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Chime Financial, Inc. Class ACHYMCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Information Technology›Packaged Software

US neobank offering fee-free checking, early paycheck access and credit-building products via a mobile app, partnered with chartered banks.

Momentum leader 92
Mkt cap
$11.9B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
53%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$114M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
35.2×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
-12.1 pp
WACC 8.5%
Hurdle
-7 pp
Req g minus delivered
Next earnings
117 days
3 Mar 2027
Close · USD$31.33
1D+3.8%
1W+12.1%
1M+8.2%
3M+1.6%
6M+70.0%
YTD+24.5%
1Y+63.9%
ATR %4.5%
Beta1.85
52w lowhigh11.9% off high

What Chime Financial does

US neobank offering fee-free checking, early paycheck access and credit-building products via a mobile app, partnered with chartered banks.

Earns most of its revenue from interchange, a small fee merchants pay each time a member uses the Chime debit card, rather than charging account fees, so income grows with how much members spend. Accounts are issued by partner banks, The Bancorp Bank and Stride Bank, since Chime has no bank charter of its own. It listed in 2025.

Products and services

  • Fee-free checking/spending account
  • SpotMe (overdraft alternative)
  • Credit Builder (secured credit card)
  • Early direct deposit

Customers

  • Mass-market and underbanked US consumers

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Fintech (neobank)
  • Digital banking & consumer…
  • Mass-market/underbanked US consumers

What could go right

  • Underbanked consumer digital banking adoption
  • Interchange revenue growth with member growth

What could go wrong

  • Interchange fee regulatory risk
  • Reliance on partner bank charters

Moat: narrow (brand, distribution, scale). Strong low-income/mass-market brand and interchange-funded free model, though it must partner with chartered banks.

Headquarters: San Francisco, California, US · Founded: 2012 · Employees: 1,519

Named competitors

Chime Financial at a glance

Size Chime Financial (CHYM) is a United States Information Technology company (Packaged Software) with a market value of $11.9B, the 699th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $31.33 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 70.0%, against +37.0% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 4th highest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 17.5% over the last twelve months (peer median +18.9%); the operating margin is -0.8% (peer median 18.9%).

Valuation It trades at 35.2× forward earnings against a peer median of 23.1× (6th most expensive of 20).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 18% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +25%, so the hurdle is -7 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.

Capital Return on invested capital runs 12.1 points below its cost of capital (8.5% WACC).

Short interest Short interest is 7.3% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 3 Mar 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

10015011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026CHYM 172Peer median 142
Six months, rebased to 100: Chime Financial against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Chime Financial financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$2.23B$1.96B$1.60B$1.28B$1.01B
Revenue growth—+23%+25%+27%—
Gross profit$1.94B$1.68B$1.37B$1.05B$787M
EBITDA$12.1M-$977M-$35.5M-$215M-$439M
Net income-$18.2M-$1.01B-$25.3M-$203M-$470M
Free cash flow$308M$22.9M$49.7M-$185M-$507M
Capital expenditure$36.1M$28.7M$14.5M$27.8M$72.9M
Total debt$131M$135M$96.3M$105Mn/a

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Chime Financial competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

0%+25%+50%+75%-20%0%+20%+40%PCORFROGDTTRMB9697SAILPAYCWTCTEM002602FIGHUBSSGEDOCUMANHOFSSYMMHNGEESTCPCTYCHYM6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Chime Financial is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

+20%+40%+60%25×50×75×PCORFROGDTTRMB9697SAILPAYCWTC002602FIGHUBSSGEMANHOFSSHNGEESTCCHYMRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Chime Financial is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

0%+20%+40%0%20%40%PCORFROGDTTRMB9697SAILPAYCWTC002602FIGHUBSSGEDOCUMANHOFSSYMMHNGEESTCPCTYCHYMGrowth delivered (Del g) →Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) →
Above the diagonal = the price needs more growth than the company has been delivering; below = the price already allows for a slowdown. Chime Financial is the large dot.

