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Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-08-13

Orion Digital (ORIO) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Motley Fool
Image source: The Motley Fool. Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. ET Investor Relations - Craig Armitage Founder and Chief Executive Officer - David Marshall Feller President and Chief Financial Officer - Gregory Dean Feller Operator: Morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Orion Digital Second Quarter 26 Earnings Call. At this time, all lines are in a listen-only mode. Following the presentation, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. If at any time during this call you need assistance, please press 0 for the operator. This call is being recorded on Thursday, 08/06/2026. I would now like to turn the conference over to Craig Armitage, Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Craig Armitage: Thank you, Joanna, and good morning, everyone. Before we begin, I would like to cover a few brief items. Today's call will include forward looking statements based on current assumptions and subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. The Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements except as required by law. Additional information about these risks is included in Orion Digital's Q2 filings, and the periodic filings with Canadian and U. S. Regulators which you will find on SEDAR+, EDGAR, and on the Orion Investor Relations website. In addition, today's discussion will include certain non-IFRS or adjusted financial measures. These should be considered as a supplement to and not a substitute for IFRS results We have included reconciliations of these measures in the Q2 press release and other filings. With that, I will turn the call over to David Marshall Feller. David? David Marshall Feller: Thanks, Craig. I am joined today by our President and CFO, Gregory Dean Feller. Before I get into wealth, a word on the quarter: Consolidated adjusted EBITDA was $3.3 million up 115% sequentially and 70% year over year, with margins expanding to 19.5%. Gregory will cover the mechanics, but I want to talk about something the numbers do not fully capture. On July 27, we commercially launched intelligent investing. We are still early, and we expect to make a lot of improvements from here. But we are encouraged by what we are seeing so far. Intelligent investing pairs commission free investing with independent AI powered research and a structured system for how members make and track capital allocation decisions. Bu…Read full document

Image source: The Motley Fool. Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. ET Investor Relations - Craig Armitage Founder and Chief Executive Officer - David Marshall Feller President and Chief Financial Officer - Gregory Dean Feller Operator: Morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Orion Digital Second Quarter 26 Earnings Call. At this time, all lines are in a listen-only mode. Following the presentation, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. If at any time during this call you need assistance, please press 0 for the operator. This call is being recorded on Thursday, 08/06/2026. I would now like to turn the conference over to Craig Armitage, Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Craig Armitage: Thank you, Joanna, and good morning, everyone. Before we begin, I would like to cover a few brief items. Today's call will include forward looking statements based on current assumptions and subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. The Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements except as required by law. Additional information about these risks is included in Orion Digital's Q2 filings, and the periodic filings with Canadian and U. S. Regulators which you will find on SEDAR+, EDGAR, and on the Orion Investor Relations website. In addition, today's discussion will include certain non-IFRS or adjusted financial measures. These should be considered as a supplement to and not a substitute for IFRS results We have included reconciliations of these measures in the Q2 press release and other filings. With that, I will turn the call over to David Marshall Feller. David? David Marshall Feller: Thanks, Craig. I am joined today by our President and CFO, Gregory Dean Feller. Before I get into wealth, a word on the quarter: Consolidated adjusted EBITDA was $3.3 million up 115% sequentially and 70% year over year, with margins expanding to 19.5%. Gregory will cover the mechanics, but I want to talk about something the numbers do not fully capture. On July 27, we commercially launched intelligent investing. We are still early, and we expect to make a lot of improvements from here. But we are encouraged by what we are seeing so far. Intelligent investing pairs commission free investing with independent AI powered research and a structured system for how members make and track capital allocation decisions. Built on top of an established wealth business with the regulatory and operating foundation already in place. Here's the belief behind it. The retail investing industry promised democratization. Access, low cost, empowerment. What the economics of the category actually reward is activity. Because revenue follows transaction volume. that is not a claim about anyone's motives. it is what the incentive structure produces. We built something else. We are asset class neutral. Over time, subject to regulatory approval, we expect to support a broader range of instruments. What we are not neutral on is process. Every asset class on the platform gets the same discipline. Documented decisions, and performance measured against a benchmark over time. The instrument is not the problem, offering it with no record of the reasoning behind it is. That is rooted in a simple premise. Behavior is not a byproduct of information. it is a byproduct of environment. Give someone perfect information inside an activity driven environment and they will still behave accordingly. We want engagement, too, just pointed at research, patience, and reviewing decisions instead of trading activity. that is why the platform is calm rather than stimulating. Why members get full access to FinChat's professional research platform, and why we are building towards the decision architecture that asks investors to document the reasoning and revisit it later. Our thesis is that the platforms that win the next era will be the ones that can demonstrate performance, not the ones that win the most trading activity. And to be precise about what performance means, not a big year, which is often just risk or luck. But compounding over decades. that is the number that actually builds wealth. Looking forward, we expect model capability to keep improving. And over time, we believe AI becomes a meaningful part of how investors make better, more disciplined decisions. Not by replacing judgment, but by helping surface what actually drove good outcomes and what did not. That only works if the underlying system is capturing the right data now. The decisions, the reasoning, the context behind them. Structured well enough to eventually determine what drives good outcomes over time. That is a data-structure problem today and an intelligence layer we intend to build on top of it over time. We are building towards a capital allocation system with AI eventually as part of what makes it smarter and as more disciplined decisions run through it. Not a trading app with a feature bolted on. This is a commercializing off of a real business. $545 million in client assets, up 18% year over year. And $4.1 million in wealth revenue, up 14%. That foundation is what has let us commercialize without starting from zero. For the rest of the year, we will be putting the platform in front of more investors, testing what brings in the right ones, and building an acquisition model that earns the right to more growth capital. This is not a trading app. it is built for investors who want to improve their performance often because they are not happy with it today and who want to do the research and discipline professional allocators have always had. With that, I will pass it over to Gregory, who will take you through the quarter, the financials, and the outlook. Gregory Dean Feller: Thank you, David. I will now focus on the financial performance behind the quarter. How we are allocating capital and what investors should watch as we continue to execute the strategy our CEO outlined: Q2 was an important financial milestone for Orion. Adjusted EBITDA increased $3.3 million up 115% sequentially and 70% year over year. Adjusted EBITDA margin expanded to 19.5%, gross margin increased to 75% and we generated $1.3 million of operating income. The results demonstrate that Orion has meaningful earnings and cash generation while operating with a lower level of lending deployment. As we have made clear in our disclosures, this should not be viewed as a normalized quarterly run rate in the near term. Some of the improvements reflected lower customer acquisition costs, lower loan loss provisions, and lower funding requirements associated with reduced lending deployment. As we selectively increase lending originations, and continue investing behind marketing of intelligent investing, some of these costs will naturally increase during the second half. Key takeaway is that we strengthened the underlying economics of the business while establishing a more disciplined framework for deploying capital. Turning to revenue. Revenue was $16.9 million in the quarter, essentially unchanged from the prior year. Within the results, wealth revenue increased 14% to $4.1 million while assets under management in our consolidated wealth business increased 18% to $545.3 million. Important to distinguish those existing assets from the adoption of the newly launched intelligent investing experience. Our existing wealth business provides a regulatory, operating, and technology foundation for commercialization of intelligent investing. But to be clear, our total AUM includes both our intelligent investing platform and our legacy wealth business. Payments revenue was $2.4 million down 9% year over year primarily reflecting lower nonrecurring services revenue in the quarter. While European transaction volume of $2.8 billion was up slightly from the last quarter and stable year over year. Interest revenue declined 3%, reflecting the deliberate reduction in Mogo lending operations. We continue to accept the near-term revenue pressure from lowered lending revenue because we believe deploying additional lending capital below our return and liquidity requirements would create lower quality growth. Our objective is to build a more durable earnings base not simply maximize near-term revenue. The improvement in profitability reflected 3 primary factors: continued growth in wealth, lower lending acquisition costs and provisions and continued operating discipline across the business. Looking ahead, we expect the second half adjusted EBITDA to moderate from first half levels as lending originations gradually and as associated provisions normalize, and commercialization of investments for wealth increase. that is entirely consistent with our strategy. Our objective is not to maximize quarterly EBITDA, it is to invest where returns justify the capital while continuing to improve the long term cash generation. Turning to cash flow. Cash remains 1 of the most important ways we evaluate our performance. Cash provided by operating activities in the quarter was $2.7 million compared with $900 thousand in the prior year period. Core operating cash generation of $5.1 million. This supplemental measure is intended to show the cash generated by our operating business before growth investment in lending activity, and corporate finance activity. Excluding the $3 million nonrecurring receipt included in the prior year quarter, core operating cash generation increased by approximately $1.1 million or 29% During the quarter, we invested approximately $900 thousand in growth and platform development, and approximately $1.65 million into our loan portfolio. We also repaid approximately $1.6 million under the lending credit facility and just over $500 thousand of debentures. After these investing and financing activities together with share repurchases, total cash declined by approximately $500 thousand in the quarter to $25.1 million Our primary financial objective remains achieving sustainable consolidated cash flow after funding recurring growth investment, lending, capital requirements and corporate obligations. Now I want to talk about our capital allocation. Capital allocation is ultimately what ties the financial strategy together. Our first priorities are maintaining liquidity and meeting our obligations. From there, we evaluate every discretionary use of capital against expected returns, payback, downside risk and long term value creation. In lending, our current framework targets approximately 18 to 24 months for return. Total capital includes both the equity we are required to contribute on the lending facility and customer acquisition costs. This represents a higher investment standard than we have historically used. We will also increase originations only where expected net yields credit performance, acquisition costs and capital requirements satisfy those return thresholds. Growth on the lending portfolio is an output of qualifying economics. It is not the objective. At the quarter end, gross loan receivables were $75.4 million while the related lending credit facility was $49.8 million Additional investment in Intelligent Investing will be driven by demonstrated customer engagement, retention, funded account growth and customer economics. Carta is now positioned to fund its ordinary platform investment and growth internally. Lastly, share repurchases and debt reduction continue to compete for capital alongside internal investment opportunities. Turning to our outlook, we are not changing it from Q1 guidance. However, based on stronger than expected first half performance, we expect full year adjusted EBITDA to be at the upper end or exceed our previously communicated guidance range of $6 million to $7 million As investors assess our execution in the coming quarters, I would encourage them to focus on 3 areas: disciplined growth in the lending portfolio under our updated return framework measured commercialization progress in intelligent investing, and Carta continuing to operate as a financially self sustaining business. With that, operator, we are now happy to turn it over and take questions. Operator: Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now take questions from analysts. If you wish to ask a question, please press *, followed by 1. If you are using a speakerphone, please lift the handset before pressing any keys. We have no questions from analysts. I will turn the call back over to Gregory Dean Feller for closing comments. Gregory Dean Feller: Great. Thank you. Actually, before we do close, I did want to answer or address 1 question that we have understandably received from a number of investors, which relates to the NASDAQ notice. As we did disclose, we received a NASDAQ notice regarding the minimum bid price requirement, which was not unexpected given where the share price has been trading. As you know, we are also listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. That said, maintaining our Nasdaq listing is very important to us. And we have a defined compliance period And our primary focus is on executing the business and continuing to close what we believe is a meaningful disconnect between our operating performance and our market valuation. So with that, if there are no other questions, I think we will end the call. Thank you, everyone, again for joining, and we look forward to giving you an update for the next quarter. Thanks, everyone. Operator: Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes your conference call for today. We thank you for participating, and we ask that you please disconnect your lines. Before you buy stock in Orion Digital, consider this: The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the 10 best stocks for investors to buy now… and Orion Digital wasn’t one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. 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As with all our articles, The Motley Fool does not assume any responsibility for your use of this content, and we strongly encourage you to do your own research, including listening to the call yourself and reading the company's SEC filings. Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability. The Motley Fool has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. Orion Digital (ORIO) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript was originally published by The Motley Fool

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-08-09

Orion Digital Corp (ORIO) (Q2 2026) Earnings Call Highlights: Adjusted EBITDA Surges 115% ...

