SoFi is, on the numbers that are not in dispute, the fastest-growing company of scale in consumer fintech, with 43% revenue growth, 35% member growth, five straight years of margin expansion, and credit quality that is improving rather than rolling over. It is also a company whose stock the market refuses to reward for any of that, because a credible short seller has put a specific, serious, and still unrebutted set of accounting questions on the table and has not budged in seven months, because one of its three segments is still in reverse even as a new stablecoin initiative aims to change that, and because the rate backdrop that looked like a clean tailwind through mid-2026 turned out to be a hike, not a cut, with the path from here still unclear. The DCF says modestly undervalued. The scenario math centers close to the consensus target. Neither number resolves the actual question, which is whether you believe Anthony Noto’s 20 to 30% ROTCE promise or Carson Block’s Enron comparison. I don’t think this piece can tell you which one is right. What I can tell you is that the market is pricing SOFI as if that question is still wide open, Q3 earnings on October 27 are the next real data point either way, and after doing this work, I think that pricing is closer to correct than either the bulls or the bears currently believe. Read the full deep dive here: https://cycledesk.substack.com/p/sofi-technologies-sofi-best-growth?r=7unzzg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Nate
@hoodnate · 14d
This was a really balanced breakdown. I hold a small SOFI position and this is exactly why I keep going back and forth on it, strong growth on one side and those serious open questions on the other. October 27 is circled on
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