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Can SoFi Shares Thrive Through Maturity?
Authored by Peter Frank. Date Posted: 3/22/2026.
Key Points
- SoFi is transforming from a student-loan specialist into a full-service digital bank, targeting Gen Z with a mobile-first platform.
- A SoFiUSD stablecoin partnership with Mastercard positions SoFi at the forefront of cheaper, always-on crypto-powered payments.
- Strong 2025 results and membership growth support SoFi’s long-term outlook, even as credit risks, competition, and stock volatility pressure sentiment.
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No longer just a fintech upstart, SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ: SOFI) is enjoying the benefits — and facing the challenges — of becoming a financial supermarket.
From its beginnings as a student-loan refinancing platform, SoFi has evolved into one of the more ambitious digital banking operations in the United States.
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Rather than focusing on a single product, SoFi now provides checking accounts, high-yield savings, personal loans, mortgages, credit cards, stock trading, and financial planning tools.
For younger consumers — particularly Gen Z and millennials — this all-in-one digital experience increasingly resembles the future of banking.
Adding to that, SoFi has moved into crypto-enabled payments. In early March, SoFi and Mastercard (NYSE: MA) announced an expansion of their partnership to integrate SoFi's proprietary stablecoin, SoFiUSD, into Mastercard's global payments network — a first for a nationally chartered bank.
That move gives SoFi an early advantage in issuing a stablecoin on a public blockchain and the potential to move money more cheaply and around the clock, improving international remittances. Still, long-term optimism is tempered by short-term concerns around compliance and regulatory scrutiny.
Earnings and Revenue Are Up
Growth is showing up in the numbers. The company reported $3.61 billion in total net revenue in 2025, a 35% year-over-year gain. Quarterly revenue topped $1 billion for the first time in the three months ended Dec. 31, and SoFi generated $481.3 million in net income for the year. On an adjusted (EBITDA) basis, fourth-quarter net income rose about 60%.
SoFi has continued to monetize its 2022 banking charter and build fee-based revenue. The company reported $37.5 billion in total deposits at the end of 2025, driven largely by its high-yield digital savings accounts that appeal to younger, mobile-first customers. Loan origination volume for the year rose 57%, with home loans leading at an 86% increase.
New products are also boosting non-interest income. Fee-based revenue in the fourth quarter was up 53% year over year and annualized at roughly $1.8 billion.
Member growth is another highlight. SoFi ended 2025 with 13.7 million members, up 35% from a year earlier. In the fourth quarter alone, the company added a record 1 million members. With effective cross-selling, each new member could become a source of long-term revenue.
Recent Marketplace Pressures Weigh on Shares
Despite these gains, SoFi's shares have been under pressure. After hitting a 52-week high of $32.73 in November, the stock is down roughly 50% from that peak.
Several developments hurt sentiment. The company raised $1.5 billion at $27.50 in December — below its then-trading price. Interest in the firm's stablecoin, launched at the end of 2025, cooled as digital assets slid late in the year. And broader economic worries have revived questions about credit quality.
Wall Street's view is mixed. The stock carries a Hold rating overall, with price targets that reflect both growth optimism and macro caution. The average target sits above $26, implying more than 50% upside from current levels.
The Risk of a Maturing Market
Credit quality is among the biggest risks. SoFi earns a substantial share of revenue from personal loans, and originations across student, personal, and home loans have risen sharply. If the economy weakens, higher defaults could pressure profits. As SoFi matures, its performance may increasingly mirror the broader financial sector.
Competition is another headwind. Traditional banks, fintech apps, and brokerages are all fighting for younger customers. Large banks such as JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) and Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) are investing heavily in digital capabilities, which could narrow SoFi's technological edge.
That said, SoFi's demographic footprint and brand recognition give it a potential advantage as a long-term growth play. The company must demonstrate sustained profitability and maintain strong credit performance as it scales.
If it can do that, SoFi may be an appealing option for investors willing to accept some risk in exchange for exposure to the digital transformation of consumer finance.
Alibaba Stock Is Getting Hit Again, but Qwen and Cloud Growth Are Surging
Authored by Leo Miller. Date Posted: 3/20/2026.
Key Points
- Alibaba’s latest quarter showed modest revenue growth but a sharp drop in adjusted profit as the company continued spending heavily to defend its China commerce position.
- Cloud revenue growth accelerated, reflecting strong demand for AI-related products, even as broader concerns persist about talent retention and longer-term AI execution.
- Alibaba’s outlook hinges on whether near-term margin pressure from fast delivery and other initiatives can be balanced by sustained cloud and AI monetization.
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For Chinese e-commerce giant and cloud provider Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA), the past six months have been difficult.