Chime Financial competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (CHYM vs XYZ vs SOFI vs DAVE)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Chime Financial CHYM$11.9B+70%+18%-1%35.2×18.2%
Block XYZ$51.7B+14%+7%20%17.1×n/a
SOFI SOFI$21.0B+3%+38%23%19.7×n/a
Dave DAVE$3.55B+9%+49%34%14.7×n/a
PayPal PYPL$49.2B+31%+5%19%10.1×n/a
Green Dot GDOT$697M-3%+18%2%7.8×n/a

How Chime Financial compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Chime Financial against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureCHYMPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+8.2%+3.5%10th highest of 21
6-month return+70.0%+37.0%4th highest of 21
Distance from 52-week high-11.9%-14.9%8th highest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+17.5%+18.9%10th lowest of 21
Operating margin-0.8%18.9%7th lowest of 21
Forward P/E35.2×23.1×6th most expensive of 20
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)18.2%18.8%10th least demanding of 20
Growth delivered (Del g)+24.8%+23.4%8th highest of 20
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)-6.7 pp-4.7 pp10th least demanding of 20
ROIC minus cost of capital-12.1 pp+8.7 pp5th lowest of 18
Net debt / EBITDA-82.3×-1.2×least indebted of 15

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Chime Financial CHYMUnited States$11.9B+70%+18%-1%35.2×18.2%+24.8%
Procore Technologies PCORUnited States$11.4B+41%+16%-1%33.8×19.9%+27.0%
JFrog FROGUnited States$12.5B+43%+26%-13%89.6×37.7%+28.7%
Dynatrace DTUnited States$12.5B+7%+18%14%22.6×18.8%+23.5%
Trimble TRMBUnited States$12.6B-11%+7%18%13.6×15.3%+2.6%
Capcom 9697.TJapan$11.0B+25%+21%41%27.0×-2.2%+15.4%
SailPoint SAILUnited States$11.0B+57%+20%-19%53.5×42.0%+24.7%
Paycom Software PAYCUnited States$10.5B+73%+9%30%15.9×3.3%+19.5%
Wisetech Global WTC.AXAustralia$10.3B+15%+71%31%32.6×30.1%+32.3%
Tempus AI TEMUnited States$13.9B+53%+37%-18%n/an/an/a
Zhejiang Century Huatong 002602.SZChina$14.0B-20%+28%21%11.1×-0.2%+20.4%
Figma FIGUnited States$10.0B-9%+43%-124%54.8×22.2%+43.4%
HubSpot HUBSUnited States$10.0B+2%+21%4%12.5×25.1%+28.8%
Sage SGE.LUnited Kingdom$14.1B+33%+9%23%23.1×3.1%+5.7%
DocuSign DOCUUnited States$14.5B+62%+9%12%15.9×12.9%+17.2%
Manhattan Associates MANHUnited States$14.7B+77%+8%25%42.0×29.4%+13.0%
Oracle Financial Services Software OFSS.NSIndia$9.43B+8%+28%52%22.7×22.0%+9.0%
Full Truck Alliance Co. Ltd. Sponsored ADR YMMUnited States$9.35B+4%+9%34%12.8×-10.9%+36.0%
Hinge Health HNGEUnited States$9.34B+107%+50%19%39.6×34.1%+49.9%
Elastic ESTCUnited States$9.12B+65%+16%-1%24.4×13.0%+23.4%
Paylocity PCTYUnited States$9.03B+56%+11%22%19.0×2.3%+22.8%

Questions

Who are Chime Financial's main competitors?
Named competitors: Cash App (Block) (XYZ), Varo Bank (private or unlisted), Current (private or unlisted), SoFi Technologies (SOFI), Dave (DAVE), PayPal (PYPL). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Procore Technologies (PCOR), JFrog (FROG), Dynatrace (DT), Trimble (TRMB), Capcom (9697.T), SailPoint (SAIL).
Is Chime Financial expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 35.2× against a peer median of 23.1×, 6th most expensive of 20 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 18% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +25%, so the hurdle is -7 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.
How has Chime Financial stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +70.0% against +37.0% for the median peer; over one year +63.9%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.