GuruFocus.com
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Adjusted EBITDA: $3.3 million, up 115% sequentially and 70% year over year. Adjusted EBITDA Margin: Expanded to 19.5%. Gross Margin: Increased to 75%. Operating Income: $1.3 million. Revenue: $16.9 million, essentially unchanged from the prior year. Wealth Revenue: Increased 14% to $4.1 million. Client Assets (Wealth): $545.3 million, up 18% year over year. Payments Revenue: $2.4 million, down 9% year over year. European Transaction Volume: $2.8 billion, up slightly from the last quarter and stable year over year. Interest Revenue: Declined 3%, reflecting reduced lending operations. Cash Provided by Operating Activities: $2.7 million, compared with $900,000 in the prior year period. Core Operating Cash Generation: $5.1 million, up approximately $1.1 million or 29% excluding a $3 million nonrecurring receipt. Growth and Platform Development Investment: Approximately $900,000. Loan Portfolio Investment: Approximately $1.65 million. Gross Loan Receivables: $75.4 million at quarter end. Lending Credit Facility: $49.8 million at quarter end. Total Cash: Declined by approximately $500,000 in the quarter to $25.1 million. Full Year Adjusted EBITDA Guidance: Expected to be at the upper end or exceed the previously communicated range of $6 million to $7 million. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 4 Warning Signs with ORIO. Is ORIO fairly valued? Test your thesis with our free DCF calculator. Release Date: August 06, 2026 For the complete transcript of the earnings call, please refer to the full earnings call transcript. Consolidated adjusted EBITDA surged 115% sequentially and 70% year-over-year to $3.3 million, with margins expanding to 19.5%. Wealth revenue grew 14% year-over-year to $4.1 million, supported by an 18% increase in client assets to $545.3 million. Gross margin improved to 75%, and operating income reached $1.3 million, demonstrating strong earnings capacity. Cash provided by operating activities rose to $2.7 million in Q2, up from $0.9 million in the prior year, with core operating cash generation up 29%. The company raised its full-year adjusted EBITDA guidance to the upper end or above the $6 million to $7 million range, reflecting stronger-than-expected first-half performance. Revenue remained essentially flat year-over-year at $16.9 million, with payments revenue down 9% and interest revenue down 3%. The comp…Read full document

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Adjusted EBITDA: $3.3 million, up 115% sequentially and 70% year over year. Adjusted EBITDA Margin: Expanded to 19.5%. Gross Margin: Increased to 75%. Operating Income: $1.3 million. Revenue: $16.9 million, essentially unchanged from the prior year. Wealth Revenue: Increased 14% to $4.1 million. Client Assets (Wealth): $545.3 million, up 18% year over year. Payments Revenue: $2.4 million, down 9% year over year. European Transaction Volume: $2.8 billion, up slightly from the last quarter and stable year over year. Interest Revenue: Declined 3%, reflecting reduced lending operations. Cash Provided by Operating Activities: $2.7 million, compared with $900,000 in the prior year period. Core Operating Cash Generation: $5.1 million, up approximately $1.1 million or 29% excluding a $3 million nonrecurring receipt. Growth and Platform Development Investment: Approximately $900,000. Loan Portfolio Investment: Approximately $1.65 million. Gross Loan Receivables: $75.4 million at quarter end. Lending Credit Facility: $49.8 million at quarter end. Total Cash: Declined by approximately $500,000 in the quarter to $25.1 million. Full Year Adjusted EBITDA Guidance: Expected to be at the upper end or exceed the previously communicated range of $6 million to $7 million. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 4 Warning Signs with ORIO. Is ORIO fairly valued? Test your thesis with our free DCF calculator. Release Date: August 06, 2026 For the complete transcript of the earnings call, please refer to the full earnings call transcript. Consolidated adjusted EBITDA surged 115% sequentially and 70% year-over-year to $3.3 million, with margins expanding to 19.5%. Wealth revenue grew 14% year-over-year to $4.1 million, supported by an 18% increase in client assets to $545.3 million. Gross margin improved to 75%, and operating income reached $1.3 million, demonstrating strong earnings capacity. Cash provided by operating activities rose to $2.7 million in Q2, up from $0.9 million in the prior year, with core operating cash generation up 29%. The company raised its full-year adjusted EBITDA guidance to the upper end or above the $6 million to $7 million range, reflecting stronger-than-expected first-half performance. Revenue remained essentially flat year-over-year at $16.9 million, with payments revenue down 9% and interest revenue down 3%. The company expects second-half adjusted EBITDA to moderate as lending originations increase and commercialization investments for Wealth rise. Total cash declined by approximately $500,000 in the quarter to $25.1 million after investing and financing activities. The company received a Nasdaq notice regarding the minimum bid price requirement, highlighting a disconnect between operating performance and market valuation. Near-term profitability improvements were partly due to lower customer acquisition costs and loan loss provisions, which are not expected to be a normalized run rate. Q: What is the significance of the Intelligent Investing launch, and how does it differentiate Orion Digital from traditional trading platforms? A: David Feller, Chairman and CEO, highlighted the commercial launch of Intelligent Investing on July 27, which pairs commission-free investing with independent AI-powered research and a structured system for tracking capital allocation decisions. He emphasized that the platform is asset-class neutral and focuses on process discipline, aiming to shift the industry's incentive structure away from trading activity toward research, patience, and performance. The thesis is that platforms demonstrating long-term compounding performance will win the next era, not those maximizing transaction volume. Q: How did Orion Digital's Q2 2026 financial performance compare to expectations, and what drove the improvements? A: Gregory Feller, President and CFO, reported adjusted EBITDA of $3.3 million, up 115% sequentially and 70% year-over-year, with margins expanding to 19.5%. The improvements were driven by continued growth in Wealth, lower lending acquisition costs and provisions, and operating discipline. However, he cautioned that this should not be viewed as a normalized run rate, as costs will increase in the second half with selective lending growth and marketing investments for Intelligent Investing. Q: What is the company's updated capital allocation framework for its lending business? A: Gregory Feller explained that the new framework targets an 18- to 24-month return on total capital, including equity contributions and customer acquisition costs. This represents a higher investment standard than historically used. Growth in the lending portfolio is now an output of qualifying economics, not the objective, and originations will only increase where expected net yields, credit performance, and capital requirements satisfy these thresholds. Q: What is the outlook for the full year 2026, and what areas should investors focus on? A: The company maintained its Q1 guidance but expects full-year adjusted EBITDA to be at the upper end or exceed the $6 million to $7 million range due to stronger-than-expected first-half performance. Gregory Feller advised investors to focus on three areas: disciplined growth in the lending portfolio under the updated return framework, measured commercialization progress in Intelligent Investing, and Carta's continued operation as a financially self-sustaining business. Q: How did the company address the Nasdaq minimum bid price notice? A: Gregory Feller acknowledged the receipt of a Nasdaq notice regarding the minimum bid price requirement, which was not unexpected given the share price. He emphasized that maintaining the Nasdaq listing is very important, and the company has a defined compliance period. The primary focus is on executing the business and closing the disconnect between operating performance and market valuation. Q: What were the key revenue drivers and challenges in Q2 2026? A: Total revenue was $16.9 million, essentially unchanged year-over-year. Wealth revenue increased 14% to $4.1 million, with AUM up 18% to $545.3 million. Payments revenue declined 9% to $2.4 million due to lower nonrecurring services revenue, while interest revenue fell 3% due to the deliberate reduction in lending operations. The company accepted near-term revenue pressure to build a more durable earnings base. Q: How is the company managing cash flow and capital allocation priorities? A: Cash provided by operating activities was $2.7 million in Q2, up from $900,000 in the prior year. Core operating cash generation was $5.1 million, up 29% excluding a nonrecurring receipt. The company invested approximately $900,000 in growth and platform development and $1.65 million into the loan portfolio, while repaying debt. The primary financial objective is achieving sustainable consolidated cash flow after funding growth investments, lending capital, and corporate obligations. Q: What is the strategic importance of the data structure behind Intelligent Investing? A: David Feller emphasized that the platform is built to capture structured data on decisions, reasoning, and context, which will enable an AI intelligence layer over time. He noted that this is a data structure problem today, and the goal is to build a capital allocation system where AI helps surface what drives good outcomes, rather than a trading app with a feature bolted on. This long-term approach is intended to improve investor discipline and performance. For the complete transcript of the earnings call, please refer to the full earnings call transcript.

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-08-06

Orion Digital Reports Q2 2026 Results: Adjusted EBITDA of $3.3 Million, Up 115% Sequentially, and Wealth AUM Growth of 18%

Business Wire
Adjusted EBITDA Increased 115% Sequentially and 70% Year-over-Year Adjusted EBITDA Margin Expanded to 19.5% from 9.1% in Q1 Core Operating Cash Generation of $5.1 Million Wealth AUM Increased 18% Year-over-Year to $545.3 Million Wealth Revenue Increased 14% Year-over-Year to $4.1 Million Orion Digital reports in Canadian dollars and in accordance with IFRS. VANCOUVER, British Columbia, August 06, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Orion Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: ORIO; TSX: ORIO) ("Orion Digital" or the "Company") today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2026. Orion Digital operates established businesses across Canadian wealth, European payments infrastructure and Canadian consumer finance. Intelligent Investing is the Company’s principal area of growth investment; Carta provides an established European payments platform from which to pursue self-funded commercial opportunities; and Mogo lending is managed to generate risk-adjusted returns and cash through disciplined capital deployment. Management allocates capital among these businesses based on expected returns, capital efficiency and liquidity requirements. Q2 2026 marked an important milestone in Orion Digital’s evolution. The Company demonstrated improved earnings and cash generation at a lower level of Mogo lending deployment, commercially launched Intelligent Investing subsequent to quarter-end and continued executing across Carta Worldwide. Total revenue was $16.9 million compared with $17.0 million in Q2 2025, as growth in Wealth partially offset lower Payments and interest revenue following the reduction in Mogo lending originations communicated last quarter. Wealth revenue increased 14% year-over-year, Wealth assets under management increased 18% to $545.3 million, and Wealth and Payments together represented 38% of total revenue compared with 36% in the prior-year quarter. Gross profit increased to $12.6 million from $12.2 million, while gross margin expanded to 75% from 72%. The increase primarily reflected lower loan-loss provisions and transaction costs associated with reduced lending deployment, together with continued Wealth revenue growth. Adjusted EBITDA1 increased 115% sequentially and 70% year-over-year to $3.3 million, near the top of the Company’s previously announced guidance range of $2.5 million to $3.5 million. Adjusted EBITDA margin expanded to 19.5% from 9.1% in Q…Read full document