Over that period, Alibaba shares have fallen more than 30%. Market-share losses in Chinese e-commerce and questions about the firm's artificial intelligence (AI) leadership have been significant headwinds for the stock.
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Still, Alibaba remains one of the most important companies in China and a major AI player through its cloud business. That combination makes it hard to ignore, even after a rough stretch for the stock. The latest quarter clarified the company's strategy: Alibaba is spending aggressively to defend its commerce franchise now, betting that accelerating cloud and AI demand can rebuild profitability over time.
Margin Pressure Deepens as Fast-Delivery Spending Rises
In fiscal Q3 2026, Alibaba reported revenue of $40.73 billion, a 2% year-over-year (YOY) gain. That modestly missed estimates of $40.95 billion, which implied roughly 3% growth.
The bigger issue was earnings. Alibaba posted adjusted earnings of $1.01 per ADR, missing the analyst estimate of $1.65 and falling 67% from a year earlier. An ADR, or American depositary receipt, is a bank-issued U.S. security that represents Alibaba's underlying shares and lets U.S. investors trade the stock in dollars on American exchanges.
Management attributed the profit decline to heavier spending on quick commerce, user-experience initiatives and technology; improved cloud performance only partially offset the impact.
The company is also facing a tougher competitive environment in Chinese e-commerce, which has increased the cost of defending its share.
PDD (NASDAQ: PDD) has been gaining in the value-shopping segment, while ByteDance's Douyin (the Chinese version of TikTok) has become a leader in discovery-based shopping, where users purchase products after seeing them in social feeds. Meanwhile, Meituan (OTCMKTS: MPNGF) remains a dominant force in food delivery and related services. Alibaba is still the largest player but must invest heavily to defend that position, and those investments are weighing on profitability.
Quick commerce — delivering products in one hour or less — has become a cornerstone of its e-commerce business. There were some positive signs from this growth-focused strategy in the quarter: quick-commerce revenue rose 56% YOY.
Additionally, the company added 150 million annual active customers (AAC) in 2025 — users who made at least one purchase during the year. However, many of these users are lower quality, making smaller purchases and buying less frequently.
Alibaba is betting on a long-term win and does not expect its quick-commerce business to be profitable until fiscal year 2029.
Cloud Growth Accelerates as Qwen Sees Strong Developer Adoption
Alibaba's Cloud Intelligence Group delivered one of the clearest positives in the quarter. Revenue rose 36% YOY to $6.19 billion, marking the unit's ninth consecutive quarter of accelerating growth and its fastest pace in three years. Management pointed to AI demand as a key driver, with AI-related product revenue growing at a triple-digit rate for the 10th straight quarter. The segment also remained profitable, with an adjusted EBITA margin that was "relatively stable" at 9%.
The company's foundational model, Qwen, is the most widely used open-source model, with over 1 billion downloads on Hugging Face. Hugging Face is a platform where developers can download and fine-tune models to build applications.
That open-source adoption matters because broader developer usage can translate into demand for inference and tooling within Alibaba's cloud ecosystem. As more developers build on Qwen, more activity shifts to running and serving those models at scale through inference and related services.
Hugging Face also shows Qwen is a popular base for customization: developers have created more than 113,000 derivative models tuned from Qwen.
That is more than the next two closest competitors, Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) and Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META), combined.
The takeaway is clear: Qwen has gained significant traction with developers, and that traction can support growth in Alibaba's cloud business as more applications are deployed and used.
Alibaba has set aggressive targets for its cloud and AI push. CEO Eddie Wu has said the company is targeting more than $100 billion in combined external cloud and AI revenue within five years, underscoring how central AI monetization has become to the long-term plan.
Alibaba's Solid Balance Sheet Helps Fund Longer-Term Priorities
Notably, Alibaba's free cash flow dipped into negative territory over several recent quarters. In the past nine months, free cash flow was negative $4.2 billion. However, it returned to positive this quarter at $1.62 billion.
Despite significant cash outflows, Alibaba's balance sheet remains strong. The company reports cash and other liquid investments of $80.1 billion and debt of about $37 billion. That financial flexibility gives the firm considerable capacity to continue investing in strategic priorities.
The company did not comment on the recent resignation of Qwen's head of artificial intelligence, Lin Junyang. Any further changes in top AI leadership will be important to watch, as they could affect the firm's ability to maintain its strong position.
Alibaba clearly has high hopes for its long-term future. Near-term issues are weighing on its e-commerce business, but its progress in AI supports a constructive outlook. With AI monetization still in the early stages and shares down considerably, Alibaba's prospects appear attractive going forward.
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