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results for the three-month period ending on Dec. 31. Volumes, a measure of the amount of currency that customers are changing, were 26.4 billion pounds - slightly lower than in the previous three-month stretch. Spooked investors sent the shares down 6%.
Investors’ nerves are understandable. Even after the selloff, Wise trades at a punchy 44 times forward earnings according to Refinitiv data. And its gravity-defying shares have fared much better than financial-technology peers, arguably giving it further to fall in the event of a misstep. But there’s a reasonable explanation for the volume shrinkage. Co-founder Kristo Käärmann reckons sharp currency moves earlier in the year, such as a strong dollar, pushed customers to send more money across borders than usual, hoping to take advantage of favourable exchange rates. Volumes per retail customer indeed leapt to almost 4,000 pounds per quarter from April to September, before falling back to 3,500 pounds.
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