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Robinhood Markets

Robinhood Markets, Inc. is an American financial services company based in Menlo Park, California. It provides an electronic trading platform that facilitates trades of stocks, exchange-traded funds, options, index options, futures contracts, outcomes on prediction markets, and cryptocurrency. It also offers cryptocurrency wallets, wealth management, credit cards and other banking services, some in partnership with banks insured by the FDIC, as well as a news website, Sherwood.News. The company's revenue comes from transactions (including payment for order flow and markups on cryptocurrency; 54% of Q2 2025 revenues), net interest income (primarily from margin lending, interest earned on customers' cash balances, and credit cards; 36% of Q2 2025 revenues), and other sources (subscription fees and advertising revenue on Sherwood.News; 9% of Q2 2025 revenues). The company has 27.4 million funded customers and $279 billion in assets under custody. Its platform is available in the U.S., the UK, and, for trading cryptocurrency and tokenized stocks and ETFs only, in the European Union.

The company is named after Robin Hood, based on its mission to "provide everyone with access to the financial markets, not just the wealthy". The company has been referred to as an innovator in zero-commission stock trading, as it relies on other sources of revenues. Robinhood has targeted millennials as customers; in March 2025, the average age of its customers was 35.

The company does not allow trading in mutual funds, preferred stocks, bonds, some high-risk penny stocks, and new positions in options on their expiration dates in the last 30 minutes of the trading day. Provided by Wikipedia