Total Platform Assets up 19% year-over-year to a record $96.6 billion
Palo Alto, CA - June 4, 2026 - Wealthfront Corporation (Nasdaq: WLTH), a tech-driven financial platform helping digital natives turn their savings into wealth, announced financial results for its fiscal first quarter ended April 30, 2026.
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David Fortunato - CEO, President & Director: "We shipped significant enhancements throughout the quarter, including expanded access to Wealthfront Home Lending and improvements to our Cash Management and Investment Advisory products. Our Cash Accounts supported a significantly larger dollar volume of direct client tax payments this past tax season, reflecting the growing trust our clients place in us to seamlessly handle their largest liquidity needs. We ended the quarter with record Total Platform Assets of $96.6 billion despite a dynamic macroeconomic environment and are confident our diverse product suite puts us in a strong position for the long-term."
Alan Imberman - CFO & Treasurer: "We delivered another strong quarter of adjusted free cash flow while continuing to invest in the business. This includes offering a new cross-product adoption incentive, which helped drive the best quarter of new Investment Advisory account openings since the quarter ended January 31, 2025. Our adjusted free cash flow supported our inaugural share repurchase program, which included opportunistic buybacks of over 3 million shares at an average price of $8.66 equating to over $27 million of total open market repurchases in the quarter."
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Fiscal First Quarter 2027 Results Summary
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Three Months Ended April 30,
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($ in thousands, except per share amounts)
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2026
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2025
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% change
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GAAP
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Total revenue
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$
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90,484
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84,514
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7
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%
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Net income - diluted
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12,823
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25,947
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(51)
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%
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Net income margin - diluted (%)
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14
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%
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31
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%
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Diluted earnings per common share
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$
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0.07
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$
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0.18
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(61)
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%
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Net cash provided by operating activities
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22,683
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38,481
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(41)
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%
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Operating cash flow conversion (%)
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177
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%
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148
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%
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Non-GAAP1
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Adjusted EBITDA
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$
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37,510
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$
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37,904
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(1)
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%
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Adjusted EBITDA margin (%)
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41
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%
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45
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Adjusted free cash flow
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42,708
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42,279
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%
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Adjusted free cash flow conversion (%)
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114
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112
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1 Non-GAAP measure. Wealthfront's reasons for use of the non-GAAP measure and a detailed reconciliation between the non-GAAP measure and the comparable GAAP amount are included at the end of this document in the section labeled 'Non-GAAP Reconciliations'.
F1Q27 Financial Highlights
•Quarterly total revenue of $90.5 million increased 7% year-over-year primarily due to a 19% year-over-year increase in Total Platform Assets to $96.6 billion. The difference between revenue growth and Total Platform Asset growth was due to stronger growth in Investment Advisory Assets versus that of higher-fee Cash Management Assets. Investment Advisory Assets of $51.7 billion, which were up 39% year-over-year and Cash Management Assets of $44.9 billion, which were up 3% year-over-year. Total Platform Asset growth included Total Net Deposits of $0.6 billion in the quarter.
•Funded Clients of 1.46 million grew 15% year-over-year. Funded Accounts of 1.90 million also grew 15% year-over-year.
•GAAP expenses of $75.9 million increased from $51.9 million in the prior year quarter, with the increase due primarily to higher stock-based compensation (SBC) expense and higher product development expense. SBC expense was $17.1 million in the quarter versus $1.9 million in the prior year quarter, with this increase due primarily to the recognition of dual-trigger stock awards following the IPO. Adjusted operating expenses of $58.0 million increased 16% year-over-year primarily due to higher adjusted product development expense. The increase in adjusted product development expense was primarily due to higher personnel-related expenses which were primarily due to increased headcount, and higher cloud computing expense.
•GAAP diluted net income of $12.8 million decreased from $25.9 million in the prior year quarter with the decline due to higher GAAP expenses as a result of higher SBC expense from the recognition of dual-trigger stock awards following the IPO. GAAP diluted net income margin was 14%, a decrease from 31% in the prior year quarter driven primarily by the same SBC impact noted above.
•GAAP diluted EPS was $0.07 compared to $0.18 in the prior year quarter driven primarily by higher SBC expense tied to the recognition of dual-trigger stock awards following the IPO.
•Adjusted EBITDA1 of $37.5 million declined 1% year-over-year. Adjusted EBITDA margin1 was 41%, compared to 45% for the prior year quarter.
•Net cash provided by operating activities was $22.7 million and Adjusted free cash flow1 was $42.7 million. Adjusted free cash flow conversion ratio1 was 114% for the three months ended April 30, 2026.
F1Q27 Business Highlights
•Launched a cross-product adoption incentive in early March to deepen client relationships. This incentive provides clients that direct deposit at least $1,000 per month as well as fund an investment account with an ongoing 25 basis point increase to their Cash Account annual percentage yield (APY). This helped drive asset-weighted cross-product adoption to roughly 62.5% at the end of the quarter, up over one percentage point quarter-over-quarter and aided in the strongest quarter of investment account sign-ups since the fiscal quarter ended January 31, 2025.
1 Non-GAAP measure. Wealthfront's reasons for use of the non-GAAP measure and a detailed reconciliation between the non-GAAP measure and the comparable GAAP amount are included at the end of this document in the section labeled 'Non-GAAP Reconciliations'.
•Launched general availability of Wealthfront Home Lending in Colorado in early April and Texas in early May. Wealthfront Home Lending intends to deliver a better digital home mortgage experience with below market rates and transparent fees. By building a fully digital product, removing unnecessary steps, and automating away most overhead, Wealthfront Home Lending aims to consistently offer rates at least 50 basis points below the national average. During the quarter, we onboarded a second takeout investor, creating multi-investor support and more options to secure low rates for our clients.
•Bolstered the Cash Management account experience with the launch of Cash Category Goals and recurring Cash-to-Category transfers. Cash Category Goals allow clients to more easily track their progress towards personalized financial targets within specific Cash sub-accounts. Our new recurring Cash-to-Category transfers feature provides clients another option to better achieve their goals on an automated basis.
•Added one-tap-to-invest to the Stock Investing Account to streamline the purchase and sale of individual stocks and ETFs. The Stock Investing Account remains one of the most popular investment accounts among younger clients. The improved Stock Investing Account along with the Automated Investing Account, Automated Bond Portfolios, Automated Bond Ladders, and direct index offerings represent a robust suite of investment products that provide both delegator and self-directed clients a broad set of options across a variety of macroeconomic environments.
Conference Call
Wealthfront's executive management team will host a live audio webcast beginning at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time (5:00 p.m. Eastern Time) today to discuss the quarter's financial results and business highlights. The live webcast as well as the earnings press release and earnings presentation can be found at https://ir.wealthfront.com. Following the call, a replay of the webcast will be available on the Wealthfront Investor Relations website.
About Wealthfront
Wealthfront is a tech-driven financial platform helping digital natives turn their savings into wealth. Since pioneering the automated investing category in 2011, the company has grown into a leading consumer fintech that helps clients achieve their financial goals with innovative saving, investing, borrowing, and lending products. Wealthfront's expanding suite of high-quality, low-cost offerings helps digital natives earn more on their savings, borrow at lower rates, and keep more of their returns. To learn more and get started, visit www.wealthfront.com or download the Wealthfront app.
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