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GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc.

No Longer Reporting

The company has not filed an annual or quarterly report since its Q1 FY2020 10-Q, filed May 13, 2020. Its latest SEC filing is a 15-12B from Aug 10, 2020.

The sections below describe the company as of the FY2019 annual report.

What Did They Do?

Provides retail traders with online access to foreign exchange and other financial markets, and offers trade execution in futures and options on global exchanges.

How Did They Make Money?

Retail trading earns spreads and account fees on over-the-counter trades, as well as gains or losses on positions. The futures business earns commissions and fees when it executes customer trades.

FY2019 revenue

Who Were Their Customers?

Retail customers are mainly self-directed traders who use the company’s websites directly or come through introducing brokers and white-label partners. Futures customers may trade directly or be referred by introducing brokers.

Did Revenues Turn Into Profits?

Not on paper. It lost $60.8M in FY2019, but brought in more cash than it spent: $108.5M of free cash flow.

Operating income, FY2019
−27% of revenue
▼ Now a loss vs FY2018 ($50M, 14%)
Net income, FY2019
−28% of revenue
▼ Now a loss vs FY2018 ($92.9M, 27%)
Free cash flow, FY2019
49% of revenue
▲ Now profitable vs FY2018 (−$144M, −41%)

How Were They Changing?

Since the FY2019 annual report
Latest quarter: Q1 FY2020, the three months to Mar 31, 2020
Revenue
▲ +428%
vs $34.8M in Q1 FY2019
Net income
▲ Now profitable
vs −$28.4M in Q1 FY2019
  • Jul 31, 2020 StoneX completed its acquisition of GAIN GAIN became a wholly owned subsidiary, and each share of common stock was converted into the right to receive $6.00 in cash.

Shrank. Revenue fell 50% in 4 years, from $435.3M in FY2015 to $219.7M in FY2019, about 16% a year.

Institutional segment sale The older report included an institutional segment offering electronic access to spot and forward foreign exchange and precious metals; the latest describes retail and futures segments after the GTX ECN sale.

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