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Fintech Sees Huge Revenue and Customer Subscription Growth As Markets Roar
The fintech sector is booming, with a record $91.5 billion in global funding so far this year—that’s almost twice as much as what the sector collected in the entirety of 2020. The past quarter saw the birth of 42 fintech unicorns (startups valued at over $1 billion), bringing the year’s total to 200, according to CB Insights’ State of Venture Q3’21 Report.
During this type of market environment, one of the biggest winners among industries is likely to be financial technology providers of services to retail investors and traders.
There are low-hanging-fruit examples to confirm this idea, including those that allow transactions, such as Robinhood (13 million users today vs 0 in 2015) or those that allow social community interactions around trading, such as StockTwits (>2 million users today vs 250K in 2017).
This user growth has been augmented by a massive surge in options trading and a drop in fees charged by brokers to, in many cases, $0/trade.
One of the most dramatic examples of the sudden dominant interest of retail market participants is the massive short squeezes we are seeing in stocks such as GameStop Corp (NYSE:GME) and AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc (NYSE:AMC).
This scenario – a raging bull market that casts advantages upon new technology services for market participants – forms the context of the opportunity we highlight here today: Blackboxstocks, Inc (NASDAQ: BLBX).
That’s one of the reasons why a recent analyst research report (see here) gave this stock a $10/share price target.
Symbol: NASDAQ: BLBX
Company: Blackboxstocks Inc (NASDAQ: BLBX)
Quote: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=BLBX
Latest News: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=BLBX+Headlines
Company Website: https://www.blackboxstocks.com
Blackboxstocks, Inc (NASDAQ: BLBX) is a rapidly growing trading analytics platform that uniquely provides social engagement and trading education to its users.
According to a recent analytic report, the Company describes itself as “Bloomberg meets Twitch” and cultivates a community of traders who share insights and market trading strategies, complete with “Team Traders” (seasoned experienced traders curated from the community) who attempt to demystify and democratize trading for the newer members on the platform and the broader trading public. Subscriptions for the use of the platform are sold on a monthly and/or annual subscription basis to individual consumers through the Company website. The service is only offered through a monthly subscription at $100/month or an annual subscription at $959/year. The Company does not offer the standard free trial period options common in most continuity programs.
The BlackBox Trading Platform has 3 Integrated Features available to all users: Trading Analytics, Social Engagement, and Education.
Who is BLBX
On the analytics side, the platform has the most standard market features including real-time price data and news feeds as well as advanced charting capabilities. In addition, the platform has several proprietary features. These include volatility indicators, algo driven scanners, stock and options alerts, and option flow scanners.
In terms of social engagement, the BLBX platform provides multiple ways for the user base to interact with one another. These include live streaming of charts and analytics, the ability to view, listen and chat with others on the platform, the capacity to click on tickers from other broadcasters with included dashboard dynamics, and the broad capacity to learn from others in terms of analytics and strategies. This set of functions provides for the ability for participants to monetize their following on outside social platforms via the Blackbox affiliate program. According to a recent report, the affiliate program in particular provides a financial incentive for BLBX members to promote the platform on all of their major social media platforms. Many BLBX affiliates are seasoned traders that have a large social community of followers on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc. They target potential subscribers from their follower base to join BLBX and act as mentors in the community platform providing advice and education in dedicated BLBX rooms and channels. Affiliates earn $25/month each month for referrals for the duration of the subscription, and also earn $250/year for each yearly referral.
On the Education side, trading stocks or options can be intimidating to a beginner. BLBX offers a full education calendar for users to learn various aspects of trading, including topics such as Option Flow, Trading bootcamps, etc. The Education feature alone can allow for many users to stick to their monthly subscription for an extended period and prevents ‘Quick View’ cancellations.
Growth. Given this business model, and the company’s full services and feature-set, one would expect this to be a growing service. And one would be right. BLBX has seen rapid user growth from just under 1,200 at the beginning of 2020 to end the year just under 5,000. This growth was driven by a more aggressive marketing campaign by the company. Monthly recurring revenue has progressively increased to nearly $600K by year end 2020. The Company’s user base grew more slowly in prior years mainly because it was undercapitalized. The Company was able to invest more in marketing after raising capital in 2020. Customer acquisition cost is near $100 per user and with monthly subscription costs starting at $100, and on average customers staying for more than 8 months, this works out to an 8x ROI. This is a very healthy level and shows the promise of the business model.
Forward projections. According to recent research on the company, with a tested marketing strategy, the company is poised for further growth in 2021 and the coming years. The estimated user base is expected to cross 10,000 in 2021 and 35,000 by 2023, driven by ongoing marketing campaigns. It is important to note that even with these numbers the Company’s user base is still expected to allow for a lot of runway for growth, given that it would still be less than 1% of an estimated 20 million active/semi-active trader demographic.
The company has established partnerships with major industry players, including TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, and Tasty Works, the brokerage created by the founders of Think or Swim (acquired for $600+ Million), plus a platform integration agreement with Trade Station.
Blackbox executes a SaaS subscription revenue model that addresses a market with at least 54 million self-directed investors and 23 million active investor traders in the U.S. This includes a growing surge of Millennial and Zoomer investors who are actively seeking modern, cutting-edge Fintech solutions.
