Earnings Sentiment

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Earnings Call Transcript Word Cloud

     

Bullish Statements during Earnings call

Statement
New cohorts performance shows the consistency of our client growth strategy that starts with higher levels of engagement and grow faster
As you can see, we achieved 30 million clients right on track, an efficient ratio of 51%, significantly ahead of scale, and an ROE of 9%, also ahead of the plan
This combined with a stable cost to -- led us to keep enhancing our gross margin per active client, we reached BRL17.7 on a net basis, which is our second best quarter ever
We're both humbled and proud of our progress
We continue having a strong funding mix and a 60% cost of funding with selling going down, we think we'll be in a downhill or in a -- with tailwind in the front of cost of funding
As we always say, the structure of our funding base or our funding franchise, it is a key competitive advantage
I'd like to finish saying that the new cohort performance on top of the old cohorts that keep accelerating engagement puts us in a confident position for future revenue growth and margin expansion
As you can see, our metrics are stronger than expected, demonstrating our strong execution towards the plan
We have been able to combine growth, operational leverage, and profitability, while staying true to our core principle of always putting the clients first by innovating and bringing new solutions in our financial superpower
It was a good quarter
We're excited and it is one of the drivers of margin expansion as we drive through 2024
I see a red for the first month, our team engaged, motivated to also deliver another positive year on our 60-30-30 plan
For instance, we see strong acceleration in the adoption of new products
This is the consequence of having what we believe is the best Super App in the Americas
We have reached and surpassed the inflection point, and in 2023, we presented four consecutive quarters of consistent growth in net income, EBT, ROE and many other metrics
In terms of revenues, we had great year, reaching record breaking numbers in other quarters
As leap further decreases, we should continue to benefit from this dynamic in the structure of our balance sheet that makes intervene that sensitive
Good underwriting, good product/good UX UI and good collection
We're very excited
They are better than the current credit cards scheme in Brazil
Moving to the results, when we look at clients, besides surpassing the impressive mark of 30 million, we're happy to announce a 135 bps improvement in our activation rates, which now stands at 54%, the highest level in eight quarters
We're excited
This combined with the lowest cap since 2020 brings us confidence in the future, adding our ability to keep the flywheel moving with low cap and by engagement, building stronger relationships for a seamless and complete experience
It makes us proud to see the robustness of our transactional business and that despite the materiality achieved, we see accelerated growth
The fourth quarter was of strong acceleration in our TPV, surpassing BRL250 billion
We see a consistent growth in peaks, which grew 45% in 2023 and an important 36% growth in the credit card volume, continuing our focus on gaining credit share against debit in cards
We're doing that similar to us for the client through our app in a very wise way and therefore, we have been improving the flow, the type that we make the collections
On a cohort basis, as presented in the right charts, we see another quarter of improvements on both new and old cohorts
We delivered a record ROE of 8.5%, including our best ever net income by a BRL160 million, which on an annual basis translates to a BRL640 million combined by EBITDA
Be focused, engaged, motivated, and I'm sure that we can keep delivering good results, both on a profitability basis, but also, very important, on a growth perspective as well
       

Bearish Statements during earnings call

Statement
My question is that, there were some margin pressures in the quarter
With most of the greater items remaining roughly in line with prior periods, we achieved a 1% reduction in the revenue compared to the prior year
We do think that, the worst moment of stress with us being at almost 14%, which could have had a shift towards the higher yielding deposits, didn't happen
But again, we cannot adjust that very easily and very often
It is worth to remind again that the fees we have here [indiscernible] Last but certainly not least, we couldn't be prouder of what we achieved in terms of profitability
Once again, we lower 60% margin than we expired to have
With that said, I have no reason to doubt that the only possible direction in our profitability and growth trend is up
As certain we were showing the financial performance section, we didn't stop innovating while we're continuing on the path to deliver operational leverage
The net take rate was slightly down
May I ask you to repeat the question, please? We had a technical problem and couldn't hear you
   

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