Adjusted EBITDA Increased 115% Sequentially and 70% Year-over-Year Adjusted EBITDA Margin Expanded to 19.5% from 9.1% in Q1 Core Operating Cash Generation of $5.1 Million Wealth AUM Increased 18% Year-over-Year to $545.3 Million Wealth Revenue Increased 14% Year-over-Year to $4.1 Million Orion Digital reports in Canadian dollars and in accordance with IFRS. VANCOUVER, British Columbia, August 06, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Orion Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: ORIO; TSX: ORIO) ("Orion Digital" or the "Company") today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2026. Orion Digital operates established businesses across Canadian wealth, European payments infrastructure and Canadian consumer finance. Intelligent Investing is the Company’s principal area of growth investment; Carta provides an established European payments platform from which to pursue self-funded commercial opportunities; and Mogo lending is managed to generate risk-adjusted returns and cash through disciplined capital deployment. Management allocates capital among these businesses based on expected returns, capital efficiency and liquidity requirements. Q2 2026 marked an important milestone in Orion Digital’s evolution. The Company demonstrated improved earnings and cash generation at a lower level of Mogo lending deployment, commercially launched Intelligent Investing subsequent to quarter-end and continued executing across Carta Worldwide. Total revenue was $16.9 million compared with $17.0 million in Q2 2025, as growth in Wealth partially offset lower Payments and interest revenue following the reduction in Mogo lending originations communicated last quarter. Wealth revenue increased 14% year-over-year, Wealth assets under management increased 18% to $545.3 million, and Wealth and Payments together represented 38% of total revenue compared with 36% in the prior-year quarter. Gross profit increased to $12.6 million from $12.2 million, while gross margin expanded to 75% from 72%. The increase primarily reflected lower loan-loss provisions and transaction costs associated with reduced lending deployment, together with continued Wealth revenue growth. Adjusted EBITDA1 increased 115% sequentially and 70% year-over-year to $3.3 million, near the top of the Company’s previously announced guidance range of $2.5 million to $3.5 million. Adjusted EBITDA margin expanded to 19.5% from 9.1% in Q1 2026 and the Company generated operating income of $1.3 million. Cash provided by operating activities1 was $2.7 million during Q2 2026, compared with $0.9 million in Q2 2025. Core operating cash generation1, a supplemental measure management uses to assess cash generated by Orion Digital’s operating businesses before capital deployment and corporate financing activities, was $5.1 million. Q2 2025 included a $3.0 million non-recurring cash receipt. Excluding that receipt, core operating cash generation increased by approximately $1.1 million, or 29%, year-over-year. Although Q2 demonstrated the earnings and cash-generation capacity of the business at a lower level of lending deployment, management does not view the quarter as a normalized run rate. Second-half Adjusted EBITDA is expected to be lower than the first half as lending deployment gradually increases, associated loan-loss provisions increase, and the marketing investment expands following the commercial launch of Intelligent Investing. Adjusted net income1 was $1.1 million, or $0.04 per share, compared with an adjusted net loss of $0.4 million, or ($0.02) per share, in the prior-year quarter. Net loss was $0.7 million compared with net income of $13.5 million in Q2 2025. The prior-year result included a significant non-operating revaluation gain. Q2 2026 KPI Scorecard Management Commentary David Feller, Founder and CEO "Wealth assets under management reached $545 million and Wealth revenue increased 14%. Subsequent to quarter-end, we commercially launched Intelligent Investing, beginning the platform’s commercialization phase." "We believe increasingly abundant research and information are increasing the importance of disciplined investment decision-making. Intelligent Investing is organized around the investment decision and is designed to help members research, document, benchmark and review their investment decisions over time. Our focus now is to introduce the platform to a broader group of investors, evaluate customer engagement and retention, continuously improve the platform and build an effective customer-acquisition model before increasing investment." "Intelligent Investing is being commercialized from an established Canadian wealth business, providing the regulatory, operating and technology foundation for commercialization. We intend to allocate additional capital based on demonstrated customer use and long-term customer economics." Greg Feller, President and CFO "Adjusted EBITDA more than doubled sequentially to $3.3 million, increasing 115% from Q1 and 70% year-over-year, while Adjusted EBITDA margin expanded to 19.5%. The result was near the top of our guidance range and reflected lower lending deployment, reduced acquisition spending and provisions, continued Wealth growth and operating-cost management." "Cash provided by operating activities was $2.7 million, while core operating cash generation was $5.1 million. Excluding the $3.0 million non-recurring receipt in the prior-year quarter, core operating cash generation increased by approximately $1.1 million, or 29%. While Q2 should not be viewed as a normalized run rate, it demonstrated our ability to generate meaningful earnings and operating cash while preserving financial flexibility." "Total revenue was $16.9 million compared with $17.0 million a year ago. We are prepared to accept near-term revenue pressure rather than deploy lending capital below our return, payback or liquidity thresholds." Wealth Platform — Intelligent Investing Intelligent Investing is Orion Digital’s Canadian wealth business, designed to help investors improve the quality and consistency of their investment decisions through commission-free investing, independent AI-powered research and a structured capital-allocation system. The platform is organized around the investment decision and is designed to help investors document investment theses, benchmark performance, review outcomes and improve decision quality over time. On July 27, 2026, subsequent to quarter-end, the Company commercially launched Intelligent Investing, beginning the Company’s commercialization phase. During the remainder of 2026, the Company intends to introduce the platform to a broader group of investors, evaluate customer engagement and member retention, continuously improve the product and allocate additional capital based on demonstrated customer use and long-term customer economics. Wealth is currently the Company’s principal area of growth investment. Payments Platform — Carta Worldwide Carta provides payments infrastructure supporting payment programs processing more than $11 billion of annual payment volume and reaching more than five million end users across Europe through its clients. European transaction volume was $2.8 billion in Q2 2026, consistent with the prior-year period. For the first six months of 2026, European transaction volume was $5.5 billion, an increase of 6% year-over-year. Payments revenue was $2.4 million, a decrease of 9% from Q2 2025, primarily reflecting lower non-recurring services revenue compared with the prior-year period. Mogo Lending — Return-Based Capital Deployment Mogo is Orion Digital’s established Canadian consumer finance business, with more than two decades of operating history and underwriting experience. During Q2, the Company reduced originations as previously announced. The lower deployment level reduced customer-acquisition costs, incremental loan-loss provisions and associated funding requirements, contributing to the stronger earnings and cash-generation profile during the quarter. The reduced deployment also provided management with additional portfolio-performance data and reinforced the Company’s focus on capital efficiency and expected returns rather than origination growth. Gross loans receivable declined to $75.4 million at June 30, 2026 from $77.9 million at March 31, 2026. The related lending credit facility declined to $49.8 million from $51.4 million. Net corporate capital used by the lending portfolio4 was $3.3 million during Q2, compared with $4.5 million in the prior-year quarter. This supplemental measure combines changes in loans receivable with net advances from, or repayments to, the credit facility that directly funds the lending portfolio. The Company expects to increase originations gradually as credit performance, customer-acquisition costs and expected capital payback meet management’s return and liquidity thresholds. Future deployment will continue to be governed by expected lifetime returns, capital payback objectives, credit performance, acquisition costs and liquidity requirements rather than predetermined volume targets. Cash Generation and Capital Allocation Core operating cash generation is a supplemental measure used to assess cash generated by Orion Digital’s operating businesses before growth investment, lending deployment and corporate financing activities. During the quarter, the Company invested $0.9 million in growth and platform development3 and deployed $3.3 million of net corporate capital used by the lending portfolio. After portfolio investments and monetizations5, corporate financing and shareholder capital allocation activates6 (including share repurchases), cash decreased by approximately $0.5 million to $23.3 million. Core operating cash generation and the related capital-allocation measures are supplemental measures used by management to evaluate how cash is generated and deployed. Detailed definitions and reconciliations to the consolidated statement of cash flows are included in the Company’s MD&A for the three and six months ended June 30, 2026. Management evaluates material uses of capital based on expected returns, capital efficiency, payback, liquidity requirements, downside risk and long-term per-share value. Liquidity At June 30, 2026, Orion Digital held: cash of $23.3 million; restricted cash of $1.8 million; marketable securities of $4.2 million; and an investment portfolio of $5.6 million. Cash and restricted cash totaled $25.1 million, an increase of $4.9 million, or 24%, from $20.2 million at December 31, 2025. Total cash, restricted cash, marketable securities and investments were $34.8 million at June 30, 2026. The Company’s reported debt includes both corporate obligations and the lending credit facility that directly finances its consumer loan portfolio. At June 30, 2026, the lending credit facility was $49.8 million compared with gross loans receivable of $75.4 million. Management evaluates portfolio funding separately from corporate obligations when assessing liquidity and leverage, while recognizing the facility’s credit-performance, covenant and liquidity risks. The Company intends to maintain sufficient liquidity to meet corporate obligations and fund lending commitments while investing selectively in Intelligent Investing and Carta, gradually increasing Mogo lending deployment where expected returns meet established thresholds and pursuing share repurchases when management believes they represent an attractive use of capital. During Q2, the Company repurchased 113,628 common shares at an average price of $1.32 per share. As of June 30, 2026, Orion Digital had repurchased a total of 1,829,537 common shares since June 2022. 2026 Outlook The outlook that follows constitutes forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities laws and is based on assumptions and subject to risks. Actual results could vary materially as a result of numerous factors, including risk factors beyond Orion Digital’s control. Management expects to continue executing its capital allocation framework throughout the remainder of 2026, balancing profitability, liquidity and long-term growth opportunities across its Lending, Wealth and Payments businesses. Following the commercial launch of Intelligent Investing in July 2026, management's focus has shifted from product development to commercialization. During the remainder of 2026, the Company intends to introduce the platform to a broader group of investors, learn from how customers use it, continuously enhance the platform and allocate additional capital based on customer engagement, member retention and long-term customer economics. Management believes long-term success will be driven less by initial customer acquisition and more by building a platform that members actively use, continue to subscribe to and incorporate into their investing process over time. We expect to continue investing selectively in Carta while expanding the platform's capabilities. Carta's existing infrastructure gives us a foundation to add capabilities over time, including in stablecoin-enabled payments, and we will invest in those opportunities where the expected returns meet our capital allocation criteria. Following the deliberate reduction in Mogo’s lending deployment during the first half of 2026, management expects to gradually increase lending deployment while continuing to evaluate new originations against expected risk-adjusted returns, capital payback objectives, liquidity requirements and overall capital allocation priorities. Consistent with the guidance outlined earlier this year, management currently expects Adjusted EBITDA7 during the second half of 2026 to be lower than the first half as we ramp up origination volume again and increase marketing investment following the commercial launch of Intelligent Investing. Management does not view the second quarter as establishing a new earnings run rate, but rather as demonstrating the underlying earnings and cash-generation capacity of the business under the Company's current capital allocation framework. Based on the Company's stronger-than-expected operating performance during the first half of 2026, management believes Orion is well positioned relative to its previously communicated full-year Adjusted EBITDA7 guidance of $6.0 million to $7.0 million. While second-half Adjusted EBITDA7 is expected to moderate as the Company increases investment in future growth, management currently expects full-year Adjusted EBITDA7 to trend toward the upper end of, and potentially exceed, its previously communicated guidance range. Management also continues to expect consolidated revenue for 2026 to be modestly lower than 2025. Conference Call & Webcast Orion Digital will host a conference call to discuss its Q2 2026 financial results today, Thursday, August 6, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. ET. The call will be hosted by David Feller, Founder and CEO, and Greg Feller, President and CFO. To participate in the call, dial (289) 514-5100 or (800) 717-1738 (International) using conference ID: 67332. The webcast can be accessed at orion-digital.com/events. Listeners should access the webcast or call 10-15 minutes before the start time to ensure they are connected. A replay is available at (289) 819-1325 or (888) 660-6264 until August 13, 2026; Playback code 67332#. Non-IFRS Financial Measures This press release makes reference to certain non‑IFRS financial measures. These measures are not recognized measures under IFRS, do not have a standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS and are therefore unlikely to be comparable to similar measures presented by other companies. These measures are provided as additional information to complement the IFRS financial measures contained herein by providing further metrics to understand the Company’s results of operations from management’s perspective. Accordingly, they should not be considered in isolation nor as a substitute for analysis of our financial information reported under IFRS. We use non‑IFRS financial measures, including adjusted revenue, adjusted subscription and services revenue, adjusted payments revenue, adjusted other subscription and services revenue, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net income (loss), core operating cash generation and cash provided by (used in) operating activities before investment in gross loans receivable, to provide investors with supplemental measures of our operating performance and thus highlight trends in our core business that may not otherwise be apparent when relying solely on IFRS financial measures. We also use non‑IFRS financial measures in order to facilitate operating performance comparisons from period to period, prepare annual operating budgets and assess our ability to meet our capital expenditure and working capital requirements. For more information, please see "Non-IFRS Financial Measures" in our Management’s Discussion and Analysis for the period ended June 30, 2026, which is available at www.sedarplus.com and at www.sec.gov. The following tables present a reconciliation of each non-IFRS financial measure to the most comparable IFRS financial measure. Adjusted EBITDA Adjusted net income (loss) Cash provided by (used in) operations before Investment in gross loans receivable Forward-Looking Statements This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of applicable securities legislation, including statements regarding the Company’s capital allocation strategy, Orion Digital’s strategic initiatives including in respect of its wealth management and payments platforms and financial outlook for 2026. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words such as "may", "will", "could", "would", "anticipate", "believe", "expect", "intend", "potential", "estimate", "budget", "scheduled", "plans", "planned", "forecasts", "goals" and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are necessarily based upon a number of estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by management at the time of preparation, are inherently subject to significant business, economic and competitive uncertainties and contingencies, and may prove to be incorrect. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual financial results, performance or achievements to be materially different from the estimated future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by those forward-looking statements and the forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance. Orion Digital’s growth, its ability to expand into new products and markets and its expectations for its future financial performance are subject to a number of conditions, many of which are outside of Orion Digital’s control, including the receipt of any required regulatory approval. For a description of the risks associated with Orion Digital’s business please refer to the "Risk Factors" section of Orion Digital’s current annual information form, which is available at www.sedarplus.com and www.sec.gov. Except as required by law, Orion Digital disclaims any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, events or otherwise. About Orion Digital Orion Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: ORIO; TSX: ORIO) is an established financial technology company operating three businesses: Intelligent Investing, its Canadian wealth platform; Carta Worldwide, its European payments infrastructure platform; and Mogo, its Canadian consumer finance business. Intelligent Investing is focused on helping investors improve the quality and consistency of their investment decisions through commission-free investing, independent AI-powered research and a structured capital-allocation system. Intelligent Investing is commercializing from an established Canadian wealth business administering more than $545 million in client assets. Carta provides payments infrastructure supporting programs that process more than $11 billion of annual payment volume and reach more than five million end users across Europe through its clients. Mogo is an established Canadian consumer finance platform managed to generate cash and long-term economic returns through disciplined, return-based capital deployment. Orion Digital allocates capital across its businesses based on expected returns, capital efficiency and liquidity requirements. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260806055972/en/ Contacts Investor [email protected] US Investor Relations ContactLytham Partners, LLCBen ShamsianNew York | [email protected] (646) 829-9701

TranscriptFY2026 Q22026-08-06

FY2026 Q2 earnings call transcript

Earnings source - 18 paragraphs
Operator

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Orion Digital second quarter 2026 earnings call. At this time, all lines are in a listen-only mode. Following the presentation, we will conduct a question and answer session. If at any time during this call you need assistance, please press star zero for the operator. This call is being recorded on Thursday, August 6, 2026. I would now like to turn the conference over to Craig Armitage in Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Craig Armitage

Thank you, Joanna, and good morning, everyone. Before we begin, I'd like to cover a few brief items. Today's call will include forward-looking statements based on current assumptions and subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. The company undertakes no obligation to update these statements except as required by law. Additional information about these risks is included in Orion Digital's Q2 filings and the periodic filings with Canadian and U.S. regulators, which you'll find on SEDAR+, EDGAR, and on the Orion Investor Relations website. In addition, today's discussion will include certain non-IFRS or Adjusted financial measures. These should be considered as a supplement to, and not a substitute for, IFRS results. We've included reconciliations of these measures in the Q2 press release and other filings. With that, I'll turn the call over to Dave Feller. Dave?

