XP Inc. (XP) Stock Analysis

Price updated today · SEC data refreshed 10 days ago · Not investment advice

XP Inc.

XP Financial Services Investment Brokerage📄 SEC filings ↗
Valuation N/A
▾ What's in the 36/100 risk score? (higher = riskier)
Smart money (short interest + insider buying) (55%) 42/100 → +23.1
Macro backdrop (VIX, curve, credit, fear/greed + week-over-week momentum) (45%) 28/100 → +12.6
Total36/100

Contributions (weight × component score) sum to the total. This near-term score now includes fundamental health (leverage, FCF trend). See the Financial Health section for the full balance-sheet read.

💵 Price $15.82 · today 📄 Financials SEC EDGAR · refreshed 10 days ago

How to read XP (pre-profit growth)

This company is reinvesting instead of generating profit, so a standard DCF cannot price it. The useful question is whether the growth the market is paying for is achievable — and whether the company can fund itself until then.

Where to start — the sections that matter most for this stock
  1. 1 Reverse-DCF — the growth the price demands ↓
    It shows exactly how fast the business must grow to justify today's price. Compare that to what comparable companies have actually achieved.
  2. 2 Cash runway ↓
    Can it reach profitability before it has to raise money and dilute shareholders?
  3. 3 Interactive calculator ↓
    Set your own growth + margin assumptions and see what the business would be worth if you are right.
Or — what are you trying to decide?
One rule first: never trade out of fear — and that includes the fear of missing out. A stock up 10% a day for three days is excitement, not data. If you can't point to the evidence behind a trade, you're more likely to lose. So whichever of these you are, check the data below before you act.
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"It's surging — should I chase it?"
The momentum / FOMO trade. Before you chase, see whether the people who know it best are quietly selling into the rally.
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"Is it a cheap bargain?"
The deep-value trade. How far below assets and our value it trades — and whether it's cheap for a reason.
ⓘ XP is a thinly-disclosed company trading over-the-counter

It files little or nothing with the SEC — so our cash-flow models, financial statements, and U.S. insider data (Form 4) don't apply. What's still real: the live U.S. price and short positioning. Here's what we could pull from other sources:

📑 Read the real filings: latest SEC 6-K ↗

Identity, share count and tier from FINRA + OTC Markets; not a substitute for the home-market financial statements. Thin U.S. disclosure + OTC trading is itself a risk factor.

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Quality & solvency checks

Cheap stocks can be cheap for a reason. These screens warn when a low valuation comes paired with structural fragility.

Altman Z-Score?Altman Z-Score — A bankruptcy-risk score combining 5 financial ratios into one number. Predictive of bankruptcy within 2 years.
Why it matters: Cheap-looking stocks (low P/E or P/B) often have low Z-scores because the market knows the company is dying. Z-score warns you before you fall into a value trap.
Reference: > 3.0 = safe zone · 1.81–3.0 = grey zone · < 1.81 = distress zone
Full explanation →
Not available for this filer

The Z-score needs working capital, retained earnings, EBIT, sales and total assets from the latest balance sheet, and at least one of those isn't reported in machine-readable form here — common for foreign private issuers. We leave it blank rather than compute a distress verdict from an estimated input. It doesn't affect the reported figures in the financial tables below.

Piotroski F-Score?Piotroski F-Score — A 9-point quality checklist scoring profitability, leverage, and operating efficiency.
Why it matters: High score = fundamentals improving. Low score = deteriorating. Especially powerful for filtering cheap stocks: cheap + high F-score historically outperforms; cheap + low F-score is often a value trap.
Reference: 7–9 = strong · 4–6 = mediocre · 0–3 = weak
Full explanation →
Not available for this filer

The F-score compares two consecutive years of income, cash-flow and balance-sheet data. We have 0 years of income data for this filer, but no machine-readable cash-flow statement or balance sheet — so several of the nine checks have no input at all. We show nothing rather than score a partial year against itself. The reported figures in the financial tables below are unaffected.

Price$15.82
Model IVNot applicable — DCF couldn't price this stock. See Reverse DCF and Football Field below.

