Roundtable 100: Top movers of the week - Robinhood climbs 8 spots

Fintech led the Roundtable 100 this week, holding 3 of the top ten, with PayPal at #1. The week's biggest climber was Robinhood, up 8 spots to #35. On the other side, Adobe slipped 3 to #45.

Biggest gainer: Robinhood (HOOD) — ▲ 8 spots to #35, following a committee rank-only placement; its five-variable scores were unchanged by this update.

Biggest loser: Adobe (ADBE) — ▼ 3 spots to #45, displaced by the rank-only placement of other assets, not a new score cut.

Biggest surprise: Ethereum (ETH) — ▲ 8 spots to #40, following a committee rank-only placement; its five-variable scores were unchanged by this update.

John Slazas on HOOD (to #35): “Safety on HOOD reads 11 against a baseline of 76, out of alignment with the rest of the file by a wide margin. Leadership, Innovation, Growth and Dominance all sit 20 to 34 points under their baselines; Safety sits 65 under. The gap isn't a judgment call — it's an attachment that predates the current business.”

John Slazas on CRCL (to #78): “What makes them interesting right now isn't the float — it's that USDC is turning into settlement plumbing that other institutions build on. The second quarter showed it. On-chain volume ran $14.8 trillion, up 151% year over year. That's the number I care about, because it measures use rather than storage.”

John Slazas on XYZ (to #36): “One open question is costs. Gross profit rose 25%, but operating income — what is left after also paying to run the company (people, product, marketing, and overhead) — was $447 million, down 8% from a year ago. The question to watch next is whether those running costs slow enough for more of the gross-profit improvement to show up as operating profit.”

John Slazas on ETH (to #40): “Ethereum holds $53.5 billion in capital deployed across its applications. The next chain down is Solana at $6.5 billion, then Base at $6.2 billion and BNB Chain at $5.9 billion. Ethereum is running roughly eight times the size of its nearest competitor — not leading a crowded field, occupying a different tier of it.”

Top category of the week: Fintech — 3 of the top ten sit here. Lagging: Operations, dragged by Adobe's slide to #45.

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