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StoneCo Ltd. provides payments, digital banking and credit to Brazilian micro, small and medium-sized businesses, mainly through Ton and Stone. Merchants use its services to accept card and Pix payments in stores and online, receive sales proceeds into digital accounts and borrow working capital. StoneCo charges merchants fees tied to the payments it processes.
Financing generates most of its revenue and income, especially fees for paying merchants their card-sale proceeds before those payments are due. A merchant waiting for installment payments can receive the money early, less StoneCo’s fee. StoneCo funds these advances and loans through sources including receivables sales, borrowing and deposits. Its working-capital loans connect to merchants’ accounts and card receivables, with repayments collected from daily sales proceeds.
The business depends on merchants continuing to route sales through StoneCo, their demand for early payment and the cost of funding those advances. The shift from cards to Brazil’s instant-payment system, Pix, affects both processing fees and demand for card-receivables financing, even though StoneCo also offers Pix services. Visa and Mastercard agreements are essential to card acceptance; losing those registrations would stop acceptance on the affected network. Its regulated subsidiaries must also retain Central Bank authorizations and meet capital requirements.
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StoneCo’s results depend on Brazilian merchant spending, financing costs and payments competition, so also watch MercadoPago, an important rival missing from this list.
PagSeguro Digital competes with StoneCo for Brazilian small merchants that need to accept payments, manage bank accounts and use financial services. Watch its small-merchant payment volume: both businesses depend on these merchants’ transactions, though they define small merchants differently.
PicS N.V.’s PicPay competes directly with StoneCo to handle Brazilian small and medium-sized businesses’ payments and bank accounts. Watch PicPay’s services for those businesses rather than its consumer wallet alone; merchant payment acceptance and banking are where the two overlap.
Itaú Unibanco competes with StoneCo by helping Brazilian merchants accept payments and offering small companies banking and loans. Its retail business’s very small and small-company customers are the group to watch for this rivalry, rather than its wholesale banking results.
Nu Holdings competes with StoneCo in Brazilian payments and offers digital accounts and business loans to overlapping small-business customers through its mobile app. Watch those business accounts and loans, rather than Nu’s total customer count across Brazil, Mexico and Colombia.
Santander Brasil competes with StoneCo for Brazilian small and medium-sized businesses’ bank accounts and working-capital loans. Its SME business within retail banking is the relevant area to follow, rather than the bank’s global corporate business.
Banco Bradesco competes with StoneCo to provide Brazilian small businesses with bank accounts, loans and card services. Watch those customers in Bradesco’s banking business, which earns revenue from deposits, lending and cards, rather than its separate insurance business.
StoneCo depends on Visa’s network to let Brazilian merchants accept Visa cards, and more card payments benefit both Visa and StoneCo, which charges merchants for processing transactions. Watch Visa’s network fees and rules: changes can raise StoneCo’s costs without ensuring it can pass them on to merchants.
StoneCo depends on Mastercard to connect card-issuing banks with the firms that collect merchants’ card payments; both earn fees as card transactions increase. Mastercard’s fee, risk and collateral rules matter to StoneCo’s costs, while Mastercard itself neither lends to cardholders nor sets StoneCo’s merchant charges.
Banco Bradesco S.A. earningsBBD
Bradesco’s report will show demand among Brazilian small businesses for accounts, loans and card services, and how strongly it competes with StoneCo for those merchants.
Watch small-business activity in Bradesco’s banking business—accounts, lending and cards—not its insurance business. Stronger use would show firm merchant demand but also a more active rival for StoneCo’s customers. Weaker activity could ease competition, while raising the question of whether merchants’ needs are softening.
VISA Inc. earningsV
Visa’s report will show how its network fees and rules affect StoneCo’s cost of processing Visa card payments for Brazilian merchants.
Watch changes in Visa network fees and rules against StoneCo’s model of charging merchants for processed volume. Stable or lower fees leave more room in StoneCo’s economics after processing Visa transactions; rising fees squeeze that room unless StoneCo can pass the cost to merchants, which is not assured.
StoneCo Ltd. earningsThis company
StoneCo Ltd. earns from Brazilian small-business payments, financial services and credit, and this report will show whether merchant growth and repricing are still strengthening its profits.
Read active payments clients and total payment volume (TPV) alongside adjusted gross profit. If clients and TPV rise as adjusted gross profit strengthens, merchant additions and repricing are translating into more profitable growth. If client and volume growth comes with weaker gross profit, growth is not improving the economics StoneCo earns from its customers.
PagSeguro Digital Ltd. earningsPAGS
PagSeguro Digital Ltd.’s report will show whether Brazilian small merchants are processing more payments, and how it competes with StoneCo for those transactions.
Watch PagSeguro Digital Ltd.’s small-merchant payment volume, bearing in mind that the two companies define small merchants differently, so their customer counts are not directly comparable. Rising volume points to stronger activity among merchants both serve, but also more transactions for PagSeguro to compete for. Falling volume points to weaker merchant activity and a harder setting for StoneCo’s payment growth.
