New York, February 16, 2026, 16:34 EST — Market closed
- Robinhood stock finished Friday up roughly 6.8%, with the move coming just before a U.S. market holiday.
- Crypto prices, rates, and a slate of new U.S. data are in the spotlight Tuesday as traders get back to work.
- Fed minutes land on Wednesday. GDP numbers and the PCE inflation gauge are set for Friday.
Robinhood Markets finished Friday’s session up 6.8% at $75.97, snapping back after losses earlier in the week. After hours, shares barely budged. 1
No trading Monday, thanks to Presidents Day. Wall Street eyes Tuesday’s opening, with a full slate of events on deck for the rest of the week. 2
Crypto didn’t exit the spotlight. Bitcoin hovered around $68,522, off roughly 0.4%. That’s a level with the potential to spill over into sentiment for both retail traders and the broader crypto-linked universe.
Robinhood reported fourth-quarter net revenue jumping 27% year over year to $1.28 billion, and diluted EPS landing at $0.66. Despite that, crypto transaction revenue slid 38%, coming in at $221 million. CEO Vlad Tenev stuck to his guns, saying, “Our vision hasn’t changed: we are building the Financial SuperApp.” CFO Shiv Verma, for his part, described 2026 as “off to a strong start.” 3
Verma took over as CFO on Feb. 6, according to a filing. The board named him chief financial officer, while Jason Warnick, the previous CFO, shifted to an advisory position and will remain with Robinhood through Sept. 1, 2026, per the same filing. 4
Peers swung hard. Coinbase surged 16.5% Friday. Charles Schwab dropped 1.4%, while Interactive Brokers added 2.3%. The moves underscored how fast the market recalibrates anything linked to retail flows or shifts in risk appetite.
Robinhood is pushing to expand its crypto offering past just trading. The company rolled out a developer build of its “Robinhood Chain” blockchain, using Arbitrum as the foundation, Fortune reported. “We now have Alchemy, LayerZero, Chainlink, and other big crypto players,” Johann Kerbrat, Robinhood’s SVP of crypto, told Fortune. 5
The setup isn’t all upside. Crypto prices sliding, or continued sluggish activity, would hit Robinhood’s transaction-driven business right away, and any policy or regulatory pushback—whether on tokenization or prediction markets—could trip up the narrative. Lower short-term rates would squeeze net interest revenue, too, which has been one of Robinhood’s key growth drivers.
Investors are eyeing Wednesday’s release of the Federal Reserve’s Jan. 27-28 meeting minutes, set for 2:00 p.m. ET. Those minutes have the potential to shake up Treasury yields—and in turn, higher-beta names such as Robinhood. 6
Friday packs a punch with two big releases on tap for 8:30 a.m. ET. Investors get the U.S. advance fourth-quarter GDP estimate, plus December’s personal income and outlays report—PCE price index included. That’s the Fed’s favored inflation read. 7
