Upstart Stock Slides as 2026 Margin Guidance Disappoints

Dow Jones
Feb 12

By Kelly Cloonan

 

Shares of Upstart Holdings declined after the company's margin forecast missed Wall Street's estimates, owing to shifts in its product mix.

The stock fell 15% to $33.06 on Wednesday. Shares have declined 51% over the past year.

For the full year, the company guided for adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization margin of about 21%, implying adjusted Ebitda of about $294 million. That fell short of consensus estimates of $325.3 million, analysts at Truist Securities said.

The lower-than-expected margin guidance was primarily due to a growing mix of lower-yielding lending products like auto and home equity lines of credit, which may weigh on sentiment around the stock in the near term, JP Morgan analysts said.

The company's full-year revenue guidance, meanwhile, topped analyst estimates, according to FactSet.

For the fourth quarter, the company swung to a profit of $18.6 million, compared with a loss of $2.8 million a year earlier, as revenue rose.

The company also named Paul Gu, one of its co-founders, as its next chief executive. Gu succeeds his fellow co-founder Dave Girouard, who will remain executive chairman of the board, the company said.

 

Write to Kelly Cloonan at kelly.cloonan@wsj.com

 

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

February 11, 2026 13:41 ET (18:41 GMT)

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