Blackbox also features an experienced management team combined with a proven and successful software development team that includes the former Sr VP of Technology at Schwab and Co-Founder of CyberTrader (acquired by Schwab for $488 million).
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On the analytics side, the platform has most standard market features including real-time price data and news feeds as well as advanced charting capabilities. In addition, the platform has several proprietary features. These include volatility indicators, algo driven scanners, stock and options alerts, and option flow scanners.
In terms of social engagement, the BLBX platform provides for multiple ways for the user base to interact with one another. These include live streaming of charts and analytics, the ability to view, listen and chat with others on the platform, the capacity to click on tickers from other broadcasters with included dashboard dynamics, and the broad capacity to learn from others in terms of analytics and strategies. This set of functions provides for the ability for participants to monetize their following on outside social platforms via the Blackbox affiliate program. According to a recent report, the affiliate program in particular provides a financial incentive for BLBX members to promote the platform on all of their major social media platforms. Many BLBX affiliates are seasoned traders that have a large social community of followers on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc. They target potential subscribers from their follower base to join BLBX and act as mentors in the community platform providing advice and education in dedicated BLBX rooms and channels. Affiliates earn $25/month each month for referrals for the duration of the subscription, and also earn $250/year for each yearly referral.
On the Education side, trading stocks or options can be intimidating to a beginner. BLBX offers a full education calendar for users to learn various aspects of trading, including topics such as Option Flow, Trading bootcamps, etc. The Education feature alone can allow for many users to stick to their monthly subscription for an extended period and prevents ‘Quick View’ cancellations.
Growth. Given this business model, and the company’s full services and feature-set, one would expect this to be a growing service. And one would be right. BLBX has seen rapid user growth from just under 1,200 at the beginning of 2020 to end the year just under 5,000. This growth was driven by a more aggressive marketing campaign by the company. Monthly recurring revenue has progressively increased to nearly $600K by year end 2020. The Company’s user base grew more slowly in prior years mainly because it was undercapitalized. The Company was able to invest more in marketing after raising capital in 2020. Customer acquisition cost is near $100 per user and with monthly subscription costs starting at $100, and on average customers staying for more than 8 months, this works out to an 8x ROI. This is a very healthy level and shows the promise of the business model.
Forward projections. According to recent research on the company, with a tested marketing strategy, the company is poised for further growth in 2021 and the coming years. Estimated user base is expected to cross 10,000 in 2021 and 35,000 by 2023, driven by ongoing marketing campaigns. It is important to note that even with these numbers the Company’s user base is still expected to allow for a lot of runway for growth, given that it would still be less than 1% of an estimated 20 million active/semi active trader demographic.
The company has established partnerships with major industry players, including TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, and Tasty Works, the brokerage created by the founders of Think or Swim (acquired for $600+ Million), plus a platform integration agreement with Trade Station.
Blackbox executes a SaaS subscription revenue model that addresses a market with at least 54 million self-directed investors and 23 million active investor traders in the U.S. This includes a growing surge of Millennial and Zoomer investors who are actively seeking modern, cutting-edge Fintech solutions.
Blackbox also features an experienced management team combined with a proven and successful software development team that includes the former Sr VP of Technology at Schwab and Co-Founder of CyberTrader (acquired by Schwab for $488 million).
About BLBX
BLBX (Blackboxstocks Inc) engages in the development and marketing of web and mobile based analytical software tools as a subscription-based software as a service.
BLBX’s propriety Blackbox System technology serves as tool for stock and option traders to evaluate prospective investments on various securities exchanges and markets.
Key Points:
- BLBX is a key SaaS Trading Software provider with an emerging leadership role as the industry takes off.
- BLBX recently received a $10/share price target from investorsprism.com.
- BLBX recorded revenue for the first quarter of 2021 was $1,489,668, a 259% increase compared to $415,251 revenue in the first quarter of 2020.
- BLBX subscriber growth has skyrocketed 309% year over year from 2019 to 2020.
- BLBX has seen coverage by boutique analysts, including a report from Harbinger Research projecting 300% topline growth in 2021.
- BLBX just recorded a MACD Bullish divergence and a break above the 50-day MA, suggesting a potential technical prepotency for an upside range breakout.
- BLBX is trading on a float of less than 8.6 million shares according to OTC Markets data.
Conclusion
BLBX is in the sweet spot for markets right now. The retail-focused fintech services space is well-suited to a late-stage bull market context. More and more people are becoming active market participants, which points to a growing market for the company’s services.
BLBX has shown very strong growth in recent periods, which makes sense given its exposure, model, and vision. But the stock hasn’t seen enough liquidity to pay-off the thesis at this point. That could change as more market participants become aware of the story.
The social trading idea is a growth thesis as more market participants from the Millennial and Zoomer demographics get involved in markets. Clearly, the further we go into the future with markets, the more markets will be at the mercy of coordinated, socially informed participants.
This includes education and analytics, which are also part of the BLBX platform.
Symbol: NASDAQ: BLBX
Company: Blackboxstocks Inc (NASDAQ:BLBX)
Quote: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=BLBX
Latest News: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=BLBX+Headlines
Company Website: https://www.blackboxstocks.com
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BLACKBOXSTOCKS, INC.
Stock Symbol: (NASDAQ: BLBX)
Target Price: USD $10.00