Dave Feller

Thanks, Craig. I'm joined today by our President and CFO, Greg Feller. Before I get into Wealth, a word on the quarter. Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA was CAD 3.3 million, up 115% sequentially and 70% year-over-year, with margins expanding to 19.5%. Greg will cover the mechanics. I want to talk about something the numbers don't fully capture. On July 27th, we commercially launched Intelligent Investing. We're still early, and we expect to make a lot of improvements from here, but we're encouraged by what we're seeing so far. Intelligent Investing pairs commission-free investing with independent AI-powered research and a structured system for how members make and track capital allocation decisions. Built on top of an established wealth business with the regulatory and operating foundation already in place. Here's the belief behind it. The retail investing industry promised democratization, access, low cost, empowerment.

Dave Feller

What the economics of the category actually reward is activity, because revenue follows transaction volume. That's not a claim about anyone's motives. It's what the incentive structure produces. We built something else. We're asset class neutral. Over time, subject to regulatory approval, we expect to support a broader range of instruments. What we're not neutral on is process. Every asset class on the platform gets the same discipline, documented decisions, and a performance measured against a benchmark over time. The instrument isn't the problem. Offering it with no record of the reasoning behind it is. That's rooted in a simple premise. Behavior isn't a byproduct of information. It's a byproduct of environment. Give someone perfect information inside an activity-driven environment, and they'll still behave accordingly. We want engagement, too, just pointed at research, patience, and reviewing decisions instead of trading activity.

Dave Feller

That's why the platform is calm rather than stimulating, why members get full access to FinChat AI's professional research platform, and why we're building towards a decision architecture that asks investors to document their reasoning and revisit it later. Our thesis, the platforms that win the next era will be the ones that can demonstrate performance, not the ones that win the most trading activity. To be precise about what performance means, not a big year, which is often just risk or luck, but compounding rate over decades. That's the number that actually builds wealth. Looking forward, we expect model capability to keep improving, and over time, we believe AI becomes a meaningful part of how investors make better, more disciplined decisions. Not by replacing judgment, but by helping surface what actually drove good outcomes and what didn't.

Dave Feller

That only works if the underlying system is capturing the right data now, the decisions, the reasoning, the context behind them, structured well enough to eventually determine what drives good outcomes over time. That is a data structure problem today and an intelligence layer we intend to build on top of it over time. We're building towards a capital allocation system with AI eventually as part of what makes it smarter and its more disciplined decisions run through it. Not a trading app with a feature bolted on. This is a commercializing of a real business, CAD 545 million in client assets, up 18% year-over-year, and CAD 4.1 million in Wealth revenue, up 14%. That foundation is what's led us commercialized without starting from zero.

Dave Feller

For the rest of the year, we'll be putting the platform in front of more investors, testing what message brings in the right ones, and building an acquisition model that earns the right to more growth capital. This isn't a trading app. It's built for investors who want to improve their performance, often because they're not happy with it today and who want to do the research and discipline professional allocators have always had. With that, I will pass it over to Greg, who will take you through Carta, the financials, and the outlook.

Greg Feller

Thank you, Dave. I will now focus on the financial performance behind the quarter, how we're allocating capital, and what investors should watch as we continue executing the strategy our CEO outlined. Q2 was an important financial milestone for Orion. Adjusted EBITDA increased CAD 3.3 million, up 115% sequentially and 70% year-over-year. Adjusted EBITDA margin expanded to 19.5%, gross margin increased to 75%, and we generated CAD 1.3 million of operating income. The results demonstrate that Orion has meaningful earnings and cash generation capacity while operating with a lower level of lending deployment. As we made clear in our disclosures, this should not be viewed as a normalized quarterly run rate in the near term. Some of the improvements reflected lower customer acquisition costs, lower loan loss provisions, and lower funding requirements associated with reduced lending deployment.

Craig Armitage

As we selectively increase lending originations and continue investing behind marketing Intelligent Investing, some of these costs will naturally increase during the second half.

Greg Feller

Key takeaway is that we've strengthened the underlying economics of the business while established a more disciplined framework for deploying capital. Turning to revenue. Revenue was CAD 16.9 million in the quarter, essentially unchanged from the prior year. Within the results, wealth revenue increased 14% to CAD 4.1 million, while assets under management in our consolidated wealth business increased 18% to CAD 545.3 million. It's important to distinguish those existing assets from adoption of the newly launched Intelligent Investing experience. Our existing wealth business provides a regulatory operating and technology foundation for commercialization of Intelligent Investing. To be clear, our total AUM includes both our Intelligent Investing platform and our legacy wealth business. Payments revenue is CAD 2.4 million, down 9% year-over-year, primarily reflecting lower non-recurring services revenue in the quarter.

Greg Feller

European transaction volume of CAD 2.8 billion was up slightly from the last quarter and stable year-over-year. Interest revenue declined 3%, reflecting the deliberate reduction in Mogo lending operations. We continue to accept the near-term revenue pressure from lower lending revenue because we believe deploying additional lending capital below our return and liquidity requirements would create lower quality growth. Our objective is to build a more durable earnings base, not simply maximize near-term revenue. The improvement of profitability reflected three primary factors: continued growth in wealth, lower lending acquisition costs and provisions, and continued operating discipline across the business. Looking ahead, we expect second half Adjusted EBITDA to moderate from first half levels as lending originations gradually increase, associated provisions normalize, and commercialization of investments for wealth increase. That's entirely consistent with our strategy. Our objective isn't to maximize core EBITDA.

Greg Feller

It's to invest where returns justify the capital while continuing to improve the long-term cash generation. Turning to cash flow. Cash flow remains one of the most important ways we evaluate our performance. Cash provided by operating activities in the quarter was CAD 2.7 million, compared with CAD 900,000 in the prior year period. Core operating cash generation of CAD 5.1 million. This supplemental measure is intended to show the cash generated by our operating businesses before growth, investment, lending activity, and corporate finance activities. Excluding the CAD 3 million non-recurring receipt included in the prior year quarter, core operating cash generations increased by approximately CAD 1.1 million or 29%. During the quarter, we invested approximately CAD 900,000 in growth and platform development and approximately CAD 1.65 million into our loan portfolio.

Greg Feller

We also repaid approximately CAD 1.6 million under the lending credit facility and just over half a million of debentures. After these investing financing activities, together with share repurchases, total cash declined by approximately CAD 500,000 in the quarter to CAD 25.1 million. Our primary financial objective remains achieving sustainable consolidated cash flow after funding recurring growth investment, lending capital requirements, and corporate obligations. I want to talk about our capital allocation. Capital allocation is ultimately what ties the financial strategy together. Our first priorities are maintaining liquidity and meeting our obligations. From there, we evaluate every discretionary use of capital against expected returns, pay back downside risk, and long-term value creation. In lending, our current framework targets approximately 18-24 months for return. Total capital includes both the equity we require to contribute on the lending facility and customer acquisition costs.

Greg Feller

This represents a higher investment standard than we have historically used. We will also increase originations only where expected net yields, credit performance, acquisition costs, and capital requirements satisfy those return thresholds. Growth in the lending portfolio is an output of qualifying economics. It is not the objective. At the quarter end, growth loan receivables were CAD 75.4 million, while the related lending credit facility was CAD 49.8 million. Additional investment in Intelligent Investing will be driven by demonstrated customer engagement, retention, funded account growth, and customer economics. Carta is now positioned to fund its ordinary platform investment and growth internally. Share repurchases and debt reduction continue to compete for capital alongside internal investment opportunities. Turning to our outlook, we are not changing it from Q1 guidance.

Greg Feller

Based on stronger than expected first half performance, we expect full year Adjusted EBITDA to be at the upper end or exceed our previously communicated guidance range of CAD 6 million-CAD 7 million. As investors assess our execution of the coming quarters, I would encourage them to focus on three areas: disciplined growth in lending portfolio under our updated return framework, measured commercialization progress in Intelligent Investing, and Carta is continuing to operate as a financially self-sustaining business. With that, operator, we are now happy to turn it over and take questions.

Operator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now take questions from analysts. Should you have a question, please press the star followed by the one on your touchtone phone. If you wish to decline from the polling process, please press star followed by the two. If you are using a speakerphone, please lift the handset before pressing any keys. We have no questions from analysts. I will turn the call back over to Greg Feller for closing comments.

Greg Feller

Great. Thank you. Actually, before we do close, I did want to answer or address one question that we've understandably received from a number of investors, which relates to the Nasdaq notice. As we did disclose, we received a Nasdaq notice regarding the minimum bid price requirement, which was not unexpected given where the share price has been trading. As you know, we're also listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. That said, maintaining our Nasdaq listing is very important to us. We have a defined compliance period, and our primary focus is on executing the business and continuing to close what we believe is a meaningful disconnect between our operating performance and our market valuation. With that, if there's no other questions, I think we'll end the call. Thank you everyone again for joining, and look forward to giving you update for the next quarter. Thanks, everyone.

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes your conference call for today. We thank you for participating, and we ask that you please disconnect your lines.

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-08-04

Orion Digital to Announce Q2 2026 Financial Results August 6, 2026

Business Wire

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, August 04, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Orion Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: ORIO; TSX: ORIO) ("Orion Digital" or the "Company") today announced it will hold a conference call and webcast to discuss its Q2 2026 financial results on Thursday, August 6, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. ET. The call will be hosted by David Feller, Orion Digital's Founder & CEO, and Greg Feller, President & CFO. The Company will issue its financial results prior to market open on August 6. CONFERENCE CALL DETAILS: About Orion Digital Corp.Orion Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: ORIO; TSX: ORIO) operates digital wealth and payments infrastructure platforms generating recurring subscription and services revenue. Its Intelligent Investing platform provides digital wealth management solutions in Canada, and its wholly owned subsidiary Carta Worldwide provides issuer processing and payments infrastructure across Europe. The Company also operates a consumer lending business with over 20 years of operating history that generates cash flow and is managed with a focus on stability and risk control. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260804152105/en/ Contacts Investor [email protected] US Investor Relations ContactLytham Partners, LLCBen ShamsianNew York | [email protected] (646) 829-9701

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-06-23

Orion Digital Announces Results of its Annual General Meeting of Shareholders

Business Wire

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 23, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The annual general meeting of shareholders (the "Meeting") of Orion Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: ORIO) (TSX: ORIO) ("Orion Digital" or the "Company"), was held today via live audiocast online and the Company is pleased to announce that all resolutions put forward, being the election of directors and the appointment of the auditors of the Company, were approved. Each of the matters voted upon at the Meeting is discussed in detail in the Company’s management information circular dated May 22, 2026 (the "Circular"), which can be found under the Company’s profile on SEDAR+ (www.sedarplus.ca) and EDGAR (www.sec.gov). The total number of votes cast by shareholders by proxy or online at the Meeting was 7,698,984 votes, representing 32.22% of the Company's outstanding shares as at May 11, 2026. The voting results are detailed below. Election of Directors The nominees listed in the Circular were elected as directors of Orion Digital. Detailed results of the vote are as follows: Appointment of Auditor MNP LLP was re-appointed as auditor of the Company until the next annual general meeting of shareholders of the Company at remuneration to be fixed by the Company's board of directors. Detailed results of the vote are as follows: The Company has filed a report of voting results on all resolutions voted upon at the Meeting under its profile on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca and EDGAR at www.sec.gov. About Orion Digital Corp. Orion Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: ORIO; TSX: ORIO) operates digital wealth and payments infrastructure platforms generating recurring subscription and services revenue. Its Intelligent Investing platform provides digital wealth management solutions in Canada, and its wholly owned subsidiary Carta Worldwide provides issuer processing and payments infrastructure across Europe. The Company also operates a consumer lending business with over 20 years of operating history that generates cash flow and is managed with a focus on stability and risk control. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260623746941/en/ Contacts Investor [email protected] US Investor Relations ContactLytham Partners, LLCBen ShamsianNew York | [email protected]

TranscriptFY2026 Q12026-05-07

FY2026 Q1 earnings call transcript

Earnings source - 34 paragraphs
Operator

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Orion Digital Q1 2026 earnings conference call. At this time, all lines are in a listen-only mode. Following the presentation, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. If at any time during this call you require immediate assistance, please press star zero for the operator. This call is being recorded today, Thursday, May 7th, 2026. I would now like to turn the conference call over to Craig Armitage, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Craig Armitage

Thank you, John, and good morning, everyone. Before we begin, I'd like to cover a few brief items. Today's call will include forward-looking statements based on current assumptions and subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. The company undertakes no obligation to update these statements except as required by law.

