Ticker: COIN, $244.44, -7.20% (as of May 15, 2025, 4:00 PM ET) 💸🌌

🔔 Hot Trigger:

On May 13, 2025, COIN had its best day since Trump’s victory party—jumping 24% on S&P 500 inclusion news. Yep, the crypto kid just joined the varsity squad.

💸 Cathy Wood's ARKK? Still Obsessed.

Coinbase remains ARKK's second-biggest holding (8.54%), trailing only TSLA. That’s some rarefied air.

For our take on TSLA,
Check this out.

📊 Institutional Ownership: Room to Run

Institutions own just 56.96% of COIN’s float, with BlackRock and Vanguard topping the leaderboard.
Translation: this party’s just getting started.

Top Institutional Holders 📈:

• Vanguard: 9.14%

• BlackRock: 5.86%

• State Street: 2.11%

• Paradigm, Geode, Morgan Stanley, ARK, and friends: trailing behind, but climbing fast.

• For more on Coinbase's Institutional Ownership Profile, see here.

🕹️ So… Is COIN Worth It? Let’s Dive In.

💰 Q1 Financials Straight From the Source

• Total Revenue: $2.0B (down 10% QoQ)

• Transaction Revenue: $1.3B (down 19% QoQ)

• Subscription/Services Revenue: $698M (up 9% QoQ)

• Adjusted EBITDA: $930M

• Adjusted Net Income: $527M

• GAAP Net Income: $66M

• For more on Coinbase's financials, check this out. 

🪙 Liquidity & Crypto Stash

• USD Resources: $9.9B (+7% QoQ)

• Crypto Held for Investment: $1.3B

• Total Available Resources: $11.8B

Oh, and they just bought Deribit for $2.9B — the world’s top crypto options exchange. NBD. 🚀

📅 Big News, Big Moves

• S&P 500 inclusion = more visibility + fund inflows

• Legal wins vs SEC = regulatory tailwind

• Global expansion: India, Argentina onboard

• Strategic Bitcoin Reserve = government seal of approval

🌌 Product & Platform Innovation

• Coinbase One: Zero fees + staking rewards + free gas

• Bitcoin-backed USDC loans

• Acquisitions: Spindl, Iron Fish, and now Deribit

⚠️ Risks? Always.

• Crypto collapse? Still a possibility.

• Market meltdown? Can’t rule it out.

• Black swans? They never RSVP.

• Sun explodes? Yeah, maybe don’t sweat that one.

🔍 Final Take: A Crypto Blue Chip in the Making?

Coinbase is no longer just a speculative crypto gateway.
It’s becoming a multi-billion-dollar fintech juggernaut.

✅ Profitable
✅ Growing
✅ Acquiring
✅ Globally expanding
✅ Legitimized

🚫 Still speculative? Absolutely. But the upside is galaxy-sized.

🚨 Disclaimer:

We’re fun, not financial advisors.
We like jokes more than forecasts.
Invest wisely, and maybe with a helmet.

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