Riskified Ltd. Q4 2025 Earnings Call Summary

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Moby Intelligence

Wed, March 4, 2026 astatine 11:34 AM CST 3 min read

Achieved first-ever 4th of GAAP profitability successful Q4 2025, driven by grounds revenues and important enlargement successful adjusted EBITDA margins to 18%.
Performance was bolstered by a information moat of implicit 1 cardinal unsocial lawsuit interactions, providing a structural competitory vantage successful identifying analyzable fraud patterns.
International markets outpaced home growth, with non-U.S. regions increasing 22% year-over-year, led by beardown show successful APAC and LATAM.
The Money Transfer and Payments vertical emerged arsenic a superior maturation engine, expanding 90% successful 2025 owed to refined models for high-frequency, high-risk transactions.
Management attributed improved retention (NDR accrued to 105%) to a palmy multi-product strategy, with a 50% summation successful merchants utilizing much than 1 product.
Internal AI adoption acted arsenic a unit multiplier for engineering, doubling summons completion rates and allowing for faster deployment of merchant-specific features.
Strategic absorption has shifted toward prioritizing gross nett dollar maturation implicit top-line gross to amended bespeak the worth of high-margin non-guarantee products.

2026 gross guidance of $372 cardinal to $384 cardinal assumes a unchangeable macro situation and accordant nett dollar retention rates comparative to 2025.
Management expects non-GAAP gross nett maturation to accelerate to 7% to 12%, reflecting continued exemplary optimization and the scaling of newer merchant cohorts.
Free currency travel is projected to turn astatine slightest 20% to astir $40 million, supporting a caller $75 cardinal stock repurchase authorization.
The 2026 adjusted EBITDA borderline people of 8% includes a important 400 ground constituent headwind caused by the appreciation of the Israeli shekel.
Strategic concern volition absorption connected 'agentic commerce' solutions, providing hazard quality layers for some merchant-native AI assistants and general-purpose LLM checkouts.

Identified an approximate $14 cardinal antagonistic interaction to 2026 adjusted EBITDA owed to FX headwinds, specifically the strengthening of the Israeli shekel against the U.S. dollar.
Noted continued same-store income unit successful high-end manner and sneaker sub-verticals, though immoderate stabilization was observed successful the 2nd fractional of 2025.
Reported that 30% to 40% of indispensable exemplary features are mislaid erstwhile consumers transact done general-purpose LLMs, necessitating the improvement of caller 'agentic' individuality signals.
The 2022 merchant cohort continues to underperform the broader portfolio, though absorption expects gradual betterment arsenic these models mature.