A standard discounted cash flow?DCF — Discounted Cash Flow — sums up all future cash a business will produce, adjusted for the fact that future dollars are worth less than dollars today.
Why it matters: It is the most fundamentally honest valuation method when applicable — but only works for companies with predictable, positive cash flow.
Reference: Best for: mature, profitable businesses. Fails for: pre-profit growth, banks, REITs.
Full explanation →
(DCF) valuation is not meaningful for XP Inc. because its free cash flow?Free Cash Flow (FCF) — Operating cash flow minus capital spending: cash left after a company covers operating costs, taxes and interest and reinvests in the business — but BEFORE repaying debt principal or paying dividends. The cash actually available to investors.
Why it matters: A company can show big profits on paper while burning through cash. FCF is what actually fills the bank account.
Reference: Healthy mature businesses convert 8–15% of revenue into FCF · Growth companies often negative
Full explanation →
is negative, as indicated by the 'FCF negative' flag. The model projects future cash flows from revenue trajectory, suggesting it is in a growth phase where cash is being reinvested rather than distributed. Investors are likely betting on the company's ability to achieve sustained revenue growth and eventually generate positive free cash flow. The market may be assigning value to the potential for further market share expansion in Brazil's financial services sector, which is not in the model. The biggest risk is that the company's franchise/durability score of 0/5 indicates a lack of observable competitive advantages, making its long-term cash flow generation highly speculative.

⚠️ FCF negative: revenue/margin growth model projects future cash flows from revenue trajectory.

As of 10 days ago

Anatomy of a share

What you're buying per share. Bars are at the same scale so you can see the relative size of revenue, costs, cash flow, and debt — not just read them in a table.

Per-share economics aren't reliable for this filer. Its income statement or share count isn't fully reported to SEC EDGAR (common for foreign private issuers and thinly-disclosed OTC names), so we don't break it down per share here — the figures would be misleading. See the financial tables below for what is reported.

What you actually need to decide

Every stock price is a disagreement. Here's the single thing that must go right for the bulls, the single thing that breaks the thesis, and the concrete signposts to watch so you can update your view as real results arrive.

🐂 The Bull Case
The most important operating factor is that XP Inc. must continue to expand its client base and increase assets under custody, driving revenue growth around the modeled 15.0% rate, while improving operating leverage to eventually generate positive free cash flow?Free Cash Flow (FCF) — Operating cash flow minus capital spending: cash left after a company covers operating costs, taxes and interest and reinvests in the business — but BEFORE repaying debt principal or paying dividends. The cash actually available to investors.
Why it matters: A company can show big profits on paper while burning through cash. FCF is what actually fills the bank account.
Reference: Healthy mature businesses convert 8–15% of revenue into FCF · Growth companies often negative
Full explanation →
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🐻 The Bear Case
The biggest operating risk is that the company's client acquisition costs or operating expenses continue to outpace revenue growth, leading to sustained negative free cash flow?Free Cash Flow (FCF) — Operating cash flow minus capital spending: cash left after a company covers operating costs, taxes and interest and reinvests in the business — but BEFORE repaying debt principal or paying dividends. The cash actually available to investors.
Why it matters: A company can show big profits on paper while burning through cash. FCF is what actually fills the bank account.
Reference: Healthy mature businesses convert 8–15% of revenue into FCF · Growth companies often negative
Full explanation →
and further deterioration from its current FCF negative status, especially given its 0/5 franchise/durability score.
📌 Signposts to watch — update your view as these print
  • Growth in active clients and assets under custody
  • Improvement in net promoter score or client retention
  • Trends in operating margins and path to positive free cash flow

Management & Leadership

Guilherme Benchimol is the founder and Chairman of XP Inc., having established the company in 2001. Thiago Maffra serves as the current Chief Executive Officer, overseeing the company's strategic direction and operations.

Guilherme Benchimol
Founder and Chairman
Thiago Maffra
Chief Executive Officer

What They Make

XP Inc. operates as a technology-driven financial services platform, primarily offering investment products and services. Its paying customers are individuals and institutional clients who utilize its brokerage, wealth management, and other financial solutions.

End Markets

Retail InvestorsInstitutional InvestorsCorporate Clients

Revenue Drivers

Brokerage services
Wealth management fees
Digital banking services
Beta: 1.49

Why Is It Priced Like This?

Why Customers Pay

Access to a wide range of investment products
Digital-first, user-friendly platform
Personalized financial advisory services
No discounted-cash-flow value for this filer No machine-readable cash-flow statement in this filer's EDGAR submissions — common for foreign private issuers (20-F/6-K). That makes a discounted-cash-flow valuation impossible: there is no free cash flow to discount. It does not affect the income-statement or balance-sheet figures below.

The income statement and balance sheet are also too incomplete here to substitute another lens honestly, so this page carries price, momentum and disclosure facts only.

The market is pricing XP Inc. based on expectations of future revenue growth and its potential to capture a larger share of the Brazilian financial services market, rather than current cash flow, which is negative. The 'FCF?Free Cash Flow (FCF) — Operating cash flow minus capital spending: cash left after a company covers operating costs, taxes and interest and reinvests in the business — but BEFORE repaying debt principal or paying dividends. The cash actually available to investors.
Why it matters: A company can show big profits on paper while burning through cash. FCF is what actually fills the bank account.
Reference: Healthy mature businesses convert 8–15% of revenue into FCF · Growth companies often negative
Full explanation →
negative' health signal indicates the company is in a growth stage, reinvesting heavily. The market may be assigning value to the company's ability to cross-sell new financial products and services to its existing client base, which is not in the model.