Craig Armitage

Additional information about these risks is included in Orion Digital's Q1 filings and its periodic filings with Canadian and U.S. regulators, which you can find on SEDAR+, EDGAR, and the Orion Investor Relations website. In addition, today's discussion will include certain non-IFRS or adjusted financial measures. These should be considered as a supplement to, and not as a substitute for IFRS results. We've included reconciliations to these measures or for these measures in the Q1 press release and filings.

Craig Armitage

With that, I'll turn the call over to Dave Feller. Dave.

Dave Feller

Thanks, Craig, and thank you to everyone joining us today. I'm joined by our President and CFO, Greg Feller. This is our Q1 operating under the Orion Digital name following our rebrand from Mogo earlier this year. The new name reflects the company we're building; a financial technology company focused on platforms for the next generation of financial services. We operate two distinct growth platforms, Intelligent Investing in Canadian Digital Wealth and Carta Worldwide in European payments infrastructure.

Dave Feller

These platforms are supported by a consumer lending portfolio that generates cash flow to fund continued investment in the business. Before walking through Q1 results, I want to spend a few minutes on Intelligent Investing, why we're investing in it, and why we believe it is one of the most significant opportunities in front of Orion.

Dave Feller

The retail investing industry has spent the last two decades selling a story of democratization, easier access, lower costs, empowerment. The product that was actually built behind the story was optimized for activity, engagement, and frequent decision-making because activity is what generates revenue under the prevailing business models. That is why prediction markets are showing up next to retirement accounts. That is why trading interfaces keep adding leverage and frictionless speculation.

Dave Feller

That is why every layer of the experience is tuned for engagement rather than outcome. We think AI changes the structure of this. As research, analysis, and decision support tools become broadly accessible, the question of what an investing platform is actually for becomes harder to avoid. Platforms designed around activity will continue to optimize for activity. What many of them are really optimized for is a dopamine loop of engagement.

Dave Feller

The opportunity, as we see it, is to build a platform designed for what investing is actually supposed to do: compound capital over long periods of time. That is what Intelligent Investing is. Not a better trading app, not a cheaper brokerage. It is a different category of product designed around a different objective with a different set of incentives embedded in it. One of the most important financial principles in system design is that systems produce the outcomes they are designed to optimize.

Dave Feller

Trading platforms optimize activity, wealth managers optimize assets under management, financial media optimizes attention. Intelligent Investing is designed around long-term compounding, and that principle shapes every layer of architecture, the environment, the decision process, the research tools, the incentives. The first thing you'll notice in the product is the design. It is intentionally minimalist and calm.

Dave Feller

Most investing apps are built around stimulation, price movement, charts, alerts, frequent prompts. We are building the opposite. The environment is designed to support disciplined thinking because the environment in which decisions are made shapes the quality of the decisions themselves.

Dave Feller

The second layer is research. Serious investing requires serious research, which is why we partnered with FinChat to give every member full access to its professional-grade research platform, a subscription that on its own costs over CAD 90 a month. The third layer, which we're building towards, is decision architecture.

Dave Feller

Serious investors document their reasoning, they write investment memos, they capture their thesis before committing capital, and they review it afterwards. That process is what separates disciplined capital allocation from reactive trading and is one of the core areas we'll be developing on the platform in the quarters ahead.

Dave Feller

As the foundational architecture comes into place through the phase 2 rollout, we'll be positioned to release these capabilities and continue building on them in a regular cadence. Taken together, the environment, the research tools, and the decision architecture we're building are designed around disciplined capital allocation and long-term compounding. As Charlie Munger said, "Show me the incentive, and I will show you the outcome." The incentives embedded in our wealth platform are aligned with long-term investor outcomes. The activity maximizing platforms are competing for ground the market is leaving behind. We are building for what comes next. On Q1, results for wealth specifically grew to revenue grew 12% year-over-year to CAD 3.9 million. Assets under management are CAD 495.6 million at March 31st, 2026, representing 14% growth year-over-year.

Dave Feller

We are progressing through the phase two rollout, which expands the offering beyond the managed portfolio framework introduced in phase one and introduces self-directed investing within the same unified platform.

Dave Feller

As phase two deployment continues through the first half, the foundational architecture of Intelligent Investing is coming into place, and we expect it to roll out the new capabilities on a regular cadence as we build on that foundation. The platform rests on three principles. First, their core S&P 500 portfolio is a default foundation, reflecting the long-run reality that most investors and most professional managers underperform the market. .

Dave Feller

Second, self-directed investing is a discipline layer where capital allocation decisions can be measured against an S&P 500 benchmark over time. Third, an environment intentionally designed to reduce emotional and reactive decision-making in favor of structured long-term thinking. That is the direction of Intelligent Investing.

Dave Feller

We are not building a faster trading app. We are not building a cheaper brokerage. We are building a platform designed for the thing that investing is actually supposed to do, compound capital over the long run. We believe that is where the next generation of investor value gets created. I'll now turn it over to Greg to cover Carta, the financial results, and our 2026 outlook.

Greg Feller

Thanks, Dave. I'll cover three things today. Our Q1 financial results and balance sheet, our 2026 outlook, and the platform driving our growth. Let me start with Q1 performance. Adjusted EBITDA grew 46% year-over-year to CAD 1.5 million, with gross margin expanding from 67% to 69% as our revenue mix continued to shift towards higher margin platform revenue.

Greg Feller

Wealth revenue grew 12% as Intelligent Investing scaled, while European transaction volume at Carta grew 12% to CAD 2.7 billion, and adjusted other subscriptions related revenue grew 6%. Total revenue was CAD 16.9 million in Q1 2026, compared to CAD 17.3 million in Q1 of 2025, with adjusted revenue up 2% year-over-year, excluding the non-core businesses we exited during 2025.

Greg Feller

Net loss was CAD 5.8 million in the quarter, improvement of 51% year-over-year, primarily reflecting lower non-operating revaluation loss compared to Q1 of 2025. Cash flow from operating activities before investment in gross loan receivable is CAD 4 million, up 6%. I also want to spend a moment on our balance sheet, which strengthened materially during the quarter.

Greg Feller

We ended Q1 with CAD 35.4 million in cash, marketable securities, and investments. Within that cash, unrestricted cash of CAD 25.6 million was up 96% year-over-year and 27% from year-end 2025. The increase reflects the deliberate conversion of non-core holdings into operating cash, primarily from monetization of WonderFi position, which earlier in 2025 agreed to be acquired by Robinhood Markets.

Greg Feller

This is one of the most significant balance sheet improvements in the company's recent history, and it positions us with meaningful operating flexibility going forward. Turning to our payments platform, let me say a word about Carta. Carta operates within the authorization layer of European payments, providing the system that authorizes transactions, enforces program rules, and connects payment activity.

Greg Feller

As payments increasingly become AI-mediated and agent-initiated, this position becomes increasingly strategic. Carta has a long history of supporting clients that have scaled meaningfully, including previously supporting U.K.-based Wise during earlier phases of its growth and current clients like Pluxee, one of the leading European employee benefits platforms, which remains an anchor client today.

Greg Feller

We believe Carta operates with a structurally competitive pricing position in Europe, issuer processing, and we see a meaningful opportunity to expand within our existing client base and selectively into new accounts.

Greg Feller

We also are evaluating stablecoin-based infrastructure for the selected cross-border payment flow, where it can improve settlement speed, transparency, and cost efficiency. Our wealth platform metrics reflect early progress against the much larger opportunity that phase two opens up. Wealth revenue grew 12% to CAD 3.9 million, and AUM grew 14% to CAD 495.6 million in the quarter.

Greg Feller

We expect increased marketing investment in Intelligent Investing during the second half of phase two rollout. Now to our outlook. We are providing updated guidance for 2026. Q2 adjusted EBITDA, CAD two and a half to three and a half million. Full year adjusted EBITDA, CAD 6 to CAD 7 million. Consolidated revenue modestly lower year-over-year. We are reducing Q2 loan originations by approximately 50% from Q1 levels.

Greg Feller

We want investors to see clearly what business produces under this scenario with reduced new origination activity. The existing loan book generates cash without the offsetting customer acquisition and incremental provision costs we incur at full deployment pace. The Q2 adjusted EBITDA guide reflects that. This is a temporary modulation, not a run rate.

Greg Feller

We are guiding H2 adjusted EBITDA lower than the H1 as we step origination volume back up and increase marketing investment, including for Intelligent Investing following its phase two launch. We believe these investments are aligned with our goal to compound per share value over multi-year periods.

Greg Feller

We think the cash-generated characteristics of our portfolio when origination spend is dialed back are an important attribute of the model for investors to understand, particularly in environments where capital flexibility matters.

Greg Feller

Lastly, we continue to believe the public's market current valuation does not fully reflect the economics of our business, and our share repurchase program reflects that view. We have retired 7% approximately of outstanding shares since June 2022. With that, we will open the line up for questions.

Operator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the question-and-answer session. There are no further questions at this time. I will now turn the call over to David Feller. Please continue.

Dave Feller

Thank you again for joining us on our Q1 call. We look forward to updating you post Q2. Thanks again.

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's conference call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-05-06

Orion Digital to Announce Q1 2026 Financial Results May 7, 2026

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 05, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Orion Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: ORIO; TSX: ORIO) ("Orion Digital" or the "Company") today announced it will hold a conference call and webcast to discuss its Q1 2026 financial results on Thursday, May 7, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. ET. The call will be hosted by David Feller, Mogo’s Founder & CEO, and Greg Feller, President & CFO. The Company will issue its financial results prior to market open on May 7. CONFERENCE CALL DETAILS: About Orion Digital Corp. Orion Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: ORIO; TSX: ORIO) operates digital wealth and payments infrastructure platforms generating recurring subscription and services revenue. Its Intelligent Investing platform provides digital wealth management solutions in Canada, and its wholly owned subsidiary Carta Worldwide provides issuer processing and payments infrastructure across Europe. The Company also operates a consumer lending business with over 20 years of operating history that generates cash flow and is managed with a focus on stability and risk control. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260505912367/en/ Contacts Investor Relations [email protected] US Investor Relations Contact Lytham Partners, LLC Ben Shamsian New York | Phoenix [email protected] (646) 829-9701

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-04-24

Burke & Herbert Financial Services (BHRB) Matches Q1 Earnings Estimates

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Burke & Herbert Financial Services (BHRB) came out with quarterly earnings of $1.87 per share, in line with the Zacks Consensus Estimate . This compares to earnings of $1.8 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items. This quarterly report represents an earnings surprise of +0.27%. A quarter ago, it was expected that this bank holding company would post earnings of $1.91 per share when it actually produced earnings of $1.98, delivering a surprise of +3.66%. Over the last four quarters, the company has surpassed consensus EPS estimates four times. Burke & Herbert, which belongs to the Zacks Financial - Miscellaneous Services industry, posted revenues of $84.7 million for the quarter ended March 2026, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 2.65%. This compares to year-ago revenues of $83.01 million. The company has topped consensus revenue estimates two times over the last four quarters. The sustainability of the stock's immediate price movement based on the recently-released numbers and future earnings expectations will mostly depend on management's commentary on the earnings call. Burke & Herbert shares have added about 3.4% since the beginning of the year versus the S&P 500's gain of 4.3%. While Burke & Herbert has underperformed the market so far this year, the question that comes to investors' minds is: what's next for the stock? There are no easy answers to this key question, but one reliable measure that can help investors address this is the company's earnings outlook. Not only does this include current consensus earnings expectations for the coming quarter(s), but also how these expectations have changed lately. Empirical research shows a strong correlation between near-term stock movements and trends in earnings estimate revisions. Investors can track such revisions by themselves or rely on a tried-and-tested rating tool like the Zacks Rank, which has an impressive track record of harnessing the power of earnings estimate revisions. Ahead of this earnings release, the estimate revisions trend for Burke & Herbert was mixed. While the magnitude and direction of estimate revisions could change following the company's just-released earnings report, the current status translates into a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) for the stock. So, the shares are expected to perform in line with the market in the near future. You can see the complet…Read full document

