Coinbase Global, Inc. (COIN) Revenue-to-Profit Sankey Flow & SEC XBRL Financials
Coinbase Global, Inc. (COIN) carries a Roarable Rating of D+ (Sell) with 58/100 RQD Confidence. Between sluggish cash-flow fundamentals, rate headwinds, and cautious executive filing signals, there are much stronger A- and B-rated stocks on the board right now.
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Multi-Year SEC EDGAR XBRL Revenue, Net Profit & Free Cash Flow Trajectory
| Fiscal Year | Revenue | Gross Margin | Op Margin | Net Profit | Free Cash Flow | ROIC % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY 2025 | $7.18B | 52% | 20% | $1.26B | $2.43B | 10.6% |
| FY 2024 | $6.56B | 52% | 35.1% | $2.58B | $3.10B | 35% |
| FY 2023 | $3.11B | 52% | -5.2% | $94.9M | $673.4M | -3.4% |
| FY 2022 | $3.19B | 52% | -84.8% | -$2.62B | -$1.59B | -48.2% |
| FY 2021 | $7.84B | 52% | 39.2% | $3.62B | $4.04B | 91.3% |
| FY 2020 | $1.28B | 52% | 32% | $322.3M | $283.6M | 95.8% |
Coinbase's FY2025 10-K (accession 0001679788-26-000015) formalizes emerging macro head risks by adding explicit tariff and trade restriction warnings into its baseline operating factors while adjusting technical definitions around network validation and sequencing. With YoY revenues contracting 26.6% and operating margin thin at 3.6%, the company faces severe downside exposure to ongoing asset concentration in BTC, ETH, and Circle's USDC reserve yield sharing amidst tightening cross-border capital friction.
Legal counsel inserted specific language covering tariffs and trade restrictions, signaling direct vulnerability in cross-border fiat-to-crypto liquidity corridors, hardware/server procurement, and offshore retail trading access. This reflects growing risk of retaliatory sovereign capital controls and sanctions enforcement interrupting non-US customer payment flows.
While the core risk text is maintained verbatim, sustaining this language underscores extreme structural dependency where Circle yield sharing accounts for an estimated 28% of revenue alongside heavy volume reliance on spot Bitcoin/Ether ETF custody. Compression in interest rates or USDC reserve yields hits pure-margin subscription revenue directly.
Management updated glossary and risk-adjacent definitions to formally include 'validators' and 'sequencers', adapting disclosures to Coinbase's Base Layer-2 roll-up architecture. Operating a centralized sequencer exposes Coinbase to potential classification as an exclusive transaction broker or clearing agency under heightened regulatory scrutiny.
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SEC XBRL FY2024 → FY2025: Active share-count expansion (monitor SBC & convertibles).
vs. -26.6% actual YoY revenue growth (assuming 9.25% cost of equity & 16.5x terminal multiple).
Trigger: $154.31 • Invalidation: $146.12
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100% OPEN ACCESS • SEC EDGAR × CBOE × FREDHow profitable is Coinbase Global, Inc. (COIN)?
In FY 2025 (10-K), COIN converted $7.2B of revenue into a 52% gross margin, 20% operating margin, and $2.4B in free cash flow (33.8% FCF margin).