, and cementing what we now know as the "meme stock" boom into the public consciousness.

    But Robinhood's filing is unequivocal in its pitch that the best is yet to come and that even more growth can be found in a world where people are finally leaving their houses after 16 months of terrified boredom and the froth around retail trading is already subsiding.

    Expansion into Asia and Europe are explicit parts of this plan, as is the belief that more widespread adoption of individual investing is an organic next step in personal finance. But it has to be mentioned that some of Robinhood's diehard retail investors abandoned the platform after it had to halt trading on some meme stocks at the height of January's squeeze.

    While that episode made Robinhood a household name, it also made the company's co-founder, Vlad Tenev, a witness in a congressional hearing and gave a clear sense to many retail traders that the app was not for them. The company is setting aside 20%-35% of its shares for retail investors to buy, but it might not be an easy sell in the current climate.

    On Reddit forum WallStreetBets, one discussion of Thursday's offering prompted users to discuss how they can short Robinhood's IPO, with many still angry about January.

    And speaking of anger…

    A lot of people are suing Robinhood. Like, a lot

    One doesn't usually see six pages of pending lawsuit disclosures in an IPO offering, but that's the case with Robinhood.

    In addition to disclosing on Wednesday that it will pay out almost $70 million to settle claims by the Financial Industry Regulation Authority that it distributed false and misleading information to its customers, failed due diligence on its approval of options accounts for novice traders and did not provide complete market data to users, Robinhood also admitted Thursday that its lawyers are very busy.

    More than 50 class-action lawsuits have been filed against the company regarding January's trading restrictions, with three individual actions also on the books for good measure. There are also apparently some issues with the Securities and Exchange Commission's Antitrust Division and the Northern California U.S. Attorney's Office, which have subpoenaed the company and executed a warrant on Tenev's cell phone.

    Then there are allegation from Massachusetts' state regulator that the company has broken three state securities laws; New York's regulator poking into possible money laundering and cybersecurity infractions; 2,000 users in a class-action suit who say their accounts were hacked; 15 class actions about server outages in March 2020 that made national headlines and froze users out of their trading accounts during a market crash; six class actions by users who claim that Robinhood's controversial "payment-for-order flow" model cheats them out of best execution on their trades; a Finra probe into the same issue; and disclosure of a settlement in a civil suit over the suicide of 20-year-old Robinhood user Alex Kearns, who killed himself after seeing an unsettled options trade on his account had him at a loss of more than $700,000.

    But that's mostly it for Robinhood's legal troubles headed into the IPO…well, other than a few SEC things and some other lawsuits.

    Robinhood's future is all about not repeating its past

    One major takeaway for anyone reading the offering document is that Robinhood is learning a lesson from all that legal mishegas, so "safety," "oversight" and "education" are the sexy new keywords at a company once known for tossing virtual confetti every time a user made a trade on their phone.

    And while the company still makes 81% of its revenue from payment-for-order flow, it clearly wants to give a narrative of evolution to prospective investors. From the S-1:

    At Robinhood, our values are in service of our customers. The following values describe the company that we aspire to become.

    •Safety First. Robinhood is a safety-first company.

    •Participation Is Power. At Robinhood, the rich don't get a better deal.

    •Radical Customer Focus. We exist to make our customers happy.

    •First-Principles Thinking. We make bold bets and challenge the status quo.

    After spending the past year fending off criticism of its business model, shoring up its tech in the face of huge user growth, moving to better inform and support customers who appeared to be in over their heads, and paying fines to multiple regulators, Robinhood is not being shy about wanting people to know that it's learned its lesson about playing it safe, or at least safer.

    Well, outside of one key thing…

    Forget Elon, Vlad Tenev is the true 'Dogefather'

    According to Robinhood's filing, trading of dogecoin DOGEUSD, +1.83% accounted for 34% of the company's entire cryptocurrency transaction revenue in the first quarter of 2021, a rather sizable jump from the 4% it accounted for in 2020's fourth quarter.

    Taking into account that Robinhood also disclosed that it's holding almost $12 billion of crypto on its books, it looks like the company could be sitting on almost $4 billion of doge, about 7% of all the coins currently in circulation.

    But while some would point to the volatility of a cryptocurrency created as a joke about a dog meme, we prefer to mention that this huge holding makes Elon Musk's doge tweets almost irrelevant, because why listen to a guy who makes electric cars and space rockets when Robinhood might just be, as MarketWatch's Mark DeCambre expertly speculates, the dogecoin whale that was promised?

    The average Robinhood user was born in the '90s

    From the S-1:

    As of March 31, 2021, approximately 70% of our AUC came from customers on our platform aged 18 to 40, and the median age of customers on our platform was 31.

    So the people that this company is relying on for the kind of financial avarice that will power a multi-billion trading platform were born after "Dallas") went off the air?

    Bold.

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