Burke & Herbert Financial Services (BHRB) came out with quarterly earnings of $1.87 per share, in line with the Zacks Consensus Estimate . This compares to earnings of $1.8 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items. This quarterly report represents an earnings surprise of +0.27%. A quarter ago, it was expected that this bank holding company would post earnings of $1.91 per share when it actually produced earnings of $1.98, delivering a surprise of +3.66%. Over the last four quarters, the company has surpassed consensus EPS estimates four times. Burke & Herbert, which belongs to the Zacks Financial - Miscellaneous Services industry, posted revenues of $84.7 million for the quarter ended March 2026, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 2.65%. This compares to year-ago revenues of $83.01 million. The company has topped consensus revenue estimates two times over the last four quarters. The sustainability of the stock's immediate price movement based on the recently-released numbers and future earnings expectations will mostly depend on management's commentary on the earnings call. Burke & Herbert shares have added about 3.4% since the beginning of the year versus the S&P 500's gain of 4.3%. While Burke & Herbert has underperformed the market so far this year, the question that comes to investors' minds is: what's next for the stock? There are no easy answers to this key question, but one reliable measure that can help investors address this is the company's earnings outlook. Not only does this include current consensus earnings expectations for the coming quarter(s), but also how these expectations have changed lately. Empirical research shows a strong correlation between near-term stock movements and trends in earnings estimate revisions. Investors can track such revisions by themselves or rely on a tried-and-tested rating tool like the Zacks Rank, which has an impressive track record of harnessing the power of earnings estimate revisions. Ahead of this earnings release, the estimate revisions trend for Burke & Herbert was mixed. While the magnitude and direction of estimate revisions could change following the company's just-released earnings report, the current status translates into a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) for the stock. So, the shares are expected to perform in line with the market in the near future. You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here. It will be interesting to see how estimates for the coming quarters and the current fiscal year change in the days ahead. The current consensus EPS estimate is $1.67 on $111.8 million in revenues for the coming quarter and $8.15 on $446.1 million in revenues for the current fiscal year. Investors should be mindful of the fact that the outlook for the industry can have a material impact on the performance of the stock as well. In terms of the Zacks Industry Rank, Financial - Miscellaneous Services is currently in the top 34% of the 250 plus Zacks industries. Our research shows that the top 50% of the Zacks-ranked industries outperform the bottom 50% by a factor of more than 2 to 1. Orion Digital Corp. (ORIO), another stock in the same industry, has yet to report results for the quarter ended March 2026. This company is expected to post quarterly loss of $0.07 per share in its upcoming report, which represents a year-over-year change of -75%. The consensus EPS estimate for the quarter has remained unchanged over the last 30 days. Orion Digital Corp.'s revenues are expected to be $12.43 million, up 3% from the year-ago quarter. Want the latest recommendations from Zacks Investment Research? Today, you can download 7 Best Stocks for the Next 30 Days. Click to get this free report Burke & Herbert Financial Services Corp. (BHRB) : Free Stock Analysis Report Orion Digital Corp. (ORIO) : Free Stock Analysis Report This article originally published on Zacks Investment Research (zacks.com). Zacks Investment Research

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-03-14

Orion Digital Corp (ORIO) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Highlights: Strong Revenue Growth and Strategic ...

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This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Q4 Revenue: $14.5 million, up 32% year-over-year. Combined Segment Revenue (Wealth and Payments): $24.4 million, up 27% year-over-year. Full Year Revenue: $68.6 million. Adjusted EBITDA: $7.1 million for the full year. Cash and Investments: $41 million at year-end. Assets Under Management (AUM): $498 million, up from $428 million in the previous year. Payment Network Volume: $12 billion processed, up 4% year-over-year. Platform Members: 2.3 million, growing 6% year-over-year. Q4 Total Revenue: $17.4 million, compared to $18 million in Q4 of '24. Adjusted Subscription Services Revenue: $41.5 million, up 12% from the previous year. Gross Margin: 70% for the full year. Transaction Volume (Carta): $11.9 billion for the year. Adjusted Payments Revenue Growth: 23% for the year. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 4 Warning Signs with ORIO. Is ORIO fairly valued? Test your thesis with our free DCF calculator. Release Date: March 12, 2026 For the complete transcript of the earnings call, please refer to the full earnings call transcript. Orion Digital Corp (NASDAQ:ORIO) reported a 70% year-over-year growth in Assets Under Management (AUM) and a 32% increase in revenue to $14.5 million for Q4. The company's subscription and services revenue now represents 62% of total revenue, indicating a successful shift towards a recurring revenue model. The payment network processed $12 billion in volume, marking a 4% increase year-over-year. Orion Digital Corp (NASDAQ:ORIO) ended the year with $41 million in cash and investments, providing flexibility for future investments. The Intelligent Investing platform is designed to optimize long-term compounding, differentiating it from traditional trading platforms. Total revenue for the year decreased to $68.6 million from $71.2 million in 2024, partly due to exiting two unprofitable businesses. The company faces pressure on interest revenue due to rate changes in Canada, impacting the lending portfolio. The consumer lending portfolio is not being managed for growth, which could limit future revenue potential in this segment. Despite growth in subscription services, overall revenue remained relatively stable, indicating potential challenges in scaling other business areas. The company is cautious about macroeconomic conditions, which may affect its strategic decisions and growth opportunities. Q:…Read full document

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Q4 Revenue: $14.5 million, up 32% year-over-year. Combined Segment Revenue (Wealth and Payments): $24.4 million, up 27% year-over-year. Full Year Revenue: $68.6 million. Adjusted EBITDA: $7.1 million for the full year. Cash and Investments: $41 million at year-end. Assets Under Management (AUM): $498 million, up from $428 million in the previous year. Payment Network Volume: $12 billion processed, up 4% year-over-year. Platform Members: 2.3 million, growing 6% year-over-year. Q4 Total Revenue: $17.4 million, compared to $18 million in Q4 of '24. Adjusted Subscription Services Revenue: $41.5 million, up 12% from the previous year. Gross Margin: 70% for the full year. Transaction Volume (Carta): $11.9 billion for the year. Adjusted Payments Revenue Growth: 23% for the year. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 4 Warning Signs with ORIO. Is ORIO fairly valued? Test your thesis with our free DCF calculator. Release Date: March 12, 2026 For the complete transcript of the earnings call, please refer to the full earnings call transcript. Orion Digital Corp (NASDAQ:ORIO) reported a 70% year-over-year growth in Assets Under Management (AUM) and a 32% increase in revenue to $14.5 million for Q4. The company's subscription and services revenue now represents 62% of total revenue, indicating a successful shift towards a recurring revenue model. The payment network processed $12 billion in volume, marking a 4% increase year-over-year. Orion Digital Corp (NASDAQ:ORIO) ended the year with $41 million in cash and investments, providing flexibility for future investments. The Intelligent Investing platform is designed to optimize long-term compounding, differentiating it from traditional trading platforms. Total revenue for the year decreased to $68.6 million from $71.2 million in 2024, partly due to exiting two unprofitable businesses. The company faces pressure on interest revenue due to rate changes in Canada, impacting the lending portfolio. The consumer lending portfolio is not being managed for growth, which could limit future revenue potential in this segment. Despite growth in subscription services, overall revenue remained relatively stable, indicating potential challenges in scaling other business areas. The company is cautious about macroeconomic conditions, which may affect its strategic decisions and growth opportunities. Q: Can you elaborate on the outlook for the lending platform and its importance to the overall business? A: Gregory Feller, President and CFO, explained that the focus is on managing the loan book for cash flow rather than growth, due to the impact of rate caps implemented in 2025. The goal is to keep the loan book relatively flat, with a decline in interest revenue expected. Long-term, lending is seen as an important cash flow-generating component, but the strategic focus is on Wealth and Payments. Q: What does the rollout of phase two of Intelligent Investing entail, and what can customers expect? A: David Feller, CEO, stated that phase two involves unifying the self-directed investing app, MogoTrade, with the managed investing offering under the new Intelligent Investing platform. This will result in a single, unified app and brand, expected to be completed within 30 to 60 days. Q: How are you prioritizing capital allocation between share repurchases and investments in growth areas? A: Gregory Feller indicated that the priority order for capital allocation is first to Wealth, second to Payments, and third to share repurchases. This reflects a focus on investing in areas with higher potential returns. Q: Is there potential for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) on the Wealth side? A: Gregory Feller mentioned that while they are open to opportunities, the current focus is on the rollout of Intelligent Investing. David Feller added that any M&A would likely focus on enhancing the platform's capabilities rather than acquiring existing customer bases. Q: Given the strong capital position, how does the company view its repurchase program? A: Gregory Feller reiterated that while share repurchases are a priority, the main focus remains on investing in the Wealth and Payments platforms to drive growth and returns. For the complete transcript of the earnings call, please refer to the full earnings call transcript.

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-03-12

Orion Digital Reports Q4 and Full-Year 2025 Results; Wealth Revenue Grows 36% as Subscription & Services Reach 62% of Revenue

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Wealth AUM of $498M, up 17% Year-over-year European Payments Volume of $11.1B, up 14% Year-over-year FY 2025 Adjusted EBITDA1 of $7.1M Strong Balance Sheet with $41.3M Cash, Marketable Securities & Investments Orion Digital reports in Canadian dollars and in accordance with IFRS VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 12, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Orion Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: ORIO; TSX: ORIO) ("Orion Digital" or the "Company") today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2025. Orion Digital operates a digital wealth platform supported by payments infrastructure that enables transaction authorization across financial networks. The Company generates the majority of its revenue from recurring subscription and services revenue through its Intelligent Investing wealth platform, supported by Carta Worldwide, its payments infrastructure platform that provides issuer processing and transaction authorization capabilities. Subscription and services revenue represented 62% of total revenue in 2025, reflecting Orion Digital’s continued transition toward platform-driven recurring revenue. The Wealth platform represents the Company’s primary growth engine. The Company also operates a mature consumer lending portfolio that generates stable cash flow and supports capital allocation and continued investment in its platform businesses. As financial systems become increasingly automated, platforms that control how capital is allocated and how transactions are authorized are becoming increasingly important. Orion Digital’s wealth and payments platforms operate within these infrastructure layers. Adjusted growth rates exclude certain non-core businesses exited during 2024 -2025 in order to better reflect underlying platform growth. These exited operations represented approximately $6.1 million of revenue in 2024 and $0.8 million in 2025. Fourth Quarter 2025 Highlights Revenue: $17.4 million (–4% YoY reported; +7% adjusted for exited non-core businesses) Subscription & Services revenue: $10.9 million (–4% reported; +15% adjusted1) Wealth revenue: $3.8 million (+32% YoY) Payments revenue: $2.4 million (+1% reported; +12% adjusted1) Wealth + Payments revenue: $6.2 million (+18% reported; +24% adjusted1) Gross margin: 70% (vs 63% in 2024) Adjusted EBITDA1: $2.2 million (+5% YoY) Cash provided by operations before investment in gross loans receivab…Read full document