Business Model & Valuation

How They Make Money

Commissions from brokerage transactions
Management fees on assets under custody
Interest income from lending and treasury operations

The company funds itself through equity raises and reinvests cash into growth initiatives, as evidenced by its negative free cash flow?Free Cash Flow (FCF) — Operating cash flow minus capital spending: cash left after a company covers operating costs, taxes and interest and reinvests in the business — but BEFORE repaying debt principal or paying dividends. The cash actually available to investors.
Why it matters: A company can show big profits on paper while burning through cash. FCF is what actually fills the bank account.
Reference: Healthy mature businesses convert 8–15% of revenue into FCF · Growth companies often negative
Full explanation →
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Growth / Revenue DCF

No cash flow statement data available - using revenue/margin growth model as fallback.

Show advanced inputs
RevenueGrowth15.0%

What this model does NOT do: this is a consolidated owner-earnings FCF model. Standalone segment assumptions: none. It does not project net interest income and fee-income lines independently; their combined effect is embedded in the historical revenue and cash-flow trend the model extrapolates. The calculator above can only approximate a segment's impact through the single consolidated growth rate — it cannot model any one line separately. For a true segment-level view, build a separate model from the company's segment disclosures.

Maturity & Competitive Position

Growth / re-investment phase

Geography & Markets

XP Inc. primarily operates in Brazil, serving a broad base of clients across the country. Exact geographic segment split is not available in current filings.

Geographic Risks

Concentration risk in the Brazilian financial market
Regulatory changes in the Brazilian financial services sector

Market Signals

These are timing signals, not value signals — they describe the stock's recent price behavior, not what the business is worth. Use them for the "the thesis looks good, but is now the moment?" question. Each tile below explains what it's saying.

Model neutral, tape neutral - aligned.
RSI?RSI — Relative Strength Index — a 0-100 momentum gauge. Above 70 = overbought; below 30 = oversold.
Why it matters: Short-term contrarian indicator. Extreme readings often precede mean reversion, though not always.
Reference: 30–70 normal · >70 overbought · <30 oversold
Full explanation →
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53.9NeutralMomentum is balanced — neither overbought nor oversold.
MACD?MACD — Moving Average Convergence Divergence — compares a fast and a slow price trend to gauge momentum direction.
Why it matters: When the fast line crosses above the slow line, short-term momentum is turning up; below, turning down. A timing cue, not a value signal.
Reference: Line above signal = bullish momentum · below = bearish
Full explanation →
BullishLine above signalThe fast trend is above the slow trend — short-term momentum is currently upward.
50-Day Average$16.30Price below (-2.9%)Price below its 50-day average = near-term downtrend.
200-Day Average$18.13Price belowThe 200-day line is the long-term trend divider — above it is generally considered a bull market for the stock.
50 vs 200 CrossDeath50-day below 200-dayA "death cross" — the medium trend is below the long trend (often read as bearish).

Technicals describe price, not the business. A great company can have a "bearish" tape (a buying chance) and a weak one a "bullish" tape (a trap). Pair these with the valuation and health sections above.

Data Quality & Risk Flags (9 notes — click to expand/collapse)

Guardrail Notes (9)
  • FCF negative: revenue/margin growth model projects future cash flows from revenue trajectory.
  • INVARIANT: weighted IV is non-positive. Model may not be appropriate.
  • Model implies no positive equity value under these assumptions. Valuation is speculative/low-confidence.
  • Shares from unknown — per-share values may be less accurate.
  • Illiquidity discount 25% applied (small/micro-cap — harder to exit, demand a margin).
  • Shares/market cap missing or defaulted; per-share valuation unreliable.
  • Shares defaulted to 1; IV is NOT meaningful — treat as data-unavailable.
  • VALUATION HELD (MISSING_SHARE_COUNT): per-share values suppressed due to shares/market cap missing or unreliable.
  • Extreme valuation gap (P/IV null): result may be dominated by model assumptions, share count issues, or sector-specific dynamics. Treat as low confidence.

Financial Statements (5-year tables — click to expand)

From XP Inc.'s SEC filings (EDGAR).

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Methodology by Pouyan Golshani, MD — founder of Gighz. Savng was built by a physician for busy professionals: every number on this page comes from SEC filings (EDGAR) and FINRA data through transparent, rules-based models — no analyst opinions, no hidden inputs. How we calculate every number →
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