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PicS N.V. Class APICSCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Financials›Miscellaneous Commercial Services

Brazilian digital wallet and financial app offering Pix payments, peer-to-peer transfers, cards, loans and insurance distribution.

≈ A Brazilian PayPal/Venmo-style super appMomentum laggard 6
Mkt cap
$889M
US dollars, full cap
Free float
51%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$8.94M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
2.8×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
n/a
WACC 6.6%
Hurdle
n/a
no reverse DCF
Next earnings
28 days
4 Dec 2026
Close · USD$6.86
1D-3.2%
1W-3.4%
1M-42.7%
3M-40.5%
6M-44.0%
YTDn/a
1Yn/a
ATR %14.2%
52w lowhigh65.6% off high

What PicS does

Brazilian digital wallet and financial app offering Pix payments, peer-to-peer transfers, cards, loans and insurance distribution.

Earns from interest on credit it extends, mainly cards and loans, with the fees merchants pay and card interchange, a fee charged each time a card is used, as other lines. J&F, the Batista family investment holding, controls it.

In one line: A Brazilian PayPal/Venmo-style super app.

Products and services

  • Digital wallet (Pix, P2P transfers)
  • Multipurpose payment cards
  • Personal/payroll loans
  • Merchant payment network (MDR)

Customers

  • Brazilian retail consumers
  • Small merchants accepting PicPay

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Financial services/fintech
  • Digital wallet / consumer fintech
  • Digital wallet, P2P payments, loans…

What could go right

  • Brazilian digital-wallet penetration growth
  • Cross-sell of loans/insurance to wallet users

What could go wrong

  • Brazilian credit-cycle/consumer default risk
  • Intense Brazilian fintech competition

Moat: narrow (network effects, scale, brand). Large installed base of Brazilian wallet users and merchants creates two-sided network effects.

Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil · Founded: 2012 · Employees: 4,000

Named competitors

PicS at a glance

Size PicS (PICS) is a United States Financials company (Miscellaneous Commercial Services) with a market value of $889M, the 2320th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $6.86 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares fell 44.0%, against +11.4% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — lowest of 16 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 88.5% over the last twelve months (peer median +12.2%); the operating margin is 5.7% (peer median 11.0%).

Valuation It trades at 2.8× forward earnings against a peer median of 7.8× (cheapest of 14).

Short interest Short interest is 3.1% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 4 Dec 2026 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

608010012011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026Peer median 115PICS 58
Six months, rebased to 100: PicS against the median of its 15 peers (local-currency closes).

PicS financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$2.57B$1.86B$1.05B$697M$586M
Revenue growth—+77%+51%+19%—
Gross profit$1.44B$1.03B$637M$494M$434M
EBITDA$200M$156M$119M$268M$118M
Net income$252M$195M$40.4M$6.91M-$8.85M
Free cash flow$2.86B$2.12B$1.66B$608M$402M
Capital expenditure$138M$122M$108M$101M$42.2M
Total debt$6.93B$5.48B$3.28B$2.75B$1.94B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

PicS 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

-50%0%+50%+100%+150%0%+100%KPLTPAYSCASSPRAASTNEACTGEVTCPSFEPAYOEEFTPICS6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. PicS is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

0%+50%0×20×40×PAYSCASSPRAASTNEMQEVTCRPAYPSFEPAYOFLYWFOURPICSRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. PicS is the large dot.

PicS competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (PICS vs NU vs INTR vs STNE)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
PicS PICS$889M-44%+89%6%2.8×n/a
Nu Holdings Ltd. Class A NU$58.1B-13%+54%35%12.1×n/a
Inter & INTR$1.70B-40%+51%19%4.7×n/a
StoneCo STNE$1.83B-30%-30%-130%3.7×n/a
PagSeguro Digital PAGS$2.11B-25%+11%38%4.5×n/a

How PicS 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.

PicS against its 15 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasurePICSPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return-42.7%+6.6%lowest of 16
6-month return-44.0%+11.4%lowest of 16
Distance from 52-week high-65.6%-15.6%lowest of 16
Revenue growth (TTM)+88.5%+12.2%highest of 16
Operating margin5.7%11.0%6th lowest of 16
Forward P/E2.8×7.8×cheapest of 14

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
PicS PICSUnited States$889M-44%+89%6%2.8×n/an/a
Katapult KPLTUnited States$939M+64%+13%17%n/an/an/a
Paysign PAYSUnited States$829M+155%+47%17%40.3×n/an/a
Cass Information Systems CASSUnited States$694M+14%+2%22%15.7×n/an/a
PRA PRAAUnited States$486M-33%+12%37%5.1×n/an/a
StoneCo STNEUnited States$1.83B-30%-30%-130%3.7×n/an/a
Acacia Research ACTGUnited States$415M-9%+12%-7%n/an/an/a
Marqeta MQUnited States$1.93B+11%+17%2%38.5×n/an/a
EVERTEC EVTCUnited States$2.00B+40%+16%20%7.8×n/an/a
Repay RPAYUnited States$388M+24%+9%0%4.3×n/an/a
PagSeguro Digital PAGSUnited States$2.11B-25%+11%38%4.5×n/an/a
Paysafe PSFEUnited States$349M-28%+5%6%3.2×n/an/a
Payoneer Global PAYOUnited States$2.42B+39%+6%12%33.9×n/an/a
Flywire FLYWUnited States$2.62B+25%+31%9%33.9×n/an/a
Euronet Worldwide EEFTUnited States$2.65B+3%+5%11%6.2×n/an/a
Shift4 Payments FOURUnited States$3.47B+3%+32%10%8.4×n/an/a

Questions

Who are PicS's main competitors?
Named competitors: Nu Holdings (NU), Inter & Co (INTR), StoneCo (STNE), PagSeguro Digital (PAGS). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Katapult (KPLT), Paysign (PAYS), Cass Information Systems (CASS), PRA (PRAA), StoneCo (STNE), Acacia Research (ACTG).
Is PicS expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 2.8× against a peer median of 7.8×, cheapest of 14 in its peer set.
How has PicS stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned -44.0% against +11.4% for the median peer.

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.