Wealth AUM of $498M, up 17% Year-over-year European Payments Volume of $11.1B, up 14% Year-over-year FY 2025 Adjusted EBITDA1 of $7.1M Strong Balance Sheet with $41.3M Cash, Marketable Securities & Investments Orion Digital reports in Canadian dollars and in accordance with IFRS VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 12, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Orion Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: ORIO; TSX: ORIO) ("Orion Digital" or the "Company") today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2025. Orion Digital operates a digital wealth platform supported by payments infrastructure that enables transaction authorization across financial networks. The Company generates the majority of its revenue from recurring subscription and services revenue through its Intelligent Investing wealth platform, supported by Carta Worldwide, its payments infrastructure platform that provides issuer processing and transaction authorization capabilities. Subscription and services revenue represented 62% of total revenue in 2025, reflecting Orion Digital’s continued transition toward platform-driven recurring revenue. The Wealth platform represents the Company’s primary growth engine. The Company also operates a mature consumer lending portfolio that generates stable cash flow and supports capital allocation and continued investment in its platform businesses. As financial systems become increasingly automated, platforms that control how capital is allocated and how transactions are authorized are becoming increasingly important. Orion Digital’s wealth and payments platforms operate within these infrastructure layers. Adjusted growth rates exclude certain non-core businesses exited during 2024 -2025 in order to better reflect underlying platform growth. These exited operations represented approximately $6.1 million of revenue in 2024 and $0.8 million in 2025. Fourth Quarter 2025 Highlights Revenue: $17.4 million (–4% YoY reported; +7% adjusted for exited non-core businesses) Subscription & Services revenue: $10.9 million (–4% reported; +15% adjusted1) Wealth revenue: $3.8 million (+32% YoY) Payments revenue: $2.4 million (+1% reported; +12% adjusted1) Wealth + Payments revenue: $6.2 million (+18% reported; +24% adjusted1) Gross margin: 70% (vs 63% in 2024) Adjusted EBITDA1: $2.2 million (+5% YoY) Cash provided by operations before investment in gross loans receivable1: $6.0 million (+46% YoY) Full-Year 2025 Highlights Revenue: $68.6 million (–4% reported due to exited businesses; +4% adjusted excluding exited operations) Subscription & Services revenue: $42.3 million (–2% reported; +12% adjusted1) Wealth revenue: $14.5 million (+36% YoY) Payments revenue: $9.9 million (+15% reported; +23% adjusted1) Wealth + Payments revenue: $24.4 million (+27% reported; +31% adjusted1) Gross margin: 70% (vs 66% in 2024) Adjusted EBITDA1: $7.1 million (+7% YoY) Cash provided by operations before investment in gross loans receivable1: $19.6 million (+35% YoY) Management Commentary David Feller, Founder & CEO "2025 marked an important step in our transition toward a platform-driven business model. Subscription and services revenue now represents 62% of total revenue, while our Wealth and Payments platforms grew 27% year-over-year, or 31% on an adjusted basis. As financial systems become increasingly automated and AI-driven, the layers that govern capital allocation and transaction authorization become more important. Orion Digital is focused on building scalable infrastructure platforms with recurring revenue and operating leverage that operate at those critical points within the financial system." Greg Feller, President & CFO "Our platform businesses continue to drive improving operating economics. Adjusted subscription and services revenue increased 12% year-over-year while Wealth and Payments revenue grew 31% on an adjusted basis. Full-year results exceeded previously communicated ranges, reflecting stronger-than-expected platform growth, stable lending performance, and continued operating discipline. For full-year 2025 our operating businesses generated $19.6 million of cash flow before loan portfolio deployment, an increase of approximately 35% year-over-year, and the monetization of our remaining WonderFi position further strengthened our balance sheet entering 2026." Wealth Platform (Intelligent Investing) For full-year 2025, Wealth revenue increased 36% year-over-year to $14.5 million, reflecting increasing adoption of the Intelligent Investing platform and expansion of subscription-based wealth services designed to support disciplined capital allocation and long-term investment behavior. Key operating metrics include: Wealth revenue: $14.5 million (+36% YoY) Assets under management: $498 million (+17% YoY) Financial markets are entering a period where artificial intelligence and automated analytical tools are rapidly compressing informational advantages. As data analysis and financial research become widely accessible through AI systems, the traditional edge derived from information asymmetry is likely to diminish. In this environment, long-term investment outcomes are increasingly determined by capital allocation discipline, portfolio construction, and investor behavior rather than trading activity. The Intelligent Investing platform is designed around this principle. The system emphasizes structured allocation frameworks and behavioral discipline intended to support long-term compounding rather than activity-driven trading. Payments Platform (Carta) For full-year 2025, Payments revenue totaled $9.9 million, reflecting continued expansion of the Company’s European payments platform following the exit of Canadian programs. Key operating metrics include: Payments revenue: $9.9 million (+15% reported; +23% adjusted1) European transaction volume1: $11.1 billion (+14% YoY) Total transaction volume: $11.9 billion European transaction volume growth reflects continued expansion of the Company’s issuer processing platform across existing European programs. During the year the Company completed the migration of its payments platform infrastructure to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), improving scalability, resilience, and operational efficiency. Carta operates within the authorization layer of payment networks, providing the infrastructure that authorizes transactions, enforces program rules, and connects payment activity to regulated settlement networks. Balance Sheet and Liquidity At December 31, 2025 the Company held $41.3 million in cash, marketable securities and investments, including: Cash & restricted cash: $20.2 million Marketable securities & private investments: $21.1 million In January 2026, Orion Digital monetized its remaining WonderFi position. This liquidity provides significant financial flexibility relative to the Company’s current market capitalization. The Company maintains a Nasdaq share repurchase authorization of up to $10 million, with capital allocation evaluated across share repurchases and continued investment in its Wealth and Payments platforms. 2026 Outlook The outlook that follows constitutes forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities laws and is based on a number of assumptions and subject to a number of risks. Actual results could vary materially as a result of numerous factors, including certain risk factors, many of which are beyond Orion Digital’s control. The Company expects continued growth in subscription and services revenue in 2026 as its Wealth platform expands and its Payments infrastructure continues to scale. Key drivers include: Wealth: Revenue growth driven by the rollout of Intelligent Investing Phase 2 in the first half of the year, expanding the platform beyond the managed portfolio offering introduced in Phase 1. Payments: Revenue growth supported by the expansion of existing European programs and new program launches following the Company’s exit from the Canadian payments market in 2025. Consolidated revenue is expected to remain relatively stable in 2026, reflecting the disciplined management of the Company’s consumer lending portfolio. Reflecting these trends, Orion Digital expects Adjusted EBITDA2 in the range of approximately $7.0 million to $8.0 million in 2026. 1Non-IFRS measure. For more information regarding our use of these non-IFRS measures and, where applicable, a reconciliation to the most comparable IFRS measure, see "Non-IFRS Financial Measures" in the Company’s MD&A for the period ended December 31, 2025. 2Adjusted EBITDA is a non-IFRS measure. Management has not reconciled these forward-looking non-IFRS measures to their most directly comparable IFRS measure, net loss before tax. This is because the Company cannot predict with reasonable certainty and without unreasonable efforts the ultimate outcome of certain IFRS components of such reconciliations due to market-related assumptions that are not within our control as well as certain legal or advisory costs, tax costs or other costs that may arise. For these reasons, management is unable to assess the probable significance of the unavailable information, which could materially impact the amount of the future directly comparable IFRS measures. Conference Call & Webcast Orion Digital will host a conference call to discuss its Q4 2025 financial results at 1:00 p.m. ET on March 12, 2026. The call will be hosted by David Feller, Founder and CEO, and Greg Feller, President and CFO. To participate in the call, dial (289) 514-5100 or (800) 717-1738 (International) using conference ID: 80924. The webcast can be accessed at orion-digital.com/events. Listeners should access the webcast or call 10-15 minutes before the start time to ensure they are connected. Non-IFRS Financial Measures This press release makes reference to certain non‑IFRS financial measures. These measures are not recognized measures under IFRS, do not have a standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS and are therefore unlikely to be comparable to similar measures presented by other companies. These measures are provided as additional information to complement the IFRS financial measures contained herein by providing further metrics to understand the Company’s results of operations from management’s perspective. Accordingly, they should not be considered in isolation nor as a substitute for analysis of our financial information reported under IFRS. We use non‑IFRS financial measures, including adjusted revenue, adjusted subscription and services revenue, adjusted payments revenue, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net income (loss) and cash provided by (used in) operating activities before investment in gross loans receivable, to provide investors with supplemental measures of our operating performance and thus highlight trends in our core business that may not otherwise be apparent when relying solely on IFRS financial measures. We also use non‑IFRS financial measures in order to facilitate operating performance comparisons from period to period, prepare annual operating budgets and assess our ability to meet our capital expenditure and working capital requirements. For more information, please see "Non-IFRS Financial Measures" in our Management’s Discussion and Analysis for the period ended December 31, 2025, which is available at www.sedarplus.com and at www.sec.gov. The following tables present a reconciliation of each non-IFRS financial measure to the most comparable IFRS financial measure. Adjusted Total Revenue Adjusted Subscription and Services Revenue Adjusted Payments Revenue Adjusted EBITDA Cash Provided by (used in) Operations before Investment in Gross Loans Receivable Forward-Looking Statements This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of applicable securities legislation, including statements regarding the Company’s capital allocation strategy, Orion Digital’s strategic initiatives including in respect of its wealth management and payments platforms and financial outlook for 2026. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words such as "may", "will", "could", "would", "anticipate", "believe", "expect", "intend", "potential", "estimate", "budget", "scheduled", "plans", "planned", "forecasts", "goals" and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are necessarily based upon a number of estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by management at the time of preparation, are inherently subject to significant business, economic and competitive uncertainties and contingencies, and may prove to be incorrect. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual financial results, performance or achievements to be materially different from the estimated future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by those forward-looking statements and the forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance. Orion Digital’s growth, its ability to expand into new products and markets and its expectations for its future financial performance are subject to a number of conditions, many of which are outside of Orion Digital’s control, including the receipt of any required regulatory approval. For a description of the risks associated with Orion Digital’s business please refer to the "Risk Factors" section of Orion Digital’s current annual information form, which is available at www.sedarplus.com and www.sec.gov. Except as required by law, Orion Digital disclaims any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, events or otherwise. About Orion Digital Corp. Orion Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: ORIO; TSX: ORIO) operates digital wealth and payments infrastructure platforms generating recurring subscription and services revenue. Its Intelligent Investing platform provides digital wealth management solutions in Canada, and its wholly owned subsidiary Carta Worldwide provides issuer processing and payments infrastructure across Europe. The Company also operates a consumer lending business with over 20 years of operating history that generates cash flow and is managed with a focus on stability and risk control. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260312128023/en/ Contacts Investor Relations [email protected] US Investor Relations Contact Lytham Partners, LLC Ben Shamsian New York | Phoenix [email protected] (646) 829-9701

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FY2025 Q4 earnings call transcript

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Operator

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Orion Digital Corp Q4 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all lines are in listen-only mode. Following the presentation, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. If at any time during this call you require immediate assistance, please press star zero for the operator. This call is being recorded on Thursday, March twelfth, 2026. I would now like to turn the conference over to Craig Armitage, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Craig Armitage

Thank you, and good afternoon, everyone. Just a few quick notes before we get started. Today's call will contain forward-looking statements that are based on current assumptions and subject to risks and uncertainties. These could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. The company undertakes no obligation to update these statements except as required by law. Information about the risks and uncertainties are included in Orion Digital's Q4 and year-end filings, as well as periodic filings with regulators in Canada and the United States, which you can find on SEDAR+ on EDGAR, and you can also access via the Orion Digital Investor Relations website. Lastly, today's session will include several adjusted financial measures or non-IFRS measures. Please consider these as a supplement to and not as a substitute for the IFRS measures.

Craig Armitage

You will see that we've included reconciliations to those in the press release and in the investor deck. Last point I'd make is the investor deck is also available for downloading on the IR website. With that, I'll turn it over to David Feller. Please go ahead, Dave.

David Feller

Thanks, Craig, and thank you for joining today. I'm also joined today by our President and CFO, Gregory Feller. Q4 was a solid quarter led by wealth, with AUM growing by 70% year-over-year and revenue up 32% to CAD 14.5 million. When combined with payments, that segment generated CAD 24.4 million, up 27% year-over-year. Equally important is the quality of the revenue mix. Subscription and services now represent 62% of total revenue, which reflects a shift towards recurring platform-driven economics. On the platform side, we now have 2.3 million members, growing 6% year-over-year, and our payment network processed CAD 12 billion in volume, up 4% year-over-year.

David Feller

For the full year, we generated CAD 68.6 million in revenue, CAD 7.1 million in adjusted EBITDA, and ended the year with CAD 41 million in cash and investments. The key takeaway is simple. We have a growing wealth platform, a recurring revenue model that continues to strengthen, and a balance sheet that gives us the flexibility to invest in the next phase of the business. Our mission with Intelligent Investing is simple but ambitious. We are building what we believe can become the most trusted system for long-term compounding. In other words, capital allocation system designed specifically for individuals building wealth over long periods of time. For decades, most financial platforms have focused on providing access to markets, tools for trading or products for distribution. Our focus is different.

David Feller

We believe the most important problem to solve is helping investors allocate capital intelligently and maintain the discipline required to compound wealth over decades. If you step back, the objective of investing is actually very simple. It's compounding, not activity, not trading, not reacting to the latest market narrative. The objective is to compound capital over long periods of time. Yet, when you look at the way most investing platforms are de-designed today, very few of them are actually built around that objective. We are currently seeing a broader shift happening across the entire software industry. Historically, software functioned primarily as a tool. Tools provided information and capabilities, but the user is still responsible for interpreting that information and making decisions. Artificial intelligence is changing that. Increasingly, we're seeing systems that process large amounts of information, guide decision-making, and ultimately produce better outcomes.

David Feller

Across industries from logistics to cybersecurity to healthcare, the systems that are winning are the ones designed to generate outcomes, not simply provide tools. We believe that same shift will occur in investing. Capital allocation is one of the most important decision systems in the global economy. Every year, trillions of dollars are allocated through public markets. Those decisions determine long-term wealth creation, retirement security, and how capital flows across the economy. In an environment where technological change, particularly AI, is accelerating economic transformation, ownership of productive assets becomes even more important. That means the quality of capital allocation decisions becomes more important as well. One of the most important realities in investing is that behavior has enormous impact on outcomes. Long-term studies have consistently shown that investors significantly underperform the markets they invest in. The primary driver of that gap is behavioral.

David Feller

Trading too frequently, reacting to short-term narratives, abandoning long-term strategies during periods of volatility. This chart illustrates how even relatively small differences in behavior compound very large differences in lifetime wealth. A disciplined investor earning roughly 10% annually turns 10,000 into over $1 million over 50 years. A reactive investor earning closer to 6% ends up with a fraction of that. The difference is not intelligence or access to information, it's behavior. This slide shows the architecture behind Intelligent Investing. At the top is the objective, maximum long-term compounding. That is a governing principle of the system. What makes us different from traditional investing platforms is that most of the industry has been optimized for activity, not outcomes. The incentives are built around engagement and transaction volume. We are building around a very different objective, helping investors make better decisions over time.

