Block, Inc. Q4 FY2021 Earnings Call

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Block Inc. (formerly Square) Q4 2021 Earnings Summary

  • Company Rebranding: Block Inc. now comprises four business units: Square, Cash App, TIDAL, and TBD, reflecting expanded focus areas including music, Bitcoin, and decentralized finance.
  • Revenue and Profit Growth:
    • FY21 Gross Profit: $4.42B, up 62% YoY; Adjusted EBITDA exceeded $1B.
    • Q4 Gross Profit: $1.18B, up 47% YoY; Adjusted EBITDA: $184M.
  • Cash App Ecosystem:
    • Q4 Cash App Gross Profit: $518M, up 37% YoY; 2-year CAGR of 90%.
    • Monthly Transacting Actives: 44M (up 22% YoY); Cash Card Actives: >13M (31% attach rate, up from 22% two years ago).
    • Inflows: $45B in Q4 — roughly $1,000 per active per month.
    • Cash App Card: Generated nearly $0.5B gross profit in 2021 — nearly 2x YoY.
    • ARPU: $47 gross profit per monthly active in Q4, up 13% YoY.
  • Square Ecosystem:
    • Q4 Gross Profit: $657M, up 54% YoY; 2-year CAGR 32%.

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Operator: Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Block Fourth Quarter 2021 Earnings Conference Call. I would now like to turn the call over to your host, Mr. Nikhil Dixit, Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir. Nikhil Dixit: Hi everyone. Thanks for joining our fourth quarter 2021 earnings call. We have Jack and Amrita with us today. We will begin this call with some short remarks before opening the call directly to your questions. During Q&A, we will take questions from our customers in addition to questions from conference call participants. We would also like to remind everyone that we will be making forward-looking statements on this call. Actual results could differ materially from those contemplated by our forward-looking statements. Reported results should not be considered as an indication of future performance. Please take a look at our filings with the SEC for a discussion of the factors that could cause our results to differ. Also note that the forward-looking statements on this call are based on information available to us as of today's date. We disclaim any obligation to update the forward-looking statements except as required by law. During this call, we will provide preliminary gross profit growth results for the month of January and February. These represent our gross profit growth results for January and our current estimate for February performance as we have not yet closed our accounting financials for the month of February and our mon

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