Digging into Coinbase’s better-than-expected Q4 results

Different income sources could also be a key issue for exchanges as Coinbase sees buying and selling volumes fall however different nontrading areas rise

Earlier this afternoon Coinbase reported its fourth-quarter and full-year 2022 outcomes. In response to the corporate’s uncooked numbers, shares of Coinbase are off round 2.2% in after-hours buying and selling as of the time of writing. (The corporate initially fell a lot farther earlier than recovering to constructive territory; features that it later shed forward of its earnings name.)

In preparation for immediately’s knowledge obtain from the American cryptocurrency change, TechCrunch identified a number of questions that we wished to reply, together with queries regarding the corporate’s income combine, client exercise and talent to defend its payment take price through the present-day crypto downturn.

Let’s see what we are able to be taught from the brand new knowledge.

Questions answered

Beginning with income combine, within the fourth quarter of 2022 Coinbase saw its buying and selling revenues fall and its nontrading revenues rise when in comparison with the third quarter of the identical yr. This largely solutions our question relating to the place Coinbase’s high line would come from in a world of extra restricted buying and selling exercise.

Of the corporate’s $604.9 million price of internet income within the fourth quarter, some $282.8 million got here from subscription and companies revenues, or simply below 47%. That very same determine was 36.5% in Q3 2022 and eight.6% within the year-ago interval.

Put merely, Coinbase has undergone an enormous income make-up change from buying and selling incomes comprising the overwhelming majority of its high line to merely half; the shift was extra pushed by falling buying and selling revenues however on a year-over-year foundation, Coinbase’s “subscription and companies” income rose a good 32.5%. In a crypto winter, that’s nothing to sneeze at. (Coinbase benefited from a rising rate of interest local weather when it got here to revenue generated from curiosity itself within the fourth quarter when in comparison with the year-ago interval.)