David Feller

The middle layer is behavioral intelligence system. We believe one of the biggest causes of underperformance is emotional decision-making under pressure. The environment itself is designed to support calmer, more disciplined investing. The bottom layer is a learning loop. Over time, the platform can learn from each investor's behavior and improve the decision environment accordingly. When we talk about Intelligent Investing, we're not talking about a brokerage with a better branding. We're talking about a capital allocation system designed to get smarter over time in service of one goal, better long-term outcomes. If you look at the investing landscape today, investors actually have access to many different solutions. Trading platforms, robo-advisors, wealth managers, mutual funds, and ETFs. These solutions generally fall into two categories. The first category is tools. Platforms that provide access to markets and information, but leave the entire decision process to the investor.

David Feller

The second category is managed systems, but many of these are optimized primarily for the economics of the provider, whether that's assets under management, product distribution, or trading activity. Very few systems are designed specifically to optimize for long-term investor outcomes. One of the most important principles in system design is that systems produce the outcomes they are designed to optimize. Trading platforms tend to optimize activity. Wealth managers tend to optimize assets under management. Financial media tends to optimize attention. Intelligent Investing is designed to optimize one thing, long-term compounding. That principle influences everything from the architecture of the platform to the behavioral design of the experience. The first thing you'll notice when you look at the product is the design. It's intentionally minimalist and calm. Most investing apps are designed around stimulation, flashing prices, charts, and constant activity. Our goal is the opposite.

David Feller

The environment is designed to support disciplined thinking. Second is a system optimized for long-term compounding, not trading. Serious investors tend to follow structured processes. One of the most common is writing an investment memo. Documenting a thesis forces clarity and accountability around why capital is being allocated. Capturing that thinking inside the platform also allows the system to become a system of record for investment decisions. Traditional retail investing apps rarely capture this kind of process. Finally, serious investing requires serious research and analysis, and that's why we partnered with Finchat AI and include full access to their professional-grade research platform, a subscription that on its own costs over $90 a month. Taken together, the environment, the decision processes, and the research tools are all designed around one principle, disciplined capital allocation and long-term compounding.

David Feller

I think this side-by-side comparison helps you understand how different our platform is from a typical trading app. Trading apps, again, are generally designed to stimulate activity. Bright colors, constant price movement, promotions, and current need to trade. Every decision pushes the investor towards short-term reactions. Fear when markets fall, excitement when prices rise. That environment produces a predictable outcome, activity. Activity is not the same as performance. Now look at the environment we built. Minimalist, quiet, deliberate. The system is designed to support disciplined thinking. The result is a fundamentally different operating environment, not a trading app. A capital allocation system designed for long-term compounding. With that, I will turn the call over to Greg.

Gregory Feller

Thanks, Dave. Let me now spend a few minutes talking about our payments infrastructure platform, Carta Worldwide. From a financial systems perspective, Carta operates within the authorization layer of payment networks, the set of systems responsible for receiving authorization requests from card networks and applying program rules and balance checks. In other words, Carta sits at a critical point in the payment stack where transactions are actually authorized and governed. Carta supports a wide range of clients, including fintech platforms, enterprise programs, and public sector programs, providing the infrastructure that connects the programs to global payment network. In terms of scale, we have up to 7 million end users and CAD 11 billion in transaction volume. Platform revenue mix has steadily transitioned towards a platform revenue model, with increasing contributions from wealth and payments.

Gregory Feller

Importantly, our results exceeded the operating range we communicated to the market at the beginning of the year, driven by stronger than expected growth in both wealth and payments. For the fourth quarter, total revenue was CAD 17.4 million compared to CAD 18 million in Q4 of 2024, and total revenue for the year was CAD 68.6 million compared to CAD 71.2 million in 2024. The decrease was driven by the exiting of two unprofitable businesses in Q1, as well as the impact of rate changes in Canada in 2025. Adjusting for these exits, revenue actually increased 7% in the fourth quarter to 4% for the full year. Turning to wealth, our wealth platform showed continued growth benefiting by Phase One rollout of our Intelligent Investing platform, growing 36% year-over-year to CAD 14.5 million.

Gregory Feller

Assets under management increased to CAD 498 million, up from CAD 428 million in 2024 and CAD 288 million in 2022. As financial markets become increasingly automated and AI-assisted, we believe platforms that help investors maintain discipline in capital allocation will become increasingly valuable. The next phase of the platform will be driven by the rollout of Intelligent Investing Phase Two, which we expect in the first half of this year. On the payment infrastructure side, Carta, we processed CAD 11.9 billion in total for the year. Excluding the exit of Canada, it was CAD 11.1 billion, which was up 14% year-over-year. Adjusted payments revenue increased 23% for the year and 12% for the quarter. Overall, these results demonstrate the continued scaling of Carta and both in transaction activity and revenue.

Gregory Feller

On the platform economic side, adjusted subscription services revenue increased 12% to CAD 41.5 million, up from CAD 37 million in 2024, representing now 62% of total revenue. For the full year, gross margin was 70%. Adjusted EBITDA totaled CAD 7.1 million, an increase of 7% year-over-year and above our increased guidance range that we gave last quarter. The results reflect improving operating leverage as recurring revenue becomes a larger share of the business. In addition to strong platform growth, we also significantly strengthened our balance sheet during the year, including more than doubling our cash position as a result of portfolio monetizations along with capital discipline in the business.

Gregory Feller

At year-end, we held approximately CAD 20 million of cash and CAD 21 million of marketable securities and other investments for total cash and investments of CAD 41.2 million. This liquidity was increased further post year-end following the monetization of our remaining WonderFi position in early 2026. Our consumer lending portfolio increased slightly, but we continue to manage this not as a growth engine, but as a stable cash-generating component of the business, supporting our broader capital allocation framework. For point of reference, our total loan book has only increased about CAD 7 million cumulatively over the last three years. Our capital priorities remain consistent, reinvestment in the wealth platform, continued development of our payments infrastructure, share repurchases when appropriate, and maintaining our balance sheet flexibility. We continue to have significant room on our share repurchase program of CAD 10 million.

Gregory Feller

Looking ahead to 2026, we expect to continue growth in subscription services revenue as wealth expands and our payments infrastructure continues to scale. Key drivers include the rollout of Intelligent Investing Phase Two in the first half of the year and expansion of existing European programs in the Carta platform. Consolidated revenue is expected to remain relatively stable in 2026, reflecting the continued disciplined management of our consumer lending portfolio, which we are managing for cash flow, not growth, as well as the impact of the rate cap in Canada. Based on these trends, we expect adjusted EBITDA in the range of CAD 7 million-CAD 8 million for the fiscal year 2026. In summary, 2025 represented another step forward in Orion's transition towards a platform-driven business model. Our wealth platform continues to grow assets and revenue.

Gregory Feller

Our payments infrastructure provides additional strategic capability, and our lending portfolio provides stable cash flow and balance sheet support. We believe this combination positions Orion well as financial systems become increasingly digital and automated. We'll now open up the line for questions.

Operator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the question-and-answer session. Should you have a question, please press star followed by the one on your touchtone phone. You will hear a prompt that your hand has been raised. Should you wish to decline from the polling process, please press star followed by the two. If you are using a speakerphone, please lift the handset before pressing any keys. One moment please for your first question. Your first question comes from Scott Buck with H.C. Wainwright. Your line is now open.

Scott Buck

Hi, Greg. Quick question.

Gregory Feller

Hey.

Scott Buck

Kind of follow up there on your commentary on the lending platform.

Gregory Feller

Yep.

Scott Buck

The language in the outlook seems to suggest a significant pullback in lending this year. What are you seeing from the consumer? Longer term, you know, how important is lending to the overall business?

Gregory Feller

First of all, I wouldn't characterize our guidance as a significant pullback. I would characterize it as probably similar trend to what we saw in 2025. Our focus again on the loan book is to manage it for cash flow primarily, not as a growth platform. You know, we do have the impact of the rate cap, which was implemented in 2025, which is going to, you know, put pressure on interest revenue for the existing loan book. Our goal there, I would say, is to keep the loan book relatively flat.

Gregory Feller

Because of the rate cap impact that would result in a decline of interest revenue, I think by as we get to year-end, you know, we think that really stabilizes from a revenue perspective. You know, look, I think we've always been cautious on the lending side, just given, you know, our focus really on our wealth and our payments business. That's really where we wanna allocate excess capital. I think we continue to take, as we have over the last couple of years, a cautious approach on the overall macro market.

Gregory Feller

Quite frankly, the best way to do that is keep a flat book, and not drive, you know, meaningful growth in it.

Scott Buck

Yeah. No, that makes sense. Long term, you think lending, you know, remains an important kind of component of the overall platform?

Gregory Feller

We think it's an important cash flow-generating component of the business today. Long term, as it becomes a smaller percent of revenue, you know, that strategic position could change. I would just say that in general, we believe a consumer-facing financial platform having access to credit is important to customers. It's a core competency that we have. We've been doing it for 20 years in the Canadian market. We think it's an asset and a valuable one that we have. We're just gonna continue to be conservative as it relates to the loan book.

Gregory Feller

Rather than focusing on putting capital into the loan book, we think we're gonna get a higher ROI by putting capital into wealth, primarily.

Scott Buck

Yeah.

Gregory Feller

Payment secondarily.

Scott Buck

Okay, perfect. I appreciate that. David, I'm curious, could you give us a little bit of color on what phase two, what that rollout looks like? Maybe what timing could be and maybe what, you know, customers are getting access or members are getting access to through phase two.

David Feller

Yeah. Sure. Yeah, phase one. Remember, we essentially had two different brands, two different apps. Moka was our managed investing offering, and that was through a separate application. Then we launched MogoTrade, which was our self-directed investing app. Our goal was to unify these into one brand and one new platform called Intelligent Investing. Phase one was effectively launching the new managed experience under Intelligent Investing. Now Moka is no longer. All of those users are now on the new Intelligent Investing managed solution and platform and brand. Phase two is gonna be essentially bringing in the new self-directed piece to that. Now we have one unified app, all under Intelligent Investing, all in this new user interface.

David Feller

That'll then eventually mean the, you know, the sunsetting of the MogoTrade app and brand. That's Phase Two, and that's actually starting this month. We expect kinda in the next kinda 30-60 days, we expect that there'll be no more MogoTrade and all new users will be coming on the new Intelligent Investing unified platform. Does that make sense?

Scott Buck

Okay. Yeah, perfect. That, that's great. I wanted to ask, given how well-capitalized the business is at this point, how are you prioritizing your repurchase program versus some additional investments in, you know, some of your more growthier verticals?

Gregory Feller

Yeah. Really the order of priorities from a capital allocation perspective would be number 1one, wealth, number 2, payments, and then number 3, share repurchases. That's the order.

Scott Buck

Okay, perfect. Would you guys look at potential M&A on the wealth side? I know you guys have done deals in the past, but curious whether that's something that you would consider.

Gregory Feller

You know, I'll let Dave comment on it too, but look, we're always open to opportunities that make sense. I think, to be honest, at this stage, we think, you know, what we're doing is pretty unique. And we believe a core part of success here, and especially rolling out a new product is focus. I think at this stage right now, we think staying focused on the rollout of Intelligent Investing is the right priority. It doesn't mean if there's something that made sense to be part of Orion that we wouldn't take a look at it.

David Feller

Related to that, I would say on the wealth side, you know, things relating to enhancing and speeding up the rate of our new platform, you know, so those types of opportunities, versus an existing wealth platform and/or product customer base where you've got to do the whole kinda legacy transitioning everybody over. Obviously

Scott Buck

Right.

David Feller

You know, our phase one and phase two, I mean, this is still what we consider kind of our MVP of Intelligent Investing. As we talked about kind of that long-term capital allocation system, a lot of that, obviously, I mean, the entire roadmap is primarily focused on, you know, technology enhancements, AI, et cetera. You know, if there was a specific opportunity, it would really be around advancing the speed of which we brought more of that kinda capability into the experience and would kinda speed that up and give us some unique opportunity there versus, you know, other kinda customer bases, if that makes sense.

Scott Buck

Yep. Yeah, no, that makes a ton of sense. Well, that's all I have, guys. I appreciate the time and congrats on the quarter and the year.

David Feller

Thank you.

Gregory Feller

Thanks, Scott.

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, as a reminder, should you have a question, please press star one. There are no further questions at this time. I will now turn the call over to David for closing remarks.

David Feller

Okay. Thanks again for joining us on our Q4 call. We look forward to giving you an update post Q1. Thanks again.

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes your conference call for today. We thank you for participating and ask that you please disconnect your lines.

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