PALO ALTO, Calif., June 04, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 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.
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 $27 million of total open market repurchases in the quarter."
Fiscal First Quarter 2027 Results Summary
Three Months Ended April 30,
($ in thousands, except per share amounts)
2026
2025
% change
GAAP
Total revenue
$
90,484
$
84,514
7
%
Net income - diluted
12,823
25,947
(51
)%
Net income margin - diluted (%)
14%
31%
Diluted earnings per common share
$
0.07
$
0.18
(61
)%
Net cash provided by operating activities
22,683
38,481
(41
)%
Operating cash flow conversion (%)
177%
148%
Non-GAAP1
Adjusted EBITDA
$
37,510
$
37,904
(1
)%
Adjusted EBITDA margin (%)
41%
45%
Adjusted free cash flow
42,708
42,279
1
%
Adjusted free cash flow conversion (%)
114%
112%
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.
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 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.
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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Non-GAAP Financial Measures
We collect and analyze operating and financial data to evaluate the health of our business, allocate our resources, and assess our performance. In addition to total revenue, net income (loss) and other results under GAAP, we utilize non-GAAP calculations of adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ("Adjusted EBITDA"). Adjusted EBITDA is defined as net income (loss), excluding: (i) interest expenses, (ii) provision for (benefit from) income taxes, (iii) depreciation and amortization, (iv) stock-based compensation expense, (v) change in fair value of the convertible note, warrant liabilities, and SAFEs, and (vi) nonrecurring expenses, if any. The above items are excluded from our Adjusted EBITDA measure because these items are non-cash in nature, or because the amount and timing of these items is unpredictable, are not driven by core results of operations and render comparisons with prior periods and competitors less meaningful. We define Adjusted EBITDA Margin as Adjusted EBITDA divided by revenue. We believe Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA Margin provide useful information to investors and others in understanding and evaluating our results of operations, as well as providing a useful measure for period-to-period comparisons of our business performance. Moreover, we have included Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA Margin in this press release because they are key measurements used by our management internally to make operating decisions, including those related to operating expenses, evaluate performance, identify trends affecting our business and perform strategic planning and annual budgeting. Adjusted Free Cash Flow reflects net cash provided from operating activities, less (i) purchases of property, software, and equipment and (ii) capitalized internally developed software, plus (i) the change in temporary client funding receivables, which include (a) the change in direct deposit receivables and (b) the change in instant withdrawal receivables. We believe Adjusted Free Cash Flow allows investors to evaluate the cash generated from our underlying operations in a manner similar to the method used by management. However, the utility of Adjusted Free Cash Flow as a measure of our liquidity is limited as it does not represent the total increase or decrease in our cash balance for a given period. Adjusted Free Cash Flow Conversion reflects 1) Adjusted Free Cash Flow divided by 2) Adjusted EBITDA. Adjusted Operating Expenses reflect GAAP operating expenses, less (i) stock-based compensation expense and (ii) nonrecurring expenses, if any. The above items are excluded from our Adjusted Operating Expenses because these items are non-cash in nature, or because the amount and timing of these items is unpredictable, are not driven by core results of operations and render comparisons with prior periods and competitors less meaningful. Please refer to the Appendix for a reconciliation of each non-GAAP financial measure presented herein to the most directly comparable financial measure stated in accordance with GAAP.
Key Business Metrics
Platform assets: We define "platform assets" as the total value of financial assets held by clients in their accounts as of a stated date on our platform. Net deposits and changes in value attributable to financial market performance are included in the change in platform assets in any given period. We further break down platform assets into two categories of products: cash management and investment advisory.
Net deposits: We define "net deposits" as the value of all assets clients have placed into products on our platform, net of withdrawals, over a defined period of time. We exclude changes in value attributable to financial market performance from this metric. We view net deposits as an important barometer of our ability to scale and grow organically and accumulate assets onto our platform. We view the relevant metric as net deposits on a platform-wide basis, not by individual product. Although net deposits can vary by product based on the economic environment, total net deposits provides a more comprehensive view of our growth because our platform offers diverse financial products that are designed to perform under a wide range of economic conditions, allowing the business to maintain resilience and increase total platform assets across market cycles and through extraordinary events.
Funded clients: We define "funded clients" as clients with balances greater than zero or that have been greater than zero on at least one occasion during the 45 consecutive calendar days ending as of the measurement date. Funded clients include clients with a zero balance across all accounts as of the measurement date if they had greater than zero balances in at least one account within 45 calendar days prior to the measurement date. Individuals who shared funded joint accounts are each considered to be a separate funded client. The number of funded clients is as of a stated date and reflects our scale and monetization potential.
Funded accounts: We define "funded accounts" as accounts with balances greater than zero or that have been greater than zero on at least one occasion during the 45 consecutive calendar days ending as of the measurement date. Funded accounts include accounts with a zero balance as of the measurement date if they had greater than zero balances within 45 calendar days prior to the measurement date. A shared funded joint account is considered a single funded account. The number of funded accounts is as of a stated date and reflects our scale and monetization potential.
WEALTHFRONT CORPORATIONCONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS(UNAUDITED)
($ in thousands)
April 30, 2026
January 31, 2026
Assets
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents
$
428,208
$
440,805
Cash segregated and on deposit for regulatory purposes
13,833
10,375
Due from clients
273,668
227,413
Accounts receivable
29,751
33,127
Client-held fractional shares
689,011
514,877
Other current assets
51,127
49,187
Total current assets
1,485,598
1,275,784
Deferred tax assets, net
115,869
119,749
Operating lease right-of-use asset
7,834
8,696
Property, software, and equipment, net
7,306
7,755
Other noncurrent assets
3,650
3,745
Total assets
$
1,620,257
$
1,415,729
Liabilities and stockholders' equity
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable
7,258
7,299
Accrued liabilities
12,897
8,830
Due to clients
12,049
30,209
Payable to clearing broker
273,512
227,439
Current portion of operating lease liabilities
4,157
4,101
Fractional shares repurchase obligation
689,011
514,877
Total current liabilities
998,884
792,755
Operating lease liabilities, net of current portion
5,229
6,292
Other noncurrent liabilities
