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Freedom Holding Corp. operates through subsidiaries that help individuals and businesses invest, borrow, make payments and obtain insurance. Kazakhstan generates most of its revenue, although its brokerage business also serves customers internationally. Brokerage and banking together account for most revenue, with insurance another substantial business. Freedom SuperApp brings banking, payments and insurance into one retail interface, while investors use Tradernet to trade securities.
Interest is its largest revenue source. Freedom Bank KZ lends to consumers and businesses, and the brokerage subsidiaries lend customers part of the money needed to buy securities, earning interest on these loans. The group also owns debt securities that pay interest; Kazakhstan government and government-linked debt supplies most of its trading income. Freedom Life and Freedom Insurance collect premiums for life, health and general insurance coverage.
Brokerage customers pay commissions when they trade. Freedom Global also matches customer buy orders with short sales by an institutional market-maker customer and earns execution commissions, fees on outstanding short positions and margin-loan interest. One such customer supplies most of the group's fee and commission income. Most non-U.S. customer brokerage transactions pass through this market maker, with settlement handled by prime brokers and clearing firms. Access to U.S. markets also depends on outside execution and clearing firms; its U.S. subsidiary FCM is not licensed to clear trades.
Smaller businesses include online retail through Arbuz, payments and ticketing. Freedom Telecom is developing telecommunications services, subject to licenses and, where needed, acquisitions or partnerships. The parent relies on subsidiary earnings and transfers to meet its own obligations, but regulatory capital and liquidity requirements limit how freely subsidiaries can use or send that money.
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Freedom Holding Corp.’s results hinge on Kazakhstan’s banking, insurance and securities conditions and a concentrated institutional market-maker customer; local brokerage rival Halyk Finance is missing from this list.
Interactive Brokers competes with Freedom for European investors who pay brokers to trade international securities through digital platforms. Its low-cost, automated trade execution is worth watching against Freedom’s research and personalized service for emerging-market investors seeking international diversification.
eToro competes with Freedom for European retail investors trading international financial instruments online, earning revenue from platform users while Freedom collects trading commissions. Watch eToro’s CopyTrader, which lets users copy another investor’s trades, as an alternative to Freedom’s research and personalized service.
Futu and Freedom both earn money from customers trading securities online and borrowing to fund securities purchases, so trading activity and demand for these margin loans matter to both despite different core regional markets. Futu’s trading and margin-financing business is the useful comparison for Freedom’s brokerage commissions and customer margin-loan interest.
UP Fintech and Freedom both collect commissions from customers using digital platforms to trade international securities, making cross-border retail trading demand relevant to both. Watch UP Fintech’s customer trading volume and commission rates—the two main drivers of its commission revenue—for a comparison with Freedom’s transaction-based brokerage income.
Webull and Freedom both earn revenue from customer orders placed through digital access to U.S. securities, but their geographic and charging models differ. Freedom relies substantially on customer commissions; Webull’s U.S. business instead receives payments from market makers and exchange partners for sending them customer orders to execute, so its order-driven revenue is a comparison rather than a like-for-like commission measure.
Charles Schwab and Freedom combine brokerage and banking, so customer balances, trading and interest earned on lending matter to both. Watch Schwab’s net interest revenue—the interest left after funding costs—as a comparison for Freedom’s interest income from customer and margin loans and its cost of interest-bearing deposits.
Freedom Holding Corp. earningsThis company
Freedom Holding's report will show whether more brokerage customers are bringing in more fee income and whether customer and margin loans are generating more interest.
Read brokerage-services income alongside the number of brokerage customers, then check interest from customer and margin loans. More customers with rising brokerage income would show that customer growth is turning into trading fees; rising loan interest would show that customers are also contributing income by borrowing to invest. If customers grow but brokerage income stalls, or loan interest weakens, growth is not translating into those revenue streams.
Futu Holdings Limited earningsFUTU
Futu's report will show whether online customers are still trading and borrowing to buy securities, a comparison for Freedom's brokerage commissions and margin-loan interest.
Read Futu's customer trading activity alongside margin-financing income. Growth in both would show active trading and borrowing demand in Futu's markets, a supportive comparison for Freedom's brokerage commissions and margin-loan interest; declines in both would point to weaker demand. Their core markets differ, so Futu's results cannot stand in for Freedom's.
